The record-union., 1896-02-22

Elmore Murray, Frank Newman, Claude
Ream, Russell Williams; piano trio,
Mamie Erlewine. Laura and Ola Hills;
defamation, "Our Flag" Archie KIM
ball; songs, THE Flag" America,
school
President Davis of the City Board Of
Education introduced c. K. McClatchy
with a few well-chosen remarks. Mr..
McClatchy, in presenting to the school
a picture Of Miss Mary j. Watson from
her former associate teachers and
pupils, said:
Teachers and Scholars of Sacramento
Grammar School, Ladies and Gentle
men: Subsequent to the resignation of
Miss Mary j. Watson as Principal of the
Sacramento Grammar School, position
which she held for many years with
credit TO herself and with distinction to
the school, her associate teachers and
former pupils devised a public reception
IN her honor. 1t was held at the Crocker
Art Gallery, and its warmth and its
eart1ness-remarkable as they were
but lily expressed the depth of the re-
gard, the intensity of the affection
which teachers and scholars alike felt
and feel for their past associate and
instructor. You girls and boys who
learn the lessons that we have learned,
who play the same old tricks that we
used to play-each Of you has at home
some secluded corner some halIowed
nook, wherein is kept your most revered
treasure-a book, a picture, an album.
a memento of a friend, a present from
mother or from father. So with the pu-
pills of the old grammar schools of this
city There is enshrined in the inner
most heart of hearts of each and every
one OF us, a sacred receptacle. per
fumed with the fragrant memories of
the years that are past, filled with ever
green recollections, and inscribed with
the name of Mary J. Watson.
preparation from which to pay them and
II is to give some outward expression
20 that lnnermost feeling that we are
mere To-Day. 1t is to present to the Sac
ramento Grammar School a constant
reminder of its former Principal that
this days programme has been in part
arranged. Your good teachers thought
that the most acceptable memento to
the school-the one which would be
most heartily appreciated by all. by vis-
ltors, by teachers and by scholars alike
would be a large picture of Miss Mary
}. Watson to be hung in your assembly
room. So we are here to-day to be-
stow upon the school this ever-present
souvenir of the good woman it has lost,
and we can assure you that you can
experience any more pleasure in re-
ceiVing than we do happiness in giving.
The picture that teachers and former
pupils extend to the school to-day is
that of a woman who has craven her
name deep in the records of this city as
one of its real benefactors; a woman
who can look back to a noble life. nobly
lived; a woman who believes that what
ever she has to do should oe done with
all her might, with all her heart and
with all her soul-not a New Woman.
thank God-but a type of that loyal
wcmanhood which is ever old and ever
new; that womanhood which sustained
Hagar in the wilderness and gave COM
fort unto Mary in the hour of her aff1ic-
ton
You boys and girls probably know the
story of Cornelia the mother of the
Gracchi, who called her sons her Jewels.
If Mary J. Watson was asked what
jewels she could show as a result of all
her years of teaching. she could point
to men in every walk of life, in every
profession, in every calling within the
State of California; men she has taught
to tread the path of patriotism and
adorn the ways of peace; women whom
she has fitted to ornament stations
wherein true womanhood shines, and
where the grace, and nobility, and dig
nifty, and pure mental chastity of the
fairer sex radiate with a gIQw that hall
lows humanity, lightens up the dark
and dreary byways of life, and makes
men feel that they are nearerto Heaven
in being closer to Heavens emissaries
on earth.
Intense patriotism has ever been the
underlying principle of Miss Watson's
teachings. If she were here with you
every day as Mentor as she always is
with you in spirit, she would impress
upon you that you are not doing your
entire duty as American boys and girls
when you merely learn the lessons given
you to learn. You have higher obli-
cation resting upon you than simply
to con your daily tasks and be able to
pass successfully your examinations.
When you take your little American
history, for example, and learn of great
deeds by great men, you should pause
to consider that those acts of heroism
were consecrated to you and to me, and
to all of us-to the lowest as well as the
highest. to the poorest as well as the
richest.
Continuing, Mr.. McCIatchy delivered
a most stirring appeal to them to cul-
tivate patriotism and grow up with a
love Of their country
Miss Weeks the Priucina1 reSpondad
and presented Miss Watson, who spoke
feelingly to pupils, teachers and friends.
Superintendent Erlewine also made a
brief address, and announced a half
holiday to the pupils.