Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-09

Miss Conway's address to her cl ass was 90
appropriate, and coutsiRs so much good ad-
vice to young women, OF whom many are
Just now leaving the school room for the
wider study of life, ih.t it has been copied
in full.
There comes back 20 me to-day the memory
OF sunrise on Lake Geneva; the breaklug OF
may never see again: Tho white mist mat had
d led the valleys drifted away IN long, neecy
iridescent with the morning iight upon tne broad
breast of the mountain. The great sun had sent
his flaming toreh-bearer to bear the message OF MS
coming. and the heavens were scarlet tanopy;
The white mist was flushed with pinE until IL
became as a garland of roses wreathlng NE gray
hills. The quiet lake was Il burning mlrIOr taAiug
on all the colOis Of the respondent SKY Liquid
gold and silver pink and grHy. white 8 ef'', 2 ue
all colors and color AZ once, crest. htshiug,
brilliant kaleidcs csuope-thiS the Ike OF
Geneva. as it was waked iutO morning Iight ana
beauty bV the SUNNI er SUI Tne grSs. chain of the
Alps stood afar Off silent and gtay, except that
Mont Blanc ''in ciy ystal size ce' Lifted It's snowy
head his h over al. pure and cold ia The mo ming
light In the norm great driis of purple clouds
massed lhemsg Ives against bacs g ound Of living
green. Iu the a hot bali OF burning h,e c"me
ghosts, and unrolling huge banners OF light,
until the say WAS one -lTlig u me
out upon the scene, the upcom'ng sI1 se-med
to ignore the dark. grim mountains. Th-re they
stood, silent and awful. untouch oy III s%li!
light that leaped from cloud to cur. But 10!
even as l look, long i1e OF rosy hght u thrown
out across the ky toward the south, I'll IL toucned
the lofty summit of Mont Blan". There II restS
and the snow erowned head is Dathed in the ross
light of the morning. The mo1ntain monarch
seemed to say Let there be light" and The swift
name lesped from peak 10 peak, and there was
great joy among the mountains.
What allied thee, o ye mountains,
That ye skipped like rams; end ye little hills,
like lamLsY
does a sunrise I'm he Alus bear upon this morning
scene? 1t means that life should not be less beau
tiful than the most beautiful OF It's mornings. but
IL must be msde %. It may b. way redoent oi
fragrance beautiful : n dream, bright as that
morning sunrise in the Alps; OF it may be cold
and cherries as night in the low-lytnS valley
without moon or stars.
THE MEANING OF COMMENCEMENT.
Which shsll it be? my dear ones, IS the question
propose for your solution this Commencement
day. Commencement day IN more sepses lh4i ,
one for it is the beginning Of an active, useIul
nfe whose end should bring peace Iest and hea-
ven But to do this we must sail sometimes with
the wind, sometimes against it, but we must sail
aud not DRIFT nor lie al anchor" am glad tnat
we are NOT the architects but the builders
of our future. I'VE make not. the design
nor see it from the start. 1t is revealed
TO us little by little. days wo:k at time. The
years teach much which the days never know, "
says Emerson. We start but once, and we can
never return to the beginning. We water our gar
den BEDS UNCONSCIOUS that the brook viii grow
into a river and the river grow into sea. 1t will
fully II you knew the result 10 be beds OF rare,
rich, rosy aud fragrant lilies.
TRUTH AND FALSESOOD.
Begin to build Alright. and begin at once. Let
truth be the fOuudat!on-Stcne. Oliver Nendell
Holmes, in his delightful Aat0crGt, says that wher
we are small children there comes up to US 8
youthful angel, holding in his right hand cubes
like dice and IL his left spheres Ike marbles.
The cubes are OF stainless ivory, ana on each is
written in letters Of gold Truth The spheres
arc vein ed aud streaked snd spotted beneath, with
a dark crimson flush above, where the light fails
on them and ia a certain aspect you can make out
upon every one OF them these letters, l. i.
The child to whom they are offered viii probably
Gluten at both. The spheres are the most c)n-
venieut things in the world: They roll with Inc
least possible impulse just where the chlld would
have them. The Gu oes viii not roll at all They
have great talent for standing stil, a4d always
keep right side up BIT very soon the young
philosopher fnds tha things that roll so easily are
very apt TO roll into the wrong corner, and 70 gel
out of his way when he IN 1st vans them, while
he always knows where to ind the others which
stay where they are left. Thus he learns, thus we
learn TO drop the streaKe1 aud specklsd globes oi
falsehoOd and TO hold fast the NhiJe, angular
blocks of truth. But then comes Timiiity, and
alter her Good Nature. and Ia of all Poll te
Behavior, ali insisting that truth must roll oI
nobody can do any taing with il; aaf SO the f rst
with her coarse rssp, aud the second with heI
broad fle and the third with her silkeu sleeves dc
80 round of and polish the snow-whiEe cubes ol