Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-15
TIE sOROsIS.
The Last spree OF Our Literary
Sisters.
The BFen Nowhere Tea and
TOast-NO whisky.
From the New York Sunday AIsrcury.7
At CFrpDgD

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AT SUPPER.
| At pm. the gong sounded for supper,
/ and in thirty secoHGs the guests settled
/ at the table like q flock Of reed birds al
/ the side Of a country brook. Ths news
! paper veterans Ike O:tarsOn, Simontou
! and Silson looked a. the tea-csddy 10
/ Jismsy, and giaoGed about the room ss
! if something necessary was lacking. No
rum, h0Wever, was served. Tle vete
rams slipped the tea as If they we're in
| torture, and said DOtbing. Toe courses
we're brought on rapidly, and the visnds
/ disappeared Ike magic. Teal, sausage,
ham, peas, oysters, blanc mango, Ics
! cream, bananas, and cranberry sauce, all
| Travelled the same road with fesIfui rs
pidity.
/ THE SPEECHES ENNTE JUNE OPENS
THE BALL.
/ At pm. Mrs. Croly sprsng 10 her
! feet and spitefuiiy kn6eked on the table
with silvesplstcd fork, David g., who
was laughing With goldsu-haired sprite
at the second table to her right, stopped
! talking in an instant, snd shivsTed upon
/ bis chair, Ike schoOlb0y who had been
caught whispering. La Q few words,
/ Mrs. Croly told the men that they would
/ listen 10 choice tit-bits OF feminine wis
dem. She then announced the first
/ toast Of the evening: " Tue Coming
/ Man" and called 90 Fanny Fern Parton
to respond. Fanny blushed, and sent
roll OF manuscript up to Mrs. CCOiy, who
read it TO the audience amid frantic
cheers. Il was an old Ledger TRADE on
the mascuines, for which Robert Bonner
paid BOO per column.
THE COMING WOMAN.
The second toast was "The Coming
Woman" II was answered by Mrs.
Andrew Jackson Davis, who wandered
amid the mysterious spherical OrOs
swinging in the bOundless immeusity Of
space, aud shook her legs in the awful
CORRIDORS of time for fifteen minutes,
when she subSiGeJ, amid a shower Of
fork knocks. the BOhemians stood the
shock bravely, though few gave signs
of somuOlent distress.
MEN AND THEIR BUTTONS
This Was the third toast. Mrs. Clara
Nicholson gave il to the boys hot and
haAvy The sleepy ones passed up their
teacups, and laughed heartily. Buttons
were things that they appeared to under
stand. Mrs. Nicholson, however, gave
them new light On the subject, and her
remarks were Telished accordingly.
AT the conclusion of her speech, Miss
Josephine Pollard read poem, in which
she intimsted that she was soon to be
married. The intellectual Billy Swim.
t0D, who sat st her SIDE, biushed like Il
maiden Of six cen ss she took her seat.
Il was thought that she stood apon one
If his cOrns during the delivery of her
poem
HOW BURLEIGH CAUGHT IT
Mrs. Croly announced the next toast,
The Newspaper Man from Domestic
Point Of View" which vas responded to
by Mrs. Vim. II Buleigh She uncorked
6 bottle Of literary sssfos ida, and flung
the liquid over ell the gentleman present.
During the delivery OF the speech every
man appeared az il he had just been
struck by lightning. Burleigh himself
0oked as IL he had been bsfore Judge
BosliDg, snd had been given six
montbs on the island. Tue speech was
q soorcher, and rubbei off good deal Of
cuticle.
HEROIC WOMEN AND BABIES.
1.-The Heroic Women was the next
iossf, Mrs Charlotte WiIbcur, wife sf
Bgron-oollsred Charley, Of the Trans
crfgt. responded. 0staTs0n and K1ox
went to sleep during the delivery Of the
sDsech, but both woke up when Mrs
WiibOur made 8 casual References to Mar
gArat # Burgundy. ayes" they bovh
remarked In breath, q little Burgundy
and sonic ice in it. No attention being
paid to their request, their eyelids again
clOsed, and they we're not again
awakened until the close of the Banquet.
NIGHT DROPS HER CURTAIN.
"The Bsbies-G ID bless them,u was
the next toast. Ia response, Mary Kyle
Dallas read one Of her newspaper erti-
cles. 1t appeared that she had once been
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