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Show CHEYENNE, WYO. Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. (Special Correspondence.) The convent pupils have been busy with many things during the pa:t weeks. After a fine program given in the early part of November in honor of Rev. Mother Provincial's annual vis-It, vis-It, there were examinations, spelling-bees spelling-bees and debates to be prepared. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day the high school girls held two debates, one on "Novel Reading in General," the other on "The Giving of Christmas Presents," in the school hall before the sisters and the members of three privileged classes. The speakers proved to be both amusing and Interesting, Inter-esting, (jailing forth much applause from the audience. On Nov. 25 the children in the convent con-vent gave a play entitled, "The Klep tomaniacs, in honor of the prefect's feast. It was much enjoyed by the sisters and the children , who were present. pres-ent. Those having the' principal parts In the farce were Misses Mary Cross, Ruby Lee, Marie Coyne, . Elsie Cross, Hazel Moran. Nellie Kinney, Agnes Coyne, Margaret Wallace and Margaret Mar-garet Coughlin. Appropriate programs were distributed among the audience. The fancy articles produced in the work room this fall in preparation for Christmas have been many and various, vari-ous, and greater interest than ever is taken in making articles that are useful use-ful as well as pretty. The distribution of reports for the month of November took place last week on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. aft-ernoons. The children securing . the highest averages in examinations taken during the month were Misses Pauline Smith, Jesmine Glafcke and Marie Klett, and Lillian Welland in the junior division of the school: Misses Frances McFarland, Margaret Mulli-son, Mulli-son, Sophia Sutton. Elsie Cross, Mary Smith and Ethel Warlaumont in the senior division. ' The recitation. "A Legend of the Northmen," was said by the girls in the fifth grade, and musical musi-cal exercises were played by Marie Klett, Mary Nolan and Winefrid Bres-nahan Bres-nahan on Tuesday. "Whittier's Life, as Told in His Poems," was read by Miss Mary Cross, and Miss Ethel Warlaumont War-laumont and Miss Marie Coyne. Misses Ora Murphy, Sophia Sutton, Vera Kerrigan Ker-rigan and Margaret Dinneen played the musical exercises and pieces they had learned during the month. The day scholars' choir is diligently practicing the mass they are to sing on Christmas day, and the boys are preparing to sing the hymns at the children's mass that day. Friday, the 21st, school breaks up for two weeks, and all the pupils are looking look-ing forward to the well-earned holidays and home. May all Christmas blessings be theirs! AGNES COYNE, '10. |