The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-29
An Iuteresting Entertainment.

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The entertainment given on the evening of
the Dist inst, by the members of the Smith
sonian Society of Prof Zimmerman's school,
was enjoyed by house full of ladies and
gentlemen. The programme for the evening
was performed in creditable manner and
within a very reasonable time. Gehr Smith
/ announced, inorde, the programme, and Mas
tiers Harry Ridgely, Qryille Wright and Philip
4 Fowler. acted as ushers.
The exercises were begun by May and
| Blanche Zimmerman, in an instrumental duet;
then followed chorus by the society, at the
close of which Willie Grammar, the president,
delivered the opening address, giving therein
a brief history of the society organization.
The programme proceeded, then, in the
| following order: Music, Lizzie Neusbaum;
/ essay, Ella Koontz; select reading, Lizzie
/ Neasbaum; recitation, Birdie Keen; music
vocal duet, Ethel and Kittie Fowler; essay,
! Mary Reese; select reading, Blanche thinner
man; defamation, Matte Keen; music, Birdie
/ Keen; essay, Grace Bowers; select reading,
| Susie Elgin; recitation, Nellie Wilson; music,
/ May Zimmerman.
At this period there were number of very
! interesting and beautiful electrical experiments
performed, each being announced by Grace
| Bowers, and all accompanied by sweet music
| from MUSICAL instrument brought especially
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| A. NJ Warner, who appropriately adapted
| the music to suit each experiment
Andrew Reese followed in a closing adj
dress, at the conclusion of which he said that
as the season of Joy and festivity was so near
at hand, in behalf of his society he would
/ wish all ''yANerry Christmas and happy
| New Year.A
Prof Zimmerhf made a few remarks
touching the importance of giving more
practical tone to the education of the children
of to-day. Speaking, in conclusion, of the
natural sciences, he said: 'These sciences
can no longer be so successfully and univer-
sally made the usual ''bugbear" with which to
frighten the thoughtful children of men, nor
be craftily fashioned into the similitude of an
ancient pursuit, in order to cheat a natural
minded brother out of his rightful mess of
pottage. Science, to-day, in more than q
! metaphorieal sense, is opening the eyes of the
! blind and causing the deaf to hear; it is heal
| ing the sick, feeding the hungry and leading
cropping millions to the knowledge of the
1 truth 1t is teaching the reasoning faculties
how to restrain the ungoverned wildness of
| the imagination, and how to bring before the
/ enlightened and fearless judgment the testi-
mony of unyielding facts. In a word, it is
making the truly wise Of earth wiser and
better, while, at the same time, it is exposing
the counterfeit wisdom and goodness of the
supposed wise to the righteous indignation of
all those now rapidly discovering that com
mon sense has too long been outraged and
I intellect too much deceived and dwarfed.
aye shall know the truth and the truth shall
make you free'' was the language of st. John
of old, while the still more ancient David,
''the renowned sweet singer of Israeli, over
come with the majesty of his Masters works,
exclaimed, in the exultation of his admiring
soul: 1.-The heavens declare the glory of
/ God and the armament sheweth His handi-
work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and
night unto night sheweth knowledge. There
is no speech nor language where their voice
is not heard. Their line is gone out through
all the earth, and their words to the end of
the world. In them hath He set Tabernacle
for the sun, which is as bridegroom coming
out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong
man to run a race. His going forth is from
the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the
ends of it; and there is nothing hid from the
heat thereof.
With this entertainment the exercises of the
school closed, to be resumed the Bird of Jan
uary next.