The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-09-14
W"man'> Bravery in Memphis.
Memphis Avalanche

There are women Of pluck aud I'M
surpassahIe devotion IN Memphis.
who are daring everything for those
they love. TIL. taithleSs are of the
other sex, of those whom the world in
one of its great misnomers has dubbed
"the stronger sex" While John
Donovan for>akrs his wife and leaves
his children to die in strangers hands ;
while Il son hies to Arkansas Springs
and leaves his mother and two broth
rrs to be borne by Others to the grave,
in contrast shines ont the taithfulness
of woman, as a devoted mother, a.
patient, attentive wife, as life risk,ng
daughter. sister, friend. By the bed.
side Of the burning body, inhaling
the poison of the sick room, foul with
that odor which tell the nature of the
dreadful disease, performing services
which none other will do, wearing a
smile while the heart is breaking and
lifting up the head when in the last
agony, her person is bcfouIcd by the
most repu|sive and horrible Of all
substances - black vomit-she sits
aud watches, and nurses and cares
for her loved ones till he live again or
passes beyond her aid. The penalty
of her service Of love is generally
death.
Instances come to the writer's mind
faster than he can record them, in
stances which are but q few OF the
many which haze become like y part
of heaven in SO much of carth's hell.
A Citizens Relief Committee man
walked into an humble cottage in the
southern portion OF the city. There
he found two children i'll, one weak
and listless, but evidently GONZALES
cling, the other tossing in burning
fever. A little woman in black sat
between the two and was in the act
of kissing the brow of the little fever.
ed one.
"Can't I send you nurse, madam :"
asked the visitor.
"No, sir, Uhe pale little woman
smiled 81 have brought one child
through and I shall bring tho other.'
"But you are worn ont
ooh 20, sir. A kind Italian woman
near by comes in and helps me some
times" She would not yield no
other hand but hers could minister to
her little ones.
An old grandmother told Rev. Mr..
Parsons not only of having nursed
her grandson to his death, but in
want of some Que else to do it had
with her old hands prepared him fol
the grave.
A child was stricken with fever on
Alabama street. "Go,' said the
mother to the father, II shall never
leave the boy, but you must not be
endangered The coward complied
and saw from over the way short
coffin borne out Of his home. The
mother is paying the price of her de-
votion, aud by tomorrow will her
self pass to hor last home in the city
A sick mans lady friend wrote
"P|ease let me come" aud when hi
friends thought the die was cast they
consented to his summonipg her. Bold
~ she laid aside her hat, pushed back
her hair, and forcing a smile to he
lips, entered tho loom. Some of hi
male friends etoud outside on thu
door steps Ito inquire how the dea
old boy is getting along"
The keeper ofa house Of ill.fam'
on Gayoso street dared the loss o
"business," dared the desertion Of he
place by all hut one Of its inmates, tt
narse faithfully to the end one wh'
vas to her a comparative stranger
but whom chances had brough
plague stricken to her door.
These are a few of hundreds. Moth
ers have made their sons leave town
and then relieved apparently Of al
alarm, have sunk down to die. Wive
absent have returned against the pos
tive orders and wishes Of their hus
bands, preferring to die with thos
. they love rather than suffer the sus
pense away.
God in his mercy has sent thee
miuistering angels to make US forge
p for time the horrors of wholesa|
deaths. and contemplate in them til
=. glory and beauty Of q better world.