The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-01

Twenty-four more lives were launched
from the dry docks of scholastic discipline
last night into the broad ocean or active
life and all its activities and ups and
downs
The last touches of mental embellish-
ment were put on them in the High school
by ITS CORDS of intellectual artists.
The roll of honor is as follows:
Clara Annette Gehriug, Ethel Leola
Fseeland, Agnes Clara Blakely, Gala May
DurIey. Max w. Oliver, Virginia Hortense
Harrell, Albertina BissantZ, Edward Theo-
dore Noble, Robert c. Wichman, Mildred
G. HAYS. Andrew Daniel Norstrom, Eva
May Bradley, Bertrand Doffiemyer. lnez
Creditor, Ida s. kaufman, Alice Z. Payne,
Harriette Nina Hall. Mary Ruamy Nc
Nair, katharine Lgah Knox. Famine
LewelIing, George II. Parkinson. Ora
Edrell Pollard. Ralph G. Ingram, Emma
Nay Bixby, Alma Lera Bradley.
BEHIND THE SCENE.
The scene behind the curtain of the
opera house at o'clock was one
of life. and all its characteristics.
With the chorus undergraduates, more than
half hundred. bright faces shone re
splendent in anticipation OF triumph
before the fooilightS and the audience,
comrades and teachers, the governor OF
the state, the president OF the school
board, the chaplain of the occasion; and
over and above all the superintendent OF
public instruction.
One young professor of the High school
represented an audience and before him
the young ladies' rehearsed the art of max
ing IA graceful bow. They marched up in
turn and made n bow that was the persona
fcation of grace itself and returned TO the
throng o hear the compliments.
Some OF tie young Indies made hurried
pilgrimages to the recesseS OF the scenes TO
tie their shoes; others still We're showing
their comrades the particularly artistic
points in their costumes. while one young
lady sat in remote corner with hand
mirror, subduing a rebeliious curl on
her bangs. She labored hard with it, and
when il was Of the proper Roscoe Conk-
ling style she felt satisfied with it. but not
ill then. The young gentlemen. for the
most part, were nervous. Max Oliver was
notable exception, however, for he grace
fully walked about among the young la
dies with the air of a page in the gorgeous
court of King Louis, and complimented
them NEST admirably on their charming
looks and the grace and dignity OF their
bows before the individual audience. Ed
Noble looked far away into the depths of
the future and evidently saw there the
ermine of the supreme bench, for it is I'M
Herstood that he viii embrace the law.
Various pilgrimages were made to the
peep-bole of the drop curtain TO see the
flood of people rushing in, and as each
recognized friends Ia the audience they
would clap their bands and look supreme
" happy. The entire scene made picture
that could be studied Cor a month with
profit, for innocence aud youth combined
with intelligence make picture that is
worth he most careful study. What a
fBe AID refreshing thing it is to permit
the mind 10 wander back though the ages
and note tie progress Of the human race.
How interesting 1t is to think
that the youth on that that stage
knew more about the world and the forces
of nature than Julius Cesar, the first
man, in many respects, of the aCes, and
that the modest girl OF sixteen. the
daughter of plain citizen of the Repub-
lie, could teach the beautiful Cleopatra.
the sorceress of the Nile, the first woman
in the cradle OF learning.
That little stage alone contained
more living encyclopedias than
the senate of Rome in its
palmiest days or the parliament of Eng
land III the days when the noble Warwick
swayed it when he was pursuing the art OF
making and uumaking monarchs.
And all this was brought about by the
inventive genius of the patriarchiai Gut
tenhurS whom the world will never honor
sufficiently.
BEFORE TIE CURTAIN,
The scene before the curtain was more
sctive if less Interesting than that behind
it. \ Hood OF people poured into the opera
house ill every chair in the three terraces
of seats was filed while the ais.eS were
crowded almost to suffocation. \ perfect
sea of faces shone beneath the electric
lamp and WAS relieved only by the glitter
of diamond ornaments and the brilliant
achievements OF the mililners art Every
color Of the rainbow was represented in
the flowers that adorned the ladies' head
dresses and costumes OF the newest fashion
were displayed with that peculiar skill for
which the ladies of this generation are
noted.
The orchestra and proscenium were bril-
liantly adorned with flowers. They We're
there in all varieties and colors. They
were scattered promscuously about. some
were punched up in artistic arrangement
and others were woven into wreathes by
the dexterous fingers of refined and deli
cate hands. All combined to make one of
those scenes which the American heart de-
lights i'll and which arouses that pride
which is generally accepted as American
Ism.
THE OPENING.
At the smack of Professor Dyer's fin
gers every person on the stage took their
assigned seats sud by another signal the
curtain rolled up. with flash, into inyIsi-
the DO less brilliant appearing chorus burst
upon the audience like vision in "A spect-
acular drama. and eliminated in applause
that fairly shook the gigantic building and
lasted long enough for the irregular hearts
of the graduates TO return to their proper
place and renew their ordinary paipitating
gait.
Very fortunate for them it was that the
taste of Miss Jessie Clark had selected the
merry song OF they kings" for the opeuiny
number of the exercises. This made every
thing and everybody cheerful, and when
the graduates faced the audience they
were ir better heart than they would have
been had song more eneryating been
selected Miss Clark had selected re-
markably clever chorus from the High
school with Miss Grace HatIop. a charm
ing musician, at the piano. The Nik-
ing" was sung in excellent style and was
deservedly applsuded.
everything was under the management
Of Professor Dyer principal OF the High