Life and light for woman . country for the pupils of each schoolto wear a uniform when on the street, and we think our girls arevery tastefully and attractively dressed in their suits of navy blueserge, with pleated skirts and Norfolk coat, white pique blousesand blue felt hats. Excitement ran high when they found thatthey were actually going in the tram for a short distance (price 260 Life and Light [June one cent). We left the car at the main boulevard of Sarria, andwith not a few longing glances at a brightly lighted motion pic-ture house, began to walk westward, past shops, church andvilla
Life and light for woman . country for the pupils of each schoolto wear a uniform when on the street, and we think our girls arevery tastefully and attractively dressed in their suits of navy blueserge, with pleated skirts and Norfolk coat, white pique blousesand blue felt hats. Excitement ran high when they found thatthey were actually going in the tram for a short distance (price 260 Life and Light [June one cent). We left the car at the main boulevard of Sarria, andwith not a few longing glances at a brightly lighted motion pic-ture house, began to walk westward, past shops, church andvillas whose white walls gleamed in the moonlight behind darkand graceful palms. After crossing the bridge we soon reachedthe country and stopped at a parting of the unfrequented road fora wildly exciting game. Up above on the summit of San Pedro,the white walls of a picturesque ruin glimmered dimly; the seaopposite shone like silver, and the great city was crowned withten thousand golden lights. When the girls had played until. In the Garden, Barcelona they were out of breath, and the wind had snapped the elasticsfrom at least a dozen hats, we rode back to the Colegio and allslept like tops after such a dose of fresh air. On the 22d of February the Stars and Stripes floated over ourmain building against a springlike blue sky. Next day to find snow, the first snow of the winter, falling in heavy,wet flakes, not the large floating feathers that fall in New Eng-land. But it was lovely to see the masses of dark pines on thehills around us, powdered with white, although snow on blos-soming violet beds and fruit-laden orange trees does seem a little igie] Springtime in Barcelona 261 incongruous. The girls, of course, were wild with excitement,and ran out to make snowballs before breakfast. But their cloth-ing is not intended for such cold weather, especially the thin lowslippers which many wear. I wish you could have seen MissWood when she found that two little girls in her firs
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