The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-11

The High school building was
crowded by students and friends of
the institution last night, and they
were very pleasantly entertained by
the proficiency and merit displayed in
the class day exercises. 1t was about
$50 when a bevy of young ladies, all
attired in white, entered the room and
took possession of the platform. These
were the "sweet girl graduates" The
stars and stripes formed a canopy
over the platform and between the
pillars was stretched crepe of green
and white. these being the college col
orS. Six boy graduates completed the
company on the platform, and the
whole group, twenty-six in number,
constituted the senior class of '95.
David ]. Kelly did Office as class
president by extending a welcome to
the audience in brief but well-word-
ed speech.
The class sang in chorus 1.-The
High School," an original production
by one of its members, and received
a hearty encore, to which they re-
sponded with a repetition of the last
stanza.
The relation of 'sClass History fell
to Miss Lucy Alma Corker and it was
a decidedly clever essay, in which re-
spects were paid to the faculty and
each member of the senior class in
number of witty sallies. The essay
was a bright production and ELECTED
much applause.
Mr. Randall a. Green, in his Grafton
upon "Essa Guam Videri," acclaimed
upon the elements of q successful ca
reer and the nobility Of character.
A quartette was billed as one of the
numbers in the entertainment, but as
one of the four was absent this was
omitted.
Miss Eloise Shearman upheld the
title of class poet with some humorous
verse, each member of the class re-
ceiving pungent mention in the musi-
cal rhymes.
The essays. under the caption of
"Reminiscences" on intra classem and
extra classem, by Miss Lee Judd and
Miss Belle Parsons, respectively,
showed marked ability and were
warmly applauded by the audience.
The lively ditty, The Way We Have
at the High School," another effusion
rendered to the well known air of
I'VE Won't go Home Till Morning"
was also warmly received, and the
choristers replied fittingly to the fiat
tering encore.
One of the artistic features of the
evening was the Glass Prophesy' of
Miss Eleanor Dooly. The essay showed
lively fancy and was full of neatly
drawn pictures.
Mr.. Charles Peaks address to the
junior class displayed much vigor and
talent, and the fluent response of Mr..
George Smith, as champion of the
Junior class, was a very clever re-
joinder and gained much applause
The piano selection. Les Deux ALL
vetes,' by Miss Lillian Thompson,
was only partially rendered, as Miss
Thompson was affected by the heat
of the crowded hall.
At this point. the graduates de-
parted en- masse to a side apartment
and Mr.. John Giesy took the plat
form and made the farewell speech
for the class in well-worded effort
The audience was then treated to
rather novel performance under the
head of the Last Sad Rites The
lights were eXtinguished, and after an
intermission of several minutes a
number of ghostly figures, clad in
white sheets, ambled onto the plat
form, accompanied by doleful dirge
from the piano. Red and green lights
were set burning in the centre of the
platform, and the white figures glided
around the pyre in a manner which
would have made Macbeth's witches
green with envy. The climax was
reached when a lively graduate rush.
ed onto the scene in the garb of his
majesty Old Nick, and executed Wig
orous cancan around the platform.
AS a matter of useful information,
it may be stated that whenever
cooking receipt calls for a baking
powder the Royal Should be used.
The receipt will be found to work bet
ter and surer, and the bread. biscuit,
rolls, cakes. dumplings, crusts, pud-
dings, crullers or whatever made, will
be sweeter. lighter, finer-f1avored,
more dainty, palatable and whole
some.