The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-05-21
SCHOOL DRILLS
ARE VERY fine
TWO PERFORMANCES NECESSARY
Entertainment Praised by Large Audi.
enees as the Best Of Its Kind
Ever Given Here.

WHICH Cbule. lue Operd uuuse Whs
packed at both performances.
Words cannot exptess enough praise
tor the teachers in charge OF the play.
They worked hard with untiring labor
and success is surely certain when the
W ork Is SO perfectly planned. Credit
is due to the following Instructors
Misses Hicks, Willis, Earle aud all the
teachers of the primary grades.
Hood River orchestra gave short
musiet le before the curtain went up
and when 1t did to show four small
children readin, rhymes out of q
Mother Goose book.
In short time Miss Vera Williams,
in the costume of Mother Goose. ar
rived and promised the children q
peep of the people of whom they had
been rec ding. So with wave of her
magic wand the different characters
came forth all dressed to represent
their part Jack Horner with his pie,
Jack with bis bumped head and Jill
with the pail, Little Bo Peep with
her shepherds crook, little Boy Blue,
Jack Spratt and his wife, the Queen
OF Hearts and her husband, the Knsve
of Hearts, Simple Simon, the Bride
from London thought home in a
wheelbarrow and the old woman with
all her children we're there, and what
a happy lot they all we're. At the
end of the act the children all sang q
song, the different verses OF 1t all be-
ing nursery rhymes.
The second drill was one planned
for rose buds and, indeed, the l6 chill
dren resembled roses with their tittlt
pink dresses and pink ribbons IL
their hair, and the skill with which
they presented their ruler drill show
ed the wise, careful and judloiou
training of their teacher, Miss Heller
Dietz, one OF the iavorite primai,
teachers. The little girls all sam
their motion song aud demonstrated
it we'll. Miss Bradley accompanied
them on the piano.
10 Misses Stewart and Blynn un
stinted praise should be given for th,
excellent way in which twelve girl
taken from the fourth and fifth grader
gave a tamborine drill, in time will
the music played by Miss Bragg
The girls all wore white dresses, whit,
shoes and stockings and white rib
bons. all locking very dainty ant
sweet.
The next was an exhibition OF Ten
nyson's favorite drill, winding tht
May pole. Instead of using the color
of the rainbow, the girls were pa
triotic and used red, white aud blu,
streamers, wearing white dresses. Th,
perfect winding of the pole In tn,
many different ways showed incessan
tutoring under the capable ipstruc
tion OF Miss Eby. Viola Nicholson
accompanied them on the piano.
The exhibition following the fiat
drill showed plainly that the sixteei
girls had been very carefully trained
by Miss Hinkle, and was exhibited
with military perfection. The girl
we're all gowDed In white with red
white and blue sashos across thei
chests and tied underneath their arm
at the waist. Each girl carl led tw,
American flags. Every motion show
ed the girls graceful and obedient
tor no one unless OF an obedient ma
ture could have performed each move
ment SO perfectly.
The next drill, under the splendit
leadership of Prof. Grouse, forced tn,
audience to helieve that after all boy
can be graceful II they try hart
enough. Fourteen boys were dressed Il
khaki colored overalls with suntiower
made OF green, yellow and brown tis
sue paper pinned on their ankles
knees, shoulders and chests, aud thei
faces we're the Iiveliest looking sun
| flowers the reporter has ever seen
Each boy wore rutlie of sunfiowe
petals around his face, had a sun
flower at the back Of his head an,
carried green wands with sunflower
at the top of them. The drill. whic
was marched to music played by Mis-
Bragg, was perfect.
The fan drill exhibited so beautiful
ly showed the audience that eve
though none of the sixteen girls in
we're old enough to be voted upon q
bellies of Hood River, Ia few year
any one OF them can very easily b
chosen for queen. Miss hite Gel
tainly deserves hearty thanks for th
excellent way in which the girls shcW
ed her good training. There Uer
eight paiis of girls dressed In the TO
lowing colors, each carrying fan I
match her gown: Pink, green, blu,
yellow, red and white. The gracefl
motions made with the fans, the hal
mony of the different colors and tt
effect of the lights thrown on thel
WIS thing OF beauty. Mis-, Mewto
played tor them.
The last drill was one wi h lndia
clubs given by FIVE W ii-ifiiip
giris. taught by Miss ',r hrr,l
There was not single nor ~
demonstrated what excells :aiG.i
will do The girls gave a tlna oxhib
tion and kept perfect time 10 mu-
played by Miss Bragg.