The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-02-11
For the St. Cloud
BROKEN DOWN.


yourself up name" Some are even
generous enough to say, "Your brains
are as fertile and your lmaginationsas
vivid as are those of the sterner sex,
and as a rule you are better calculat-
ed to take charge of the education of
children, but don't teach one or two
terms and then abandon the under
taking as irksome. You will not BY
that time have more than made d
start,-only got your hand in." So
a young girl graduating from one Of
our Normal Schools starts out with
the fixed idea of making herself a
name. By the advice Of friends, sad
perhaps the situation being less
trouble to obtain, she makes her debut
in the teachers world in some coun-
try district, where the young ideas
she has to teach are bare-footed, tow
headed and dirty-nosed. Well, she
doesn't succeed very well at least, 30
portion of the women and maisri-
ty of the men in the district she has
honored with her maiden effort in
form her in language more forcible
than polite. But the determination
to make herself reputation still in
spires her efforts and sustains her
dropping spirits, and she bravely tries
another country school. A little bet
ter success crowns her eEdeavers this
time, and Notwithstanding the few
derogatory remarks that reach her IS
coming from unlettered trustees or
witless patrons she comes out of the
battle unscathed. She thinks now she
will try a town school if she can get
it; SO, armed with references, she
makes application at a neighboring
village. "No vacancies" and hay
ing neither father nor brother, uncle
nor particular friend on any school
board, she is obliged to succumb to
the force of circumstances and await
further developments, in the mean
while putting in from three to six
months school in the country. Fin
ally, by the naerest accident in the aoorld,
her uncle or father is put on the
school board, and she then procures
the coveted situation with but little
effort. She enters upon her new
duties somewhat tired after her sum-
mer's campaign; but never mind, she'll
get over that, for she will not now
have So far to walk to her post Of
duty, and she deludes herself with the
thought that she is gaining quite a
reputation for at last she has obtain
ed place in town, not realizing that
it was her uncle's, not her own, repu-
tation that obtained the situation.
She gets along nicely; wages almost
double; and what if she does have
the side or back ache, isn't she max
ing herself "a name % Of course she
is. She is hard worker and does
the best she can, maybe the best of
any Of her co-workers. She intends
to keep the place if possible; and,
maybe does deep it until her uncle
goes off duty, then she gives place to
zone more unfortunate. With good
recommendations, she tries somewhere
else; secures an increase of wages,
and takes another step up the ladder
of fame. But she finds that she
doesn't feel we'll lassitude comes on
or vertigo sends her brain whirling
around, and she thinks, how nice it
would be to lay off for year and 60
to Florida or California but she can
not afford that, either in time or
money, and so plods along until her
back gives out entirely, or her eyes
fail her, and by the time she is COM
pletely broken down and has to 90
some where for her health, she has
probably made herself "a name;;'' but
of what avail w? You will say, 20,
that happens occasionally, but it is
the exception, not the rule" Let me
ask you to call to mind all the cases
you have ever known, and tell me if
the picture is not true that when a
women, naturally ambitious, has made
teaching her profession and ha, fol-
lowed it faithfully, at thirty or thirty
five she is not a brokendown old
maid. And the very ones who 'set
her on" are the first to laugh at her,
and if she is so unfortunate as to be the
possessor Of long neck ora hooked
nose, or to have confirmed fondness
for cats and relish for strong tea,
or any of the many infallible precur-
sors of antiquated maidenhood, does
she not at once become the scorn Of
all t'maidens fresh and fair" and the
butt of ridicule for unprincipled men?
Banished from society, she vanishes
from sight quietly, draws on her blue
stocking, double thick at the heel, (for
old maids are said to die there frst)
and perchance if you hear of her
again, she is the presiding genius in
her sisters nursery or is affecting the
public with efusions like the above.
OLD MAID.
A MAN MURDERED BECAUSE HE RE-
FUSED TO BECOME THE BONDSMAN
OF MURDERER.
News has been received Of q mur-