But if the Japanese lady's tea-making and flower arranging were the drawing cards, there were plenty of other attractions. Admission tickets gave the guests entry to the house parlors, where the Japanese lady and four excellent American imitations, arrayed in genuine kimonos, dispensed tea and wafers, and made themselves as entertaining as possible while they described the surpassing charms of the "side-shows" to be found further down the hall. The three girls who had rooms on the ground floor had generously contributed the use of their quarters. In one a Japanese soothsayer told fortunes in delicious broken English. In another a worker of magic made flowers grow, and produced strange sleight-of-hand effects with swords, coins and little paper balloons. But decidedly the star performance of the afternoon was the third "side-show," a Japanese one-act play. This was Madeline's idea. The rest of the "stunt" committee had been very doubtful about the wisdom of attempting it, and they were amazed and delighted when it proved to be the success of the afternoon. To begin with, Madeline had aroused their doubts by being so mysterious about the play. When Babe asked where she got it and what it was about, she answered that she "had it," and that it was like a good many other plays,--about nothing in particular. She was definite, however, about one thing. There were two characters, and she would play one and Roberta the other. When Roberta flatly refused to take part, Madeline reminded her that she had not yet "paid up" for the loan of Georgia Ames, and calmly appointed an hour for the first rehearsal.