AYER.Children1* Reception.Nearly 400 people were present Intion of the Children's dancing class. The hall was prettily adorned with festoons of purple and white. The settees arranged in rows 1 four deep around the sides were filled. The ball opehed soon after $ o'clock, when thethe hall 1n the grand march, led by Raymond and Marion Carter, crossed the room and gracefully saluted the matrons—Mrs. Edwin Whitney, Mrs. Henry E. Sanderson and Mrs. Warren H. Atwood—and then executed some very intricate marches. Among the others in line were Miidren Sanders, Evelyn and Alice Sanderson, Elizabeth Sabln, Doris Corner. Gertrude Touberg, Marlon Proctor, Natalie Bigelow’. Mollie Sullivan. Myrtle Washer, Howard and Gertrude Stone, Agnes Moore, Hazel Moss, Eleberta Smith, Erlngton Broadshaw, Raymond and Marion Farnsworth, Claire and Hazel Perry, Mark Moore, Mabel Fox and Lawrence Johnson.Several very pretty dances followed. There was a Spanish dance by Hazel Perry; a cakewalk by Chester Tarrant. Roy Smith, Herbert Allen, Arthur Carles and the Misses Edith Lyon. Lilly Leahy, Gertrude Graves and Gladys Wood; a Mexican dance, in which Mamie Moore sang and ten of the children executed the dance; a very intricate dance, executed by Mabel Fox and Lawrence Johnson from Hudson; a sand-jig by Frank Lovett, and a reading by little Miss Lowell, all of which were warmly applauded. At the close of the exhibition. a large number of the audience took part in the dancing, which continued till 12 o’clock. The whole was in charge of Benjamin B. Lovett.