Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-03-24

pleasant and profitable entertainment, con
sisting Of vocal music, esenys, ceclama-
tions, and the like, until after ten o'clock.
Among other matters, ! REMEMBER that
Mr. Scott read "Poe's Bels also shoft
essay, "Does She Love Him2' aud q care
fully prepared essay on "Tei1peranee, /
some fifteen minutes long. The main
points in his arguments were: That in
temperance is moral evil, and muSt be
eradicated by moral means, Religion and
Education. That prohibitionbY law is a
failure, and not really desirable. That the
great work--the present work land the
only work to accomplish the eradication OF
Intemperauce, is TO "enlighten the peo
ple;" and it Is the duty Of the Church,
all Temperance organizations, al schools,
and all families % perseyeringly DO this
work, "Sow the seed, and good seed, and
then expect the harvest" Misses @. Il.
SCOTT and Lizzie Gray each presented an
essay. The former, "a Vision, the latter,
Another Vision" "A Vision" showed
the dark side of the picture Of the old say
ing, "The boy is father to the mani
while "Another Vision" "held up the bright
side of it.. As it iS hoped these essqys
NAV be published in the HERALD, | shall
merely add that they took in way to sat
lisfy any aspirant after literary fame.
{ Miss Orpha Oreamer presented an essay
on eWhat 10 Lifef' which was a good
showing up of therelntion the teacher aus.
tains in the future Of his pupils, and very
well presented and argued. "a
Mim Mary Scott TeQdJan amusing gessay,l in
the form OF "Ghronicles, in which all the
gopsin pertaining to the young people oi the
village was repeated by little star to q
girl who visited it, &c. The many happy
hits in the essay kept the audience IN a
broad good humor for pear half an hour
while several "wounded birds" are fut-
tsring (about the hearty still!
o. W. Gray read timely assay on
I" Critics and Criticisms" in which he
showed up those little "seven-by- nine
critics who meyer do anything themselves
but find fault with whatever others may
do. He made some four or five very nice
points.
Miss Celeste E, Scott presented care
fully written essay, Fifteen minutes in
lengthy on ais There Not Better WayP
The main opJect oil the essay seelileu W oG
to show up the physical, intellectual and
moral aspects of dancing as social amuse'
ment, and to point out number OF tcag'
which are better, A few Of our dancing
and rather thoughtless young folks, were
not very we'll pleased with the essay but
it met the views of the moral and more
thoughtful portion of the audience, several
Of whom pronounced it timely and valu
able discussion of this matter. | tops sh
may be persuaded to have it published
Space forbids even a brief noticl Of th'
deciamations which were presented, ex
cept the closing one. by Miss Mary Scott
whose affecting Farewell" brought tear
into many eyes.
The School Social Reunion came off o.
Saturday night, All can say about 4 Is
that the young people had as good tim
as the limited space afforded by the tou
large rooms of the school building wOul'
permit, aided by good Cabinet organ
good performers, and a very happy flow
the best of Spirits-the spirit OF good fee
ing. MoRE ANON.