The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

open hour MIR. Reed of the faculty is
to give recital from his poems.
The Halloween celebration at the
normal Monday night was big fun
maker The whole school joined in
the frolic, and the affair was free from
any of the outside Interruptions that
sometimes mar these diversions. The
decorations, black and white silhouet
ties, pumpkin transparencies, Jack o.
lanterns, cato lanterns, suspended
apples, colored lights, and corn
shocks, were profuse and seasonable,
fairly Transforming the big gym into ..
carnival bower.
The costumes of the jewellers made
an astonishing spectacle They varied
IN color like the rainbow, and they re-
presented everything from the ceIes-
tial muses. and the graces, on the one
hand, to witches, skeletons, and old
Nick himself on the other People
We're SO busy watching their COM
panions, in fact, that they often forgot
the programme
Inc OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, dough-
nuts, peanuts, candy and pop corn.
We're fished for by the hungry in the
domestic science rooms. Incidentally
few hundred apples that dangled
about the gym were picked off during
the grand march,
The programme, in spite of the fact
that it was often lost to sigh thy
many in the excited throng, was 4
weird and striking spectacle. The
Gamma Neches began ii with a series
Of shadow pantomimes, chiefly H.
Illustrating the rhymes of mother
goose. Their performances were
roundly oheered. The Mechanical
Man, stunt in which Mr. Hockett
and Paul Tjonn were the performers,
was next to enlist attention. This
was followed by an operate burlesque.
in which OrvilTe Wood impersonated
an impassioned prima donna, attired
extremely a, la mode and introducing
all the latest italian airs He had
visitations from The Shade Of Jennie
Lind, The Shade of Dante, and Old
Nick; but sung on to an ear-p iercins
climax. The witches next had tho
floor, doing a weird professional with
songs and chants about a cauldron:
They were clad in the outlandish
habiliments of their clan, with
streaming locks, peaked hats, and
broomsHcks, and produced grotes-
que effect. They were briskly en-
coFed, the Gamma Neches leading in
the cheers,
A CHASTITY story, Watch the Box, re-
lated in the green flare Of a chemical
light, was another of Mr.. Hockett's
contributions 4ba ,r,e.
the grisly rites that followed.
These were carried out by a dozen
of the Owls. Issuing from a cavern
at the end of the gym, they appeared,
from head TO foot, as moving skele-
tons, and in the dim light, seen
through a gauze screen against
black background, the Illusion was
perfect. One by one, to the accom-
paniment of rafting bones, the skele-
tons danced. With the aid of a bottle
of fire-water (phosphorescent oiD
they reconstructed some old bones i'm
a black box; and these, with a ghast-
ly chuckle took UP the dance. A
longitudinal half skeleton danced to
his other half A lower half flashed
around the padded stage and disap-
peared an upper half flashed on and
faded through the background. Then
all the skeletons, skulls i'm hand
danced headless around the oblong
box To the music of weird chant
they picked up the empty box, ana
danced with it into the cavern, emit
ting exultant chuclzles at the addition
to their ranks of another bony skele-
ton.
A grand march followed. directed bv
Miss Myers, and dancing concluded
the evening. Miss Robinson, who was
head Of the various committees,
handled the affair Nl.=A tact and
energy.
A collection of colored prints on
Venice by f. Hopkinson Smith has
been on exhibition in the drawing
room this week.