Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-06-12

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has undertaken. With this spirit the
commencement program was arranged
and prepared. Last Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, when a class OF
| thirty-two young ladies and gentlemen
/ graduated from the Wausau high school
| a program of inimitable excellence and
| beauty was most successfully rendered.
Indeed the exercises greatly added to
the honor of the magnificent class.
Both evenings the spacious auditorium
was filled with people. There seemed
| to be more concern and interest taken
| in the exercises than has been shown in
Wausau for many day. The rostrum
was very daintily decorated with plants
and flowers and on either side OF the
stage were pieces of statuary around
which palms were effectively arranged.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The program Wednesday evening
| opened with an overture by the high
| school orchestra, and after the invoca-
ton by the Rev. B. b. Gibbs, Miss Beau
| lab Q. Mumm gave the salutatory. We
print only few of the main thoughts
of the essay. at is indeed fitting at
this season of the year when all nature
| gives promise of a fuller beauty, young
| people are being sent from the high
schools and colleges into every walk of
| life. We thank those who have contrib
uted to our welfare as students in this
| institution; most cordial welcome we
| bid to the members of the school board
who have faithfully labored to make
our work as pleasant and beneficial as
| possible. | will admit that there have
| been larger classes to graduate from
| the Wausau high school, but surely
! never a class of such gigantic proper
| tions as this one. The combined height
of the class is 1872 feet 10t inches. The
combined weight is equal to 4, 122
pounds The combined ages of the
class dates back fully century before
the discovery of America. ltrepresents
eight different nationalities and speaks
at least eight languages. 1t has the
| power to utter 6, 400 words in eight diff
| ferent languages in one minute. BY
these statistics you may see what
| powerful engine for good or evil is soon
| to be put into active life in the form of
| the senior class"
| The essay "Schcol Room Decoration"
| by Clarice Olson, was very well pre-
scented. She quoted Hugo Munster
berg, 1.-The real mission of art instruc-
| ton is to bring into every home and in
| to every life the ideal repose." By
! bringing pictures and statuary into our
| schools, we surround the children with
| ideals of the most beautiful in nature,
and with the highest thoughts and deeds
! of great men and women. The in
| fiuence of these works of art is silent
and powerful. Particularly is this in
| fuence powerful on the mind of the
child. Therefore let us all lend hand
in identifying the school rooms.
Miss Amy Goldberg gave an interest
cd al in of
and made several practical demonstra-
tons. She showed the various beauti
| full color changes in the tests for cop
| per, iron and an alkali and an acid
This change of color of the solutions
| shows us that a chemical change has
| taken place.
Miss Irene Albers gave very instruc-
| tive talk on the "Roycrofters." The
Roycrofter settlement is situated in east
Aurora, N Y. She told in very salts
| factory manner of the people who make
up the Roycrofter settlement and of
their custom and way of living.
Abel Bugbee spoke on gymnastic
work. He showed that well formed
body could only be had by such train
ing as one gets in the gymnasium.
Manual labor such as saving wood does
not increase the symmetry of the body,
| but tends to deform it, for only certain
muscles are worked. The exercise We
| get in the gymnasium brings into play
| all the muscles.
Elmer Young showed the results of
years of training in the gym asium, by
going through dumb bell and free
arm drill and with an exhibition on the
high and parallel bars.
The class play, 1.-The Cricket on the
Hearth" was presented in manner to
/ af<a I,o, l. s<.Lo
| school, the coach-Miss Daisy Rogers
and all the young people who took
part. The play throughout was rem
dered with intelligence, and parts of it
| with an artistic finish hardly to be ex-
pected in youthful amateurs, and not
possible to have been gained under less
able coaching. The frequent applause
of the audience demonstrated the pleas
ure of those present.
The play was under the direction of
Miss Rogers, of Appleton. Miss Rogers
is a graduate of the Appleton high
school, of Lawrence university and of
Cumnock School of Oratory, Evanston,
ILL.,, and has for the last two years been
an instructcy CT English and elocution in
the Wausau high school, She is already
well known in Wausau for having
trained Frank Okoneski and Elsie
where each won high honors. All
credit is certainly due Miss Rogers for
what was excellent in the production.
Frank Okoneski and Elsie Dupre in
| terpreted the roles of John and Dot
Perrybingle in very acceptable man.
ner. The same may be said of Oscar
| Brumberg, Paul Koebke, Mabel Weik
| and Sadie Rosen berry in their reSpec-
| tive roles. Cellah Warehouse as lilly,
the servant, was amusing The inter-
probation of Frank Osen and Gladys
johnson as Caleb Plummer and his
blind daughter, Bertha, was excellent.
Although minor characters, Eddie
| johnson and Gertrude Pierce looked
and acted their parts to perfection.
THURSDAY EVENING.
Thursday evening the program COM
menced with music by the Misses Madge
Young, Helen Single, Josephine Collins,
| Florence Thomas, Pearl Nickerson,
Jeanette Wilson, and Bertha Jaeschke.
Following this Miss Olga Tietz gave
talk on "Snow Flakes" She ex-
planned with the aid of stereopticon
views, the origin and the various shapes
of the crystals, how the Towering
geometrical tracings and delicate
| symmetTically arranged standings are
\ formed.
Miss Friedsn Kuckuk recited the
pathetic story of Mary Queen of
| Scots.n
Mary's misfortunes may be said to
| have begun with her birth. She was
betrothed in her infancy to Francis, the
Dauphin of France. She married at
! sixteen and year later was a widow,
when she returned to her own kingdom
of Scotland. She married her own
| after, her husband was taken sick. Dur
| ing his illness, the queen nursed him
| faithfully, and when he was out of
danger, took him to country mansion.
One night the house in which the king
| slept was blown up with gunpowder
and he was killed. She was soon mar
ried to Boutwell,, the alleged murderer.
Her people revolted against her and
she fled TO England, where her cousin
4 l0nriS0nPn her for airaf..pf1 wars and