Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-03

Wagnerian operas are founded. This
sketch was admirably arranged, bring
ing out with broad effect the salient
points of the various compositions, and
it was a study thoroughly appreciated by
the club. 1t was eXcellently illustrated
by the pianoforte playing of Mrs. Rapp,
Mrs. Philip Harroun and Miss Gulliford,
the songs being admirably rendered by
Miss Amy Gulliford, the exceeding
sweetness and power of whose voice did
ample justice to Elsa's Dream, Eliza
beth's Prayer, and the Spinning Song.
Santa Fe is to be congratulated on pos
sessing such an array of musical talent.
Miss Palen delightfully."- entertained,
Tuesday evening, Il number OF young
people, in honor of Harry II. Wattles of
Denver, who was a guest of Major and
Mrs. Palen for over a week, and who
returned home Wednesday evening.
Music and dancing were features of the
evenings pleasures. Delicious refresh
ments were served. The guests were
the Misses Massie, Mckenzie, Staab,
Gildersleeve, Teresa Gildersleeve, Ilfeld,
Miss Jennie Griffin of Kansas City, and
Messrs. Mckenzie, Staab, Massie, Gort-
ner, Bartlett, Hardinge, Curtin, Collins.
and Edward l'Engle of Mexico.
Mrs. C. f. Towne, of Chicago, and
Miss Lydia Beatty, of Columbus, o., are
visiting their father, S. S. Beatty.
A party of townspeople were the
guests of superintendent and Mrs.
Vietz at the government Indian school
last evening. They attended the inter-
esting chapel exercises which are held
| every evening. AT Z o'clock, with the
band leading, the 200 or more pupils at
the school march around the principal
buildings and then into the chapel.
| There scripture is read, the Lords
prayer is recited, several hymns are
sung, and the band plays two or three
selections. The pupils then repair to
the ten or eleven class rooms to spend
| an hour or SO in study. In n room the
girls are busy owe pretty embroidery,
in another room the choir is in session,
and their clear voices break pleasantly
| upon the evening stiffness. In one part
of the main building the physical Gull
| ture class is in session, while in another
room the band is practicing under the
leadership of talented young Dan Sc
cook, who came to the school a short
time ago., and, together with Conductor
Harry Throstle, is developing the band
into a good musical organization. The
class rooms are prettily decorated with
| specimens of drawing, ~penmanship anG
other school work, which will compare
favorably with the work of similar
| grades in the best of pu bic schools
Pictures on the wall are in frames
carved with undeniable skill by a -
year-old Indian. One class DON in par.
ticular, in which the smaller pupils are
taught, is perhaps the prettiest schoo
room in the territory. Large lace cur.
tains screen the windows, from which q
magnificent view of Santa Fe and the
mountains is obtained. On the window
stills are banks of green plants, which
serve a good purpose in the natural his.
tory class. The walls are adorned witt
pictures selected with good taste, an6
the whole makes an appearance of 6
cozy parlor turned into a school room
The kindergarten, the assembly rooms
and the dining room were visited by the
visitors expressed themselves greatly
impressed and delighted with the worl
the government is doing in behalf of the
Indians. In the superintendent office
are five diplomas, which, in addition tt
seventeen premiums, were awarded the
school last year by the horticultural so.
ciety. There are four baseball mines
a football eleven, and other outdoor or.
CARNATIONS in existence at the school
Several pupils take interest in pho
Biography, and have achieved fair re.
suits. The girls have a burro ranch al
to themselves, and to-day the most pet
ted being at the school is a baby burro
With great labor and care a fine lawn is
kept in good appearance, and severa
trees manage to exist in the dry sol.
| surrounding the school. In the evening
the school surroundings seem very lone
some, and the visitor is apt to have the
impression Of being on a ship in mid
ocean, in which the three cleaning cleo
trio ayes of the penitentiary seem the
mast lights of a ship passing neal by
and the lights of the city those of ships
passing in the distance. Many improve
ments are contemplated this year at
the Indian school, not the least of which
is the establishing Of IN electric light
| plant. To Mr.. and Mrs. Vietz and their
able corps of teachers must be given the
| credit of making this one of the model
| Indian schools of the country. One need
but look into the happy, eager faces of
the little tots, or the intelligent, strong
and often handsome features of the old
err boys and girls to realize that school
life is very agreeable to the dusky sons
and daughters of the forest. At no time,
perhaps, is that more apparent than at
eventide, when the children and teach
ers gather in the chapel to the inspiring
strains Of martial music and render
praise to God in a natural and unaffect-
ed way, and when, after the chapel ex-
e~rcises, they return over the moonlit
campus to their assembly rooms. 1t
might be said Of the Indian school
buildings and grounds, as Sir Walter
Scott said Of Melrose abbey,
If thou wouldst view the school Alright
Thou must visit it by pale moonlight.
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