Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-01
No Idle Show, but Series Of Vivid and
Realistic Scenes Full of All Noble
and Teaching Qualities, Infusing
and Quiekenlng Every Sense.

OlStleyeQ III our 6Irees last DlgOC Dy the
! Memphi. This order is q standing won
der. Yesr by year they offer q Marji-
! Gras spectacle whose richness and beau.
ty bring to mind tales OF fairy-land, and
! all the amazing descriptions that make
! the Arabian Nights so winning. All
/ that we can conceive of the gorgeous,
| magnificent, and Of the beautiful, are
| presented in vivid reality. What genius
| has dreamed, the Memphi have realized.
/ Toe vision that-When read in the beam
| ing page of the inspired poet-appesrs
4 to be but erial unsubstautiality, lie
stamped by the Memphi with the reality
| OF fact, aud passes along our streets. an
/ existing, accomplished miracle! TIE
| brilliant fancy that sprung like q hesv.
| en-sent vision into the wTspt s1Cl OF the
! poet, has passed through the hands OF
! the pecromsncer, ard it lives-s life all
1 too brief-ye: tlIves, q fascinating en-
/ Oodimeut OF iOveliuess. A vision, no
! bier, fairer, more ethereal, more eXsl'et
| than our dreams ever producet, glide
I through our s-Teets and fills us
| with eCs.scy. An Imaginative
French writer speaks of nature
a. enabling moi tails TO ecOI!ter par les
/ yeur Harmonic de icGte de toats les
! tLns So do tue MemphI make us "Iisteu
with the eyes and The speaking pic.
| lures they produce raise within Us thai
mysterious ag gregstion Of feeling Ii j.
usually the wonderfully province Of
music alone TO summOa AS we g ga on
the Msmphi tableuX we Lose sight Of the
every day worid--a new order of sensa-
lions Is born within ia thrill passes
over every limb and pulses in every organ
Every nerve gloWs, every vein bubbles
l., ~
experience becomes revelation. Our
souls are opened, our widest aspirations
expanded, our lUtiest sosrings Over-iop-
ped-for we have felt the power Of art;
we have absorbed the impul ses of fancy,
the hem OF the garment of genius has
touched us and we sse with eyes, ana
listen with cara that were 0ever born OF
flesh. A traDscsndental light bas flashed
upon US; a mu{ie hymned in the pure
ether of iEteTstellar space hiss pured
its harmony into deeper rece5aes Of cur
nature than we had known TO exist.
When we see what the Memphi have
done On another MsTdi Gfss; when we
learn that the designing Of the ia
beaux, the copying Of verses in
many language, Ihymed foundations,
choice and arrangements OF lights,
and other things equally remarkable,
are ell done by members OF the mystic
association, by sffill4teds aud initiate
Memphi, followers OF the Grand OuTo
and faequenters of the mysterious re-
cesses OF The Panauph. When We know
all th s, we are struck with amC 9ment
at what this society compartments within
itself! Setting aside what Mem lhians
have showed themselves able to do ia
music, in which they excel, the memphi,
In the sport of their Mardi- Gas pa
ee2ntF, have shown 2 degree Of general
Intelligence, artistic appreciation, sense
of the beautiful, executive skill, power
of embodying fsncifui creations, and
ability to move and affect masses Of
men by the results Of their talents, their
knowledge and their skill, than they
have ever done ia any other way, or any
other circumstances. The Memphi, in
such scenes as those that wrapped US
last night, like Pau, into the scstacies
Of the third heaven-have shown that
Memphis has mental powers and ceps.
bilities far beyond what the world has
ever given 1t credit for. One thing we
wish Memphis had, and we were the
embOdim SIT Of 1.-THE power TO depict
last nights Mardi.Gcas Mems phi pggea ut
so that those who did not gee 1t might
gain, from our portrayal, some idea Of
It's fascination aud It's excellence. The
sue it gained was the consequence
Of a wonderful combination of many
means, all so ham Oniously blended tt a.
the result resembled the just rendering
of the notes penned by Macs .ro-al
deliciously weaVtd into melody by i'm
psr.ous power directed by unbouuded
perception OF means. and unshackled
ability To command effects. Clearly the
Msrdi G52s pageant, as the Mempli
presents IL, is proof OF the posses sion of
powers OF no mean Kind. Dramatic per-
sOnation-suggestlV attitude correct
c. stums-architec urRl propriety-uneT-
ring chronological fsptstion-natuIal
productions suited u the country in
which the events illustrated took place -
truth in the biographical incidents Sc
l3cted 10 interest ZEAL perSonages-tb |
manner in which persons houses, woods, |
lakes aud other obj suall be adapted |
II csIs that are 10 pass the open streets |
the lights by Whish they are 10 be |
shown -Rrrsngements for the comfort OF !
the crowding spectators and the pre- |
servatiOn OF putlc order, and hunCre1 |
other things have, not only t. ns pro- |
vidsd for, but to be accurately f0reseen |
suI all that WAS necessary ore. arranged. |
L
much OF il requires the exercise OF fac
uIties Of hign order-yet the Memphi |
have accomplished il all successfully, |
and with mastery skill. Success aud
honor to the Memphi, whoever
they msy be! Aud, by the way,
the wonderful fesreCy they preserve
year after year, is not one OF me smallest
proofs that mystic body gives 10 the pos
session of skill aud wisdom far above
the common average. How sue cessful
lsst nights pageant was, the chesfs, the (
shouts of delight, the eXpr1ss OF en-
thusiasm, the bursts of excited admira-
ton from old and young, ftom the cul-
tivated and the refined aud The rough
and the untutOrG d, and especially from
the ladies, ali combined 20 prove. The
sex are always the apprecist rs Of Ideal
beauty, and the sex are tbs especial, I'M
IN a.iiUg admirers Ct the
MaIdi Gas pageant OF the Memphi (
All along the line CT the procession Of
the Mempbi the streets, the windows
the IoOfs, the baiCO lies-every prOmI.
nent spot that offered opportunity for
getting stand where the sight could be-
eagerly taken advan- !
.sge OF. The attendance Of strangers
immense. T1e surrounding caun- |
.iyt anu many NAsbtiAL Cit4tS, natu ln0u-
lands of representative preseat. At
fixed stations on tbs streets chemical
lights were burned 81 the procession
? ssed; and independent OF them,
he cars were so lit 10 that q
h)od CT light made
? sib'e the most delicate arrange
nents OF foliage, implements, ofna. {
nents and thousand accessones. Toe
attitudes Of the characters, their COS
umes and o pastures, the shields, swords, +
pears, cannon, b9oks, scrolls, lowers, {
swels, ornamenLs, musicai Instruments,
mighty psrsphernslia, prlnceIy it,
ignia, the adoInmeLts Of b. autiful and I
minent women, the grouping Of Z
roman, Grecian, Golhlc, renaissance, {
'udor, Swise, Spanish, French, militia. t
y, classic, ecclesiastical, orieula', a