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gramne was going on ami the fortunate
~favorstes were having flowers showerea
upon them. She was a sweet enticing lit
tie thing attired in pink o~rgandie. perhaps
a little too fond Of dress and gentlemen's
society. but very pretty She sat In shc
audience. The flowers caused a bright
smile to fit across her features. What
do you think" said she, q am going to
get a bouquet of 1--WE dozen roses Thurs
day night. Yes. / just heard today Of
somebody'-the Somebody was said With
an air of mystery-.who IS going 20 send
them to me. Just think. five dozen. Yau
know what a large bunch twenty-four
makes What will five dozen be- And.
on Thursday night she got her roses. She
was one of the sweet girl graduates. but
she was not the only one, OF better still
she was only one.
The front of the stage was a perfect
bank of flowers, roses. lilies of the valley
carnations and what-aet- Baskets,
wreathes. bouquets and h~orseshoes. all
were there. They must have had some
trouble. too. in finding their owners. for
one young lady was heard TO remark,
..Mr. Baier got my roses. I knew they
were for me from the very first. but just
thought I'd let him find it out" As she
was teH0eItI HuiSiHS q t0tSt
the favorite June flowers while speaking.
the gentleman referred to must certainly
have found it out"
There were seventeen essays at the Has
brouck commencement. or. more correctly
speaking. sixteen. One was a poem, a
romantic poem called Easter" 1t was
nowery. even more so than the front Of
the stage. and the meter. was excellent.
The feet-well, if an editor had to pay for
the poem aper foot" he might kick. There
were two characters in the poem. a gai
liant youth and a mythical maiden, Eas-
ter. The youth followed the maiden
everywhere. even to a swallow mouH-
tain,.' Just what a swallow noun
tain is.it would be hard to determine, IN
less it belongs to the new school OF art.
where they tell us that nature is al
wrong, that there is no l3nger any sucl
thing. as blue skies and green trees.
They.'should be brown or purple or gray
TO harmonic with the surrounding land
scape in the picture. Yes. a swallow
mountain must be a poetical SYMPHONY
There were twenty-five graduates from
Hasbrouck Institute this year. Twelve
Young men and thirteen young ladies'
.srhirfeeu, is considered al unlucky
number. especially if she happens TO De
the odd girl at commencement, or any
where else for that matter Who was
the thirteenth young lady al Hasbrouck'sz
Nohodv seems to know. Is this not ow-
ing to the fact that the young gentlemen
graduates managed the odd girl 50 delft
" thai The keenest watcher was kept
guessing, and has never been able to dis
cover her name?
Mr.. Victor Baier has a musical Sole.
This fact was discovered by the Has
brouck pupils. probably long ago, put by
the public. only last Wednesday after
noon. at the public rehearsal OF the Giee
Club.
Afr Raier works hard. Every motion OF
his hands, every movement OF his mead
means some rise. fan or particular inHee-
tfon IN the music. But when he brings
his left foot down on the PLATFORM
wish such force that the very boards are
made 70 ring. it means force, volume IN a
charus: This fact the Glee Club recog-
r,,as. therefore. even the cole of his left
foot m,,st be musical. He seldom, II
over ases his right. The night OF the
regular commencement exercises, Mr-
Raier omitted this foot movement, and
did not in -nsequen get as mucn force
ont of the chorus, but even at that IT Was
doubtless the best thing in the musical
line witnessed in Jersey City, at least
this season. and the way in which mat
chorus of one hundred voices, drew ferth
the flags hitherto never dreamed o. al
the annointed moment when stars and
Sfrines., was sung, could not be beaten
BY Della Fox, herself, in 'The Wedding
Day
The audience are still wondering where
those pupils kept the flags. 1t reminded
one of that scene of Shakespeare's where
peare's where
.sKing Richard and a thousand men.
Drew their swords and put them up
again"
only in this case it was Mr.. Victor
Raier and a hundred pupils, while fags,
in Mace of swords were used. Certainly
there is not a man. at least, in Jersey
ct4v more successful in training a chorus
thar Mr.. Baier.
There was one thing lacking in the Has
brouck chorus, and that was bass. This
Mr.. Batter. himself. acknowledged. 1t is
not at all unusual III fdtSS
the kind to find a lack of bass voices. On
one occasion, when a choir of two or
three hundred voices was being trained,
not SO very long ago, in this city, TINS
same essential element WAS lacking.
Somebody, however, knew of a darkey
with a voluminous voice, and not unmus-
teal
on the night the chorus was to sing his
services were enlisted, behind the scenes,
of course, and after the entertainment
was over, somebody was heard to re-
mark, did you notice what a lovely bass
they had?"
There are several ways OF doing tnlngs'
even to asking ladies to remove those Cd
stacles Of vision, their hats, at an enter
A poster in the concert han
requesting that "All ladies will kindly re-
move their hats" is getting to be sueh
an everyday affair that very little heed IS
given ii. A request from the platform usu-
ally meets with about the same success
as the street car conductors Move ur
front there" Mr.. Stimets, however,
solved the problem at the commencement
exercises on Thursday evening, when ne
came forward on the platform with a pa
mer In his hand, everybody expecting
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