Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-01-04
For the GUARDIAN.
ny PATSY PLUMMKR.

Ahal see o light afar,
Which beats the headlight Of car.
My heart beats high-I'm mighty glad,
They've made at last braib, brain pad.
Tired teachers now will teachat ease;
Dull children now no more will tease;
When patrous growl and make us mad,
Their child must have, n new brain pad.
If there il n profession which mankind
think they know all about, it's teaching
The miss, contemplating matrimony, aud
needing the cash TO purchase an outtit,
takes n three months school, and accom-
pli,hes the object. A mau, too lazy to
work, after failing in every undertaking,
at last resorts to teaching. II pack ped
dler, crossing creek, slips in, he is tished
ont by the sympathetic ncighborhood; but
not long does he brwail the loss of his pack.
The old farmers consider him "God-send,"
for a male teacher is wanted Immediately,
man, he has tact. The church is holdings
protrnctcd meeting; he attends, takes
great interest goes up to be prayed for q
night or two, shouts glory, glory, time or
two, join, the church. The male members
give him q solemn, pions look; the mat
rons, a mothcrly smile; the young sisters,
swcc; one, aud all the right hand Of fell
lowship, and he's n full-ilcdged professor.
He has made 'tcn-strike" He can, with
perfect impuni,y, set Joshua Jccms on
hot stove; can pull kato Sniders carr blue;
can lash, whip generally, for he is one Of
MS, and Christian. They all dance for Il
while mcrrily to the tune of
Tickle me honey, tickle me do,
II you'll tickle me, I'll tickle you.'
The teacher gets drunk, falls from grace
and they wait for the next tramp. Sccta-
ian churches have made their schools n
kind of pasture, into which they turn
preachers. after they become unfit for ser
vice and corn gets scarce. If there il any
vocation requiring nerve aud energy, it is
the school Not only energy, but pleasing,
graceful manners, kind hearts, lips free
from slang, and above all, one who has
perfect contiol Of temper, aud can govern
children without the lash. 1t is easier to
arouse the passions than to direct the
MUD. A whip e++iy arouses the animal
propcnsiticS of the child, when the better
f,..linuS utt,.lf - n,
heart should he aroused. The moral,
physical and intellectual qualities should
be- looked after; therefore, choose well be-
fore you find your teacher.
After you have found one, pay a good
salary, and keep him; change of teachers
is bad policy-in fact, does great injury To
your child. lou don't interfere with your
ply stefan when place your child under his
treatment, or your lawyer when yoa place
your suit in his hands. know most of yon
old men know exactly how to teach, and
when you get ont of tobacco, crops short,
and yon get the blues generally, the teach
81 is such a handy cud to chew, sucl good
scapcg for your mistrainiug. Bnt,
take Patsy, advice: Let the teacher tcach
but if your dandrr gets past all control, go
gently to the teacher, and tell him you
wish to teach while. Just 10 show him n
better plau-my word for II, one day will
satisfy YOU. The unrducatcd are the ones
with whom the teacher has the main trou-
BILE. "My child amt farming thing is the
cry. They send their children who, all
their lives, have heard the English Ian
gnagc mispronouncrd-ihe advancement nf
those who have been taught TO speak cor
rrctly, is double that Of the other What
benefit is the study of Grammar to a child
so situatcdi After twcnty-odd years ex-
pcriencc. am forced to think the brain of
the offspring of an educated man and wo-
man ~ active again ar those of the nned-
ucatcd.
The growth Of the mind is, like the body,
slow. iou can't see your child grow; but
you know it does. You can't see it learn;
II the teacher hears tn. lessons it will
learn. Only send the teacher brains, and
hell know exactly what to do. Its the no
drained set gets away" with MS. IL wish
could make brains" how many times
have heard despairlng teachers wish that!
We have an auxiliary at last, a brain
pad. Well use that, in place of the "dauce
cap but mind, we'll make you pay for the
pad. o, You'll change your time thcn--it
will he, "fon bet my gals larning-wcv-
got the best teacher in the Statc-she's
roman, too" There are men who think
there's no capacity, nor much else. ontside
Of pair of brcechcs. have great sym.
pathy Tor that class Of men. Unfortunate
ly, their female associates were easy going,
quiet souls, of not much force Of character,