Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-13
MISS Rarbiere,s Address.

Juue, the month of roses, has cast her
glowing presence round our hearts to-day. All
the harmony OF the .caSon is accomplished in a
graceful whole, the earth is filed with the silence
of happy nature. Lille is poem. The very air is
redolent with happiness. Mere existence is sweet.
Sometimes you'll long for these summer days,
Dreamily fading in purple haze.
Sometimes with thrill OF passionate pain
You will yearn for their swe etness over again.
Sometimes you would give all ths wide worlds
For one of these golden, happy days"
All over our loved Southland the Conservatives
of culture sending forth Rosebud Garden of
Girls radiant in youth, beauty and innocence,
hearts filled with love and trust-no room for sus-
picion. Suspicious, Ike wrinkles. only come
with age some of these sW ct girl graduates will
gladden. and bless society with the fragrance OF
beautiful lives. Others fair as flowers, but soul
the lilies of the field, toll not Physically they
are perfect, intellectually they are mere
ciphers in the, great economy OF nature.
Dreamers startled not by the sobs of
anguish from the suffering millions around
them, drifting TO the grave Iq a lotns-
vestibule OF another having each solitary idol
self! Ratros edon along the corridors of mem
panoramic display move before the minds
camera, charming us with rosy shsdinss. oft caus-
ing the heart to weIl up with joyous thoughts,
vivid enhancing delicious to the sense-ihen
ssfs,l1sr- shadows fit RtkEaFt The past burning
with tears and subduing with sad memories the
hope and peer into the long visits that seems to
oEen to youth. Let us not be dazzled as we gaze;
rather let us invoke the spirit of the past
truthful guide TO the opening future and while
we delve in uniolded lifes mysteries let the dim
record of days gone, by flown into realms of days
neOphyte, to tAings that are new.
June roses have come and gone, and I Won say
how many tunes, since, on June night in the
halcyon of academic days, l stood, myself the re-
cipient of scholastic honors. thrill with sorrow
to-day, as miss loved faces, which then photo
grsphed sympathetic hearts, Where are they!
my sweet girl ciassmate, my reveIed preceptor?
Ask of the stars that glitter like diamonds in the
empyrean vaults above US, VINO the jewellers
therein? Blessed retrospeetioD, that leads us to
the shsaoWy past where we can see the angelic
host passing in review. Let us turn from the
phantom picture and put our grasp upon the
stronghold OF the future. Let us cling
to the lintels OF the doorway that "opens
the wondTous caverns to the gaze.
Truly an inyidng panorama, it beekons
with gorgeous folds we see standing out in letters
of light, the future women of America. Then fol-
lows in golden text, Awake and seize the future
Be vigilant and watch the opportunities of com
ing events. Gather your skirts from the faint of
idleness Arouse from the apathy OF the past
Grid We with industry and take your true place
upon the broad plane of the new South. open
the scroll of the south's future, unfold its pages
of hopes aud desires. Bright are its promises.
The South! Home of Chivalry and generous
deeds, whose people are my people" We predict
glorious future for her. Let those VINO catl ap-
preciste the dawning of greatness of our country
dwell upon what may be a picture of imagery to
MANY but will be a vision OF facts the realization
of which will be practical, because real. The
mighty Mississippi, whose turOid waters roll in
majesty, washing the bluffs within score of miles
d
commercial marine riyalllng in wealth and splen-
dor the aTgOsies of Venice; factories whose mis-
sion will be 10 consume the staple at our own
doors, will rear their chimneys from q thousand
towns and villages. The baTges of the world will
come to our marts, improved machinery will de-
velop each and all our resources until the sunny
South will rival the land OF Ophr in her magnih-
cence. Thus enlarged in her material resources,
the South will turn her attention more fully to
| the development OF the mind. Institutions of
learning will spring up like GASES, refreshing each
| arid spot that want OF culture has left like the
o MnIfttnnag danfa Dft
Pierian spring. the tone OF social life will be Gle
waited, all the generous ircadiations OF society
the nineteenth century is grandly progressive.
Progress marches, 1t makes the great human
and terrestrial journey toward the celestial and
| the divine" Shall we not play part IN the
| grand progressive movement OF our land? Shall
| not the womanhooa fall into line with the adj
Yance-guard OF Southern development? ii au
| honest man is the noblest work of God, a true,
| good woman, in whom the graces of person are
united with mental and spiritual exceilences, is
| the best work. and = work worthy OF a God. In
the ha1nls OF misery she is ministertng angel.
Ever inss when II pa sn 4n PFs little sR
t-seRe.ahto share her new-found knswledge with
tins in y. Ffarn most Of her dsushters have
! parts, some in public, others have
| been content TO reign over their, house
| hold god, f0uss who. go forth today
| ~ bright examples TO teach those who follow
sfi-.ssshat can be achieved py Ses,herH girihood
/ what may be accomplished in ths future by South
| ern womanhcod. We, the Aluinnae Association o.
Bellevue, welcome you to our midst, extending tC
you the right hand OF fellowship grateful for thI
| charming acquisition. Since that June nigh
| when we stood where You are now standing, We
| have each played a part in the drama Of life
| whether successfully the world must judge.
| To-day say t. you that while existence is no
always blissful, there is far more sweet than bit
/ ter. more sunshine than shadow. Wlile it i
| woman's lot to make idols and TO ind them clay
still quickly ally from our broken dreams,
disdainiag the sieEly sentimentEIty that eve
@signt have beens" with God. Often in mere
the Infinite withnolds from us the desire of on
they are accredited with being. Hugo IS eorree
in saying there are no bad men, only bad cultiva
tors. Avoid gossip as you would the pesrlenet
| rise superior to the shafts OF malice and euy!
GosSips are the spiritual vampires of society. Pit
them. Never affiliate with them. would that
could crown you Win golden halos, whose ray
| would cast a radiant light of joy and happiness
future breathes were redolent with rarest pc
| fumes. and that birds Of sweet promise woul
MARBLE TO you OF happy times and joyous me
Inents. Be not dszzled by the spangei that gil
ter in the horoscope of youth. Let not the CLAN
| cur of gilded deception allure from the real
ties of Iife be not drsv n from the rugged paths
duly by the amsy articles OF more artificial 81
Go forth robed in the drapery OF faith, crowne
with the bay OF wisdom, armed with tae rlght
thus ennoeleo, wTesthed ana httea ioF HE S oa
tie the victOry will be yours.
/ To the Alume Associauons of Bellevue,
, which Association l have the honor of being
member, permit me TO say without hattery tn
J Tennessee may justly feel proud OF you. OF esS
1t may De sSld, She mas done WAL she cluIa;
Some OF you have listened to the voice OF low
; which is a contamination, and have enrolled Vol
names among the noble list OF southern wiz
and mothers; may you rule ienderly, wisely Il
kingdom of me.
DIR. n, ard, the highest prsise can offer you
| that while to-day / miss my beloved teacher, q
| Rev. John Plummer, who has gone up higher, III
| I believe his mantle could not have descended u
| on worthier shoulders.
To my courteous, lopg-suffering audience, to
| my friends, sdieHi
Mics BsTbiere was well received, enthuE
] asncally applauded and showered with 10
t era. Tle Rev. II. A. JOHes, Of this city, wi
1 delivered the animal andrsss, paid nsr I
r oDpiiment OF ssyi1g that she had aatl'
/ pated him and had stolen his thunder.
, ~LYDIA E. PNKHAM, whose benevole
: face is shadosed in almost every paper
pick no, appears to have discovered wh
e Addison calls 1.-THE grand elixir, 10 suppc
e the spirits OF human nature" 1t is qui
= evideu. THAI "a las the p.snt and has
/. cured ihr contract Tor making over and u
:. proving The invalid cor Of American "
o manhoed.-GlObe.