The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-12-21


and will doubtless bless all the little
ones with such things as are best
for them.
Most if not all OF the Churches
of the city are preparing Christmas
trees, and the Sunday-school chill
dren are in high glee.
This is all very well-iadeed, it
is praiseworthy, and points to hearts
that beat with benevolent impulses
but there is yet better work
than this. There is real distress to
relieve, real sorrow to assuage. real
poverty to help. At this season OF
the year, and especially at p time
like this, while the necessity for re
trenchment lessons the demand for
labor, the wants of the poor must
press with urgency upon every gen
erous heart. It would indeed be a
sad day for humanity were the ave-
nues of pity SO nearly closed that
we could eoolly contemplate the
distress of poverty aud feel no ca
ger impulse to relieve it.
There are many poor people in
this city who at night have no idea
whence the breakfast of the next
morning will come. Sometimes it
does not come at all. Our charita-
bic societies are bestirring them
selves, but they do not often reach
those who suffer most. The real
sufferer is straining every nerve 70
obtain work, and enduring in silence
the results of repeated failures, in
stead of making appeals for help.
AS a general thing, those who beg
are not the real sufferers. They
want to eat, but not to work. Be-
nevolent impulses, like all others,
need to be under the guidance OF
judgm ent, in order to work out
their results. Time, thought and
Judgment are needed quite as much
as money, and we can not sufi-
GENTLY honor those who freely give
their energies to the work of inves.
LEGATION and judiclous relief.
A good many couples haze en-
barked upon the sea of matrimony
in this city since cold weather sci
in. 1t is now quite fashionable tc
have the ceremony performed al
church, and there have been fen
successive days of late that did not
witness a marriage at one or an
other of our churches. And OBJ.
serve that there has been a goodly
number Of marriages in your town
and county since the marrying sea.
son opened, and that your columns
have contained much on this highly
important and never uninteresting
subject. What you have said about
marriage between persons of limit
able means, or no means at all, suits
my notions exactly; and you are
aware that I have had considerable
experience in this very thing. Now
1 do not wish to be understood as
intimating that poor folks should
not marry; Cor in that case some Of
my dearest friends and my humble
self would be left completely "ouf
in the cold" if our better parts
should ever take a notion to divorc,
themselves from us, which they
may do, you know; and divorces
can be had now for the mere ask
ing.
Wealth and poverty, especially i
considered in connection with liv
ing, are terms which have diferen
meanings. In short, it is owing t,
how one has been raised. A mar
who has been all his life in the en-
joyment of every luxury would con
slider himself very poor if compeile.
to live upon two thousand dollars
year, while another, who has littI
or no knowledge of those things
would think himself most fortHnat
il lie could be assured of half tina
sum. When a poor young mai
learns to practice the virtues b,
which fortunes are made-frugalitl
and self-denial-other things beinl
equal. he is a proper subject 70
matrimony, and if he announce
himself as a candidate for the ofic
Eof husband. be should not b
counted out" By the returning
board of ladies. He may be re
garded as 81 good catch" for an.
sensible girl.
Between young people who hav
been taught from childhood how t
keep their desires within the bound
of their ability to crafty them,
union would be q strengthening c
their chances for the future, an
would be advisable just gs soon a
the young maa could feel assure
Of a steady livelihood. Inthis cas-
a wife would be n helpneet instea
of a harden. One great trouble j
however, that such discreet youn
persons do not now exist IN til
number that they did
When this old has was new
Their places are filed to 3 gres
extent b fast yong fellows VII
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