The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

streets, this room looks delightfully."-
cozy. There is the tea table with its
embroidered blue and white cover, and
pretty cups and saucers; and the plates
of thin brown bread and butter are
the shining samoval is send
ing up a cloud of steam, there is a fra
GRANGE of tea and lemon, q tinkle of
teaspoons, and the hum of many voices.
This is the students hour Ct relaxa-
ton. If you want TO know what is
going on in the student world this is
the place and hour to hear it. From
the different groups one hears talk OF
the next Salon pictures, exhibitions,
and entertainments, studio gossip, and
plans for summer travel. The low
French windows open on wide YER
anda overlooking the court; here in
pleasant summer weather the tea table
is placed.
The reading-room adjoins the red
room. The long center table is covered
with magazines and papers. The
writing table by the window is occupied
by students with home letters. Book
cases at the farther end of the room
hold the library, which grows steadily.
if slowly, by contributions from differ
ent sources. Some girls are looking
over the bulletin board, which contains
notices of church services, and summer
sketching classes, addresses of doctors,
dentists, French teachers, boarding
houses, and announcements Of the sale
of students furniture.
Last December the second annual ex.
hibition of the woman artists of Paris
was held at the club. The evening Of
the opening reception the guests, in
passing through the rambling corridors,
had an poltunity of seeing many of
the students rooms. These range in
price from So to $l4 month. All
are furnished plainly but comfortably,
and arranged to apear as much as posi-
BILE like sitting rooms. One feature is
the absence of the cumbersome English
bed. In its place is low. rather
narrow. French sommier and mattress,
which, with a cover and several pill
lows. is used as divan in the daytime
A newcomers room maybe distin
guished by its comparative plainness
but it will not be long before she will
have about her all manner of artistic
trifes. Even those obliged to econo
mize most closely soon pick up mic
bits of draperies, old brass. and potter.
during rag fair at Christmas, the han
fair before Easter, and from the oil
temple. The room of student VIII
!. has been over sometime shows the re
l suit of many such expeditions.
gray greenfish net makes misty shadow
a as it hangs in graceful curves from tn
ceiling. Photographs and summc
sketches are pinned up on the walls,
s great Dutch milk can by the windo'
Q is filed with holly, and by it stands
q pair of Breton sabots. On charm
d ing writing desk, improvised from a
Q orange box, is quantity carved Of
, hour glass; Botticelli bas-relief an
e a graceful Tanagra figure catch tt
light from a side window; bra
kettle is singing ON tiny three.legge
. stove, and huge ladle of SPANS
II copper CLEANS like coal from a dusk
IS corner.
II in the garden is st. Luke's Chape
n given by DR.. Morgan Dix. rector
d Holy Trinity. Rev. Samuel P. Kel
l. is the successor of the late Mr.. Newell
3 whose best monument is the work
>. did among the students of thu Lat
If quarter. Characteristic of his unselfi!
5, thoughtfulness for others was his pls
n for relieving and cheering the lives
81 those studying abroad, which, aid
1t by timely generosity, has develops
b. into the American Girls Club.
,r Churchman.