Convention List-Mania!

Today Julie and Melody (in response to queries about what to wear at the convention) have developed Betsy-like lists to help you in your preparations!

Things to Pack for the Betsy-Tacy Convention:

1. Magic Wavers
2. Boudoir cap
3. Brownie Camera
4. Plenty of clean shirtwaists
5. Cocoa pail
6. Jabot
7. Notebook
8. Sharpened pencils
9. Merry Widow Hat
10. Rabbit’s foot
11. Jade bracelets
12. Julia, to do my hair
13. Bath salts
14. Celeste and Hortense
15. Jockey Club perfume
16. A curling iron
    

List of Things to do in Deep Valley (Mankato) at the Betsy-Tacy Convention:

1. Skinny-dip in Murmuring Lake
2. Steal fudge from someone’s porch
3. Go begging on the Big Hill
4. Make herbariums. In one afternoon.
5. Take a spin in a red auto
6. Smoke cubebs
7. Paint on the roof of the high school
8. Cut locks of each other’s hair for remembering
9. Put colored eggs in the branches of the maple tree
10. Sneak into the Junior dance
11. Eat a slice of unfrosted cake on the bench
12. Play for the Lochnivar Nine
13. Hike through the Big Slough
14. Eat baklava in Little Syria
15. Spend a nickel at Mrs. Chubbock’s candy store
16. Leave a calling card at the chocolate-colored house
17. Polish Mrs. Ray’s brass bowl
18. Trample the Sibley’s side lawn
19. Sample Anna’s muffins and Mr. Ray’s onion sandwiches
20. Roll up the rug and dance a waltz in Betsy’s house
    

Things to Look For in Deep Valley (real or imagined)

1. Mr. Thumbler’s Hack
2. Page Park
3. Carney’s sleeping porch
4. The Big Slough
5. The Big Hill
6. Mrs. Ray’s brass bowl
7. The little glass pitcher
8. Tony Markham
9. A maple tree with a cigar box in one of its branches
10. The Majestic Theatre
11. Mr. Ray’s Shoe Store
12. Old Mag
13. Winged Victory, at the Melborn Hotel
14. Betsy’s trunk desk
15. Deep Valley High School
16. The Carnegie Library
17. The door with the colored pane of glass
18. A piano box
19. A sand store
20. Heniz’s ice cream parlor
21. A red auto or a Locomobile
    

Menu Items to Look for in Mankato Restaurants

1. Fried potatoes
2. Everything Pudding
3. Frog Legs
4. Onion sandwiches
5. Floating Island
6. Beef birds
7. An Imperial Sundae
8. Unfrosted cake
9. Rocks (reread Downtown if you get this reference)
10. Flopped and unflopped eggs

Thanks for the tips, ladies - see you there!