The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-07-05
KEARNs' ST. AIMS oRPHANAeE

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the city.
KEARNS' ST. AIMS oRPHANAGE.
| The closing exercises of the Kearns'
! st AIMS Orphanage We're held in their
exhibition hall last Sunday evening,
June 29, and were certainly very sue
cessful. The hall was brilliantly light
ed and gracefully decorated in national
colors for the occasion. and with one
hundred and fifty children, presented a
| pretty picture. The little girls, even
the tiny tots of two, who made their
appearance several times, much to the
delight of the audience, looked very
sweet in neat white dresses.
The doings of little children always
please, but none more thoroughly than
the efforts of the dear little orphans.
They have a warm spot in the heart of
all.
The whole programme showed most
| careful training and attention on the
part of the kind Sisters, and great abil-
ity and application on the part of the
children. Although no special invita-
| tions were issued, the room was filed
to its utmost capacity with an appre-
ciative and enthusiastic audience, who
greatly enjoyed the following pro-
gramme:
Address to Right Rev. Bishop Scan
lan-The girls.
Song of the South"-The Boys.
Instrumental duet-Rose Pergrosse
and Hilda Johnson.
THE MAGIC BELL"
A drama in three acts.
Characters
Miranda, the fairy princess-Florence
Anakin.
Lothor, king of Burgundy-Harry
Stevenson.
walfried, his wife-Clara Stevenson.
Hilda, their daughter-Florence Pat
DR.. Fontanelli. chancellor and physi
cion to the Eing-Martin Glassett.
Countess of Broomsrick-Edith Riley.
Marchioness of Gingerbread-Rose
Pergrosse.
Angelia-Martha Warner.
Rosa-Frances Glassett.
Landlord of the Raven Inn-George
Peterson.
Claud, the miller-Thomas Heninger.
The gardener-Eddie McCallum.
The Baker-James Egan.
The peasant woman-Flora Andrews.
John, the Countess Footman-Philas
Baron.
First soldier-Elmer Pattinson.
Second soldier-Philas Baron
Fairies-Alice Townley, Helen Town
ley, Mary Hardy and Margaret King.
Elves-Edith Anakin, Daisy Mullen,
Bessie McNulty and Edith McCallum.
People-Martha Ledderman, E. Fer
guson, Maud Viglini, Louise Parsons
and Maud Cole.
FIRST ACT.
Instrumental duet-George and Han
nah Peterson.
Japanese fan drill-Little girls.
SECOND ACT.
Hello, Central-Nellie Malta.
Instrumental solo-Rose Pergrosse.
THIRD ACT.
We Love to Sing-Lare girls.
Nickel Rooney"
Nickel Rooney-Thomas Heninger.
Conductor-Owen McDermott.
Dude-Philas Baron.
Young lady-Rose Pergrosse.
Italian-Lego Genoli.
Indian Chief-Blaine Sullivan.
Chinaman-Thomas Swoape.
Negro-Thomas Brocklebank.
Old lady-Helen Townley
Passengers-Harry Stevenson, Leslie
Sullivan and Hugh Townley.
Danube River''-All the girls.
Closing remarks-Right Rev. Bishop
Seaman.
The following address to Right Rev
Bishop Seaman, by the girls, expresses
most pathetically their grateful thanks
to the bishop for his fatherly atten-
ton to them, the fatherless little ones:
Our Beloved Bishop.
Once more It's the glorious June-tide,
The glad festal time of the year,
And with hearts all a-tune to bright ma
We greet you, our own Bishop dear
IT'S the month when the roses are bloom
ing,
Their fragrance now fills the soft air
Their beauty has taught us deep lessons
OF love, and devotion, and prayer
And so, in the beauty of summer.
You, dearly loved Bishop, we greet,
And crown you, our friend and our IA
Their,
With a garland of heart-roses sweet.
We bring you the fragrant white roses
OF unprecedented by your care
From the world-blight of sin and of sor-
And the perfume they breathe forth
is prayer.
And this fragrance, as heaven-blest in
cense.
BY angels is carried on high,
Where its sweetness will wait to console
YOU
When your hour of great need shall
draw nigh.
Our roses are deepest-hued crimson,
Fit emblem are they of that love
Which, guided Alright by your wisdom
Is bestowed on our Father above.
This love is like music. in heaven.
And sweeter each day grows the strain,
AS it tells of your children protected
From sin, and dark sorrow, and pain.
This, then, is your garland of roses,
Its beauty is only begun,
For your children will ever be weaving,
Zen after your life-work is done.
And sweetly the blossoms remind us
That we of your crown shall form part
For the King counts your love for his
children
AS love for his own Sacred Heart.
Your Grateful and Devoted Children
The Song of the South was well
by the boys in true boyish
spirit.
The instrumental duets by Hilda
Johnson and Rose Pergrosse, and by
little George and Hannah Peterson |
were well received, as was also the solo |
by Rose Pergrosse.
The fairy drama Magic Bell' was
sweet and simple. Many of the young
performers doing remarkably well.
A Japanese Fan Drill was one of the |
best appreciated numbers on the pro-
gramme. The efforts of the tiny ba- |
bies taking especially we'll
~ the songs were enjoyed. A par
dSularly touching one was Hello, CEN
trail. Give Me Heaven sung bv four
baby orphans in their sweet childish |
voices.