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THE RAMONA SCHOOL.

BY DIST. SEC. J.E. ROY.


I had the pleasure, in Santa Fé, January 13th, of attending an
entertainment given by the Ramona pupils in honor of Miss Platt, one of
their teachers. Gov. Prince and his wife, and several of the citizens,
were present as invited guests. After the singing of several songs, and
a statement made by Prof. Elmore Chase, the Principal, fourteen of the
scholars rendered, in the action of nature and the speaking of English,
Mrs. Bentley's dialogue, "The Old Year's Vision and the New Year's
Message," as found in the January number of _The Youth's Temperance
Banner_. One of the large boys first came in as an old man, clad in a
mantle and trembling on a staff, to repeat the "Old Year's Vision." Then
came in, one after another, a dozen boys and girls, to recite the
greeting of the several months. It was a temperance exhibit, and so each
one had a testimony for that cause. January, bearing a New Year's card
in hand, declared: "I've promised that not a drop of wine shall touch
these temperance lips of mine." February bore a fancy valentine, with an
appropriate motto. March lifted aloft a new kite, with "Kites may sail
far up in the sky, but on strong drink I'll never get high." July,
bearing a flag and a bunch of fire-crackers, declares:

"I tell you I mean to celebrate, with something that won't intoxicate:"
while December resolves: "No brandy fumes in my Christmas pie; no
wine-sauce in my pudding, say I."