The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-01
AN EXCELLENT PROGRAMME.
Monthly Entertainment by the Pupils of
the Butte Business College.

Monthly Entertainment by the Pupils of
the Butte Business College.
The regular monthly entertainment
given by the pupils of the Butte Business
college yesterday was largely attended
and the programme was most admirably
rendered. The principal address of the day
was delivered by Librarian J. F. Davies.
a scholar of more than ordinary ability
and a man who, once launched upon a
| subject requiring deep thought and ex-
preston, delights his hearers with his lit
erary genius and oratorcal abilities.
To Celia Jardine. young pupil about
| 16 years of age. was given the palm for
| humorous recitation. Hers was a sub
| ject emnently set to comic music by an
| eocutionist of rare talent. The young
lady gave evidence of great ability and
| with a little more instruction in gesticula-
| ton and pose she will be fitted to make
| her mark with the most critical audience
| Her rendition of the dialogue portraying
| the curious bride who saw letters in the
borrowed coat of her husband and the
| French druggist to whom she applied for
| a deadly drug to put her to sleep forever
| was amusing in that all the qualities
| which entered into the play were brought
| out in their intensity of reality. She be-
came emotional when, in the moment of
| jealous frenzy she paced the floor of her
boudoir in quest of a thought. Her heart
almost forsook her when she asked the
druggist for a dose of poison to admins
ter to the cat Then she resolved herself
| into a hysterical spasm when, after swal-
| lowing the potion. her husband told that
| those awful letters belonged to his part
| ner, who had kindly loaned him his mack
intosh to wear home in the rain. Leaving
| the role of the first person, she assumed
those of the druggist and her husband
who met in the store of the former. The
1.-Two ne r-l,x
| riedly explained to the enraged husband
that the dose was only a spoonful of su-
| gar, were spoken with precision border
| ing on accuracy. The young lady re-
| sponded to a vigorous encore with wit
| ticism evolved from the brain Of an
Irishman who thought he had been out
| with party of five friends. but who, upon
| enumeratng them, could account for but
| four. Said he: oneself was wan, Tim
| Hooligan was two. Pat Hennifn was tree
and the two Scrogginses was foor. Be the
fire av st. Patrick, l tot theer was five av
us"
Alfred Blunt acclaimed upon 1.-THE Elo-
| quence of O'Connel." and for one whose
| oratorcal powers have infrequently been
| put to the test the young man acquitted
| himself very well.
James O'Brien, a bright youth of 49,
| touched the button in 1.-The Irishman's
| Panorama and satisfied his hearers that
he is right in his element when depicting
Celtic characters. He was applauded for
a response, but instead of responding, he
smilingly acknowledged the compliment
by a graceful bow, after which he disap-
peared in the cloak room, where great
speakers sometimes go when they know
their presence is required on the main
floor.
Mr. Davies took up the history of edu-
cation, and especially that part of it
| which is responsible for the grand posi-
| ton the libraries of the world hold. He
| told of the educational forces their far
| reaching effects in the elimination of the
grand and noble aspirations of men and
| Of the necessity of special training for
| the individual who hopes to make sue
| cess in life. There exists to-day a desira-
| bility of a general culture involving a
| knowledge and appreciation of literature.
art and science. This general culture adds
| to ones efficiency in the pursuit for knoWl-
edge in other lines. He also made refer
| ence to special books and subjects of in
| terest which are essential in the conduct
| of the school room.
The college guitar and mandolin club
| rendered a few highly enjoyable selec-
| tons.