Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-05-31

eagerly aeCePVou' "uo
hour appointed the galaries. steps,
and campus were filled with peo-
pie, not only from Edgefeld and
Edgefeld county, but from all
over the State. Two gold medals
were awarded, one to Cadet Nc
MILAN, of Barnwell, for standing
longest in the competitive drill,
and to Cadet Posey, of Trenton,
S. c., for the best military conduct
during the entire session.
The most noticeable exhibitions
in the art department were the
products of the talent and skill of
Misses Blanch Lazzelle, of West
Virginia, Miss Lula Black, of Wal
terboro, and Miss Nellie Hill, of
Edgefeld. Among the younger
children some crayon drawings by
Miss Edwardina Blalock were the
most conspicuous for their merit.
TUESDAY EVENING.
Tuesday evening of the COM
mencem ent season will ever be a
notable event in the memory of
all appreciative people who had
the good fortune to be present at
the oppra House. This promised
to be the most enjoyable occasion
of commencement, aid was by no
means disappointment to the
audience.
Mrs. Bailey and Miss Sallie
Bailev rewarded the happy antici-
patiors of the listeners in a duo,
which was a most difficult COM
position, but executed with mar
vellous SKILL and evincing musical
ability and genius rarely display
ed.
The pupils of Miss May Prim-
rose have done her teaching ca
pacity such credit that no COM
ment is necessary to assure her
that her own effort at this time
deserved many tributes Of praise.
A recitation entitled "Jennie
McNeal," was by some accorded
the place of honor among many
excellent recitations of this and
previous evenings. Miss Ruth
Fuller is extraordinarily gifted in
this department of the pleasing
arts, a5 has been manifested from
her childhood.
A bright, sparkling mandolin
solo by Miss Maxcie Sheppard e1-
liberated the listeners, and was a
novel feature of the program.
Miss Lille Sheppard cannot be
too highly praised for her rapid
nrograss in musical attainments.
Only few years since she was a
little tot just beginning, but from
the first has displayed remarka-
BILE talent in this the most difficult
of artistic sciences. 1t was not a
surprise that she was selected as
one of the pianists in solo, for
this evening of delightful enter
tainment.
Miss Blanche Lazzelle, though a
comparative stranger in Edgefeld,
is still we'll known fol- an individ-
uality all her own. In Grecian
costume she recited a selection
harmonizing in effect, and her
gestures and movements are the
personifcation ofgrace and beauty.
Combined with these her winning,
gentle voice, make her magnetic as
an elocutionist.
4 vocal duet by Miss Sallie
Bailey and Misc Allie Toole, and a
piaho quartette rendered by Misses
Marcie Gwa,tney, Julia Tompkins,
Ret Sheppard, and Lille shep-
pard, preceded a novel variation
in the program.
The class il physical culture,
composed Of young ladies, appar-
elled in Grecian costumes, appear
ed on the stage in varied p ,sitions,
as an array Of loveliness and grace,
which made one think of the ut
terance of Macaulay: "There lis
nothing more beautiful than a
beautiful woman"
Miss Angel Cheatham has sung
very little in public, at least before
the people of her native heath, and
their surprise and pleasure were
agreeably awakened, when she ap-
peared and sang 80 faultlessly and
brilliantly that jewel in vocal
music, "Star of My Heart" the
favored. selection of some of the
famousprima donnas of America.
After piano duet by Mrs.
Bailey and Miss sallie Bailey, tbs