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MAY PARTY AT; ARs. JONES
SCHOOL,

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The blooming month Of flowers
has been honored in Abbeville this
season, by appropriate festivities,
which were entered into with more
than usual spirit and enjoyment by
the young people Of both sexes; but
nothing could excel the brilliant ahd
successful affair which came off at
Mrs. d. F. Jones School, on the evch-
ing Of the I'd May, Handsome CO.'S
tunes, appropriate decorations, bright
happy faces, made up a lovely tab
Ieaux, TO which song and MUSIC and
graceful acting, lent their added
charms, and made the spectator i'm
agine that he saw disclosed some
bright scene from fairy land. The
lovely, balmy month was typi6ed in
the bcautcpus queen and her radiant
train and music, and song and flow
ers, were but representations of u
bright panorama, which each glow
ing morn or dewy evening discloses.
The May Party was attended by
the boys and girls Of all the schools
in the village, and by their parents; !;
and the kind corporations of these
last contributed much to the SUCCESS
of tho entertainment.
At nine O'Clock in the evening the
door Of the school room was opened,
and VII list some charming music was
played; the audiento had the oppor-
tunity of surveying the bright scene
within. On an elevated platform, the
throne was erected, beautifully Gee
grated above with garlands Of ever
green's and flowers, whilst all around
the room was handsomely adorned
with fastoons and wreaths Of the
lovelicst gems of the blooming Spring.
To the right was q May Pole beauti-
fully wrcathed with flowers, and all
about were the bright and happy
faces of the children prettiy arrayed
in white, with wrcaths and garlands
of flowers upon their heads and upon
their dresses. 1t was indeed like a
scene from fairy land over which
Titania, its Queen, might have pre-
sided.
At the close of tho music, the
crown-bearers consisting Of the little
Misses Ella Penny and Mammio Rus
sell, and tho sceptre-bearer, Willie
Moore, went forward. The crown
was presented 10 the crowners, Misses
Alice McCord ard Emma Syfan and
the sceptre to Miss Ella Cox at whose
hands the Queen Was to receive them.
The May Queen was Miss Lille
White, one Of the loveliest of the
bright and joyous throng, attended
by her Maids of Honor representing
each a garden flower: Miss Emma
Means, the Lily; Miss Georgia Bell
the Peony; Miss Minnie Mcmillan,
the Pansy; Miss Sallie Cason, the
Violet; Miss Dora Fair, the Jessa-
mine; Miss Mamie Moore, tho Mig
nonctte; Miss sullie Richardson, the
Dahlia Miss Ida Douglass, the Snow.
Drop; Miss Josephine Hill, the Tulip;
Miss Celia Miller, the Tube-Rose;
Miss Hattie Sopdley, the Hyaclnth;
Miss Mamie Osborne, the Heliotrope;
and the rest of the little ones repre-
sented Daisies. The Queen grace
fully bowed to receive her crown,
when the following speech was re-
peated by the Crown-Bearcrs, Misses
Alice McCord and Emma Syfan:
HPermit us to place upon thy brow
this simple wreath Of flowers, gather
ed from the leafy bowers, and en-
twined with loyc."
Miss Ella Cox, then presented the
emblem of Office, with the following
appropriate speech: ..
sFrom your loyal subjects, fair
Queen of May, receive this beautiful
Sceptre-ft emblem of your brief
overeignty-with assurances that
your reign Of love in their young
hearts will long continue. May your
path in life be strewn with flowers Of
Piety, Love and Happiness; and may
you, at last, in Heaven be crowned
with wreaths of Imm oriulitgt whose
Amaranthine flowers grow "fast by
the throne Of God"
Flowers were then strewed in rich
profusion at her feet. After which
the Queen addressed her subjects as
follows:
"Tbe Queen Of May greets and
blesses each and every one of you.
Around her feet your votive offerings
lie; knots of flowers, and buds, and
garIands gay and, on this the mad
dest, merriest day of all tho glad New