St Josephs Academy - La Lumiere Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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20 ACADEMY CHIMES. ACADEMY NOTES. Louise McKinney still insists on play- ing the entrance march tempo di cake- walk. Nettie has been pronounced the champion of the class in Word Analysis, though the word is sometimes inaudible. Loretta is giving her undivided atten- tion to the study of “ Voice as an acoustical phenomenon.” We await the announcement of that Bass Solo, Loretta ! Unique class pins have been present- ed the graduates. The emblem, Owl and Laurel Wreath, enameled in class colors, Sea-green and White, are com- bined most artistically. Louise is is our botanist, and now, that gentle Spring in all her surpassing loveliness has come, she may be found at peep o’ day with spade and bag in earnest quest of the Flora of Arizona. It is really cruel for those amateur amanuenses to display their intellectual superiority over some of us by circulat- ing so freely slips of paper covered with stenographic characters. Quid scribis, dulcissime f Etta has won for herself the enviable title of “Sub”; her average at the late examination was the highest. Let her success be a stimulus to others less fortunate in the fray and her example one for them to emulate. Inez, in the recent controversy on Century Question, proved herself elo- quent with pen and tongue. She de- bated the question skillfully and forcibly and her opponents, unable to “ prove an affirmative,” were forced to sur- render. The cupola is a popular rendezvous for the astronomy class on starry nights where the enthusiastic students view the “ Forget-me-nots of the Angels,” and with the aid of an opera-glass, in lieu of a telescope, read the heavens while meditating on the desolateness of space. Per aspera ad astra ! Some of the seniors who are aspiring to the delightful task of “ teaching the young idea,” have given manifest signs of a special aptitude for that profession. Sylvia agrees with others that the school-year has been “ one unbroken flow of rythmic bliss,” but a moment later pronounces the editorial board unkind for making our blunders an institute of their success. Our “ intensely literary girl, who idolizes Caesar, wears glasses, abjures bangs and caramels and ice-cream,” astonished the Rhetoric class the other day by her enunciation of the phrase, marched into Bellisle. Ask Barbara about it. Nettie is spending all her leisure pre- paring a very interesting article entitled “ Reminiscences of a School Girl.” As the pupils of St. Joseph’s form the dramatic personee we are most anxious to review it and hope to have it ready for publication in our next issue. Mary Day was the recipient of so many congratulations on the manner in which she recited “ The Widow’s Son ” that she fancies herself a Mary Ander- son in embryo—nor need she be cen- sured if she now walks and talks and brushes her hair with the airs of a heavy tragedian. Our “student,” nothing daunted by her failure to reach her usual high per- centage in Algebra, studies with in- creased diligence. Inez possesses the happy faculty of seeing the optimistic, not the pessimistic, side of school-life, and knows that the port of Success is made only by the ship called Venture. Anna Burke’s gentle countenance is missed from the class-room; on account of serious affection of the eyes, she was obliged to rest from her studies and is now in Phoenix under the oculist’s care. Anna has made rapid strides in the path of learning since September, and we trust she will soon be able to resume her work.

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ACADEMY CHIME . i9 sight is “ as thrilling as it is hideous and as exciting as it is repulsive.” Some two hundred snakes are used in one of these dances, and examination has proved that the fangs and poison - glands are in a normal and deadly con- dition both during the washing cere- mony and at the close of the dance. They proceed in double file; one man holds the snakes and the other attracts the attention of the monsters with the feather he carries, this acting as a charm keeps the snakes from biting the one holding them. There are, generally about ten Moqui girls standing on one side of the enclosure, holding baskets of sacred meal, and every time the snake- men pass them they scatter some of this meal. This has been repeated several times when the leader of the Antelopes makes a ring of the meal and sprinkles it with water. All the men now throw the snakes into the ring and the women cast the remainder of the sacred meal over them. All make a “grab” for the snakes and, taking as many as they can hold, run down the mesa. When they reach the base they fling the snakes in every direction and a general melee ensues. On their return from their race down the hill they drink of a medicine pre- pared by the women, and also bathe themselves with it. The medicine is of such efficacy that, in case of a bite hav- ing been inflicted by any of the rattle- snakes, it serves as an anTldote. How and from what it is produced is known only to themselves. Many, I believe, have vainly endeavored to force the Moquis to disclose the secret ; it would be a benefit to humanity to possess a remedy for rattlesnake poison. After the performance, the Snake and Antelope men adjourn to their respec- tive kivas and there await the women who are to bring them the much-needed food. Every woman from the three vil- lages of the mesa contributes something and they feast themselves to satiety. A Moqui Indian will never kill a snake. There is an ancient tradition among them that they received their language from the snakes which prob- ably accounts for their reverence. The morning of the Snake Dance, Rev. Father Vuillard celebrated Mass in the village of Walpi, the first time the Holy Sacrifice had been offered in that place for upwards of two hundred and fifty years. Barbara Hubbell, ’00. ALUMNA NOTES. Miss Elva Haskell, ’96, is teaching at Cottonwood, Arizona. Mrs. Bennet, nee Fannie Lindsay, ’94, of Jerome, visited the Academy a short time since. Miss Maddie Freuler, ’94, who was obliged to discontinue teaching on ac- count of ocular trouble, is now in San Diego under medical treatment. Miss Dollie Butler, ’97, has accepted a position with the Sunset Telephone Company. Her sister, Josephine, stud- ent, ’90, is teaching at Skull Valley. Miss Cora Lindsay, ’96, after an extended sojourn at the seaside, re- turned to Prescott and will make her home with her guardian, Mr. W. O’Neil. Miss Alice Campbell, ’98, after spend- ing a year in Washington, D. C., has returned to school for a post-graduate work. Alice is our exemplary gradu- ate. Ever regular in attendance at Sodality meetings and promptly on hand for First Friday rehearsals, her bright example is one well worthy of imitation. She manifests her affection for and her loyalty to her Alma Mater by rendering cordial assistance to all who are “ eager to drink at the foun- tain of Knowledge.” We welcome you to the class-room, Alice, for your pres- ence awakens sweet memories of “Ye olden time.” Barbara Hobbell, ’00.

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ACADEMY CHIMES. 21 Dame Rumor, with her thousand tongues, says that the Juniors are pre- paring an Operetta to be produced at an early date. Mamie Francis declares that things are beginning to assume a more couleur de rose aspect since tire much-dreaded examination is over. With her usual good nature Mamie gives us an account of her latest escapade, in a stage whis- per, every morning at 8:30 as she passes to her place in line. Grace, Ollie and Sylvia have a mania for statue-posing during class recita- tions. Be on the alert, girls ! Adele, with her kodak, is watching her chance to “snap” you. She attempted to photograph electricity the other day but the picture failed to materialize. It was a “ negative result.” If Civil Engineering on Surveying were a profession wherein the gentler sex could triumph, why, dear old St. Joseph’s faculty could, at some future time, proudly say : “ This accurate engineer or excellent surveyor is one of our graduates.” For any information in higher' mathematics we give Adele as a referee as she, doubtless, pos- sesses the power of abstraction requisite for apprehending geometrical concep- tions. The Musicate tendered recently by our pupils, notwithstanding that it was quite an impromptu affair, was very artistically carried out. The young pianists did splendidly, playing with an ease and assurance creditable to more advanced performers. A feature worthy of special mention was the “ Miserere ” from Verdi’s II Trovatore, by Barbara Hubbell at the piano, Adele with man- dolin, and Etta Puntenney as guitarist. We hope to be favored again, and soon. A complimentary entertainment was given on the Feast of Our Lady, by the boarders, to the faculty of the Academy. The young ladies appeared to an excel- lent advantage in the different roles, affording, as they did, opportunity for the dis Jkyjng of their varied talents. Misses DeKuHn and Puntenney did “ particularly well ” in impersonating Maggie Donovan and Katie O’Neil, and the abundant applause and warm con- gratulations that followed testified to the pleasure of their teachers. The pro- gram was interspersed by piano solos, the whole forming a pleasing entertain- ment and certainly a delightful surprise. The following was the program : THE CHAMPION OF HER SEX—Drama. CHARACTERS: Mrs. Duplex, a widow with money and a mission,...............Nettie Hawkins. Mrs. Deborah Hartshorn, her mother, ........... ..........Lovilla Brown. Florence Duplex, her daughter, .......................Barbara Hubbell. Caroline Duplex, her step-daughter, .....................Nina Greenwood. Rhoda Dendron 1 , , , . Etta Puntenney. Pollie Nay, } her fr,ends' .Adele Hubbell. Katie O’Neil, the cook ,..Ollie Puntenney. Maggie Donovan, the chambermaid, .........Sylvia DeKuhn. Musical number, “ The Russian Army,” .................. Academy Pupils. Recitation, “ Legend of St. Teresa,” ....................Miss Adele Hubbell. P'inale, “ O Virgin Pure !”.. .. .Chorus. The Literature class spent a few hours with Longfellow on February 15, and though ‘‘the day was cold and dark and dreary ” yet all the more did his spirit hover over us throughout the afternoon. The simplicity, grace and refinement that characterized the poet, were vividly portrayed in the essay, “ Longfellow.” Quotations then were given by the class that stimulated all who listened to “ nobler habitudes of thought and living.” This was followed by the recitation “ Mr. Finney’s Turnip,” from which object it is said that Long- fellow drew inspirations for his first poetical production. “ Maidenhood.” recited by Loretta Ford, and “ Beatrice,” by Louise Camp- bell, were well received, while Adele Hubbell gracefully delivered Morituri Salutamus. Inez Morrison departed a little from the high literary order of the program in depicting, with her usual ease and naturalness, the “ unquenchenably in-