There's heaps of fun in a Fair, especially when it's all novel to you.

It's an old story to us, but _I_ always love anything of the sort.

We'll have it here, you see, and it will be a lawn _fete_ and a house party and a general hullabaloo!" "We're making out the committees," said Betty, "and, you'll be here, won't you, Elise ?" "Well, I just guess! You can't lose _me_! I shall be back and forth, of course, but I'll do my share of the work, and exact my share of the fun." "Fine!" said Betty, a bit absently, as she was deeply absorbed in her list of names.
"Of course," Patty went on, partly to the others and partly as if merely thinking aloud for her own benefit, "there will be all the regulation things,--lemonade well, fortune-telling, society circus and everything, but the idea is to have every one of them just a little bit different from what it has always been before, and have it in harmony with the idea of Vanity Fair." "The book ?" asked Elise.
"No, not Thackeray.

I mean, just the idea of the gay atmosphere,--the light, giddy side of life.

For instance, let's have a Vanity booth and sell all sorts of aids to beauty--" "Powder and paint!" exclaimed Azalea, in surprise.
"Well, I meant more like lacy caps and stunning negligees.