The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-09-19
From the Review and Journal
The Giles Exposition.
!. LILLIAN K. MESSENGER

tions, is with the unfading dream;
Of the past. 1t was a fairy scene
With its beautiful halls in festOons
its rich, rare paintings, grouped
with such exquisite taste; its case:
of shells from every sea, and its min
erals and curiosities, gathered from
every cline; its tables grosning, as
it we're, with luscious fruits,-ap
pies, pears, peaches and grapes
fairer, perhaps, than those upon the
forbidden tree, which so strangely
tempted Eve!
There was also garden Para
dise-sO strangely beautiful and
unique, with its fountains and its
sweetest flowers, grouped in every
combination Of the choicest forms
rare exotics, baskets and vases, and
beds Of plants of infinite fancy, fill
ing the atmosphere with their rich
perfume; and the soft strains of mu-
sic, coming and going!-
so, earth, how like a heaven!"
This beautiful garden was the
place for the gathering of lovers
the palace within a dream-the Eden
of the Exposition! Amid its bow
ers and soft lights many tale OF
love was confessed. Many a heart
pulsated fast with its anticipated
joys in the years to come; while 9th
ers went home with a leaden hand
upon their hearts, never more to be
raised, so suddenly had few words
turned life's sweetest hopes and
dreams of the future into chaos.
(There was a
''Cheil among you takin' notes"
but fear not, your secrets are safe
with us. Cheer, cheer, friends, and
remember Mrs. Browning has said,
''Unlcss you can die when the dream is
past,
0, never call it loving "')
The Exposition was q grand sue
cess every way far beyond our ex-
pectations. Though old Giles has
always "held her head level" (par-
don the slang,) in everything she
undertook, with any county in the
State, and will continue TO do SO.
No fear of a retrogade movement of
public spiritedness on the part of
her people. "Onward and upward"
is her motto, and years to come viii
find her advancing and still achiev-
ing success, until she becomes the
leader-the star county of our proud
State.
But we did not commence this
article so much to speak of the
county and her Exposition as of the
perfect happiness that was impress
ed upon every face within the build
ing. How we missed you! How
disappointed in the long cozy chat
we should have had, of last winters
gay scenes, L, and that goa
should have enjoyed, with us, the
hospitalities of Pulaski.
The cordial clasping of hands un-
til the fingers tingled with pain -
witnessing the broad, hearty, CHEEKY
welcome to all-impressing US that
a part Of the greater love" was left
amid the ruins of this gray old
world, tor friend to welcome friend.
Even the old bachelor on the ram
page,
''Lord of himself, that heritage of woe
That fearful empire-which his human
% breast
But hold, to rob his heart ~ within of
rest
seemed happy! CVainly, poor fell
low, trying to recall the sweet, sweet
dreams of his youth and fluttering
like moth around each selU face,
with the grace and suaYity of a Boy
in his teens! Oh, for q Joshua to
command hiss Ggs to stand still, or
that "the wheel of time could back
ward rollw
The intelligence and beauty Of the
young ladies, with their Titanic
and bewilderment of
graceful attire, glowing in voluptu-
Gus cOlOr-the very sunshine of JOY
beaming upon their sweet maiden
faces, were enough to make others,
less mature in years, call too upon
Joshua "that the sun might stand
still!' (ifwe could believe ours eye5) J
so devoted and with such grace of
did the cavaliers of Pulaski |
pay court to the fair ones that daily |
and nightly thrOnged rs halls, prom |
to the life giving, soul-stir-
ring music Of "Jordon's Band, -
until eristeHce seemed almost a strain |
Of music!
I am sure there is no place under
the broad, blue skies where the !
young men ale equaled in "the !
small. sweet courtesies of life" to the |
stranger as those of Pulaski. Nei-
,her is there place of its size where |
they are equaled IN intelligence, re-
fnement, cultivation and chivalry-l
so thoroughly graduated in the polite |
arts, as in the charming little city, |
set, like old Rome, upon its seven
hills.
Many & one came away from Pu-
aski believing it to be the
Most peerless piece Of earth, I think,
That e'er the sun siione bright on"
IS citizens the kindest and most
lOspitable; its young men the choice
)nes of the land; it's maidens the
arrest; its matrons the most cor
lial; and its widOwers and old bach
'lors the most pcrseYerlng, lndetatl-
Fable and E'stiring in their efforts to
otlrt al, that such unyielding energy
deserved to be rewarded. |
Sincerely and earnestly yours,
THB HILLS. EsTELLE VEHsE.
P. S.-The marriage announced |
o come of in the garden Of the Ex-
'osition by our ever eloquent and
acetious friend, Col. S. z. Rose,
7as postponed on account of the
(?) of the pair, "and
more" 1t viii take place at
he Exposition in 1873, and 1 now
i've you an invitation to be present.
We are also authorized ITO render
he affair distingus, to cordially in
ite Col. A. Cox and Col. s. +. Rose
0 be eaadls-kOlderS on the occasion.
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