Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
Womea's Bravery In Memphis.
Memphis Avalanche. |

There are women of pluck and
indispensable devotion in Memphis,
who are daring everything for those
they love. The faithlcss are Of the
other sex, Of those whom the world
in one Of its great misnomers has
dubbed "the stronger sex" While
John Donovan fOrsakes his wife and
leaves his children to die in strangers
hands; while son HES to Arkansas
Springs and leaves his mother and
two brothers to be borne by others
to the grave, in contrast shines out
the faithfuluess of woman, as a de.
voted mother, as patient, attentive
wife, as liferisking daughter, sister,
frie nd. BY the bedside of the buru.
ing body, inhaling the poison of the
sick room, foul with that odOr which
tells the nature of the dreadful dis
ease, performing services which none
other will do, wearing q smile while
the heart is breaking and lifting up
the head when in the last agony, her
person is befouled by the most re.
pulsivc and horrible of all substan.
ces-black vomit-she sits and
watches, aud nurses and cares for
her loved ones till be lives 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,
instances which are but few Of the
many which have become like part
OF heaven in so much of earth'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 aud listlcss, but evidently
convalescing, 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 fevered one.
Cant send You a nurse, ma
damein asked the visitor.
"No, sir, (the pale little woman
smilcd);
81 have brought one through and
l shall bring the other"
"But you are worn out.'
"Oh no, sir. A kind Italian wo
man near by comes in and helps me
sometimes" She would not yield;
no other hand but-Aers cOnld minis
ter 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 one else to dc
it had with her old lands prepared
him for the grave.
A child was stricken with fever
on Alabama street. "GO," said the
mother to the father, 81 shall never
leave the boy, but you must not be
endangered The coward com
piled, and saw from over the way
a short coffin borne out of his home
The mother is paying the price OF
her devotion, and by tomorrow vii
herself pass to her last home in thu
city.
A sick mans lady friend wrote
, "Please let me Gomez and when hi
friends thought the die was cast
they consented to his summOninI
her. Boldly she laid aside her hat
, pushed back her hair, and forcing 6
smile to her lips, entered the room
Some Of male friends stood out
side OIL the door steps ito inquir'
how the dear old boy is getting a
, long"
, The keeper of a house of ill. fam'
on GsyosO street dared the loss O
, "businpss,n dared the desertiOn o
, her place by all but one of it's in
: mates, to nurse faithfully TO the en-,
one who was TO her comparative
r stranger, but whom chance hat
!. brought plague-stricken to her door
, These are q few Of hundreds
). Mothers have made their sons leav
! town, and then relieved APPARENT.
q of all alarm, have sunk down to die
| Wives absent have returned agains
e the positive orders and wishes q
/ their husbands, preferring to di
e with those they love rather tina
g suffer the suspense away.
r God in his mercy has sent thes
/. ministering angels to make US TO
q get for time the horrors Of whole
;. sale death, and contemplate
them the glory and beauty Of a bel
Q ter world.
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