The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-18

teriAl things, but on the contrary, in an art
which, while resting for its Improvements on
the grand science of mathematics, has its ori.
| gin in the human heart, its development in
| the human mind, and has for its encourage
mentt the plaudts Of the worlds auditorium.
An art that dates the birthright of its power
back to the morning when in the Emusic of
the spheres" the "stars first sang together"
and was not new even when Jubal sang be-
fore the deuge, when Miriam rejoiced after
the passing of the Red sea, when David and
| Solomon chan,ed their sacred psalms, down
TO the period when Handel, and Hayden and
Mozart and Beethoven and Mendelsohn and
| the others, down to to-day,when Wagner and
Abt and Thomas and their contemporaries
are flooding the century with
their delicious symphonies and rx.
quisite harmonies. You are cultivating
an art which, while every nation has honored
and every cline has patronized, is itself at
once the cause and the product of civilza-
tom an art that elevstes and reines and
puries, and which from its primitive rural
poverty has developed into its nav measure
less magniticence, converting existence from
manotonous noise into melliauous melody,
moulding the soul into glass, as it were, and
by the metamorphosls Transforming the
fossil prose Of life into per-
fumed Installations OF poetry. You
are cultivatng an art whose persuadng
voice, issuing from the inner chambers of the
souls oratorio, thrills through the ear with a
language richer and geeer, more universal
and more potent than any other, exciting the
warrior to deeds of daring, lulling into
dreamand the little bah solacing the king
and the bcggar, charming into obedience the
brute, or making the air resonant with the elo-
quent dialects oftbe..sweet- throated songsters
of the grove. This has besn the business in
which you have been employing your time,
this has been the high and no.
ble the divine art which your esteemed
and accomplished, your splendidly gifted
and beloved instructor has come with the
treasury of her genius to this sunny land of
ours to impart and the measure of whose
success is the endorsing applaue to her pu-
pills. Take the MEDAL it is yours by right of
achievement; cherish it for what it symbol
ICES ard love it for the friend for whom |
now present IL.
COLONEL. SIMPSONS PRESENTATION SPEECH.
lam charged, Miss Kate Mcconnell, with
the pleasant duty of presenting to you to-
night testimonial of the fact that you speak
English well,
This would ordinarily seem but simple
compliment, but indeed, Miss Kate, it is a
very great one.
Wherever associate life has attained the
highest form of civilization, there will be
found the Anglo tongue, the model
speech of modern humanity, language that
was born of the union of the Teutonic and
Romantic tongues, two of the noblest lam
guages of olden Europe; the one giving
vigor. strength and power, the other grace,
suppeness and delicacy of expression. To
use this language right, Miss Kate, to give it
proper rythm, emphasis, expression, clear
ness and power, is indeed a priceless gift, one
only to be attained after the closest study and
that swift, ligttning-like intuition which
grasps and gives fullest expression to the
meaning of the author. The grandest ora
rswho by their genius have illuminated our
language, have been its mightiest interpreters,
only attained excellence after srduous effort.
The elder Pitt, one OF the most brilliant
and captivating orators of Europe, who was
able to speak daggers, such was the mpas-
stoned force Of his language, only attained
excellence after continued exert,on. He
flashed forth his thoughts with q
splendor, power and elegance I'M
excelled. Percussion and vehemence,
passion and feeling, went together
like chain shot. The younger Pitt seems to
have inherited or acquired this wondrous
power of elocution and oratory. So tram
see ,dent was his ability and eoquence
that he became prime minister of
England at the early age of twen-
ty-four. So magnificent was his decla.
nation, so comprehensive, full and felicitous
was his diction, that Lord North was con-
strained to characterize his eloquence rs
Amazing" The distinguished Irish orator,
Curran, only attained excellence after efforts
in righteousness surprising all others. He
was awkward in manner, shutling in gait
constrained and meaningless in gesture. He
was known under the sobriquet of suffering
Jack Currap, yet he put down all this and
was the unrivaled master Of the Irish bar for
more than twenty years.
Rochel, that greatest OF tragediennes,
whose splendid impersonation of classical
heroines, wondrouS magnetism and mstchless
voice brought all Europe to her feet caused
gold to shower down upon her until her in
come yearly exceeded the prodigious sum Of
5000 francs-this marvellous woman only
achieved excellence a ter wesrying exertion
ard tramping with her tambourine over the
continent atoot.
will not fls,ter you by saying that you
rival Rochel. or Kellogg or Nelson
in your voice, but | will say
in speaking the consenting opinions
of a majority of fair, capable and competent
judges that you possess sweet, well com.
msnded voice; voice at times as sonorous
as the sound of tire bells by night, or rs
SO tly, sweet and tender rs the zephyr whis-
pering to the violet; in two words, you possess