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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-23
Our Young People
MADE UP FROM THE BEST CLIPPINGS
A Suggestion to the Young Ladies.

Wonder if there any sprightly
girls about the city who woulO like
to qualify themselves to teach
school. Girls just budding Into
womanhood cannot always discern
their future with certaiuty-that
their path through life will be one
strewn with roses, intermingled not
with thorns. The nature of youth
is such as to gaze only at the bright
side of every picture, forgetting the
solemn responsibilities that age is
sure to bring on The bright and
pretty ones of the female sex espe-
cially, f1sttered and wooed for their
beauty, see nothing but joy and
happiness in the future, and often
neglect that solid preparation of
life which gives a noble woman
courage and makes her independent
in the great struggle for existence,
enabling her to rise in the exercise
of influence and power How often
do we see girls raised in wealth and
luxury, at the age of II or Is, be
come wives, perhaps of wealthy
husbands, and very soon become
penniIess widows; or perhaps worse,
with a worthless husband and u
house full of children to support,
without the necessary qualifications
for the hardship. Work is honor
able for both man and woman. No
matter what may be a young lady $
circumstance in life, she Is all the
better and more respected by sensi-
BILE men for finding something to
dc. And the girl who undertakes
to qualify herself for RESPONSE Bile
duties, storing her mind with use
full knowledge, forming habits of
industry and gentleness, viii always
be sought in marriage by young
man OF irmness and reliability.
Neither is such an one so liable to
he duped in a matrimonial affair as
is the giddy, sentimental girl who
neglects such a preparation.
To few young ladies, who fee
that work is honorable, we want to
suggest good opening or opportu
nifty for Improvement, and that is
that they voluntarily enter the pub
lie schools as assistant teachers,
learn the graded system and the art
of teaching, qualifying themselves
thoroughly for the work, and at the
same time add to and improve their
own education. This is certainly q
rare opportunity for experimenting,
| for there is no normal school in the
country that affords better facilitie:
for training than our present public
school with thorough teachers en-
gagged in the practical work. There
are constant applications for female
teachers who thoroughly under
stand the graded system. And
young ladies who will qualify them
selves and obtain the recommends
ton of our school board will no
fail in finding good situations. We
have no doubt that such applica
tions for training, presented to the
school board through its secretary
Mr.. A. Howell, would find favor
ard we are sure that such a step by
any young lady would be looked
upon as praiseworthy. - Clarksvill'
Tobacco Leaf.
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A Farmers Lawn.

Mr.. Hyde says, IN the Massachu-
sets PICughman, that no one be
grudges the chickens yard in
which to run, ftirt and frolic, and
are not children entitled to equal
privileges with the chickens? What
ever makes home attractive, If it is
no more expensive than a lawn, is
not wastetul. If we wish to keep
our boys on the farm, ard to train
our daughters for farmers wives,
we must make the home pleasant
and farm life something besides
mere drudgery. We know nothing
that adds such charm to a coun
try home as lawn; and when, af
ter the labors of the day are over,
the boys and girls assemble upon it
to play croquet, and the grace OF
motion and the exhilaratlon of So
cial life are added to this thing of
beauty, the scene is delightful, and
if anything will make the farm at
tractiVe, this will.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-23
Poor Girls.

Unlike many foolish Christians,
the Jews teach their children, girls
as we'll as boys, some occupation
by which they can earn a living,
An exchange inculcates a similar
practice upon all parents.
The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught
to work. There are thousands OF
them. Rich parents have petted
them; they have been taught to de
spise labor, and depend on others
for a living, and are perfectly help
less. If misfortune comes upon
their fl ends, as it often does, their
case is hopeless.
The most forlorn and miserable
women upon earth belong to this
class. 1t belongs to parents to
protect their daughters from this
deplors BILE condition. They do
them a great wrong if they neglect
it. Every daughter ought to be
taught to earn her own living. The
rich as well as the poor require
training. The wheel of fortune
rolls swiftly round; the rich are
very likely to become poor, and the
poor rich. Skilled to labor is no
disadvantage to the rich, and is in
dispensable to the poor. Well-to-
do parents must educate their chill
dren to work. No reform is more
imperative than this.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-23
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL INFORMATION.
Wheat Greatness.

One of the errors of American
farmers is running to extremes.
Just as soon as any crop is found
TO pay we'll, every farmer goes to
raising it on a large scale and it
takes. but short time to 0lut the
market and break down the price
to less than the cost of production.
The success of farmers in raising
wheat for the past three years has
made some of them crazy on the
subject of raising wheat. They
are putting it in on a larger scale
than ever before. Many who have
never before raised wheat are en-
barking in the business largely.
Nearly one fourth more wheat will
be put in this fall than ever before
in the West, and even our Eastern
farmers are catching the fever and
are sowing wheat quite largely.
The terrible failure in the wheat
crop in Europe this season will
keep up prices on the present crop;
but if the crop there had been an
average one, wheat would now be a
drug on the market, and wheat
growers would be disguised with
prices, and they would abandon
wheat growing. We feel it to re
our province to tell wheat growers
to 60 slow, that the production OF
wheat will certainly be Overdone
sooner or later, and that money will
be lost by embarking in the bust
ness so largely. We advise put
ting In some wheat on ground well
adapted to it, that is naturally or
artificially well drained, so there is
no danger of winter-killing. The
danger now is that it will be put in
on all kinds of soil and in a very
imperfect manner-that quantity OF
land more then quality of perform
ance will be the moving considera
ton. Careful seclectIon of land
and of seed best adapted to the
particular locality, and thorough
preparation of the land for the seed
and putting it in wherever possible
by the drill, is of far more impor-
tance than quantity of land on
which the seed is sown.- Rural
World
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-23
Anecdots of Patrick Henry.


When the celebrated Patrick
Henry, of Virginia, was near the
close of life and in feeble health, he
LAID his hand on the Bible, and ad
dressed an old friend who was with
him-"Here is a book" said he,
"worth more than all others ever
printed; yet it is my misfortune
lever to have read it with proper
attention and feeling till lately"
About the same time he wrote to
his daughter, 81 hear 1t said that
the Deists have claimed me. The
thought gives me far more pain than
the appellation of Tory. For con
slider religion of infinitely higher
Importance than politics; and | find
much cause to reproach myself, that
| have lived so long and given nc
decided and public proof of my be
ing a Christian"
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The Model Mother-in-Law.

She is thankful to the man who
marries her daughter, and thus re-
lieves her of great possibility
She becomes a devotee TO him.
She coddles him with warm slippers
and wadded dressing-gowns, and
with hot drinks. when he has a
cold. She multiplies her tender at
tentions when imported business"
has kept him out late at night, and
fears that his devotion to business
will wear upon him. She finds out
the dishes that will tickle his appe-
tite, and makes them with her own
hands. With her he has two wor-
at home. She encourages
him TO smoke. She smiles on his
bachelor friends. She studies hum
IN every way. She makes her
daughter cheerful while he Is at the
club or other places. She minds
the baby while they go to entertain
ments. and never wants to go. She
praises him to all as the best of
husbands. She continually enjoins
upon her daughter that she never
can be thankful enough. She is a
constant sunbeam IN the household,
which makes marriage without a
mot her in law but half what it
should be.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-23
For the Girls.

Rose Terry Cook breaches this
little sermon on household industry
that ought to make an impression
upon every girl in the land. She
says: 81 shall never forget my own
childish tears and sulks over my
sewing. My mother was a perfect
fairy at her needle, and her rule was
relentless. Every long stitch was
picked out and done over again, and
neither tears nor entreaties awaited
to rid me of my task till it was
properly done; every corner of a
hem turned by the thread: stitching
measured by two threads to a stitch !;
telling of absolutely regular width,
and patching done invisibly; while
fine daring was sort of embroid
cry. l hated it then, but 1 have
lived to bless that mothers patient
persistence, and am piouder to-
day of the six patches in my small
girls dress, which cannot be seen
without searching, than OF any 9th
er handiwork-except, perhaps, my
bread"
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Love Your Business.

1t is not difficult generally for a
father who loves the farm to deter
mine the calling of his children. If
/ he makes it u business of thrift,
and provides comfortably for bis
family, they will respect his calling.
If he is discouraged and shifting
his work or his home, they will not
be likely to make tillers OF the soil.
But if he conducts the farm on
business principles-makes it a
machine for coming money-and
providing home comfort, they will
be willing to invest In 1t. One can
hardly begin too early with his
boys to incline them to the calling
that is to give them bread and the
means of their future usefulness.
If the boy is to be a farmer, he
must begin to have personal II
terest and venture in farming while
yet boy.
Filial ELECTION in a happy home
is a very strong motive to industry
and fidelity, but it does not shape a
boys plans for life like an invest
ment of his brain and muscle in his
daily work. He should have crops
and ANIMALS, not only that he can
''call' his own, but that are his own,
to keep, to enjoy and to sell for his
own pleasure and profit. The
trusts may be small at first, but they
should be absolute, and let him
have his own experience of success
and failure in managing them. Let
him manage poultry, a lamb. calf,
or a colt, and exhibit his own stock
at fairs.
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Rejected Suffers,

A woman never quite forgets the
man has once loved her; she may
have given him the no instead OF
the yes he had hoped for; but the
remembrance that he desired yes
always softers her thoughts of him,
and would make him, were he SO
minded, a friend forever. There
may be girls who, make jest OF
discarded suitors; but they are gen
orally very young, and the wooing
has been something that did not
betoken much depth Of tenderness.
There are mercenary offers too, that
only awaken scorn and hate in the
woman wooed for money and not
herself; but really to have touched
mans heart is something not to
be forgotten while she lives. AL
ways she remembers how his eyes
looked in hers, how perhaps, he
touched her hand with his, and how
her heart ached when he turned
away without that which she could
not give. She loves some one else.
Some one else has all the truth OF
her souI-always has and always
will have-but she can not forget
the one who turned from her and
went his way and came no more.
She is glad when she hears of mis-
success, grieved when she knows
that he has suffered; and when
some day, she hears that he is mar
ried-she who has been married
long years, perhaps; she who, at all
events, would never have married
him-is she glad then? l do not
know. A woman's heart is a very
strange thing. l do not believe she
knows herself "Glad2 Oh, yes;
and is she pretty niceY' and then
SAYS to herself that she has quite
forgotten" and that, of course, sit
iS hest" and cries a trifie
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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-23

The Drovers' Journal truthfully
says that we need more sheep. In
all parts of this great country to Sc
cure health and comfort its people
must have food and clothing The
Sheep furnishes the best and most
wholesome animal food, and most
comfortable clothing yet tested by
the masses of our people. In ma
larIal districts, especially those
where extremes of heat and cold
are frequent, wooden clothing and a
freer and more common diet OF
young mutton, would insure better
health and better vlgor than gener
ally characterizes pork eaters and
the wearers of cotton and linen.
Let no one indulge a single fear of
over-production of either mutton
or wool. Could our fiocks
be tripled or quadrupled, they
would add not only to the comfort
and healthfulness of the people, but
to their intelligence and sobriety,
as well as to the productiveness of
every field used as a sheep pasture.
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A Few Suggestions.

Never try to beat colt into do
ing a thing, for if nervous he may
turn out a vicious horse, and if stu
pId he may become stubborn. Re
member that by patience and gen
tleness he can be got to do any
thing that will not hurt him.
When the horse shows signs oil
shying at an object, do not beat
him, but lead him up to 1t, allow
ing him to stand and look as be
comes closer, and after he exam
ines it o lew times he vii not fear
anything of the kind again. In
passing by hedges with a colt
throw in stones and stop him until
he takes no notice of the noise.
Before putting on any article Of
harness, let him smell it, and then
rub it against his head, neck and
body.
Always start a horse with the
voice, never with the cut of the
whip. In starting turn little to
one side; in stopping when going
up "a hill do the same.
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How Women Should Walk.

The custom is now rywhere
prevalent tor pedestrians to take the
right side of the walk. The prac-
tice avoids much confusion, 'partic
ularly on irequented walks. The
rule has been so thoroughly estab-
lished that any person found viola.
ting it, is set down as an ignOra.
mus. People now take the right
side as regularly as they do when
driving on the road. This being
so, common sense suggests that la
dies should always walk at the
right side of a gentleman when go
ing in couples. If they do that
ladies will never be jostled when
meeting other persons-the gentle.
man being always on the side OF
contact with other people coming
from opposite directions. Gentle
men should abandon the habit Oh
walking around them at every cor
ner. The old custom of giving the
lady the inside of the walk, when
walking with her, has no redeeming
feature. The lady's comfort and
protection are best assured by
walking at the gentleman's right
side at all times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-23

A singular story is told by John
Lather of Dorsey county, Ark, In
the columns of the Little Rock Ca
zette. He has a daughter who sud-
denly lost her voice and hearing
when she was little girl, some fif-
teen years ago. One night recent
ly he was passing his daughters
room when he heard a strange
voice. Arousing his wife, they
crept noiselessly in and with thrills
of JOY saw that their daughter was
talking in her sleep. The mother
clasped the girl in her arms, but
when awake she again lost her
voice. Since then she has been
heard to talk aloud in her sleep,
speaking generally of the occurance
in the household the day before
A deaf and dumb youth of the
neighborhood, who has been looked
upon as the girls lover, was pros
trated with grief upon hearing that
his girl could talk.
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LADIES COLUMN.
HARoLINE HAROLD, EDITOR.
Marriage.

Marrige makes home happy
Without marriage there is no real
home, no true home; 3 house, as the
Frenchman says, but nothing more.
Marriage brings with it all that ele-
Yates and refines, ali that satisfies
and delights; the commonest details
of our ordinary occupation it clothes
with a vesture of enchanting lowell
ness and an imperishable beauty.
Marriage enlarges the scene Of our
happiness and miseries. A mar
riage of love is pleasant: a marriage
of interest easy; a marriage where
both meet, happy. A happy mar
rage has in 1t all the pleasures of
friendship, all the enjoyments of
sense and reason, and all the sweets
of life. Nothing is greater mark
Of vicious and degenerate age than
the ridicule which passes on this
state of life
Marriage would be infinitely
more successful if engagements
were undertaken with more seri-
business; the future tie would be no.
bier if the preparation for it was
made a matter of religion and care
full conscience. If young ladies
who are engaged would think less
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their future duties; if they would
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rather than to arrange their laces
and ribbons satisfactorily, marriage
would have a brighter outlook than
now, and experiment which so often
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have a chance of fourishing for a
lifetime in the full sunshine of joy
and love. But what kind of super
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put together? AS the sowing, so
the harvest; as the grain, so the
crop. If hetrothals are full of levity
and irreverence, it is vain to expect
that marriages will be solid, strong
and holy; if men and women prefer
mere personal ease and liking to
purity and love, they must not COM
plain when the husks on which
they feed fail to nourish them;
when the waxen flowers which they
choose in place of the real melt in
the fire of life's burning trials, and
are crushed into nothingness be
neath the weight Of human sorrows.
= Elk.
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evil. Think of this and mind the
little things. Pay that little debt;
it is a promise, redeem it; if it is a
shilling, hand it over. You know
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Think.

Thought - engenders thought.
Place one idea upon paper-another
will follow it and still another, until
you have written page. You can
not fathom your mind. There is a
we'll of thought which has no bot
tom. The more you draw from it
the more active, clear and fruitful
it will be. If you neglect TO think
yourself, and use other peoples
notwithstanding them utterance
only.-you will never know what
you are capable of. At first your
ideas may come out in Jumps,
homely and shapeless- but no mat
ter, time and perseverance will ar
range and polish them. Learn to
think, and you Will learn to write
the more you think the better you
will express your ideas.