Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-10-28
COLUMBIA QUEEN OF THE WORLD.
The Entertainment with which Miss
Sawyer's school Celebrated Columbus

The Entertainment with which Miss
sawyer's school Celebrated Columbus
Day.
on the evening Of Columbus day Miss Sawyer's
school gave entertainment in Harmony hall
that made a fitting conclusion Of the day for the
friends Of the school who were present The
music was furnished by VIII Bond. who gradual
ed with the class Of ~, and Clayton Hackley, the
former as pianist and the latteras cornetst The
stirring notes of "Boulangers March were
sounded and four young ladies' dressed In white
and with green caps marched into the hall They
carried STATS bearing the cOOrs Of Austria,
which showed to what country, for the time at
least, they owed allegiance. Next were four
young ladies dressed as Swiss peasant girls. with
red skirts. blue bodces and Alsatian bows, fol
lowed by four Germans, who wore a bright cos.
tune and quaint German peasant cars. All thrs"
took positions in the hall TO the time OF the
march
Then the music changed TO THE Camphcls are
coming. and IN came four Scotch lassips M Rob
Roy plaid and bearing st. Andrews flags Before
taking their places two OF them, Annie Leonard
aud Laura Pentland, gracefully danced the High
land fling. Again the music changed. this time
for the sedate little Puritaus in gray, with caps
aud kerchiefs. each carry ing the flag Of her own
free land. The other natiunalitirs represented
were the French, with white skirts. blue bodces
red sashes and Iaunty caps: the Spanish. 10.
red black and yellow: the Irish in green and
black and with wreaths Of flowers Marion Mi
nor delighted the audience by dancing the Irish
jig after she and her companions appeared.
IL was "A pressing ana Ndfltu picture lildl THESE
young people presented as they Stood upon the
floor. and II soon became "A bewildering one when
later they all joined in a march and formed hg-
ures aud performed various evolutiOns. Then
/ Columbia. persouated by Miss Ethel Bruce, CA me
upon the scene. She was attended by three
pages, Wilt Roeau in red. Kendall Severance in
white and Edmund Merriam in blue, and pro-
ceeded 10 drill her friends of the other nations,
who went through the manual with the flag
STATS. which they carried in true military style
After this they withdrew and Uncle Sam. person
ated by Merton Robbins ~ the class of ~ unrx.
pectediy appeared and announced to Columbia
that the states wished to show their loyalty t.
her. She received them graciously as each pre-
scented her with gifts. The states were typihed
principally 10y the boys Of the school, though
some, a. Virginia. the mother Of presidents,
were represented bY young ladies' The original
thirteen states came first. New York was repre-
sented-not by a stock broker-but 10y a dairy
maid with milking stool ana a pat 81 butter as
her git Connecticut presented Waterbury
watches: California, bag Of gold and some
American tin; Nevada a silver brick Maryland
oysters Vermont carried sap-yoke with a
pail Of maple sugar and a can Of syrup, and
Little RhOdyN appeared bearing cotton cloth
After these and the other states had presented
their gifts the young ladies IMPLYING the nation
aties marched m and paid their obeSance u
Columbia. one from each country exchanging hei
flag for the stars and stripes All then knet. TX
cept the prlm LITTLE Puritans, while the star
Spanged Banner played.
Nearly 20 pupils took part in the entertainment
and the whole reflected much credit. both upon
Miss Sawyer and her teachers, and upon the pu
pills A social hour closed the evening