formed the stage,
they went through the postures of a beautiful and intricate classic
dance.

Viewed against the background of trees and bushes it was a remarkably
pretty performance. There were no accessories of limelight or "make-up"
to give a theatrical or artificial effect; the afternoon sunshine fell
on the girls in their simple costumes, and showed a most natural scene
as their bare feet whirled lightly over the grass in time to the music,
and their uplifted arms waved the long garlands. There was a tremendous
clapping as they retired into the shelter of their classic groves.

The next item on Miss Adams' program was rather ambitious. An upright
screen of wood, covered with black paper, was placed upon the lawn to
serve as a background, and in front of this Hester Wilson and Truie
Tyndale, attired in Venetian red chitons, performed a Grecian dance. The
effect was exactly a representation of an ancient Etruscan vase, with
terra cotta figures on a black background, and when at the end they
stood posed as in a tableau, the likeness was complete. Though scarcely
so pretty as the garland dance, it was considered very clever, and met
with much applause.

For the Idyll XV of Theocritus, Miss Adams had followed Greek tradition,
and had used only the scantiest and simplest of scenery. A few screens
and stools did service for a house, a tiger-skin rug was flung on the
grass, and a brass waterpot, brought by Miss Walters from Cairo,
completed the idea of a classic establishment. It was better to have few
accessories than to present anachronisms, and place modern articles in
an Alexandrian home of the third century B. C.

Dulcie and Carmel, as Gorgo and Praxinoe, made an excellent contrast,
the one carrying out the fair Greek type and the other the dark. They
played their parts admirably, rendering the dialogue with much spirit
and brightness, and with appropriate action. Praxinoe, the fashionable
belle of the third century B. C., donned her garments for the festival
with a mixture of coquetry and Greek dignity that delighted the
audience; Gorgo's passage of arms with the Stranger of Alexandria, was
smart and racy, while Edith, as the affected "man-about-town" of the
period was considered a huge success. As nobody in the school was young
enough to take Zopyrion, they had borrowed the gardener's
three-year-old baby, and had trained him to walk on, holding the hand of
Eunoe. He was a pretty child, and dressed in a little w