Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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k. If you un-dertake to do anything before anaudience, you must do it properly andat the exact moment appointed. In building up a program, star each one of thecompany in something, every member getting achance at the limelight. One boy will learn thecart-wheel first; make that his specialty and starhim in it. Another, the handstand, and so on.Begin with a slow act by the class, end with aquick one. Break the monotony of all-class actsby brother acts and specialties. Here is a sam-ple program for a one-hour entertainment, begin-ning with a slow impressive Grand Entree, end-ing with a quick class-act and broken by twopyramids and two brother acts: 1. Grand Entree. 2. Roll and Salute(The Class.) 3. Horses. 4. Hcadstands(four). 5. Double 2-High Fall. 6. Handwalking Pairs.(The Class.) 7. Brother Act. 8. Diving. The FieryHoop of Death.(The Class.) 9. Cart-wheels. 10. Double Roll. 11. Brother Act. 12. Pyramids:Adoration. Path to the Stars. 13. The Cascade.(The Class.) CALLING BY ETHEL FARMER
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In winter when you make a call, You wear your Christmas set,—In summer take a parasol,Unless it should be wet.You must nt ever stay too long;To laugh out loud is very wrong;You must nt e\en hum a song.When calling. Perhaps they 11 ask you to have tea: You must nt look too glad!Must hold the china properly. For spilling things is bad.One cup of tea for manners sake.One (nearest to you) piece of cake.Then presently your farewell take,—liats calling! A NEW STATUE OF JEANNE DARC BY GRACE New York City has another statue. On a wooded knoll overlooking Riverside Drivethere was recently unveiled a figure of JeannedArc—a young girl on horseback, with upliftedsword and dressed in armor. It represents one far removed from us in time,for she was born more than five centuries ago;as you know, she was a maid of France, and hershort life was passed in her own country, fourthousand miles across the sea; far removed wasshe, too, in experience, for her place in history isabsolutely unique. No ot

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