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

her death knell would sound more
awful, but you couldn't make her be-
lieve so Just then. Sister Superior
comes forth, and the expression of the
girls face is her cue for the reserved
bearing she assumes. The offender be-
gins, please, S'ter, Superior, S'ter
Blank sent me to tell you I-I-I-boO
hOO~ A flood of tears makes persist
ent effort to wash away her sin, but it
doesn't succeed until she has,
WITH MANY A SOB,
told the story of her disObedience and
received a gentle, but none the less
heaTtbreaking, reprimand in return.
How different is it when one is sent up
to the sister superior for some good
deed. She is probably met with feigned
diSpleaSure. hooking "You naughty
girl" accompanied by the accusing
shake of finger, and followed by d =
mand to know what wickedneSS she is
guilty of. With what delicious hest
fancy is spoken: Sister Superior,
please, sister sent me up to tell you l
had very good composition" Then
she is made to feel that nice and brill
liant as girls NAV have been in times
past, they have never quite equaled
her, and she returns to the class room
with either a dainty lace-edge card to
commemorate the day or some candy to
make it sweeter, and with the fixed de-
termination to be as good and glorious
as she now feels for ever and ever and
ever.
Life begins for the girls in Tour" con-
vent at o'clock in the morning; for the
nuns it commences one hour earlier. AT
half-past five a great hOarSe bell rings
in the hall, but it only echoes softly in
dTeamland, and just stiTs the SleeperS
with the blessed consciousness that they
map slumber on for thirty minutes
more. At O'Clock it rings again. and
in the little cell that is curtained off in
one end of the big dormitOry the sister
who has the dOrmitOry in charge rapS on
the headbOard of her bed to emphasize
the dire intelligence that it is time to
get up. Under the white cOverlets of
the narrow beds, limbs begin to stretch
and bodies turn. Up hobs one form, and
a par of sleepy eyes blink laZily from
beneate a frOwZZled bang. Up comes
another, another and another, until
every bed, save one, perhaps,
SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE.
If the nun has not yet made her ap-
pearance a wet towel is sent flying into
the face of the still sleeping beauty.
who springs at once into action and
sends it flying back. The nun is sell
dom tardy in appearing, and she walks
up and down the dormitOry reading her
morning prayers, while thirty or forty
girls make their toilets in silence. Talk
ing in the dOrmitory is prohibited.
When the bell rings again at $50 the
rank forms. and, still in silence, the
girls file down to the morning room.
They are joined by the occupants of a
second dOrmitOry, and, as they walk
down stairs, this slow one is buttOnnng
the last few buttons of her dress, that
one is tying Oh her apron, and another
fastening her brooch. In the morning
room prayers are said. in which all join
then, as the tower bell rings o'clock,
the Catholic girls 90 to the chapel,
while the nOn-CathOlicS study for
half an hour. In silence they file
into the refectory and never speak
during breakfast. 1t sounds incredible
that girls with natural girls tongues
can 20 from o'clock until without
speaking and not be utterly miserable
But their faces, as they sit about the
long tables, look bright and happy
enough; they look anything but the OBJ
| iects of pity one might imagine them
| Breakfast consists of bread and coffee
and not a girl signs to think of quail OF
toast. Once out of the refectOry, a mad
dening buZZing begins and keeps W
until the bell summons them to study
an hour before school. At Il O'Clock
comes dinner, eaten like every meal, il
silence. while one of the girls reads
aloud from fome good book. The menu
Is made up of meat, potatoes, one
other vegetable and bread without
butter, if there is dessert, which
there usually is-such pie or pudding a;
one never gets elsewhere. If there IS
no dessert, butter and coffee go with the
bread. After dinner is recreation, anG
no man knows what girls are capable Of
! until he has heard the high-keyed con
/ fusion of recreation
HOUR IN A CONVENT.
| Everybody talks and laughs at once
/ for the pure love of seeing how much o
! both she can do in a given time. i
! seems; and nobody, so it seems again
waits for an answer. If it is summer
/ the babble is less, and comes from every
part of the play ground. Some arr
| playing crOQuet. some are playins
4 drop the handkerchief, some are
strolling in twOs and thTees-al
/ talking-and perhaps some progress
/ i've Young misses have patriot
/ ically organized a nine and are playing
/ base ball. In winter the eighty or one
hundred girls are confined to the study
hall fer recreation, and surely the fOul
/ walls must grow deafer for the racket
| The afternoon session of school is inter
rupted at 8 by lunch, and from to the
! girls visit over their needlewOrk. Sup
per of bread and butter, fruit, coffee