, 1884-06-28

Our Welcome" was then sung by Miss
jenkins class to the tune of I'VE are
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp
Ground" This song was beautifully rem
dered, and at its conclusion was loudly ap-
plauded.
At the conclusion of the exercise, such
of those in the audience as could indulge
in the luxury of a programme, looked
forward expectantly to the appearance of
Miss Mary Ellis, whose graduating essay
was entitled, ''The Seasons and Human
Life" The young lady soon put in an.
appearance. She was dressed in perfect
good taste and as she tripped forward to
the footlights, she created a fine impress
ion throughout the audience. Her essay
complete is gived below.
Miss Ellis Essay.
Many of Natures productions and
changes are emblematic of the varied
forms of life which she nourishes and sus.
tains, All the organisms which life builds
for its habitations have, like the DAYS,
weeks and months, a beginning and an
end. The sun rises, comes to the meri-
dian, sets, and night succeeds. The life
of the microscopic zoophyte on the tiniest
rose has a beginning or dawn, a time of
greatest activity and strength, then de-
Ginning, it ends, and one eternal night of
death follows. The little spring with its
sparkling waters; the river as it glides
along increasing in volume and
strength; the tides as they contin-
ually ebb and flow; the shadows of the
clouds as they seem to skim along the
mountains or across the plains, are all
emblems of the life forms that inhabit the
water, the air and the land.
But of the many emblems of instructive
and s%entient life which nature affords,
one are more significant or apparent than
those of the seasons of the year are of
human life.
The earth being at the vernal equinox,
in the of a year making an entire
circuit, arriving at last to the point from
whence it started. This completed circle
is a marked emblem of the whole human
life which begins and ends in childhood.
"Once a man and twice a child is one
of the oldest of proverbs, and it is as true
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are childhood vouth middle life and old
@ Spring is an emblem of childhood
it is the first season of the ve,r as
childhood is the first ner;od in the c;rcle
of life, Sprinp is nure bright and be,uti-
fuI. so is childhood The glowing cboek
of childhood vios with Snr;na,s hr;nbt
mornings and its iovops laugbter blonds
with the sweet SOM of the birds As the
little r;lls and streams arc full n
o~verAowinp in the Spr1ng 90 the liG. If
childhood is tecm;ny With Inv ,,d r,;rtb
The CURLING streams the boImv air tho
openinp rose the t;pv loaf tho blrsb;no
morn. are all SMILES IF childhood Snring
is ioyous 80 is cbildbood The s;lvorv
drops of morning dew on the forming Ind
or the p~artiallv develoned loaf arc om.
blems of the tear or the innocent cbaoL
of childhood The bt,le r;us a. tbov
dance and skin from side IN side ,lor9
the sloninp hiJlsides IN the valleys and
rivers below, portray the noisy activities
and sports of a playful. healthy child
But. only a few short weeks and the ouro-
ling music and ripnles of these little r;lls
are hushed. their waters have nosuad
along to the larger and more ;mnos;ng
streams which connect with the great
ocean of waters. Only here and there bv
the ripple marks upon the Welding CLAW or
sand can they be traced. So childhood
with all its sports and frolicsome u,ee soon
passes away, and youth succeeds, A few
marks on the whimsical The totterad cov.
eripg of the old cradle. a few scratches nm
the face of JENNY the armless dolly. or an
occasional photograph of the baby. are the
only mementos left to tell cb;ldbood's
story. Summer. with its RISES and dense
foliage succeeds Spring with its buds and
s%prouting germs, SO gradually and nois.
lesslv that il is dif;cult frop notrro,S n =