The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-05-12
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MAY DAY I!
Picnic Given by the Public Schools OF
Piueville.
MISS MISSOURI GRIFFIN IS CHOSEN
QUEEN.
ADDRESS BY MAI. F. sEIP- MUSIC BY
ALEXANDRIA STRING BAND
MAY-POLE DANCE,
ETC. ETC.

MAYPOLE DANCE,
ETC. ETC.
THE occasion of the Picnic given
for the benefit Of the boys and girls
Public School in Pineville, was one
from which everyone seemed TO de-
rive abundant pleasure and satisfac-
ton. The clouds in the early morn
ing thickened and looked threaten
ing, but as the day advanced a bright
sun dispellei them, and aided by a
delightful breeze, made the day all
that the many pleasure seekers could
desire. At the appointed hour the
children assembled at the school,
houses and formed procession with
the Queen elect and her Maids in
the ex-Mayor's carriage, followed by
the carrying an appropriate banner.
Queen, Miss Missouri Griffin: Maids,
Ida Lawrence, Fannie Walking, Lee
liza Walker, Dorothea Walking, Liz
zie Abel, Gussie Gray.
Arrived at the grounds, the Royal
party was escorted to the stand,
which had been tastefully arranged,
where the programme was begun by
browning the Queen and Maids of
Honor, which ceremony was per
formed very gracefully by the young
gentlemen selected for SO distin-
guished an honor. An appropriate
song of welcome was then sung in
honor of Her Majesty, who, immedi
ately after its close, read her address.
The Flower Garden Fairies were
then represented by Misses Law
renee, Hooper, Abel, Harper and
Kelly. "The Game of Life" by Mas
ter Rollo Jarreau; "The Frenchman
and Mosquitoes" by Master Michael
Aaron; "CIerical Wit" by Master
James Bolton; "The Three Black
Crows" by Master John Schrader;
"The Freuchman aud the Rats" by
Master Henry Hardtner; "My Last
Shirt" by Master Fish Bolton, and
"Spring," by Misses Armstrong and
Hardtner, were very creditably rem
dered, and the pleasure afforded in
listening to these recitations was
heightened by the sweet songs which
we're sung, and the indispensable
music discoursed, in The intervals, by
the Alexandria String Band. The
May Pole was then raised, and in the
midst Of the amusement around it,
our highly esteemed friend, Maj u
Fred. Seip arrived, who, at the re-
quest Of warm friends, had kindly
consented TO deliver an address to
the children and good people OF Pine
vile. He was duly presented to The
assembled guests, and what he had
to say was to the point, and sail in
his usual chaste and foreib!e style
The following is the
! ADDRESS.
! My Young Friends, Ladies Dc Gentlemen
] | very much fear that those wis
. have been charged with the duty o.
. selecting a speaker to address you
. to day, have been unfortunate il
their selection; and so much have
been impressed with this belief. tina,
not until the last moment did / con
!. sent TO accept the invitation so kind
ly and fiatteringly extended TO me
Sensihly as I felt my undtness, 1 ex
perienced some difficulty in declin
7 ing to answer an appeal, which by
a accepting enables me TO recall some
4 of the most pleasant recollections o
y my life, those of my boyhood days
Though many and eventful year.
have elapsed since that period, al
lis incidents are still fresh and greer
: IN my memory, and when / look up
9 on this assembly, with its crowd o
. faces radiant with youth aud eSpccia
> ton, a host Of tender memories o
the period when a youth like your
selves, | was engaged in the sam,
J. pursuits, in the sight of these SAM
e hills come trooping up before me-
!, Again do | see before me the oil
!. school house, the forms of revere,
preceptors, and the familiar faces o
- cherished companions, some of whom
II like myself are still lef, To coatinut
/. the struggle of life, while other
3, alas, and among them the mobiles
and best fill soldiers grave on TIL
blood stained fields of Virginia an,
Tennessee. Distant as these scene
- really are, all the impressions of thi
! life, with its hopes and excitements
d its joys and its tribllations, are s.
e wildly before me, that I am enable,
to share with you all the emotion
which to-day naturally animate you
% breasts, as really and as closely as
| were one of you, and | should b
delighted 10 feel, if from the expert
Or ences of my own boyhood days,
r could derive any lesson, or ,nculcat
any sentiment, which might be use
= full or the source of ENCOURAGEMENT