Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-04-11
from the Page News, April 7th.l
Those Stanton Girlsl

About one hundred and ten of them, from
Miss Baldwin sSchool, raided us Wednesday.
And what partyl How they reduced the
average age OF our town for few hours Even
the gray-haired could not help stopping to look
and smile, while the young of all ages were
charmed. A merrier excursion never honor
ed US by standing our dusty streets and bury
ing itself in our beautiful cave. What variety
of laughs they had-the cackle, the gigge. the
chirp, and the he-he. The Kentucky, the
North Carolina, the Virginia laugh, all with a
hint of Staunton in them The major laugh, the
minor laugh, the solo laugh and the chorus laugh
the glissando laugh and the staccato laugh. the
latter due to jolts in the buckboard-the II
laugh and the PIP laugh-all musical and cheer
full iii was the harmony of discord al times
The laugh of the senior and the laugh of the
Junior sandwiching the laugh of the interme-
diate classwoman. They had no band. They
needed none For what brass or string instru
ments could have furnished them or Luray
with such music as the sounds from their own
Threats.
We could almost hear in Luray their O-O's!
and Ah-Ah's !! when they entered the Cave,
and can well believe that not a few of them in
the absence of adjectives in English, used all
in French or else were incarnated exclamation
points. How much unwritten merriment was
INDUCED there. COMMUNICATION of the poor
being who furnished the skeleton with great
variety of mental obituaries; coverings OF
Titania's veil criticisms Of the cut of the dress
which the Indian Squaw had on; mock offer
ings of cake and candy to the Papoose; ideas OF
next commencement dress suggested by Gin
derella's ball room costume; wonderings as to
the species of bird which laid the Us in such
a watery nest; how the fountain beca me frozen
in perennial temperature of fifty.uine de-
grees F; the name of the Empress after whom
the column was called; why the maker of the
organ did not attach keyboard; selections of
fish from the market for their dinner at Johns
Restaurant; speculations in botany at the flow
err garden, as to the kinds of plants, and as to
how long since they died naming the angel
who had performed the remarkable feat OF
| leaving one wing in the cave and flying away
| with the other one: wondering who had remov-
| ed all the small gravel away from Elfin's ram.
| BILE SO that their shoes would not wear out
| These and hundreds of other similar ponder
| ings, explanations and criticisms occupied
| their Time and the mental exercise thus finish
ed, together with the physical exertion OF
climbing and descending steps, gave them a
good appetite for dinner.
Inc lAtter was served ana eaLen also at Inc
| excellent restaurant of our friend John Adams
The tables were very pretty with their decora-
| tions of fruits and flowers; and the palatable
dishes-or rather their contents rapidly dis
appeared, while according to report three men
| armed with clubs stood outside to keep the
Luray boys from seeing how Staunton school
girls eat.
! They left on the special train which brought
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their instructors for the pleasure and profit o.
their trip.
We hope they had pleasant time and say
'come again and bring more like yourselves
| Remember that the lecture on the adventures
of a Confederate Scout will be given for the
benefit of the Confederate Soldiers Cemetery.