East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-09-09
Original allistellany.
Our schoolmarms.

That we have been thoroughly edu-
Gated, there is no room for doubt; but
there may be possibility that our
efforts might have been given a more
beneficial and extended range. But
the circumstances which have sur
rounded us are in fault of misdirected
efforts; and as most OF those circum-
stances, so far as education is concern
cd, were schoolmanns, we propose to
deal tcnderly with them, and say as
little about shortcomings as the ma
ture of the case will admit. We have
weakness for schoolmarms. Our
earliest attractions 20 calico arose un-
der the patronage Of ten yards of as
nice goods as ever leaned against n
palpitating waistcoat. The owner was
our first remembered schoolmarm, and
"green be the grass above her;" her
memory still awukens feelings Of live
liest pleasure. There was time
when the sole Of her slipper was shod
with a thousand stings, (and the sub
stratum of our cassimeres have felt
them alD but at later time our waist
coat has felt infinitely worse, when her
curls became unaccountably tangled
upon its buttons. Upon these occa-
sions language utterly failed us, and
such tremulous terror possessed our
whole soul that unless by her own
deXtority she had extricated them,
those same curls would be there to
this day. We say it boldly, for they
were lovely. They were brown and
glossy, and framed her rosy cheeks
and laughing blue eyes in such an
amazingly enchanting style that their
vision has disturbed our sleep for many
years. 1t is transgression to remem-
Der it, but when she abandoned the
birchen rod to make a deluded indi-
vidual miserable for life, cur last hope
of earthly bliss was wrenched from
our soul. 1t was terrific to sec the
effect of our first sorrow. We never
have and never expect 70 recover from
it. But for it we might have been
robust and strong, but now (think OF
it, kind rcader,) our total averdupoise
is only two hundred and fifty pounds.
But kind Heaven "tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb," and through
the very kind ministrations Of her sue
cessor we were consoled. We never
doubted the love of No. /, but the
love Of No. . was of infinite more ar
dor and depth. She was not exactly
beautiful to look upon, and we have
heard voices more mcliAuous than
hers; but she was highly educated,
and having our eternal well-being in
Wow, she dipped us in the Pierian
Spring all over, increasingly. When
we remember gratefully the many les
sons incontinently drubbcd into us, we
see her portrait in all its natural fea.
lures, coming back through the mist
of years gone by. We cannot give a
just picture Of her as she was, but
such points as occur to us we shall
faithfully set down, and should these
words ever meet her eyes, may SHE
receive this effort as a token of oul
grateful regard Her longitude wa,
not very great, and nearly all of it was
absorbed in the waist indeed, sh,
was brief enough TO be witty. But i
she was short, she was angular, ant
seemed to have been gotten up viii
remarkable economy Of flesh and pro
digious waste of bones. Her eyes, i
they had any color at all, were of tha
peculiar color seen in the sky upon ,
bleak morning In December. He