Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-04-01
The Journal.
CLIENTS REPLY.

Will you allow Glen
little room in your columns this week
to say something in reply to the griev-
ously insulted Miss "Glenwood," the
mercuriaI sc. P. NJ" the fussy little
"Lotta," the Webster like .sX," and
the magnanimous ''W. S. M?"
l have waited patiently for the last
requiem to be sung over my remains,
and the latest discourse to be pro-
nounced over the prostration of the an
tagonist of female rights.
What storm of strong words beats
against my frail bark-"an ocean into
tempest tost, to wait feather or to
drown fly" The guilty Glenn is ar
raigned at the bar, but forbear, gentle
accusers, give ear to his defence before
solemn sentence be pronounced. The
Furies chase Orestes, and is there no
Delphi to open her hospitable doors to
him.
What is my crime, and who are my
accusers? Because, forsooth, / have
said, that she upon whom nature has
bestowed her loveliest charms, must
not be all too prodigal of them; that
the rod of the pedagogue i'll becomes
her fair hands, and the honors of the
pedant sit but too unseemingly on her
brow; for this have l been condemned
and sentenced to perpetual, social BAN
ishment = my daring effrontery has
called to life the wasting vigor of old
maids, has resuscitated the dormant
powers of the rusty "School Mann"
disturbed the sobriety of the sturdy
School Master, and drawn the thoughts
of the clerk from his day-5ook; all, all,
who have voice to rebuke, and ready
tongue to chide, are loud and unspair-
ing in their anathemas, on my humble
and devoted head,
"Black spirits and white.
Blue spirits and gray.
Mingle, mingle, mingle-''
in one tumultuous outcry against ME.
How numerically the little bonnetted
inStructresses, whose eye is love, and
whose motion grace, stamps her tiny
foot, RACES and SCOTS at me-yes, even
scolds at and
"There was the weight that pulled me down."
Alas, l did not expect i'll in mercy
spare me from woman's tongue. The
shades of Xantippe have once more
been evoked!
"Jessie" seems pleased to direct her
dissertation directly at me, and no
boundry can l trespass upon, in re-
plying. Her whole production COM
posed of you's, yoursey0s, he's, &c,
amounted to TRADE upon me alone,
but she says, "God placed children
under the,care of women and He knew
what He was doing" This is sage con
clusion, one that rivals all reason; the
child was placed under her supervision,
and whose animal wants, during its
primitive state, she was compelled to
crafty, but does this prove that she
lnae DESIGNED tn--rnAnld d-lL--~L--~ntnr,l
and cast the manners?
She advises me to emigrate to Prus-
sia; she had better move back 10 the
kitchen and reinstate the rolling pin,
instead of the school roll, she had bet
ter consult that spirit that moved her
to snatch the quill, and see if the
''shrewd and knavish sprite," will not
advise her to go to pot(s).
"Write like discontinued teacher"
7 ou, madam, write like one, who would
be much pleased to discontinue, if there
was any prospect of driving double
cam through life,
In her poetical ehusion she advises
ne to take wife, &c. When l feel dis
posed to become "crouching vassal,"
will seek for partner of the pedantic
'rder, they have so much faculty
o. Jessie, soften your tones, and
'nce more "hearken unto the voice.
Are you ''of this earth, earthly" or in {
;ome fairy land, that's far away, does !,
,our restless spirit dwell? Court the |
muse again, and rival Mrs. Hemans,
~ catching the strain Of
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, +
How | wonder what you are:"
Gentle, Jessie-forbear.