Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-06-02
Proficient Miss Pindall.
SHE NlNs THE GOLD MEDAL In
THE EL0CUTI0N CONTEST
LAST NIGHT.
Hardin College Chapel Crowded With
Spectators to Witness the Del.
sarte Drill and Elecationary
Exercises.

uiCht CACICIscS VI 1ldIuiH SOileSe
called together at Mozart Hall in
Mexico Friday night the largest and
most appreciative audience ever as
sembled in our city on any occasion
of the kind. The May festivities of
'92 of this grand institution opened
with an elocutionary contest and Del
sarte drill. To those who could not
gain admission into the packed and
crowded auditorium, commodious as
it is, all that is necessary to assure
them of the charming character of
the entertainment is to say that Mrs.
C. M. Best had trained and taught
the young ladies in eloeution and
Miss Duncan had charge of the Del
sarte drill. If ever the emotions of
an audience were in full sympathy
and intense interest with what they
heard and saw it was there felt and
shown.
The programme opened with SUI
perb rendition by Treloar's orchestra
of 27 persons, led by that veteran
musician, Prof. G. F. Kuemmel, of
Gottenburg Conservatory; Prof. .Tre-
loar, pianist.
The first contestant was Miss Adj
die Pindall, of Mexico; subject,
"Rizpah. Her low, sweet, plain
tive tones, as she portrayed a moth
er's love for her dying son, brought
tears to the eyes Of her audience
whom she swayed at her will.
Next was Miss Minnie Fleet in
"Lasca." Her piercing eye and
typical Spanish appearance well
suited the piece she SO fitly por-
tfsyed. We saw and heard in
mirage the distended eye balls and
long, spreading horns of the stam-
peded herd on the Texas frontier.
Miss Ella Langhammer, of Texas,
completely carried the audience
to see "Mrs. Slowly at the Hotel, "
when the poor old lady got badly
mixed in the rooms and, as never
fails, saw "a man under the bed"
Then followed Miss Lucille King,
of Texas, with "Hebe" as her sub
ject. With that peculiar and fas-
cinating grace known only in the
Southerner, this young
lady from the Sunny South won our
admiration for her modest mien and
artless but perfect presentation of
her subject.
One of the most enjoyable pieces
of the evening came next in the
presentation of "Aunt Sophronia at
the OPERA - by Miss Lizzie Gosnell,
of Kansas City. No one would
ever have thought that her beautiful
face could have assumed the anti
quated appearance and antebellum
drollery that it did to such per-
lection.
Then Miss Ernie Macfarlane, from
her far away home in California,
with easy grace and matchless
modesty, inimitably told of the
"Golden Lambs Revenge
Then followed the closing recita
ton in this most closely contested
struggle for the gold medal by Miss
Ella Rhome, of Texas, in "The
Chariot Race" Had the vast au-
dience been seated upon some great
Roman amphitheatre, gazing upon
the foaming steeds as they few,
amid the clamor of chariot wheels
and the wild shouts of the excited
populace on TO victory, the audience
could not have been more spell
bound. The "Lone Star" State
may, with pride and confidence, en-
trust her cause upon the stage to
Miss Rhome.
While the judges, Miss Russell,
Miss Belle Morris, and Maj. Mathe-
son of the Missouri Military Acad-
erny, were preparing thei- decision,
little Miss Virginia Yancey sweetly
told how a bad boy kissed her just
for fun and begged, though her tears
of offended modesty that the teacher
should not whip him; for, though
kissing was not exactly right, it did
not hurt.
Then came the understandable Del
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