The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-30
Is Doing for Eer
Is she Done for
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EDzl recent address Of
Gen. 8 b u the A. a d.
Collere he s..Itlo.t liat one hundred dollars
vas sufficient to defray all the expenses Of .
student for one year. Many students. By
their osn laEor, paid at least half Of their
expenses. Whit grand opening for poor
boys IN the rural districtsl
boy with : sound constitution and in
dustrions habits can obtain ten dollars per
month. with board as farm hand. In
twelve months he will have accumulated one
hundred and twenty dollars. By his own in
dis nv he can obtain an education at Stark
visls. So n1uch has Mississippi done for
heF boYss Let rs see how times are with
her poor. ambitious girls.
In the rural districts. as q farm hand or
help about the home. she can obtain nve
dollars month. and at the end of twelve
months she will have accumulate sixty dol
lars, or Just half the amount of the boys
wages. She wishes 70 obtain higher ed
ucation What has the state done for her!
.sWhat College viii give her board and tui-
ton for years wages. She is only
voman-what business has she with Rmbl-
ton Let her plod on and be content
with a few months or a year in thu Public
school
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ton to form pubic opinion, who say that
State Industrial Academy will do the
poor no goo1i They argue. the State can
not educate ali, why shoald she educate
/ any .IThere ignorance is bliss, tbs folly to
| be wise" is the creed of these loglclans.
Strange, the Legislature did not think OF
this when she appropriated monies to Ok
/ ford, Starkville, Alcorn, Tougaloo and State
| Normal School! Were they 50 ignorant
| as to think that they had provided for the
education of every boy in the State! These
| colleges which are only educating portion
| of our male population, let US tear them
down! Let US take these appropriations
and create perfect system OF public
schools! Let US give our county superin-
tendents fat salaries! Let Us have compul-
sorry education and force everybody's boys
and girls to go to school together. This Is
! liberty, equality, fraternity Viye MIssls-
sippi! If We judge some men BY Their
acts, this is their creed; if they were wo-
men how ridiculous they would seem. Oh,
what multitude of shortcomings pair
of pantaloons will cover!
| A State Female Academy Where are
| all of the good church schools? Oh, what
ffutter among friends of UNCONVENTIONAL
schools! Be at rest, good friends. The
| PROPOSED Academy will not take single
| scholar from one of your institutions. Our
needs are great, and there is plenty of room
| for YOU all. How can an Industrial Acad-
envy. where students are taught no art,
s,ience, or trades, to enable them to make
living, possibly conflict with a cole
giate course of education! Ii will iniure
no good school, but will enable many poor
girls to obtain remunerative work.
There is class of men who oppose this
Academy. These men STRAIT around the
streets drinking, smoking and talking about
other peoples affairs. They say, Ny wife
shouldn't do this or that'-trace them
home and but too often my wife, is doing
drudgery that he would not dare exsct of
servant. The money he squanders is
often her earnings; his immaculate shirts
are washed by her hands. The food he
eats, she cooks, and not unfrequsntly she
blacks his boots! My wife shouldn't worn
on salaryr' No, indeed!
The old fogies are opposed to State In
dustrisl school. They tell us of good old
times when gallant men Worshiped at the
shrine of lovely women, and decked her
in jewels and lace, and they have vague
idea that the wheel of fortune will turn
and put us in the same stage of society as
existed thirty years ago. Alas, these old
ACS dAO uoACOPs oAA0 n SCuAo oNoAS
would be as much discontinued as Rip Van
| Wrinkle.
There is yet another class of men who
have come under our observation who claim
| that women should have all the rights OF
men under the law, yet they never are
caught doing anything more than little
pretty talk. They make pretty little
speeches at banquets, advocate woman's
rights in the parlors, scatter compliments
like sugar p.ums, smile and bow, and we
ale and bow in return, as if we believed
hem.
We admire brave m n, and the bravest
and best we know are those who regard
woman as the helpmeet of man. They are
not willing that she shall drudge and grovel
in ignorance, maxim One-third more num-
Der of hours and receiving one-half the
wages of man. They are ready to lend
her a helping hand, and favor widen
ing the sphere of her labor until she can
obtain remunerative labor.
Mr.. Editor, sometimes think the Choc- |
taws left their shadows behind them, and |
that great many Mississippi men are |
under its baleful pail. We all know the /
life Choctaw squaw leads. She takes all |
of the burden of the family, baskets,
blankets, papPoose, on her we lry shoulders,
while her proud brave stalks before with
gun and powder horn. She furnishes the
money for fire water and food. Happy
squaw! Mrs. o. A. HASTINGS.
st. Elmo, Claiborne Co., Miss.