The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1897-04-17
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American Girl.
Mrs Geo. P. MGTeerl


Ossoli Circle has been instructed
and entertained by many learn' d
papers on American inventions,
American discoveries, American
advancement, along, all the diff
ferent lines OF progress, but to me
has been given the pleasure of III
Producing to you the most charm
ing, the most unique, the most un-
rivaled of all American produc-
tions Under smiling southern skies,
famed by the breath of the langu-
orous magnolia, the beauty OF
whose velvety petal is only equalIed
by her own soft cheeks. Beneath
the northern stars whose clear
radiance but reflect the brightness
of her own bright eyes. From
ocean to ocean, from the gulf to
Canada where can you find any.
thing more delightful than the
American Girl.
think that the old poet must
have left some fors-shadowing Of
her when he wrote.
"Pick from each sex to make the
other blest,
Your love of pleasure, our desire
for rest,
Blend in exception to all general
Your taste Of folly, our scorniof fools
Reserve with frankness, art witt
trust allied,
Courage with softness, modesty
with pride,
Fixed principles, with fancy evel
new,
Shake all together, and'it produces
Your
Where can you find a better ex
ponent Of her character than is ex
pressed in these lines?.
When my subject was given me
my attention was called to our mot
to, zone to-day Is better than
thousand Yesterdays" and perhap
it was well fnr in studying my sui
ject | am imprr ssed with the fac
that the American girl always ha
been, and we hope always will bt
When | say always has been,
mean as far back as the report {
man has been transmitted to u
through the pages of history. Hav
we not Pocahontas, the brave Ind
an maiden! and who, familiar wit
the "Leather Stocking tales" ca
doubt that many another dusk
heroine lived and suffered beneat
the shadow Of the primeval forest
/ am sure that if / dared scare
through those forbidden yesterday
1 could bring before you such Ell
chanting p ctures of the America
girl of the past, that the evolutio
into the wondrous creature she hi
now become would seem most ma
ural. See the fair puritan mai
PRISCILLA, and on down throug
colonial days, the memory of mar
a charming girlish face is mao
dear to us by rhyme and legen
And in Americas great war +,
independence, What stirred Il
hearts of the patriot soldier
deeds of almost superhuman brav
/ ry! Not only love of liberty, b
, love for that dear feminine THU
whether wife, sweetheart +.
daughter, embodiediin the old, o
melody, "The Girl left BehiI
me-"
And on down to our own unha
Ply struggle, do we southern WON,
forget what girlish hands ha
done. What nurses they mao
how tender the touch of finge
= when essed on the aching $,
dier's brow. No task too lowly (
n them to attempt, if it were ever
n little help. Hands that had new
r. been roughened by toll learned
cook, and weave, and some We
tursome spirits even braved I
|, dangers of battle and camp.
b, And we find to-day no portal tn
al leads TO honor, or wealth, or hal
p ness, to which some American G
ID has not found the key. Not on
re has she penetrated the most {
Il elusive courts of Europe by h
T. judicious marriage, but where is
m that her beauty, her wit, her talle
alone, has not CARED her?