The Natchitoches enterprise., 1890-05-29
THE NORMAL SCHOOL
Closes its Fifth Session ADaid
Brilliant Scenes and EH'
COUTGOinO Auspices.

The com nencement exercises preparato-
~ 10 the closing Of tue Fifth session Of
the State Normal School, were begun on
last Sunday, with the commence ment
sell mon bv Rev. w. T. d. Dalzell, OF
which We make mention in another coll
mmn, and confined until last night.
On Monday the exercises, Rotations,
Dialogues, reading, ETC.. of the first, stc>
cond, third, fourth and fifth grades of
the practice department and the a and
u Normal Glasses, were given. These
grades are cOmpO scd Of boys and girls
who are il their early teens,
and Younger, and the perfection with
which the several parts were rendered by
these young children, was indeed -
| strong argument in favor of the Normal
system of teaching. They showed clear
| liz the maintaining care Of the Instructors,
| and did credit TO their training. IL
would be impOsslble 10 choose Jingle
ono whom To particularly mention as bet
| ter than another; and of the recitatiOns
! of lie A and Is classes we can say rs much
but we may 10 parioned for particularly
mentioning Miss May Smith and Miss
| Lizzie Glare Paxton, and complimentlng
them on the rendition of "The Black
smiths Story" aud "WOman's Rights"
If lie last we must say it was perfectly
rendered aud capitally presented.
The exercises of Wednesday evening
consisted of the reading of essays, reci-
| tationS vocal music, a pantOnime drill
by the Junior class and the awarding OF
/ the Peobody medals, and depIOmas TO the
graduates. The evenings proceedings
we're opened by Rev. A. ID, McV0y. Jr,
with prayer, which was followed by a
chorus song ,'Gipsy Lite" Ivy the class
Then the essay, Literary women of the
SDnth," by Miss Mary =: Cross, Of Baton
Rouge, was exquislteIy rendered, aud wa'
a most beautiful tributs by woma" tt
women.
The trio, Miss Burris, Miss Maud Piersor
aud Miss DOllerhide, sang ''The NiOlets,'
most delightfully."-: in fact all the vocal
music was rendered we'll. The next was
recitation, by Miss Bessie Smith. Then
came the PantoInime drill Oy twelve al
tue most beautiful young women w
would care TO see. They wore robes o.
flowing white made in the Grrcan style
with powdered hair and the GFecIan knot
H. was a pant0mimic representation o
expectation, affection, anger. sorrow, JOY
fear and religious devotion. each o.
which was represented in II more telling
manner than words could have expressed
every movement was in perfect tune, aud
the picture WAS one Of joy 10 he remem
beTed for ever.
The Peeb0dy medals were awarded 10y
Col. w. II. Jack ia few appropriate II.
marks TO Miss Zoe Garig of Baton ROnge
Miss Julia Dale Of CUncOrlia Parish, Miss
Lizzie Barrett of Rapldes, Miss Annie
Brandon of Mississippi, aud our own Miss
Edna Levy. The two succeeding essays
''1Le progress of Education IN the SOUTH
by Miss Sallie Spencer of Jackson pai IslI'
aud The Old and the New" by Miss Liz
zie Alexander of NlOrehOuse parish, were
fine literary productions, and did credit
to tue abilities of their authors.
The deplcmls were awarded by Col w
II, Wise, President OF the bOaid of adj
ministlators of the school, in a few ap
prOpriate aud eloquent remarks to Miss
HOneycurt. Miss Hannah Aaron, Mrs
Annie COrbett, Miss l.. Alexander, Mr.:
EzeIl. Miss A, Fulton, Miss Ida Milling
and Miss Zoe Garig.
The vaIedIctOry was then delivered by
Miss Alice l.. Honeycutt. It. was Il
beautiful composition, full of pathOs
well calculated TO move the deepest
we're about ssveFIng TTIaIr taSs6ttrA'HTutist
The programme was clOsed by Hon. NJ
q. Brnuibaugh, Superintendent of Edu
cation ct Pennsy who spoke on
cite mission of the public school.
Every caro- was taken in making the
arrangements for these exercises, with
IN eye single to The com fort of the guests.
ample seating capacity of comfortable
seats WAS erected just in the rear of The
building beneath the heavy foliage of
the grand old oaks and stately pines.
The rear gallery of the building which
was used rs the stage was4 beautifully
and tattily decorated aud lighted. Be-
fore closing We mnst say word for the
| President and faculty of the school. In
everything that was done aud said their
abilities as instructors, was shown. and
the words nf praise spoken for these able
teachers come from the pupil, the patron
| and the parent.
Last night an enjoyable evening was
spent bya large number of guests at the
Normal on invitation to - reception by
the Normal Club.