The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-28
ARKANSAS LETTER.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE OPEN.
A Good Deal OF Sickness-Melancholy Re
Elections - Fatherly Advice-Ver-
nacular-State Commissioners
Small Appropriation.

LITTLE Rock, Sept. o. Correspond
ence. The public schools opened here
on the 18th inst. with increased attend
ance. Considerable sickness among
the children has prevailed, and num-
bers of the little ones have joined the
"silent majority" Alas! How painful
is the silence where little feet were
wont to patter and childish tongues to
prattle in innocent glee or mayhap dis
agreement. In our changelble fail
weather too much care can not he taken
OF the children. Let them into their
ilannels; keep their feet dry; be sure
their bodies are thoroughly
wash ID and dred-head md
heels inclusive under all circuln-
stances, at least once week-(do re.
member how the skin has been called
"the third lung,") and see to it that
when heated by play they do not throw
their coats and wraps upon the ground,
and themselves there toe, to catch GER
tain colds. "Dead! Gods will 10
DONE" means, many time, read from
the beginning, "Only a cold" with neg
ligence at both ends of it.
Another thing in regard to children
that calls for pity on the part of the com
passionate, is the turning Of the inno-
servants. The influence is wrong in
every way. Recently my heart was fired
with Indignation, AS day after day, was
obliged to notice the "uaTe" a dirty
young colOred girl took of her little
white charges, The baby was SWING
from high veranda, the nurse holding
1t only by its slim little hands, and when
it cried it was cruelty shaken or smuth-
cred in the folds Of her soiled, foul frock
Two other babies, three years and four,
perhaps, were fairly abused under cover
of II merry laugh, for the mother might
he'r. Lessons in immodesty were Civ
EN- and vicious habits engendered,
which Il lifetime can hardly etface.
Then listen to the style of speech Of
some Of the offspring of our most Gull
tured people. "Whero you goin' at?"
"LOok a yearw "Don' do that awayw
and so on almost ad iniinitum.
Mr. Norman f. FennO, general agent
ut Memphis of the Nickel Plate freight
line, died in this city the 18th. He leaves
| Il young wife and many friends who sin
cerely mourn his loss.
called meeting of the State COM
missiOners of the Arkansas department
of the Worlds Industrial and Centen-
! NAL Exposition, to be held i'm New Or
leans, was recently attended by the fol-
lowing members: A. Il. Jarman, chair
man. j. w. Corcoran, secretary and
treasurer; } Y. w. Tillar, G. NJ. Hervey
and II. X. Madison. Even with their
little $1,000 appropriation, there is a
prospect of our doing wonderful things
i'll New Orleans as elsewhere, for car
| kansas can't he boat"
Everybody fell in love with viii VII
lie, tho handsome, gentlemanly athlete,
who used up "the great unknown" at
the Capital Opera-hou,e, Tuesday night.
Last night an S-horse upright engine,
used In running a derrick for hosting
stone at tho new bridge works, eX-
ploded, severely injuring Phillip Dale,
the engineer, who bears his terrible
scalds with great forttu To-. The engine
and boiler were completely demoli shed.