Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-05-07
st. Agnes Guild Entertainment.

The entertainment given at the City
Hall on Thursday evening last by the
st. Agnes Guild was in every way q
success. The society is composed of
young ladies who are members of or
attend upon the Episcopal church Of
this city; and we believe its purposes
are to carry ON and assist in
church work, The exercises,
although lasting longer than is
usual for such entertainments, were
none too long for the enjoyment Of
the listners, The hall was filed to
vvertlowing with the best people of
our city, who came to encourage and
assist the highly eommendable pnr-
pose of the society. The managers of
the exhibition deserve great credit
for the employment of so much arts.
tic taste, variety, beauty and real
worth in il.
The Artists Studio was an exhibi-
ton Of pictures by eminent artists of
Il number of beautiful women. AS
the faces stood in the frames before
the audisnce they presented an ami
mated and most life-like appearance,
The collection, il is said, is very tlne,
and the more they are studied the
more fascinating they become TO the
heholder. Although tho names OF the
pictures were not given il is pre-
sumed they were of the Queens OF tho
Earth,
The play Of Little Red Riding
Hood saved from the wolf 10y COM
pany OF fairies was well sustained
throughout. Martha Jcnkin, who
pcrsonated he'd Riding Hood did re-
marhahly we'll Tier sudden fright on
realizing the Intentions Of the wolf
and her cwn danger, as indicated in
voice and action, was SO real that all
were startled by /, and surprised at
the little maiden's power. The Fairy
Queen and her attendants, rcpresen-
ted hy Il company of neatly dressed
little girls, was picture of Joyful
satisfied innocence that could not fail
to please, fl
Mrs Jarley's Wax Works, rs pre-.
scented and explained by Mrs. farley
herself. in her inimitable style, con-
tanned many laughablc incidents.
The receipts Of the evening
amounted to about seventy dollars,
and nearly all of it will be devoted to
the benefit of the church.
We are informed that the city
charged the society full price for The
hall. II so, we deem it entirely
wrong. Nothing more than actual
cost should be demanded. Churches
and schools-religion and intelligence
are the pillars Of free civilized So
Getty. no people can long remain free!
or civilized without either. Not that
we would make discrimination in
favor of this or that particular church,,
or of any church. Whatever men do
whatever meetings are held with
n declared. honest purpose to find
truth, to reach to and attain the high.
est good FOR themselves and their
neighhors and their fellow men that
should be encouraged. The man who
does encourage it thereby protects
his life and property by the surest
safeguards at the least expense. IL is
to the growth Of intelligence, the
purity and breadth Of affection pre-.
pared in man that law owes its power
70 govern and MI men their lives ami
freedom.
We are aware that many In the
churches, who are protested believers
in that enlightened philanthropy
which is the rock Of thcirfaith, often
step aside To defame those who IN and
ont of the church hold different
views, and this in the most yindictiy9
tyranical and cruel manner, Perhaps
there. is no protection against this
except in the inconsistency whichN
manifests TO tue principles they pto-
fess to follow. Religion withontsed-
ucation produces the most ilangerVisl
bigotry. Education Without religion
produces a monster Of rselnslness de-
structiye of its own good.lesas w ss4.,,
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