St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-09

Academy of st. Joseph and of the AS
sumption school. Said little Black
Eyes; ''She is too, Katie Johnson.
Sister Luke is better'n anybody else on
EARTH"
"She isn't either" retorted little
Grey Eyes. Sister Carraciola is the
lOveliest sister that ever lived. l
wouldn't go to St. JOseph's academy,
Nellie Wright, for VirgintilliOn dol
lars.''
And I'd rather die than go to your
convent. So, there. Missey."
Loyalty to ''Our" convent really has
no limit, though life in one is very like
life in any other. The new girl usually
makes an entrance to it in fear and
trembling.
Our convent sits on a hill overlook
ing the Mississippi and is surrounded
by beautiful grounds. There is moth
ing about the place to inspire the most
timid with awe. only the fact that it is
convent. As the new girl stands at the
front door awaiting admittance she
D. hears the confused jingling of eight pi-
amos and wonders how on earth any
body can ever study or do anything
with SO much music in the air. \
pleaSant-faced sister ushers her into
the parlOT, and despite all her parents
urging her not to look so like a breath
ing tombstone. she sits solemn
and apprehensive on the edge
of a haircl0th chair, watching
for the coming of the mysterious sister
superior, whom the Fortress has gone
to summon, At last she appears, Smil-
ing wonderfully like any other woman,
and takes the new girl by the hand as
she welcomes her
TO HER CONVENT HOME.
But for all the smile, for all the wei
come, the girl shows all the symptoms
of a cat in a strange garnet. and when,
arrangements for her admittance having
been completed. the SuperiOress invites
her and her parents to make a round of
the building. she brings up in the rear
of the procession like a lamb being led
to the slaughter. They go into the
study hall, and when sixty or seventy
girls arise from their chairs, and in an
interested but polite way ''SiZe up the
newcomer, 1t seems impossible TO her
that the day will ever come
when she will. in a like man
ner, push back from her desk and
with the others take the measure of
some later arrival. After a fearful fare
well to her parents and the door has
closed upon their reueating forms. such
a deluge Of homeSickness. Of utter des-
OlatiOn sweeps over her that the Supe-
riOress' kind charge 10 make herself
quite at home sounds like the sever
est irony. She IS consigned TO the
care of some odd girl near her own
age. and if she possesses in the least de
gree the ability TO adapt herself 10 cir
cUmStances, in week she has fallen
into her place in the ranks, and begins
TO feel like veteran. She has gotten
over saying yes, ma'am" TO the nuns,
and if she Is very apt, instead OF the
Fsfl INTERMEDIATES
her conversation with the easy, tripping
Eyes s'ter," no S'ter,' ''but S'ter,"
''Jhank you. ) ter that mark the old girl
and tongue tie the new. The story is
still told in our convent of St. Paul
girl who possessed To an exceptional de-
gree the ability to adapt herself TO cir
cumStanceS. ParddOXical as it may seem,
she was a st. Prul girl and wild. She
was about fourteen years old. and had
been placed at a boarding school near
the city. Not taking kindly to her quar-
tiers. she came riding back TO town and
parents one day on a hay rack. Her
parents then determined TO send her to
convent. and ours" was the one Sc
lected. Sister Superior gave her the us
ual charge to make herself at home. and
showed her how TO
CALL THE DIFFERENT SISTERS.
In the second story hall is gong
which rang once summons the superb
Dress: twice, the doctreSS. and so on.
Miss Ida needed well her instructions,
and inside of an hour marched up to the
gong and boldly rang it once. Sister
Superior in all her smiling dignity APP
peared, and Miss Ida meeting her half
way said, IF you please, Pm awfully
hungry; could have piece of bread
and butter, or some cookies, if they're
less trouble" She got both. but when
they heard of it, old girls caught their
breath at the bare mention OF such i'm
pudenee. Sister Superior Is, hgura-
lively speaking, raised on pedestal by