Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-02
OF ART, PAINTING AND EN- BROTDERY AT ANNUN-
 CLAYTON ACADEMY.
The Closing Exercises to Take Place on June II. at the
 Opera-HOuse.

The sixteenth session of Annuncia- tion Academy is rapidly drawing to close. The commencement exer- cises will take place at the Opera house on the night of June the 11th. For the next two weeks the pupils of this famous Academy will devote the school hours to reviews of their studies and public examinations.
 The closing session of Annunciation Academy has been one of the most successful in it's history. for it has at this time an enrolment of one hundred and eighty-nine pupils. That these pupils have made marked progress and improvement is clear y apparent to those who have visited the Academy during this and past sessions. The corps of teachers was never better, and the training and discipline of the pupils will compare favorably with any like academy in the United States.
 Annunciation Academy is con ducted by Sisters of Charity who have been educated for teachers, and they possess an art of imparting instruction that causes their pupils to love the school room and school hours; hence, owing t0 the interest taken in their studies, their progress fs wonderfully rapid, and, at tie same time, the knowledge and learn ing impressed on the expanding minds of the pupils is lasting.
 Annunciation Academy has been blessing to Pine Fluff, for dur ing the sixteen years of it's existence, hundreds of young ladies have re- ceived educations which qualified them to take positions as shining lights in the highest circles of educa- ted society. Todaythe graduates of Annunciation Academy are recog- nizcd as among the most brilliant young women in the State. Their minds are not alone stored with the knowledge of books, but in their school hours they were taught those graces of manner, art and music which would mark them, in any society, as brilliant and highly cultured women and q credit to the excellent academy in which they were educated.
 This morning (Tuseday) aGRAPHc reporter had the pleasure of visiting the art and industrial room of the Academy and viewing the magnifi- cent exhibit made by the pupils this season. The dimension of this room, which is well lighted, is about 40 by 9 feet, and it is literally filled with beautiful thing and every item in it was the work of a pupil of the school. There were plain and fancy sewing (f0r it should be remembered that every girl pupil of the Academy is taught the art of sewing), em- broidery and drawn work of all kinds, oil paintings, pastels, delft, erayon and pen work which would be a credit to any art school in the land. There were geometrical and architectural drawings which did great credit to the young lads who executed them. There was cast work and mouldings, and raised maps made of pulp and hundreds of other articles of great merit the viewing of which makes a visit to this room a treat to all lovers of art, pretty things and education.
 The reporter must be pardoned ii heindulges in ''invidious distinction, 7 for a number of the pupils have on exhibition work of such merit that we feel that it is but just to give credit to whom credit is due.
 Among the first of this number is Miss Martha Valiant, a young lady who by her free hand drawing and drawings from life, eyinces marked talent in art. Her work this season is even a great improvement over that of last. Her violin study, in crayon, is a piece of work of which Miss Valiant may justly feel proud.
 "The Little Sea Horses" a pastel by Miss Bessie Bluthenthal, is a beautiful work of art.
 A floral frieze, an oil painting, the work of Miss Hennie Blum, is simply exquisite.
 The specimens of crayon work by Miss May Bluthenthal attract at tention and merited praise.
 ssPharo's Horses,' i'll crayOn. by Mrs. Wightman, and ''The Stag at