The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-04-24

that prompts the soft answer that
turns away wrath. 1t is the cul-.
tured and educated wife that antic-
ipates husbands temper, that
knows the tensions of his nerves,
that sympathIzes with his perpleXi
ties, that foresees the coming ca
lamity, when often to foresee is to
prevent 1t is the cultured and ed
ucated wife that excuses her hus-
bands faults to herself and conceals
them from the world. 1t is the
educated ear that hears the storm in
the distance approaching, it is the
educated eye that sees the "cloud
no bigger than a mans hand' IN
! the social, commercial or political
armament, and when the storm
bursts in its awful fury, it is the
skilled hand and the well strung
nerve that pilots the family ship
safely through the boiling breakers.
Passion without intellectually may
please gross man, provided it is
an amiabe passion, but let the eyes
dart anger, spite and malice, instead
of love, let fierce yells and bitter in
vectives, proceed from the fresh
red lips, instead of soft accents and
low music, and even the gross man
turns away in disgust. Education
does not annihllate passion, but it |
guides and ennobles 1t; and when it
is dying out il fans 1t into being
again by means of tender memo
ries. Education pr, serves passion |
IN it's fresh and early beauty on to |
the border of the grave; nor does it |
die here-it comes back often and !
often--it comes with fragrant flowers !
and loves tender resrets-it comes |
with echoes of the past TO trace the
shadow of the future-it comes
with offering of warm tears to
pledge its faith anew.
Much as women owe to the pub |
lie and private schools, to semina
ries and colleges; to books and ser
mons,it is to the newspaper that they |
are indebted for their higher cul
ture and increased usefulness. The
newspaper is the instrument that
has delivered women from medie-
val bondage, by breaking bonds of
ignorance and flooding the world !
with Its liberal daily light. 1t is by
reading that woman advances; it Is
by reading the newspaper-the !
days histOry-Jhat she keeps pace
with the world. Man sees the
world in his daily life; he brushes
against it every hour. Women nee
essarily sees much less of it, but the
daily paper is the glass that brings
the world nearer to her; it is the !
medium through which she sees
what the world is doing and hears
what the world is saying. 1t con-
tains a thousand subjects of inter
est and reflection; it satisfies nat
ural and proper curiosity; it con-
tains lessons Of caution and warn
ing, of patience and of love. 1t pro-
notes charity and destroys selfish |
ness. 1t brings her near the unfor
.unate and erring, and while the
gentle tear of pity falls on reprint
ed page, she marks the stumbling
blocks and rocks of Offense that
they may guide those committed to
her care by safer path. In the
foreign news she hears the battle
cry of nations, and her woman's
heart bleeds alike for Turkish
mother, Russian sister, or Afghan
bride, as they mourn their dear
ones slain. But it is the local
news that has the greatest at
traction to her; the nearer home the
nearer her heart, is the law that gov
ems her philanthropy.
No woman should be without a
newspaper The man who reads
the paper at his place of business
and does not bring it home to his
wife, daughter or sister, is as mean
ly selfish as he who would deyour
all the viands on the spread table,
allowing, wife, daughter and sister
to 90 hungry. The man who does
not furnish his family with a paper |
stands in his own light. Money |
spent this way will bring more in
terest than money invested IN a |
hank. 1t pays a nan to take pa
per home with him, and, If his wife
can't read, it would pay him to
teach her.
The mau who thinks woman |
does no. need 10 read a paper-that
she is as we'll il not better of with
out one-is man OF purely animal
proclivities, q man that would de-
grade a woman to an existence like
his own. There is scarcely any
woman butenjOys reading her paper.
She may pass over the financial or
glance lightly at some of the polit !
zeal columns; but in nine cases out
of ten she will see something that
a man would overlook. What nj
she does turn first to the marriages
aud deaths? Is that q sign of
weakness or cause for q sneer? Is
it not rather a token of her better
nature-the ouU-dowing of that
sweet and holy sympathy-the ex
emplifcation of that blessed chart
ity which rejoices with those that
do rejoice and weeps with those
who weep?
| Occasionally we hear of woman
who "bas no time TO. read" who
never looks at q paper" The
preiudieed or unthinking may com
mend such a woman's industry, but
any one who thinks will rather con-
denim her lack of system which
leaves her no half-hour, in no hour
out of the twenty-f0ur, for SELF sat-