The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-07
Industrial School for Girls.

stantially as follows:
Mr.. SPEAKER: When see a we'll di.
rected effort being made 10 create in our |
midst Female Industrial School, South.
ern in its character, aims and tending
where our sisters and daughters can enter
and drink at the fountains Of knowledge
gushing, so TO speak, out of our own soil
when we see all this, it should be, as !
have no doubt 1t Is, great qualification
10 every citizen Of Mississippi, and es-
pccially those who sit under the sound
Of my voice.
In discussing this subject, the occasion
naturally calls us TO consider, TO GER
tain extent, the past and future daugh'
ters Of ours State.
The daughters Of Mississippi have al.
ways been her pride. Talk OF the sensi-
Bile, silent and stroug.minded women Of
England Tell Of the dark-eyed maidens
Of Italy, or Of the gay and jocund
daughters Of France, but 70 the true
type Of a Southern Mississippi woman
ar must yield the palm. They have
ever been noble In everything that goes
to adorn and elevate the character OF
woman.
THE GIRLS or MISSISSIPPI
Have descended from line of noble and
patriotic mothers IA the pages Of history
will tell. Away back in the days Of our
contest for freedom and struggle for in
dependence which walked the colonies
TO existence, we zoe the grand-mothers
o,,J sraat ,,ran1 ,,ntbnra ~ ,ba nroaopt
daughters Of Mississippi exhibiting
many patriotic deed which form some
Of the brightest incidents of the old revo.
luton; and well did they sustain them
selves in the war of 1912, when the armies
of the United States rolled back the tide
of invasion from our sunny soil. Nor
did the Southern female character suffer
when the war with Mexico was forced
upon US, but was elevated still higher
by their patriotic bearing throughout
this contest IL was their encouraging
smiles, and fiery zeal Of the Southern
ladies, which conduced to make the war
with Mexico so popular in this section,
aud gained for the boys OF the South"
the well deserved and dearly bought
honor of having borne the brunt Of the
fray, as history, along with the official
report of the battles of Buena Vista,
Monterey and CerrO Gorda will tell.
1t is the future character and destiny
of the daughters Of mothers, with such
history Ms this, that this Legislature is
called upon to mould and shape. These
daughters yes, the mothers Of Misss
! sippi-come before the bar Of this House
tonight and ask just verdict at your
hands They want you to do for them
what you have done for the young men
of Mississippi Give them an Industrial
School, where they can enter and pre-
pare themselves to battle with life's
checkered conflicting and ever-changing
scenes. Many a true mothers heart is
throbbng tonight rs she awaits the
final result of the vote of this House
upon the pending bill.
The past girl Of the South will not suit
the times that are upon VA. The way
our girls were raised in ante beilum times
VIII not SUIT tile present They must bo
raised different; they must be educated
different; and the State, the pc pie OF
the State, must grant our girls relief.
The past Southern woman belongs to
history. The true type of the future
Southern pomaR has to be formed, and
this bill, If passed, makes to her bright
and prosperous future possible.
Would that | could draw true picture
of the past Southern woman, and stamp
that image indellibly upon the minds of
us all, for it would make us the more
inclined to do something for the daugh-
tiers of such noble type of womanhood.
The past historic Southern woman-yes,
Mississippi's past womanhood, can well
be described rs nobl', patriotic, lovely
and true. Reared and nurtured in n land
as this was, how could they be else than
lovelyH Our sunny skies, our vine-clad
hills, our seasons as they come and go
with each revolving year, all conspired to
make them lovely from the cradle to the
grave. They were true almost to fault,
and such was their claim to fidelity and
eonstancy, that in days of long ago they
had secured the admiration of the
world for those two crown jewels in the
female character, fidelity and constancy.
Aud should ever the one that was near
and dear to them be smitten with sud
den calamity, or overtaken by the waves
of misfortune, while voyaging DER the
stormy sea of life, twas then this true
Southern female character shown re-
splcudent Her early ties might be
severed her fond hopes withered, her
young prospects big GIFTED, yet If the
object of her attachment was only con.
slant and true, he could ever turn to her
and find peace in her breast and heaven
in her eye. The past Southern woman,
with all her loneliness and her purity,
had also her defects of character. To
say that the Southern girl in this early
age, in days gone by, was too much a
votary of fashion, would not, imagine,
be going too far / suppose this asser-
ton would not be denied. You see the
Southern girls in these times most partic-
ular as to the adornment of her person,
perhaps to the neglect of her mind.
Parties, balls and entertainments, dress,
style, taste and fashion, the topics of the
day, and she emerges int womanhood
in far too many instances a worshiper at
the shrine Of pleasure--a mere butterfly
of fashion.
AS positive defect in their character
we may set down their mental culture.
This was observable to some degree in
the subject matter, but more in the man.
ner of their education. Leading off the
youthful mind into studies and fields to
some extent unnecessary, but what was
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