The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
A Pheasant Entertainment.

On Thursday night OF last week, we
passed a very agreeable hour at the Fe-
male Institute. The younger pupils
recited selections, spoke dialogues and
read original compositions; interspersed
with some excellent music on the piano;
! followed by Farce in French, by the
more advanced pupils in that language,
under the direction of Miss Holmes.
Several of the compositions by the little
girls and boys were exquisite, and we
them, if we can get them. We know
nothing of the French language, and
could noC tell whether the French class
spoke it correctly or not, but they SEEM
ed to speak it with great huency and
spirit, and their actions in the laughable
farce were very amusing. Below we
print the composition read by Miss An
ME Wright, little daughter OF Judge J.
V. Wright, aged ten or eleven years.
CONCERNING LOTS WIFE.
Mrs. Lot was chiefly remarkable IN history
as a woman having turned into pillar OF salt.
Women turn into salt nowadays, but II is salt
and battery. This misfortune overlook her when
fleeing from the doomed city Of Seldom, in
company with Mr.. Lot, and lots of little Lets.
She was requested not to look back, but true to
the instinct of her sex, she did. Tell a woman
not to do a thing and she is very spt to do it.
She probably met some young woman going to
S5odom to see the fire works and couldn't re-
sist the feminine impulse to see what they had
on. Lots OF wives would have dIne as Lots
wife did. Enforce such an ordinance now, and
pillars would stand as thick on the streets,
pedes'rianism would be impossible and the
syracuse salt works would be abandoned. Lot
seems to have pushed right along as if moth
ing had happened. But what did be want with
a salt wife, when he could get fresh one?
How long Mrs. Lot remained standing adyer-
tisement of the salt business, we do not know.
No mention of her subsequent career is any
where to be found. Whether she opened a re-
fTeshment stand and catered to the curious
crowd who flock ed to see the ruins OF the tated
city of the plain, became a caterpillar as 1t
were, we are unable TO say. woman who
could turn to pillar of salt, ought to be able |
to turn her hand TO almost anything. If she |
mad anything of the yankee about her, she |
would have rented little room shall we say |
sRt rheum?) and gone into the show business. |
she would have been great card, and made
good deal more than her salt. Relics of Co |
morroh, Sodom, Chicago, Boston, etc., would |
have sold well to tourists, although they would |
be CO npelled TO take the history of them with |
a grain of salt. Mrs lot would have returned |
alter few years with handsome competence. |
for of course every nickel she took would be |
sailed down. She would have been a well |
preserved woman to good old age and con- |
tented with her lot, although Lot didn't seem |
very well cnntented with her. Growing rich |
exhibiting herself as the salt woman, and hav-
ing invested her funds judiciously in corner
lots, greedy Adventures would attempt TO cor
ner Lots wife, casting lots who should have |
her. The case of this unfortunate woman is
sad one, in fact it is about as bad pillar case
as is known of.
The Institute is an admirable school,
because none but first-class teachers are /
employed in all the departments, and /
the school is conducted on the best prin-
ciples.