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lop. uraco w*b earn oy i^r. murTut iuuiftcr amplu justice had been done the mnquex the table* were rapped to order the president of the club, Mrs W* H Jarrulb who welcomed the gutslS to her i s ii si titling in inner.Mrs. CarrutD spoke in part at follows; jHdiei and gentlemen. we have gather-?d here tonight, bidden by cer* ain silver tipped scrolls bearing i message of welcome in lines of iilver, icirrowtd for the occas on from Shakes-eart\ We are especially honored by the presence of so many honorary memberst md from those unable to come to the “old accustomed feast” we have revived winged words of greeting, which ire placed upon a table—not laid upon be table”—but placed within raacb, where those who wish to partake of boo mots” instead of •‘bonbons/’ may -efresh themselves.To the gentlemen I have to say at thisfeast we hard to recotrnia} your iodts-enaabiliiy. At our regular weekly feubIb we can usual-y dispense with you. for we mm age, unaided, lo extract mental nutriment from Dante and Dumas from BhiKwspeare aud Ibisn. We are inclined to be proud that 'our club is twenty-live year* old. aud has reached what speech-makcrB would call **aaepoch in history.”We may bn justified in calling our an institution fur higher learning, for my have our “isms” and *,ohgiea“ and| vw w- ▼§ i-v ■ mm is mmmmm mm mm m m m f pYou love history, not because it is as it is, but because it is the sum nary of human activities You love art and literature, not so much because ibey are as they are, but because in them youi11 nd expressions of the aspirations, the longings, of the human soul. In thus loving and working, you have earned, received, and maintained, first the respect, then the admiration and love of your sterner associates. We are here tonight to rejoice with you; for:“Why should a man, whose blood is winn within,“Bit like hlsgrandirire out In alabaster.**And let me assure you the kind word of welcome Just received by us is like “those dulcet sounds In break of day•* f hat creep into the dreaming bridegroom'* ear“And Bummon him to marriage.”Happy day that we may all rejoice, but we moie than you. For we, yea we, the excluded ones, who never date felicitate upon the hope of iovitatious more than once in five yeara time, we gain the more by your constant labor and love. For are we not In pla ce to catch the light of all the world, reflected from the mirror brightened through the quarter century't But no, I do you wrong. You are not mere reflectors, like the moon, of light received, but rather line the sun and moon combined in one, origi eating and rtfleeting too, and we the great re* cipients.vain for some who were wont to meet with us in the .years gone by. and to grace our festive gatherings.“They throng the alienee of the breast,We see them as of yore, ,The hind, the brave, the true, the sweet Who walk with us no more.”It is quite a Umptation to look back at such a time aa this and call up reminiscences of the vanished years, but to many anniversaries have been remembered in this way that the history of the society must be quite familiar to you all,I never read those early page* without a smile—not a bit of a cynical one, though I assure you; for I remember the days too pleasantly—but a smile nevertheless at our distressful efforts and the depths in which we found our* selves, which might have proved disastrous to a less enthusiastic com-pany, or lo one which had a less skilled pilot. It seems to me we did so want literally to hitch our wagon to ft star! There was little precedent for ua to go by on the day of women's clubs had hardly dawned—but there was one society. The Friends in Council in Qmncv, III.,which was our inspiration, aa it has been tbat of many other clubs since then, and Which I hear is aa vigorous today si any in the country, no small mead of praise, when we remember how flooded the land is with them, bo that there is no town bo smalt or ao old fashioned from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but boasts of a someetings, ana wnin mere comes oeioremet ss so -often there does, the almost intoxicating remembrance of our marvelously delightful autumnal weather, es» pecially the Indian summer days which are so prolonged here, and form so Urge a part of our beautiful fall, when a a haze softens the air.“The days when birds come back. A very lew, a bird nr two.To lane backward looks The days when nicies put onThe old, old *opbfo tries of June, idA blue and gold mistake.”I fltd my memory goes back to lovely rides across ths prairies when the soft, yellow sunshine lay warm aQd bright on the harvested fields; or else to walks to the Friends in Council, when my feet rustled through the dead leaves, and my eyes drank in the beauties of the land* scape, while my thoughts were with the friends I was going to meet.What a different world ws live in today from that of twenty-five years ago.Moat of the great mile stones in the life of our club haye been passed; the wooden, the tin, the crystal and the ; silver When the golden anniversary come* most of ua will be silent witnesses, unseen partakers; our days will be In His hands who holds the worlds, will they be records of praise or of blame?Into tliu warp of the days that aro dona, OGod, bavts we woven tbo woof of ourDtahciiruuted, unthinking, w« nay th:u the days that are dune. are done,Father lt;f tlay*», la whose baud all ikiya art* at baud, withThy louls have we tolled all Thy days that arrbe given, on view at A. Marks.For the most comical or the person making the biggest bit during the evening a handsome cake will be given, now on view at Savage’s bake shop. Who will take the cake!The beat dressed little boy or girl wifi be given a nice pair of skates.A special prise will be given by Mr. Abe Levy for the best swell or dude.The rink will be elaborately illumine* ted on this occasion and will have elegant decoration. Bell's full consolidated military band will bo in attendance. There will he a big race open to all costumed skaters for the great Simmons medal—the largest medal ever presented for a skating race in any part of the world.At ftp. m., the grand march of costumed skaters, at which time the judging of the different costumes will be made by the committee chosen from theaudience for that purpose. Tbc importted masher, an original production by Mr. H A. Simmons, a refined burlesque performance on skates which has no equal. This will oe Mr. Simmons' only appearance this winter in this performanceAdmission to all, 25 cents.Buy your tickets in advance and avoid the cruah at the doors on the night of the carnival, No charge for pm beat* Irg skates to tbote in fancy costume. Skates can be reserved by leaving name
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Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Sat, Dec 05, 1896
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