The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-22
Seattle High School Celebrates An
Important Event.
THE STAGE a SYLVAN SCENE.
Seventy Youths and Nafdens Decked
I'm Holiday Atttre-Brfxbt &niifes
Put the Audience to LAUGHTER
Three Ghosts From Hmdrs-<sypsy
Fortune TeIiers Play Havoc
With Youthful Love Affairs.

Wbea the curtain went Up yesterday az
ternoon on the class day exercises os the
Sea:i.e ajgE school. the audience that Ill
ed tne Seattle theater from root 10 floor
xaw perhaps az pretty a sigh, as has ever
gEaced their eyes On any commencement
day within their recollections.
The stage vas laid IN a woodland scene.
with all the accompanl ments cf grass
green carpet. painted forests. passehoard
rocks AID shady hooks. before a back
ground Of landscape gardening quite haxiIy
serene a. the curtain rose IL upon this
sylvan solitude tAese trooped throng Of
singing rnaidenS. three score less FIVE in
number. dazz'ed n BIT by the relentless
x,are o. the fooliigh,s. but graceful and
charfnEs IS could be. They were the
sweet arlrl graduates There were fifteen
young gentlemen.
Whea all had composed themselves some
AZ ease on grass-green carpet. others
a-refch the passoboard rocks. and the
saady hooks we're filed. a fair girl In pale
blue ana white. tai and bewstchinsiy
graceful was led forth from her rocky
seat and crowned queen OF the Sylvan
Dag" She aseended the throne on a ter
raced sili. midway the stage and all he
came her objects. She was M!sg Florence
Denny. the re.gning beauty OF the class.
TIE herald. George Brown, then. al tho
bidding ~ the queen. blew a spasguod G
blast on his bright brass bagle. and sum-
xnoned the classmates one BY one To the
foot % the throne, otherwise known as
tho terraced hill. where each on bonded
Knee received a class day glft. Not infre-
,auently the sally which accompanied tx
From the lips % the queen approached tbs
Naeetloux. one dgnified young miss being
tpfesenfed with corkscrew. 10 pull her
.out Of her repose." II Seems that some
|: o. the hoJs and girls have been begu.led
during their school days past into betray-
hg tender feelings for one another. The
heaTtless way in which these youthful
passions were flung open before the gaze
Of that crowded theater was d caution.
To the queens Call.
As the last victim retired into the friend
y shadows Of the background, Miss Laura
Guy. draped III Grecian robe 10 represent
Clio. the epic nitrAe. appeared on the scene
Ii company with a gray haired be-tog aed
sage in the person OF Alexander Forsyth.
Clio delivered what is commonly known
on such occasions as the class history
which consists Of "A humorous attack on
TIE several individual ecceatrictles and
shortcomings az the class. Many II the
saHiss were aimed Well and delivered
Win such eject that the class Uttered
Rudih'y and the audience echoed lis ap-
prevail
The queen then called uper Miss Resale
lie Wolf for p song. SEe responded rs
singing In sweet. girljsh voice The
Flower Girls Song. after which the sage.
IN voice which scarcely bore out the
eaeaS 81 his hoary costume. delivered
short tale on the deeds Of the past
Two ~ pses. Miss t.usu Dupes ard Mis-
Gertrude Winsor bede.ket in scagfs and
spanE''s, came al the Sc~ur ard TO i the
separate fortunes % the class T1c.r pro
pacries were framed Ia verse
oge - the closing features of the affair
vas rather Fruesome and bizarre. Il was
tie appearance Of three ghosts from hades
d~iped III the ciinging cerements of the
grave. and bearing with them random and
haFroR ing anecdotes II their eoteuru be-
lew, whtb"r t3ey prophesIed certain spir-
Is nov abiding n tAe flesh would speed
ily * Unless IN the future thCy imposed
less hafsbares On tha pupiis beneath their
foas lHV farce go0StlV visitors We're
Howard Hanson tEnN,.sal Charles san
bern iatiul. ana Miss E'sle Moore Ter
mani
After tha ghosts had eiel sl,vfv oar "a
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class me o,,..,, r,.,ss,,tS.1 es-h rr,s,,,h.r
viii q .hererfer 3 = tren,nn,ovir,- -, n
80 I'D. "a - .,,.,..,.., ~ -.
then stoe3 70 group and sang the class
song = g, the words and music ~ weirh
weru writes tv Mss I.9ctiie VI Intyre
ore ~ the graduates
As tse curtain rem thc housa was allied
with Co. oo,=e ot me lass yeli, given hy
the hevs and ending with 4 victorious
tFer."
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