The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-06-30

man cannot She vigorously rejected the theory
of womans intellectual inferority. Women
cannot boast Of a Shakespeare or Napoleon, but
in their ranks are Mrs, Browning and Joan of Arc.
Madame Roland The originator of the daily news
paper was woman. Many men have had intel
lectual mothers while few have had in
tel!ectual fathers. If woman believes in
herself, others will believe in her
and God speed the time when the shackles will
tan from every individual throughout the length
and breadth Of this globe.
EVIL can not brook delay,
The truth can well afford to wait,
The weapon which your hands have found
Are those which heaven Itself has wrought,
Light. Truth and loye,-your battle ground,
The broad fire field of thought.
Miss Nellie McNair followed with an enter.
tanning essay which was well read ana atten-
lively listened to, The subject was an interest.
ing one,
THE DRAMA AND NOVEL.
The growth Of literature is in proportion to
the development, Of the people and their ad-
vancement in civilization, aud Of the many
things that contribute 10 the culture Of people
literature Is the most important, an early form
Of which is the drama, which was invented and
developed among the Greeks. About the time
of the Norman Conquest in the llth century, it
appears in England under the name Of miracle
plays, the incidents being taken from the Bible
and produced by the monks for religious in.
s,ruction. Gradually it assumed different
character, dropping the religious form and in.
PRODUCING scenes Of day life more after the
manner Of the modern drama.
In the 10th century, Shakespeare appeared,
the greatest OF all dramatists, followed by Jon.
son ct al. The French drama was developed by
Corneille and Moliere; the German by Goethe,
Leasing and Schiller. In Englaud the drama
was placed under great restraints by Cromwell,
who perpetually suppressed it! AT the Restora.
ton the drama like all things else was carried to
extremes, and from this time from Dryden and
his school of dramatsts--the drama has grada-
ally declined. With the decline of the drama
we notice the rise of the novel, the result Of a
change in the rich peoples mode OF living, who
now began to dwell more at homo, neccs sltat.
ing the reading Of books rather than the hearing
of plays. De Foe at this timeloth century,
introduces the novel, who is followed by the
irnumerablc army Of noveliss who have writ
acteristics were noted. In comparing the two
the palm Is awarded to the draiae, as presenting
the moral Of The plot more forcibly and without
waste Of words, the author inclining to the Opin.
ion that the mora! stations along the route Of a
novel-the dry parts"-have but little weight
with the rca3cr, who usually skips them to has
ten to tlc grand finale. As to the necessary
genius, the drama requires more than the novel
or even poetry.
The Quariette then sang The Sunrise" a
beautiful selection which called for an encore,
Farewell, my own True Love- which was fol.
ed by Miss Mollie f. Osmau, who read the
CLASS PROPHECY.
"Hoo il Happeaol"
"Aud you, Miss Osnan, we expect to write,
As exercise for graduation night,
\ prophecy, wherein shall be loretod
AS from leaf OF fate's dark book unrolled,
The future Of each member Of this class
Thus cOolly spoke they all at once. Alas!
am no prophecies, and Of the art
! or sOrccress or gypscy know no part;
| Nor can coal from OFT the altar draw
That "rapt Isaiah in his vision saw"
Twas thus, while pondering DER my grieyous lot.
| One afternoon, tthe room was scOrchng hotD
The school room drone like peoples on me fell,
! And went otf,-just where | cannot tell
But somewhere In the land OF dreams no doubt,
sJ H. " lila o oIn in ,ha s A, one s
A beast" perched on a rock and in his claw
He held a book-no doubt the book OF Fate
Au I foni its PIses u"ue a a',o 70 '.ahslto
A. Tim u lSq5 we read
THE HISTORY.
The History" showed what the members Of
the class have become and what they are doing
in about 1904 The hits were iutclliplblc TO
the vounr ladies' themselves. and onnrecia,ed hv
them. but hardly SO by mos, Of the audience.
The "prophecyn closed as follows;
The beast cvan,shed mid crash Of thunder
And, starting up, gazcd around in wonder,
FOR scLOOi Hau Dcch ulsHlsscu anu toward Tue
VIZ gTU po,,o,, looso q, nv ,o,,r
you've been asleep! at me they bantring cry
And truly, girls, that same don't deny.