The evening world., 1888-05-25
ONES MAY GREETING.
A PRIMARY SCHOOL EVENT OF YESTERDAY
WHICH BORE REPEATING.

Long List of Promising Riocutlonists nc
Yet Very Much In Bud-A Treat for
Fond Parents.
Miss Sarah ]. J. McCaffery, Principal Of
Primary School No. 16, in East Thirty-sec-
ond street. loves the little ones, and 1t Is evil
dent that the 800 little boys and girls over
whom she presides fully reciprocate her af-
lection.
Yesterday afternoon the scholars extended
o May greeting to their parents and friends,
and the two hundred ladies and gentlemen
who gathered in the big session-room were
treated to an entertainment which reflected
greatest credit upon Miss MoCaffery and
her corps Of assistants, Miss Kate A. Reid,
Sarah G. Cornell, Maggie A. Kearney. Kate
L. Moran, Emily A.. Keogh, Ellen J.. Nichol-
E. Nicholson, Mary Z. Ciooney, Byzantine
Lloyd, Sarah G. Peddie, Annie T. Hawley,
Margaret A. Wilson, Kate A. Cronin, Rebecca
H. DAILY and Lillian NJ. Peddie.
Ellery E.. Anderson presided over the en-
t%ertainment yes erday, but as not half the
people could get in the house at that time 1t
was all repeated this morning, when Inspector
John Mulligau did the honors.
Among those who laughed and cried over
ant Supt. Jones Inspector Bruce, DR.. j. j.
Goodman and Thomas +. Gilroy.
The little chaps who furnished the enter
tainment ranged In age from five summers to
occasion with that vim which makes success
of all things.
Master Wilson DAILY, who lisps that he Is
" FIVE years comm six," delighted his hear
ers with these lines, spoken in big-eyed ex-
element and breathless eagerness:
There once was a mousey that lived in a shoe,
And q snug little housey he made of It, too.
He had q great big front door, to take in the
And a hole in the toe. to slip out, II you please.
Mistress May Castelle, O wee maiden Of
seven summers. golden hair and bright blue
eyes. wore O bonnet to fit the occasion as she
recited, in O sweet voice:
A foolish little maiden had a foolish little bonnet,
With o ribbon and Q feather and a bit OF lace
upon It.
Willie Doyle, a young mar who will be a
voter in 1908, evidently knew whereof he
told when he recited that.
Robbie stole of green apples q quart;
by the owner thereof he was sought;
Those green apples he ate,
And he wished, ahl too late
That chased by that man he'd been caught.
Tillie Rouff related another story in rhyme,
in which a boy, q watermelon and some doc
tors stuff got mixed up, much to the disad-
vantage of the boy.
Mother Goose's family was there in force,
Tom, the Piper's Son Jack and Gill, Jack
Horner and twenty-one others appearing in
turn.
The rest OF the programme consisted OF an
opening address by Nellie Cain, calisthenics,
the singing Of q patriotic medley, and the
choruses Welcome" Dear Robin"
" Cock Robin ~ and others. and the follow
ing =" literary" numbers:
"A Sum in Arithmetic" by Clara Sisson /;
" Sending a Valentine" Clarence Gum
mings; Punch INT the Serious Little Boy"
Mile Schirmer Kept In" Leo Joyce {;
!" The SPIDERS Web Irene johnson ; THE
Regular Live Boy. =" Jimmie McDevitt; THE
Errand, !" Harry Fisher; Sweet Peas" Kittie
McMullin; I" The Big Bite. " Oracle Branda;
:" The Candy Problem" Harry Phelps "A
Touch of Nature" Florence Clonan; His
Mothers Boy" Thomas McManus The
Trim G~randmothers," Rose Silverstein ~
Love Little Pussy, 4" o duet by May Clonan
and Hermie frost; Deaf as a Post" Hattie
Law, Mamie Ahearn and Frank O'Rourke {:
The Autograph Album" Eugene Vince;
Oracle Hughes I" Ye Song of Ye Gossips,"
May Howe, Mamie Lawrence, Jennie Nc
Dermott and Sadie Williams Faith. Hope
and Charity" Mabel Orr. Louise, lilly and
Jessie Gaylord -" Good By" an a~crostic,
by Eva Hoffman, May Clonan, Lizzie Walz,
Florence O'Brien, Kittie McCullagh, Mamie
Coughlin and Rosie DAILY Pond Lilies" q
duet. by Hermie frost and Frank O'Rourke.
Miss McCaffery says the publication in
The EVENING WORLD of the names of honor
pupils " each Saturday has proven a great
incentive to the little Ones, and they work
very hard to get an honor.