Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-06-21
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a song Silver Bells Of Memnry," by
Misses Lulu Smart and Eftie Crow and
Messrs John Bremner and Delbert
Drown was we'll rendered and heartily
received.
Recitation. "The Old Soldiers Story"
by Miss Minnie Waterbury, was one of
the best rendered pieces Of the entire
program. She possesses marked tai
lent as q reader and in her description
of the little southern girl begging from
the union soldiers the audience was
no less effected than that brave
soldier, tor tears stood in many eyes.
'Superstition," was the subject of an
essay by Mr. Henry Fear. He said it
was nearly as old as the human race.
That superstition began when the
people first ignored God, and the
ancients were found to worship all
sorts of imaginable things as gods,
yet it did not end with the regime of
the anclents. After mentioning the
superstitions of ancient nations he
came down to modern times and TO
individual notions and superstitions.
The only remedy was a firm belief in
Christianity. lie read with great de-
liberation and in tones that varied from
the comic to the solemn and at times
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THE Organ Builder q Recitation
by Miss Della England. was told with
marked effect. She showed self-posses-
sion, ease and grace upon the stage
that made all forget the speaker and
follow in thought and sympathetic
feeling the deserted bride, and with
contempt the bigotry of the Organ
Builder.
One of the finest pieces Of music and
rendered with exquisite skill was the
Anthem, Daughters of Zion," by Mrs
G. r. Freeland and Miss Berg and
Messrs LaPoint and Sturgis.
The Grafton, "Woman-Y esterGay
Today and Tomorrow" by Miss Efie
Crow, dealt with the much vexed
question OF woman's sphere, not in a
hippant, arrogant style, but in sober
dignilied terms that won the respect
and admiration of all. The speaker
said women were considered inferior
to men and until recently women hac
been forced to servitude and places Of
subjugation. But women began te
think, to act and resent the insults
to their intelligence and ability. The
first opposition came in the shape o.
ridicule followed by grave arguments
with little force. History was re
viewed to show the superior govern
lnents by women, their gradual rist
and great pre-eminence. When Chris. i
anity came, a brighter day dawned fol
woman, it revealed her souli which
ever stands as the index of the being
Our own country women were showr
to be heroic, enterprising and aggres
sive as well as refined.
Defamation, "Loss of the Artic" by
Mr. Nathan WEBB, was well delivered
He will make an excellent dsclai mer
with little drill.
Last but not least came the Grafton
"Vice versus Virtue" and valedictory
remarks, by Miss Lulu Smart. The
speaker epitomzed virtue as true man
liness the acme of a christian charac
ter holiness. vi ce, thereverse, which
holds the accursed cup in one hand an(
the dagger in the other. Virtue comes
with the Bible IN one hand the cross
in tho other. Virtue elevates us, vice
drags us downward. Here the speaker
went into history to show the progress
of nations and the direct cause Of
their fall, traceable to their vices
Many separate virtue from happiness
and seek it in vice but find it not.
In a few remarks to the class Miss
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