Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-06-05
THE SWEET GIRL GRADU-
ATE.
Some Bright Hits From Xzan-
tippe.

Some Bright Hits From Xzan-
tippe.
June has reached us with its
heat and dust and man hunts the
MONDAY shade, or seeks the ice
cream grotto, or the fountain from
which streams the ice cold soda.
The summer girl sends out invita-
tons to her graduation, which
means that her royal highness will
swoop down upon US very soon-a
full tledged graduate with all the
new and advanced ideas, enriched
with diploma aud half a dozen
medals, aud a trunk full cf "trip
perry. She comes equipped with
all the pomp and circumstance of
glorious war as she parades down
the street (and she does parade)
The admiration of all lockers on.
She will walk with an entirely new
switch, but never, never, do you
call her or them by the old name,
for she will be known as Patrika,
or Philippana, or In,ogene, and
you will be treated with haughty
stare if you address her as Kate,
or Jennie, or Madge of days gone
by. Indeed she will pass you with
supercilious scorn and knock you
in a dead heap as she switches by.
Now, this is the average college
graduate. We know lovely, intel
lectual, distinguished girls, who
can boast of some of the finest in
stitutions of learning as their al
ma matters, who will come home
handicapped by no such foolish
ideas. We ring down the curtain
on the average college miss. Give
us The girl of innate refinement
and sense.
The woman suffragists are now
riding on the crest of the wave.
Of course we heard Mrs. Nebbett
and Miss Clay. They were inter
--sting: The FIRST -na1ned-was dig
nifed, had a pleasant face, and
masses of beautiful snow-wbite
hair-a native born Edge6eld wo-
man, claiming the champions
belt on that account. Miss Clay
was just the brightest little Wes-
tern Yankee "a 200 pounder) with
ever so much snap and 60. We
would have so liked to toss her
diamond ring. No comments just
here about her relationship to
Henry Clay-chesnuts!
Let every woman row her own
boat. | do not care to storm the
ballot box just yet while, Miss
Laura Clay, and Miss Helen Nor
ris Lewis! AS clever as you are,
we are not quite won over. Every
woman cannot but strive to be self
supporting, but do let the men
vote and 90 to Congress and be the
preachers and the lawyers and the
editors, the only ones, just little
while until we can accustom our
selves to the new regime. Women
are a power along the line any way,
even if she be as demure as a
mouse.
"She rules the camp, the court, the
grove
Man below and saint above"
From the remotest antiquity it
goes without saying there was
never an intrigue but shat some
poor woman was caught in its in
tricate meshes. Time would fail
us TO bring before the footlights
such renowned. women, and their
deeds of daring, as Egyptian Cleo
patra, Catherine de Medici, Cath
crime of Russia, Joan of Arc,
Charlotte Corday, May, Queen of
Scots, beautiful and ill-fated. We
would far rather eulogize such
characters as the wives of DR.. Jud-
son, the Misses Rockefeller, Coun-
tess Burdette-Contts. The Princess
of Wales, and legions of others
whose influence is all for good.
Apropns of good deeds and noble
lives, we do not know of any life
which was made up of more nuble
aims, and which was more worthy
of emulation, than that of the Rev.
Alec Belts, the colored preacher,
whose death was mourned by lhou-
sands of his own race.
Edgefeld has several lovely
young girls as guests for the sum
mer from Washington, Miss Marie
Butler, daughter of Senator But
Ter; her cousin, Miss Lii Butler;
from Atlanta, Miss Essie Flem-
ing, as demure and sweet as any
woodland flower.
Dear friends, eve will see you later
NzANTIPPE.