The Newtown bee., 1907-06-21

fup1lS Al1kc Are Dcl1RnIeO WItH
 the Results Shown.
 It was very evident on Monday even- ing, when the pupils of Miss Fl elen Penders' Private School took their parts and made their adieuS in the grand wind-up of their school year, that the boys and girls or a larger growth who are to make their bow Tn the same place, this evening, would have to look we'll to their laurels Many of the little folks appeared be- fore the footlights for the first time on this occasion; and it might well have been expected that their voices would have trembled with trepidation. but the little misses and masters walked up to their tasks with the tirmness of tread of veteran sergeant drilling his men on dress parade day. When the pretty daisy drill, with it's involutions and may windings of movement that made the finale of the program was all over, the first duty on the part of each one present seemed to be to get quickly across the room and express to Miss Tenders, who has made such an excellent impression here through the year in all branches of her work, his hearty congratula- tiOnS on the success of the whole affair; and no one could feel but that these expressions of sincere praise were well deserved. It is one thing to till up the hours. of school terms with the giving out and hearing of lesson tasks; | 1t is quite another thing so to incline the twig of the youthful mind that il shall grow up into stately tree of beautiful character.
 The evening was ideal for the gath l ering of large company under easy conditions The newly crescent moon shed her soft light; and the first ap- proach of the heated term had not yet come to the point of being oppressive. The hall had been ticketed with no idea of barring anyone interested out, | but simply with the thought of leav- | ing space in the center for the closing | drill. Probably not half a dozen tick cts were left home unused and New 1 towns elite there in full force showed | their approval of each number with generous hand-clapping. Hermann | Tiemann acted as master of ceremO- nies and did his part well, announcing l with unStudied grace each debu tan6, even to himself. In fact, this little | nicety was commented upon by several who were looking for the fine points, how delicately the teacher kept her self in the background, and let the scholars seem, at least, to be doing it | all themselves, while there really was power behind the throne. Sanford Beers started the ball rolling by giv- ing the old Dixie tune, "Maryland, My Maryland, simply and Sweetly upon his violin. Phillips Morris in re- citing Longfellow's "The Builders, D gave illustration of how good thing it is to store the mind when young with choice aphorismS and inspiring g thoughts, which shall act as st1mu- lous through life. Miss Marguerite Beecher put all in good humOr by tell ing how it is well to fit the coat some times upon our own back which we have been adapting to the shoulders of others. Hermann Tiemann made l f,hQ hQ1d a9D1R stretch himself his full height on his perch by shouting again the fame of old Barba Freitch- ie. Henry Carlson showed how good moral lessons can be drawn from most hOmely things in the verses, "AsheS ou the Slide" Eugene Field, who lov- ed children and wrote for children, was honored by Russell Wheeler in his appreciative reciting of "Picnic Time. J The lives of great men, and especially of the great home poet, Longfellow, can make their lives sublime, in the easy rendering of "The Psalm of Ltfe,' J by Sarah Evarts. Very credit able, indeed, were the flow and swing with which Susie Armstrong recited the rippling verse of Hiawatha' $ childhood, very much like the babbling of brooks through sunny meadows or the soughing of the wind among the pines. Henry van Dykes "Foot Path to Peace,'' has been hung in
 
 Adolph Carlson, giving it slowly and with good emphasis made his hearers wish they could remove it from the ! wall to the practice of their lives. James Peck brought his auditors into the very midst of battles smoke and cannon's roar by telling how Benedict Arnold, and not Horatio Gates, was the real victor at Saratoga. It is too bad that so many great men live long enough to ShrOud their greatness; and in no great character in history is with the diShOnOred name of Bene- dict Arnold. Passing from the pre- ceding piece, ''The Deathted of Benedict Arnold" sympathetically spoken by Arthur Fairchild, was like passing from midnoon to midnight. A fringe of light on the black cloud of gloomy thought that the showing of Arnold's shame had caused, was given in Martha Armstrong's happily tell ing that one person at least, might not have felt sad in learning that Simon's wife's mother, after three times being reported sick of a fever, was actually dead. May Brown pret- t1ly told how it makes decided differ , ence about making the punishment suit the crime when the judge is a much interested party in the case; in this case the question at issue was no bigger or more matter-Of-fact than a kiss. ChillS rather crept down One's spinal column when Leonard Wright, in Snappy way that really enjoyed the spirit of the thing, warned against the hob-goblins that would catch all naughty children that didn't watch out More wisdom was never packed into a meaty paragraph than the I tNr nSrn<~ l IL,