Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-01
MOUNT SAINT CLAIRE.

Miss Louise Forster, who formerly
held position in the PILoT Office and
who went to the Academy of Mount st.
Claire, Clinton, Iowa, to attend school
some six months ago, in letter to the
PILOT office gives the following excel
lent description of the school, its sur
roundings, etc, which we take the lib
erty of publishing, as it may be inter-
esting to many of our readers, viz:
Mount St Claire Academy is sit
uated on high mount overlooking the
city of Clinton and all its surroundings.
A beautiful view of the Mississippi also
unfolds Itself before us. The scenery
as a whole is something to be admired
for looking which way you may, each
direction gives new scenes and new
beauties To give you an idea of them
all | will mention few. Looking to-
wards the east, busy city and beau
tful river scene meets your gaze, while
towards the west, view of humble
life and a glimpse of eternity. The
latter may indeed seem strange, but
that is the idea it gives me, for there is
a hill part of which is already gone.
and the rest is continually being dug
away by men who Use the clay for street
paving, etc. The south represents to US
scene of altogether different line,
Mount Pleasant park. Here, in summers
we spend much of orr recreation time,
taking walks aud enjoying pleasant
chats In this park, there is a place
called The Hunting Grounds" or
Spiritualist Camp" This place is filled
with numbers of pleasant cottages Occu-
pied in summer generally by spiritual
lists, who seem to have good time en-
tertaining the visitors to these grounds
telling them who they love, etc, for
besides these people, there are others,
for this little village for so it may just
ly be called, is a place for summer re-
sorts, consisting of several branches of
the business houses Of Clinton, such as
a laundry, post-otfice, grocery stores
and shops of every DESCRIPTION. 1t re-
miads me of fairy-land when | think of
spi.ituallsts, but as a whole reminds
me of Longfellow's poem, when he
speaks of the village of Acadia, in
Evangelne, for such place, | should
imagine he had in view The north is
what you might think an unpleasant
sight, but the beauty of the place drives
all unpleasant thoughts away. The
name of the place am speaking of is
Springdale Cemetery. Here, too, we
spend much OF our recreation, roaming
about and dreaming of the angels and
our hereafter. Hal ha!
| believe have described to you very
well the scenes which surround our
beautiful Mt. st. Claire, so will venture
to describe the inside and its doings.
This the catalogue will completely ex-
plain, so will only mention some of our
good times, especially the happenings
of only Tuesday evening.
The Rev Mother has promised us
girls that when the number reached fif-
", she would celebrate the occasion by
giving us a banquet So last Tuesday
when little girl stepped in as number
fifty, her promise was fulfilled Besides
"A banquet we also had masquerade,
adding much to the occasion. Sister
Beatrice our project, excused us from
study after dinner, and the rest of the
day we spent in making our costumes
At five O'Clock in the evening we were
called to an elegant repast consisting
of five courses, and to which fifty happy
and excited girls did ample justice.
After the banquet we again assembled
the stairs to dress for the masquerade.
The costumes were marvellous; those
particularly admired were Japan, +"
1.-THE Stars and Stripes" and Winter"
The latter being so well disguised that
our spectators were unable to distin-
guish who she was. The Gold Dust
Twins" were also presented, and fur
nished much amusement. Your infOr-
mant appeared as Spring Violet. "
The evening was most pleasantly spent,
and after dancing till half past ten, the
pianist gave us the closing strain of
'Home Sweet Home" after which we
gladly went to oul, place of rest"