The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-11-27

Lectures arranged by the Elkton Library
Association, was opened on Saturday night
last, by Miss Olive Logan, at the Odd Eel,
lows Hall Elkton, under the most flatter-
ing auspices. The announcement of a first
class lady lecturer, and the universally pop
ular subject Of "girls," had the desired
effect in filling the Hall with an intelligent
and appreciativc audience. The fame OF
Miss Logan had gone before her as the
great reformer of the American Stage, and
the large congregation that thronged the
Hall to listen and enjoy the lecture, express
ed general satisfaction.
Miss Logan is slightly above medium
size, round compact and well formed, and
though not possessing what might be termed
a pretty face, her features are adorned with
that higher type of beauty, the light and
glow of intellect and feeling. She was
richly and handsomely dressed, and when
she walked forward on the stage, and with
an easy inclination greeted the audience,
she manifested all that self-possession and
grace inspired by conscious ability and habit
addressing public gatherings.
The fair orator opened her discourse with
a glance at the little girl and boy as infants.
At this stage of their being there was no
distinction made between the sexes in point
of treatment But as soon as little Tom
my began to climb fences and romp, little
Mary was instructed not to initiate Tommy
in any of his health giving and muscle
developing sports, under the ban of being
pronounced Tomboy.
The fashionable girl was in two classes,
and the first considered was the girl who
devoted all her time and thought to dress,
with not an emotion for any other pursuit
or pleasure. She met this girl last summer
at one of the watering places and drew her
in colors of living light. Fashionable girl
No. had leading idea or fashion which
she consumed the whole Of her time in pur-
suit of. Sometimes she was devoted to the
church, and distributed bibles among the
Five Point population who sold them for
something to eat. Or she employed her
time in embroidering blankets for the Fegee
Islanders.
Beauty she contended was great power
and counseled her fair hearers to preserve
and prize it, but not to abuse and idolize it
as the only gift worth cultivating and pre-
serving, even at the expense of the moral
and intellectual. The strong minded girl
was evidently her hero-not the strong
minded woman who affected Boomers, and
despised all decent and fashionable female
apparel as badges of weakness and servil-
ity of the sex,-but the strong minded
woman as she pictured, while cultivating
and preserving all the graces and Beauty of
the female, to add to these winning quail
ties practical knowledge of the more sub
stantial pursuits which are now monopo-
LIKED by the serner sex. She argued strong
ly in favor of woman's right to the elective
franchise, and plainly evinced that this was
her leading and pet idea.
Miss Logan brings to her aid a mind
richly stored with knowledge, united to a
rare gift of elocution, which she acquired
at least one of her sisters having been dis
tinguishcd as professional actors. Her
first lecture was on the corruptions and
Immortality Of the stage, her second, on
Paris, which she delivered last season; her
third and present subject is "girls. -
When here she had a hundred engagements
for the present season and expected to fill
the remaining 20 or 80 nights of the lecture
season. She receives for lecturing, from
800 to $50 night. AS an elocutionist and
reader Miss Logan is scarcely inferior to
Vandenhoff Or Murdoch. In private she is
free unassuming and communicative, and
in every respect is indubit ably perfect
woman "nobly planned" and those who
failed to attend her lecture on Saturday
evening last missed rich intellectual treat,
spiced with wit and sarcasm; just enough
to give it zest. Such feast as Elktonians
rarely have the opportunity of enjoying.
Last evening Professor Rufus Adams
gave readings from the poets, which, owing
to our going to press On Friday afternoon
we will have to defer notice of till the
next issue of The Wing. The popular taste
for the lecture is manifestly on the increase
among our citizens, an indication of men-
tai culture which is most gratifying.
The third Lecture of the course will be
delivered on next Tuesday evening the Both
inst, by VIM. B. Cults. Subject, ''Our
Vo,por Mo-,