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Show Sacred Heart Academy. One entering the refectory at Sacred Heart academy last Saturday afternoon after-noon about 5 o'clock, might vell exclaim ex-claim with ouh loved poet, Longfellow: "How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without . End. Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!" For seated at the graduates' table were "the lucky thirteen" enjoying a delicious llinchenn sorveit lw tho ho li,r of the class of "08, Miss Helen McCarthy, McCar-thy, in honor of her sixteenth birthday. Helen believes in celebrating after the manner of kings, dispensing liberally, instead of receiving. Assisted by Miss 1 Alice Coitman and Miss Almilda Trapp. she had decorated the table in red and white dahlias, while autumn leaves in profusion lent their scarlet gleams to brighten the occasion. Thirteen pretty girls looked particularly fascinating under un-der the soft eanrlle ravn thv AA o-. pie justice to the tempting repast, which consisted of chicken sandwiches, fruit salad, sherbet, coffee, cake and nuts. Though there might have been a lonely feeling in Helen's heart at being be-ing obliged to spend her first birthday away from home, the genial spirit and warm congratulations of all succeeded in putting to flight the little heartache. ' When the awful downpour of Sunday , morning threatened destruction to , beautiful new plumes, Father Ryan's presence proved to be that of a saving angel, for Instead of being obliged to weather the storm, the inmates of Sa- cred Heart academy fulfilled the obli- gation by hearing the mass celebrated in the convent chapel by our kind chap- A j lain. Father Ryan. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Hogan of Pocatel- lo spent Sunday afternoon at Sacred Heart and received a very cordial wel- 4 come from old friends among the fac- ulty, as well as from the Misses Kath- 4 leen and Myra Kane. Mrs. Hogan, nee i Kinney, was a devoted pupil of Sacred 4 Heart, and still retains her love of the old home. The visitors' register for the week past bears the names of Mr. and Mrs. Gunnell, Lovelock, Nev., who spent some time with their daughter, Carolyn; Caro-lyn; Mrs. C. Harkness, McCammon, who came to assure herself that little Katie and Henrietta had become accustomed ac-customed to their new 'surroundings; Mrs. Oberdorfer, Salt Lake, whose three daughters, Lucille, Dorothy and Ruth, are among Sacred Heart's most interesting pupils: Miss Nellie Creech, Salt Lake, who formerly attended St. Mary's academy, Austin, Tex., and spent a few hour3 in; Ogden talking with old Dixie friends. Rev. J. Ryan spent Tuesday and Wednesday in the city, the guest of Rev. J. Guinan of All Hallows college. If it is pleasant to be, missed. Father John may indeed be pleased, for he has become a true friend of all at Sacred Heart, where his cheerful smile is greeted alike by minim and graduate. The third seniors devoted last Thursday Thurs-day afternoon exclusively to laboratory work, and the new apparatus recently purchased proved exceedlnrrjy interesting, interest-ing, and rendered the prospective work in physics most pleasant to anticipate, for who does not value experimental work in scientific study? The new instruments in-struments pertain to electricity and hydrostatics. hy-drostatics. New chemical charts adorn the w-alls of the second senior class 'room, and serve to elucidate complicated symbols, and impress on the mind prominent points in the study of this ever-changing science. |