The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-25

program, her essay being on the sub
ject of Folk Dancing, which in many
countries is a part of the regular
school curriculum, and which we hope
Miss Smith has paved the way to have
placed in the school here. AS the
young speaker said, it is just as ne
cessary to educate the body of child
as its mind, and these simple, natu-
raj peasant dances reflect the natural
life and habits of the country.
Miss Smiths essay was very beau
tifulIy illustrated with five beautiful
little folk dances by Misses Louise
Spencer, Sidney Perry, Sara DeHon,
Theo Beckham, Agnes Burford, Nettie
Camp, Lucille Gissendaner and Helen
Jones' They were trained by Miss
Marguerite Porter, who also played
their accomplishments.
Dressed in white dresses with airy
fairy tulle from their hair to their
waists, tied with their class colors,
they were an exquisitely pretty pic
ture of simple girlish grace and beau
ty as they gave illustrations of Dan
iish, Swedish, Hungarian and German
folk dances, and lastly the American
version of the English folk dance,
Pop Goes the Weasel"
Miss Catherine Strunk next gave a
reading, "The Christmas STAR" in
which she first appeared as country
girl with pink Bingham apron and
carrying a basket of flowers. She
gave several little snatches of popu-
lar songs with violin accompaniment
during her piece. Then seven years
elapsed and she appeared as grown
up, successful musical star.
Her piece was quite long, and the
young speaker showed most pleas
ingly the splendid training she has
received, and it was wonderful mem
DRY test.
Miss Pearl Fausett next gave vo-
cal solo, which she sang most prettily.
She was followed by Miss Florence
Leitner, to whom Tin her own words)
fell the awful calamity of trying to
prophecy the future of such class
of such wondrously diversified talents
as those of the class of 1917. She said
that she knew that she was putting
herself in very perilous position but
so the fates had decreed, and there
was no escape. She has a very fine
voice and splendid appearance, and
her hits at each member of her class,
although some hit hard. were very
clever and we'll received by the class
We will not attempt to give a resume
of her prophecy, as we hope TO pub
lish it in full some day this week so
that all our readers can enjoy it.
The distribution of gifts to the class
came next, William Fielding being the
giftOrian. His gifts were immensely
unique, and some of them so apropos
i that all sorts of bushes were seen
| to steal over the countenances of his
class members. He gave to Elizabeth
Davis a copy of Isaac Walton, which
with the proper amount of study he
felt sure she could learn to angle sue
cessfully for young Mr.. Brooks at the
lake this summer To Floyd Cole
man he wanted to give a pipe organ,
but funds forbade, so in lieu thereof
presented him with a valuable ~
mouth organ.
| He said he wanted to give Kenneth
| MacKay talking machine, but as
he couldn't get one in town would
give him Ellen Stripping instead, as
she was a big improvement over a
regular photograph, because you
don't have to wind her up
To Sue Moore and Catherine
Strunk, the quiet CD members of the
class, he presented copy of How
to Talk
| To Mary Sykes he gave a sleeping
powder, because she stays at the dor
mitory and he knew she needed it for
the other occupants there to keep
them from insisting on assisting her
in entertaining her beaux.
To Charles Savage and Myra and
Frances Agnew, the "studious trio"
of the class, his gift was a clock with
26 hours on its dial, so that they could
have two extra hours a day for study.
All of the others received suitable
gifts, and to Nina Camp, the little
! class president, he gave the '1ove and
thanks of the whole class for the way
she had steered the class through it's
many difficulties"
Mr.. Linn Sanders then sang very
splendidly beautiful solo. and was
so enthusiastically applauded that he
was obliged to sing an encore.
The balance of the afternoon pro-
gram was very patriotic, and was par