The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-03-16
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AWAY up at l., Crosse they must have some
very dangerous animals uncaged' II VIC sage
If the Democrat may be relied on. We pub
,;sb mt To admonish our faultless McGregor
ladies, but simply to show this Marrow City
how much happiness it has, in being exempt
from the horrors inflicted by "she devils" turn
ed loose to prey on private character. How
thankful we are that McGregor. has no sample
such as is described below:
ScANpAL--Of all the despicable creatures
on the face of Gods beautiful earth, there Is
uone 80 vile and loathcsome as Ie"ate gossip.
Her presence creates q blightng, destroy ing
malaria that poisons the air and sickens the
heart. Like the growth of weeds she crawls
into the sunshine Of the purest and best loves,
and strikes her fangs into their happy. hearts,
while they think they sleep in security and
vithdraws with snake like satisfaction, leav.
ing her victim to wake with horror at the con.
seriousness of injury inflicted by an unknown
being. She exults in the ruin she plans, and
helps to execute, with fendlsh satisfaction,
and revels in the result of her hettlsh schemes,
as one whose life is only fed by the broken
hearts of those around her; while she coolly
constructs ladder of their PROSTATE forms, by
social standing, beyond the reach of reproach
or suspicion. She INDUCES in the heartess
work until she becomes mentally and morally
a 'scandal factory" Her ears receive the
''hear.says of the community. Her busy tongue
is the shuttle that weaves them into 'rhole cloth;
and the dye kettle is her own miserable heart,
where she dips the bolt and draws it out a
black ened shroud to wrap about the slender
form of the victim she has crushed.
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teen Of the good and true, as you value the
honor and welfare of your sex. as you value
your future happiness and comfort, in Gods
name stop this mean and cowardly practice of
crushing the hearts Of your sisters remember
ing that she is always the purest woman, who
is the last to suspect impurity in others.
observation-disclosures
New times demand new measures and new
men, and in no field are these demands greater
than in Education. Twenty five years ago
the common school was deemed sufficient for
the education Of our sous and daughters in the
commercially departments of..life, and for those
days it was perhaps Sufficient. But times are
changed. Business departments have assumed
almost the character Of professions and he who
twenty five years ago could step from the com
mon. school into commercial life will require
to-day a..more specific preparation of young
man to perform the same duties that he then
assumed. The details of business are SO much
greater and more complicated that our young
men must. unnecessarily undergo-a special course
of study to fit them for business. 1t is with
pleasure, then, that we notice the grow
ing interest manifested in our Commercial
Colleges and Schools of Trade. They are
truly steps ofprosress in matters of Education,
and having been practically tested by our bust
nessscommunities, are in no wise to be consid,
cred the experiments of Educato rs, but as es-
essential departments Of education whose i'm.
portance is only to be measured ny the magni-
tude Of the interests involved. One excellent
Institution of this kind may be found at the
Chicago School of Trade, of which see Adver.
tisement-