Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-21
THE INDIAN SCHOOLS
The Government and st. Catharine
Schools Held Pleasant Entertain
ments Last Evening,
ENTERTAINING PROGRAMS
Literary and Musical Exercises Serve to
Pass Several Hours Pleasantly--Good
Speakers and Musicians Among
the Indian Pupils.

To lovers of childhood the entertain
.ent at the government Indian school
last evening was a rare treat. OF course,
it added to the interest of the occasion
that the children who gave the enter
tainment were Indians, children of I'M
civilized or only partly civilized par
ents. A look into their eager and yet
strangely old looking faces told of the
silent, sullen people who for centuries
had been treading owe this very spot,
and who retreated from sunrise to sun
set before a race who are now doing
their best to reclaim for civilization the
small remainder of the tribes hat once
populated this continent. One could
not but wish last evening that the walls
of the chapel in which the exercises
were held would widen out until they
took in the whole amphitheater of the
Santa Fe mountains, and that round
about were gathered from the reserva-
tons and the forests the parents and
ancestors of these children to witness
WIldl 1llIlSlldu lIdlIllIlS IldS dISolIl-
plished in less than one generation.
The platform of the chapel was dec
GRATED with geraniums artistically ar
ranged. A hundred people from the
city occupied about one-third Of the
chapel. The exercises rendered were
mostly by the younger pupils of the
school. The instrumental music of the
evening included a medley by the band
and two selections by the orchestra,
which were enthusiastically applauded.
Little Miss Ollie Walker played the
Song of the Milr' very ereditably on
the piano. Mary Price and Irene Tab
b%ichaddie played a piano duet, Span
ish Dance" which required consider
able skill in lingering, and was given
with pleasing expression. Elene Bya-
nuaba played a piano solo, English
charmingly interpreted by the young
pianist A violin duet by P. Donovan
and III. Throssell thrilled the audience
with it's enchanting melody and pathos.
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bright young man. He was for some
time a pupil at the deaf and dumb
school at Santa Fe, until Superintend-
ent Viets took him to the Indian school.
A cornet duet by D. Secooka and C.
Lawyer was applauded by the audience
with more than usual zest. The selec-
ton was, What Are the Wild Waves
Saying?"
The first vocal selection was by little
Maria Roybal, who carried a doll in her
arm and sang a droll piece, beginning,
II am ashamed to look my dolly in the
eyes, for I told SO many dreadful lies"
An action song. milk Maids" by the
girls of the fourth grade, was one of the
prettiest exercises of the evening. The
girls Wore white aprons, large white
b%onnets, and carried shining tin milk
pals. The girls all looked we'll in their
natty dress, and some of them We're de-
cidedly pretty. The evolutions they per-
formed while singing a pretty bit of
melody We're loudly applauded. An ac-
ton song by three boys, entitled
"Tramps,' was a clever bit of bur-
lesque that was well acted and amused
the audience.
There were several pretty drills and
exhibitions on the program. The kin
dergarteners appeared in night gowns
and night caps on the platform. They
carried lighted candles, and marched
and sang until one after the other
dropped off to sleep. A train of cars by
seven boys was a realistic exhibition OF
a passenger train. The fan drill by
twelve girls of the chart class was the
prettiest exercise Of the evening. The
girls wore colored gowns and mortar
boards.
The Indian club drill by six members
of Mr.. Jackson's large class was excel
lent. The evolutions performed were
difficult, and yet graceful. The young
men taking part in the drill had the ap-
J pealance of athletes who We're ;hor-
oughly in earnest about their work.
Two or three dialogues We're given by
smaller boys. The boys and girls of the
first grade told what they would do the
first thing after school let out for vaca-
ton. The fourth-grade boys acted in a
dialogue entitled Settling the Coun-
try which brought into action a real
live Indian in war paint and ready to
give the war whoop.
Ollie Walker recited ''Tommy's Ride
with irresistible quaintness. John Tay-
lor recited "Papa's Complaint" telling
of the troubles of a paterfamilias with
his 3-year-old son at 2 o'clock at night.
George Bancroft recited the well-known
"Baron's Last Banquet and Miss May
Throssell moved some to tears with the
pathetic recitation entitled 1.-THE Mar
tyred Mother Miss Throssell is a SUI
perb elocutionist, and possesses person.
al beauty such as is rarely met with
among the young women of her race.
She looked charming in a dress of white
with a red rose In her corsage, and her
delivery of the selection was dramatic,
and yet perfectly natural.
In conclusion the superintendent ex-