The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-06-20

scape;" Miss Ella v Hobltzell, Belair, two
marine views ineil and one panel; Miss Miriam
| Lewis, Westminster, two Hover panels, one
"Old Mill in oil and one placque; Miss
Bessie Lemon, Williamsport, two flower
panels, one oil scene, Winter" and one
PLAGUE; Miss Anna NJ. Whaley, Plymouth,
N. c., two sketches in oil; l.. N. Wheaton,
one game piece in oil, and 81. Grow, Frederick,
one piece in oil, game bag and gun; and two
studies in oil, one violin and the other gun
and game bag, by Miss Lille Woodward, of
Westminster.
In the department of art needlework Miss
Imogene Caulk, of Talbot county, has the
| finest display, and it was expected by those
viewing the work that commencement day
would show her to be the medalist of the
class. Her collection is the most extensive
and most beautifully executed. A sofa
cushion, artistic in design, of conventional
| lilies on terra Gotta turcoman, and tea cloth
| of white linen on which is thrown great
bunch of wild roses. leaves and fallen petals,
are especially noticeable. Miss Eva Barnes
has a centrepiece on which is a wreath of
forget me nots, tied with long ribbons of pale
yellow, is exquisitely beautiful. She has also
| a headrest of pale lemon satteen and table
scarf, where were seen aZallas IN pink and
white on slate colored silk. These are only
| a part of Miss Barnes fine work. Miss Bessie
| Lemon, of Williamsport, has an easel picture
| frame, embroidered in a delicate arrangement
of pansies in close kensington on light brown.
| 1t is as natural as a painting. We see in this
frame our little friend of last year, Hirati San.
Miss Lemon has also a very rich headrest on
| golden brown in lighter shades. Little Miss
| Nellie Wantz, of Westminster, has also a
beautiful picture frame in blue darning on a
white turcoman ground, and very pretty
monchoir case in pink and green. Miss Bette
J Shriver's Persian picture frame Is one of the
prettiest things on exhibition. Miss May
Whaley, of Plymouth, N. c., exhibited a
| glove case of chamois in a tangled 5riary
design, and finished in white and gold. tits
perfect in design and finish. Her headrest
in marine blue of conventional peoples is very
good. Miss Reba Smith, of INTERCHANGEABLE,
Del, has doylies for water bottles, where the
shading is very delicate and the violets. chrys-
anthemums and pansies, scattered on white
satteen, are exceedingly lifelike. Her sofa
cushion in lemon and orange, with white
darning, is too delicate for tired head to rest
easy upon. 1t is "a thing of beauty" but TO be
"a Joy forever it must be ''taken up tenderly,
handled with care Miss Smith has also a
beautiful mantle scarf of slate ground and
design of wild flowers. Miss Lille Hull, Of
St. Denis, had an exceptionally good collec-
ton. She has a fine sofa cushion, table scarf,
picture frame, headrest, &c, and her work is
well done.
In this department all the new stitches are
taught, and the instructress. Miss Lottie
Owings, spares no pains to procure the best
designs, suitable to the age and experience of
her pupils, from the Decorative Art Rooms
of Baltimore and New York. The exhibit,
while not so large as last year, falls nowhere
behind in delicacy of execution and variety of
stitches.
In the evening Recital Contest and Calls,
thenic Exhibition took place in Smith Hall.
The contest was participated in by twelve
young ladies and young gentleman, three each
from the female and male Sophomore and
Freshman Glasses, these having won the right
to contest by attaining the highest grade in
the study of elocution during the year. Prof.
I. F. Rinehart who had just returned from
Europe in time to be present at the Com
mencement Exercises acted as judge, and the
grades he gave on this occasion were to be
combined with the grades for the year to
decide who should receive the handsome
money prize offered by the late Samuel Nor
ment, Esq, of Washington, D. c. The re-
suit of the contest was not made known on
this occasion but reserved for commence
ment day. The program was as follows;
PROGRAMME.
Calishenics-Figure Marching Female Glass
Recital-Emmets Last Speech.-...-......Mr.M MELVIN
Calisthenics-Clnb Swinging
Female Juniors and Seniors
Recital-Jesse Miss Baukhages
tecital-"Wounded". Roe
Calisthenics-DumbB Bell Exercise
Recital-One of the Little Ones..-Mss Buckingham
RECITAL Christmas Tale. Miss Use
Observation-Disclosures Child. Miss Anderson
Rectal-Death Bed of Arnold Mr.. Litsinger
Male Junior and senior
Bee!s-RsOq! LASER ;:: Mis- RBidge!Ey
Caiisthenics-At Female Freshmen
Recital-Clarence's Dream. Mr. Mckeever
Recital-The Old Man Goes to the Stylish Church.
| Mr.. Queen
Calisthenics-New Tambourine
Female Sophomore
The recitations were certainly very good
but it would be quite out Of place in your
reporter to specialize before the judge re-
turned his decision. But while the recita-
tons seemed to hold excellent attention, it
was very evident the Calisthenics had much
to do with drawing such a tremendous crush
of people. All anticipations as to how ex-
cellent this part of the exhibition would be,
were amply met. The young ladies in club
swinging wore very beautiful costumes of
black, with tight-ftting bodies. Short sleeves
afforded excellent opportunity to show grace
of movement in arms to which part of the body
this exercise is especially directed. The club
swinging by the young men was especially
noticeable of the ease with which the most
intricate swings, innumerable twists and end
less curves were made. The dumb-bell
drill by the young men demonstrated excel
lent training in their daily class exercises.
The most esthestic parts of the program was
undoubtedly the Attitudes, a Delsarte drill
intended especially to develope grace In
posing and gesticulation. The participants
wore beautiful gowns of white draped after
the Grecian style. Great credit is due to the
excellent accompanying on the piano done by
| Miss Kinney. This appears TO be very
simple thing to do but it is very rare to find
performer who can do it all satisfactorily.
TUESDAY.
Tuesday morning was given up to an ex-
hibition in Yingling Gymnasium. There is
but small space here for the accommodation OF
an audience, as they can only occupy the
running track in the gallery or the extra
room in the side towers. No seats at all
were used, and standing room ever was soon
all taken. The gymnasts, dressed in jersey
fitting suits of blue, were divided into two
classes. Glass A included Bowden and
Wheaton, of Chincoteague, Va; Parke and
Mills, of Westminster; Watson, of Centreville,
and Queen, of Lorentz, W. Va. Glass h in.
cluded Baker, of Buckeystown; Gilbert, of
Walkersville; Lewis, of Parksley, Va; Her.
bert, of Fawn Grove, Pa; Jones, of Bay
view, and McKeever, of Lorentz, W. Va.
The first event was the High Dive in which
Mills excelled, clearing the rope at the height
of feet INCHES. An exercise on Chest
Weights vas given especially to illustrate the
use of such apparatus in developing move,
ments. The uniformity of motion required
and large combination of movements were
very interesting. On the Parallel Bars some
fine work was done. There were all such,
acts as the "dip,' Scissors turnover,
''cuts'' and grapevine"
Parke was. especially good and won for
himself great applause from the interested
spectators. Such gymnastic games as Indian
Wrestle, Cock Fight, Evading and Elephant
Race, were next INDUCED in and afforded
any amount of amusement. Lewis, a mem
Der of the Sophomore Glass, and whose
height is 8 feet e inches, in the Running
High Kick, made the recorder jingle at feet
8 inches He has made the remarkable re-
cord of feet inches. Some very pretty