O, Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent!
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
And, O, may Heaven their simple lives prevent
From luxury's contagion, weak and vile;
Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent,
A virtuous populace may rise the while.
And stand ' a wall of fire around their much-lov'd isle.
O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide
That stream'd thro' Wallace's undaunted heart;
Who dar'd to, nobly, stem tyrannic pride.
Or nobly die, the second glorious part,
(The patriot's God, peculiarly thou art.
His friend, inspirer, guardian, and reward!)
O never, never, Scotia's realm desert.
But still the patriot, and the patriot-bard,
In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard!
God of our fathers, known of old -
Lord of our far-flung battle-line -
Beneath Whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine -
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies -
The captains and the kings depart -
Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet.
Lest we forget - lest we forget!
Far-called our navies melt away -
On dune and headland sinks the fire -
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet.
Lest we forget - lest we forget!
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe -
Such boasting as the Gentiles use
Or lesser breeds without the Law -
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet.
Lest we forget - lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard -
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard -
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord! Amen.
Though not necessarily involving much expense, a children's party or
picnic calls for more careful planning and diplomacy than is demanded in
the case of a similar function for the grown-ups. And of course, every
child should bring their favorite doll to such an occasion as well.
These kinds of social events are perfectly suited to the instruction of
young children in role play.
So what shall we do with the brave little men and dear little maids who
have arrived at the appointed hour? I will include a variety of
articles here in the near future intended to encourage parents and
teachers whose pleasure it is to include theatrical environments and
games in their child/student's parties and picnics.
A table set for a child's party 100 years ago.
We think nothing of systematic and elaborate preparations for our
grown-up parties, and we should certainly take no less thought or time
where the children are concerned, when planning a party in advance. When
making out lists, keep a carefully thought out program of games that
will be interesting and appropriate to the ages and the number of
children invited to your party.
Properties, favors, and prizes should be systematically arranged
beforehand, and stowed away out of sight, but easily accessible at the
proper moment. The little host or hostess should be inspired to show an
unselfish interest in the happiness of his or her little friends, and
should receive them with the grown-up hostess.
When the
party day has arrived, and with it the children, there should be polite
and cheerful greetings, and the tiny guests should settle themselves
comfortably or uncomfortably, according to the nature of each. Then is
the moment for the pianist to take her place and with lively airs charm
away all constraint until enough children have arrived to begin playing a
game. Six to eight is a good number, and if the hostess has an
assistant this will be her opportunity to start the children playing.
Ring games. Air Ball, or character games are suitable ones with which to
begin, as the newcomers can enter into the frolic without disturbing
the others. Music, wherever it can come in naturally, lends spirit and
dash to the games.
From drawing-room to library or nursery often makes an excellent
change, especially where some paraphernalia is required and has to be
prepared beforehand.
There is usually a shy little girl or boy who hesitates to enter the
game. By degrees the strangeness wears off ; self has been forgotten in
the spirit of the play, and it is quite an easy step to draw the child
into the game by tossing the ball or bean-bag temptingly near, or with
an apparently careless word or question. Character parties are
especially helpful in taking away self-consciousness. Playing "pretend "
has in itself a fascination that few children can resist, and when a
little girl finds herself actually a Queen of the Fairies by right of
crown, wand, and wings, she assumes the manners and privileges of her
station without an effort. A boy whose name has suddenly changed to Jack
the Giant-killer will soon forget his troublesome hands and feet in his
exalted position ; and he has scant notice for those who address him by
the uninteresting name of Bobby. That name belongs back in the other
world of kilts and curls for which he has no use at the present moment.
The properties for these character parties are easily fashioned, and are
sure to be a delight to the children who receive them.
Story-telling should come after a romp. It is the prettiest moment of
the party, when the children, with flushed faces, settle themselves in a
group on the floor, and relax to the ever magic words of " Once upon a
time‚" Interest is added if at an unexpected moment a child is called
upon to tell what he supposes " happened then." Should his idea be a
good one, as is almost certain to be the case, his suggestion can be
taken for the cue, and the story continued, when another child may be
called upon for a suggestion.
Prizes and favors play an important part in the games, but should be
made appropriate rather than elaborate. The child who wears around his
neck a ribbon to which is attached a tiny bell is justly proud of his
tinkling favor. It is to be won by rolling a ball so straight that the
large dinner-bell, suspended from the chandelier and just above the
floor, rings loud and true. And the boy or girl who pierces the center
of the red-heart target, on St. Valentine's day, will appreciate the
gift of the bow and arrow which helped to win the victory.
That each may carry home some souvenir, a bon-bon favor should be found
at each place on the supper-table ; and it will gladden the hearts of
those who were not successful in winning prizes in the games.
Let the menu be simple, that the joy of the occasion may not be marred later with misery and mustard plasters.
The gift surprise is the last joy of all. A rose tree, gift ball, or
one of the many new and charming devices for hiding a toy or game, which
originated in the old-fashioned but ever popular Jack Horner pie, is
the most suitable ending to a successful party.
The watchful hostess need not plan for after-supper games. The pleasure
in the gifts, and the comparing of trinkets and toys with one another,
will fill up the time until the "good-byes" and "I've had a lovely time"
are said. by Mary White.
Design a storybook Mother Goose Party. The table is decorated with paper cups, paper plates
and a frosted delectable cake all in soft pastel shades of every color in the rainbow.
Buff pink carnations, satin ribbons and helium filled balloons add polish and extra interest
to the room. This playful party arrangement was first designed by Willie Mae Rogers and
Dorothy B. Marsh.
Balloons to Invite Them. Such fun for tiny misses aged four years and up! For each invitation, blow up 3 pastel-colored balloons. With India ink and paintbrush, print the party details on the balloons as shown on page 80. Let the balloons dry thoroughly; then deflate them. Tuck them in an envelope, and mail to the guest. What little girl could resist?
Mother Goose Land. Rainbow chains: They're so pretty draped in the windows and doorway of the party room, with clusters of balloons added to complete the fairyland setting! And they're so easy to make, the young hostess may wish to do them all herself before the party. Cut pastel construction paper into 6″ x strips. Staple the ends of the first strip together to form a circle. Put the second strip through the first circle; staple; continue until you have a chain of 3′ or more.
Little Miss Muffet's Table. It's pink! Use a round 45″ table or a card table with folding tabletop over it to increase its size. Cover the table with a round pink cloth. At each place, arrange pastel colored paper plate, cup. and napkin—all green, all pink, all blue, all yellow, or other color—with white plastic fork and spoon.
Balloon place cards: Attach a balloon with ribbon to each child's chair back. (If balloons are filled with helium gas, they will float.) Then, with India ink and paintbrush, write on the balloon the name of the little girl who is to sit there.
Rainbow surprise balls: On each plate at the table, place a Rainbow Surprise Ball to be opened after refreshments. You'll need: 15 or more tiny items dear to each little girl's heart, such as an odd-shaped balloon, powder puff, piece of doll furniture, waterflowers, piece of wrapped candy, bottle of perfume, ball and jacks, magnet, tiny animal figure, etc. Also folds of crepe paper, in several colors that match your party color scheme; cut these, without unfolding, into 1 inch wide strips. To make each: Starting with a small wad of crepe-paper strips, wrap up the first favor, stretching the strips and turning the ball round and round as you wrap. When the first favor is completely covered, add another favor and continue wrapping, using strips of different colors as you work. When completed, each surprise ball will be the same size.
Butterfly favors: One of these goes on each little guest's napkin; it has a bobby-pin back, so it can be worn in the hair. Lay a cardboard pattern of a butterfly on a double thickness of coarse crinoline. Trace around the pattern; then cut. With bright-colored poster paint, paint the butterfly; let it dry. Fold a colored pipe cleaner in half to resemble feelers. Insert it between the two thicknesses of crinoline. To form the body of the butterfly, with darning wool, stitch through the crinoline and over the feelers, going the full length of the butterfly. Next glue front and back pieces of crinoline together. Then paste on a few sequins, polka-dot-fashion; or dot butterfly wings with glue and top with glitter.
Old-woman-in-a-shoe cake centerpiece: It's an enchanting cake! All details are given below.
Mother Goose Party Games.
China dog and calico cat: This is noisy fun for early in the party. Mother collects the candy kisses and keeps score. Props: 1 paper bag marked "Kittens"; 1 paper bag marked "Doggies"; 25 or 30 candy kisses (hidden before the party). Action: Children are divided into 2 teams: China Doggies and Calico Kittens‚ with a bag for each team. At the signal, all start hunting for kisses. When one tiny miss finds n kiss, she mews or barks until Mother gets to her, picks up the kiss (children mustn't pick up the kisses themselves), and drops it into her team's paper bag. At the end of 10 minutes, the kisses are counted. Each member of the team with the most kisses selects a prize from the table. Then the remaining children each collect a prize. They can't lose!
Mother goose playhouse: Have all the children recite or sing nursery rhymes, acting them out at the same time. For instance: Jack and Jill went up the hill (point finger upwards), To fetch a pail of water (pick up imaginary pail); Jack fell down (all fall down) and broke his crown (pat top of head ) And Jill came tumbling after (with hands, make tumbling motion).
Put-the-candles-on-the-cake: (a new version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey) Props: A large piece of white paper on which a birthday cake is drawn (to be tacked up before the game); a different colored crayon for each child; a blindfold. Action: Each child is blindfolded and asked to draw, with her crayon, 3 candles on the cake. The child who puts candles in the most appropriate place is the winner.
Mother goose quiz: Children as well as adults love a quiz. Props: A good supply of questions. Action: The children are again divided into 2 teams: Kittens and Doggies. Teams sit. facing each other. Mother asks a question first of one side and then of the other. Sample questions might be: Where did Jack Horner sit? What did Little Miss Muffet sit on? Where did Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater put his wife? How many fiddlers did Old King Cole have? Who put the kettle on? What ran up the clock?
More little folks' games: Play each of the following games for just 5 minutes; then the children won't tire so easily.
For each sandwich, prepare a stuffed egg; put halves together.
Using white bread with crusts removed, make a 3-decker sandwich, with peanut butter, deviled ham, and apricot jam as fillings.
Cut sandwich in half. Place halves, end to end. on paper plate; top with Humpty Dumpty (the stuffed egg), using plastic straws to skewer him in place. Use 2 thin carrot sticks for legs, letting them extend over edge of sandwich.
Now mix together red. blue, and yellow food colors to achieve a brown shade. With a new paintbrush, draw features on Humpty.
Old-Woman-in-a-Shoe Cake
Ingredients:
2 pkg. yellow cake mix.
Party Cream (page 185) 1 pkg. fluffy white frosting mix.
Licorice candy.
Red cinnamon candy.
2 or more pkg. thin 1" candy wafers.
Directions: The Cake Foundation: Bake cakes a day or so ahead: store, covered. Or bake them several days or weeks ahead; freezer-wrap; freeze. To make and bake cakes, proceed as follows:
Start heating oven to 350" F. Grease well 10" x 5" x 3" loaf pan.
Prepare 1 pkg. cake mix as label directs; turn into loaf pan. Bake about 55 min., or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool cake in pan on rack 10 min.; remove from pan; cool on rack.
Make second cake loaf same way.
Shaping the Shoe Cake: The evening before the party, put cake together and decorate as below; then refrigerate or freeze overnight.
Cut piece of heavy cardboard into 8-1/2" x 4-1/2" oblong; round off all 4 corners; cover with aluminum foil.
From end of 1 loaf cake, cut 6" piece; reserve both pieces.
From other loaf cake, cut off both ends to make loaf 7" long.
For toe part of shoe: With small mound of Party Cream, glue 6" cake piece, with its cut side facing in, to one end of cardboard.
For leg part of shoe: Glue 7" cake piece, standing up, with rounded side facing out, to other end of cardboard, so it's snug against cut side of first piece of cake.
Now, with sharp paring knife, carefully round off and trim corners and edges of cake to resemble shoe.
To prepare for peaked roof: On each side of 7" leg, 1" down from top, make upward cut to center top of cake; remove these 2 pieces of cake.
For peaked roof: From reserved cake pieces, cut 2-1/2"-thick slices; trim each to 3-1/2" x 3-1/4". Glue each slice to one slant of leg so they meet in center. Hold slices in place with 2 pieces of plastic straw or with toothpicks.
Frosting Top and Sides of Shoe Cake:
Now make up fluffy white frosting mix as label directs; tint pink with red food color; spread thin over entire shoe, to set crumbs.
Then generously frost shoe with rest of pink frosting, building up shape of shoe over instep and at toe.
Cut 9 strips of licorice, each 1-1/2" x 1/4"; use to make lacings. Use red cinnamon candies for holes. Cut 2 strips of licorice, each 3" x 1/4", for ends of shoelaces. Place on cake as shown.
To make shingles on roof: Starting at bottom of roof on each side, overlap candy wafers in overlapping rows, alternating colors as shown.
To about cup Party Cream, add 2 tablesp. cocoa; use in cake decorator with ribbon tube to make door, shutters, and sole around shoe.
Using white Party Cream in cake decorator with rosette tube, outline door and windows; then make windowpanes and doorknob.
Arrange short birthday taper candles on ridge of roof.
The Yard for the Shoe Cake: Set shoe cake on white round board or cardboard, with ribbon around edge as shown; then place tiny rubber children here and there in yard.
To cut cake, first slice toe part into 6 to 8 slices. Then cut off rest of cake just below roof (be careful of straws); remove. Slice this part of cake into 6 to 8 slices. Makes 12 to 16 servings.
QLD YEAR, I've loved you well; too well;
And yet for you I shed no tear,
No more to you my secrets tell:
I 'II whisper them to this New Year;
And Oh, I know he'll do his part
And lock them close within his heart.
Old Year, again I say good-bye;
We've walked together, oh, so long!
You've caused me many and many a sigh,
Yet oft you've filled my heart with song.
This is the parting of the ways;
Good-bye to you, and all your days!
Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr., January 15, 1929 and died April 4, 1968. He was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam".
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. King's death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.
King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also renamed for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle
~ an online multimedia encyclopedia presented by the King Institute at
Stanford University, includes information on over 1000 civil rights
movement figures, events and organizations
The Emancipation Proclamation is a state paper issued by President Lincoln, January 1, 1863, by which all slaves in the states or parts of states actually engaged in rebellion and unrepresented in Congress, or not in possession of the Union armies, were declared free. It was justified as a "fit and necessary war measure" and had been contemplated by Lincoln for many months. When, in September, 1862, Lee was checked at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary statement announcing his intention of declaring the slaves free on January 1rst if the South in the meantime did not return to the Union. The final proclamation did not legally abolish slavery, but abolition was made effective by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Way down yonder in the graveyard walk,
I thank God I'm free at last,
Me and my Jesus goin' to meet and talk
I thank God I'm free at last, O [Refrain]
Refrain:
Free at last, free at last;
I thank God I'm free at last;
Free at last, Free at last,
I thank God I'm free at O
Free at last, free at last;
I thank God I'm free at last;
Free at last, Free at last,
I thank God I'm free at last.
Ona my knees when the light passed by,
I thank God I'm free at last.
Thought my soul would rise and fly
I thank God I'm free at last, O [Refrain]
Some of these mornings, bright and fair,
I thank God I'm free at last,
Goin' meet King Jesus in the air,
I thank God I'm free at last, O [Refrain]
Folk Songs of the American Negro (No. 1), 1907
"This is Joyful Noise, a gospel acapella group in the DC Metro area"
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement.
Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed millions of slaves in 1863, King observes that: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free" Toward the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme "I have a dream", prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!"
In this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and has
now become its most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and
equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred. Jon Meacham writes that, "With a single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America". The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century in a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.
King delivered a 17-minute speech, later known as "I Have a Dream." In the speech's most famous passage—in which he departed from his prepared text, possibly at the prompting of Mahalia Jackson, who shouted behind him, "Tell them about the dream!"King said:
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream
deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the
true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal.'
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of
former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit
down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state
sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of
oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists,
with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little
black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white
boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
"I Have a Dream" came to be regarded as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory.
The March, and especially King's speech, helped put civil rights at the
top of the agenda of reformers in the United States and facilitated
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
