Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23

| well, - "sweet dreams - and all those
| pretty little mean-nothings that slip so
easily from their tongues. On the whole
| they make delightful companions, incon-
| slant to be sure, but vivaoious ,sympathet-
10, appreciative, full of tact and sentim ent
| and with perfectly natural, easy, and
unaffected manners. l cannot conceive
Of these girls as appearing awkward con-
strained or self-conscious in any position.
In all the 200 girls there are, however,
| only three or four really pretty ones; but
then, it takes very pretty girl to look
pretty in plain black apron and straight
hair.
Everybody goes to bed at 8 80 O'Clock
for everybody must be up and ready for
mass in the chapel at O'Clock in the
morning; the nuns also attend mass in
the parish church at O'Clock. The
smallest classes so to bed at 'clock,
that is if they have been good, but if any
in the class have been naughty all have
to suffer, and you will meet little sor-
rowful procession of tiny, black robed
figures marching two and two to bed at
1880 o. CLOCK, for class in regarded as a
unity. You rarely see one girl alone in
the corridors; they always go in classes,
IN regular procession, accompanied by O
sister with her wooden sceptre. This
modest instrument of authority has
finger piece which can be made to strike
against the ball of the sceptre, and the
gentle, wooden click which results is the
commanding voice of the convent, which
no one dares disobey.
For some time 1 have been puzzling my
head over the meaning of q certain little
closet in the refeotory-one of the sisters
unlocked it every day after the midday
A.
some glass jars in her arms. One day [
followed, this mystery to explore, and
found the children running after mad
anne
LIKE YARD FULL OF CHICKEN
after one who has found worm. The
jars were full of candies which she was
selling at so many pieces for a sou, and
they were English and American candies,
too, in this land of bon bons! l assisted
in the sale and we took IN two or three
dollars. Madame said it was not a good
day, as after Thursday, which is half
holiday, when the parents come to visit,
she often sells four or five dollars worth.
Well 1 remember the first time hap
pened to stray into the play ground
where the little ones were running about.
They left their play to gather around
me, like sparrows about q strenge bird.
Their faces were not innocent, sweet and
child like, but misohievous and know
ing, as if they belonged to so many little
spirits, who might do you q good turn,
or stick pins into you. / turned and fed
preeipitously to group of sisters, who
stood at little distance regarding the
scene with amusement.
The older girls have part OF the play
ground to themselves; in fact, the first
class has many privileges. It is not held
SO strictly in the gloomy embrace of
these funeral aprons, and il occasionally
blossoms forth into crinps and bracelets.
The first class contains two of whom it is
said in q reverential undertone, ''They
write verses, and 1t contains more than
one who can turn out pretty romance.
The richer girls are to be distinguished |
from the poorer ones only by the little |
extra ineness of their black jerseys, |
and little extra coquattishness |
Of ribbons about their exercise |
books. Would that the French girl was |
as particular about the dRintiness of her
neck and her ears, as she Is in regard to /
her exercise books and her finger nails! /
She only has full bath once a month, |
and If she loves bon-bons better than |
soap and water, it sometimes happens
that she puts the money which should |
pay the sister for filling her bath-tub
into the hands of the madam who visits
the play ground with the glass Jars. She
bias her hair brushed By the sister once q
week.
The whole school gathers in the refec-
tory every Saturday, for what is called
.he Conference. Reports OF every |