The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23

! -foindi CLASS. IN THIS department, as
elsewhere, an admirable lecture system
prevails. The pupils, as in mems uni
versities, study IN their rooms or where
they please, only visiting classrooms at
lesson or lecture hours.
One of the most cultured young wo-
men of Columbus, Miss Pauline Orr, in
very truth representative young South
ern girl, Is Professor OF English Litera
ture, Language and Elocution. Miss
Orr's lectures on literature are said to be
quite delightful. Crossing over into the
Main Building we found ourselves in the
sunny halls of the domain of the accom-
plished matron, Mrs. Anna Short A
class in dressmaking occupied one deep
| window, and q class in ornamental
needlework another. And as we passed
| down the long halls we had pleasant
| glimpses into cheerful rooms where girl
students were bending az their tasks,
coming lessons in algebra, problems in
geometry, designs in wood-carving and
repousse, as they sat in the peaceful
| security of their private apartments.
| In the laundry, where the ironing room
! is presided over by gentle-voieed little
| lady, were eight or ten young women
putting in odd hours ironing. How
prettily flushed were the young faces !
What keen, brave Young eyes were lifted
to mine in gentle greetingi
Many a great man boasts that he
worked his way through college. Ten
years from now many a distinguished
woman will tell to her little eager world
how she, at ironing board and with
scrubbing brush, helped work her way
through college; and those who listen
will know that when she bent at these
simple tasks, the brave hearted, un-
ashamed young worker was a pioneer
for all women, wherever there are wO-
men to work and well-loved ones to
keep.
At o'clock 215 young women filed
into the dining hall A long array Of
health and beauty and courage and in
tellect they seemed. A bonny, whole
some lot of well-born young women
| representing creditably their State.
| Ten girls were seated at each table.
Two young ladies waited On the whole
| dining-roomful, but as the food had al
ready been served, their dnties were
F., not heavy. An impressive recognition
| of the power of woman's tongue Is
manifest in the fact that these young
ladies are not permitted to talk while
! in the dining room. On the day before
| Thanksgiving the housekeeper, Mrs
! Edwards-to whose wonderful manage
ment the ample success of the college Is
so largely due-got up in chair after
| dinner and called for young ladies will
ling to prepare Thanksgiving turkeys.
| She offered to pay ten cents for each
turkey, and thirty young women pre-
sented themselves. These girls, many
raised in luxurious homes, and never
having known the first letters of the
alphabet of work, killed, picked and
| dressed, ready for the cooks, each a
turkey. Each one of the girls could
say it was the first money she had earned
in her life.
At the close of dinner all left the
dining-room save the three girls from
each table whose duty it is to wash
| the dishes and put the room in order, a
work that is finished always in half an
! hour.
Summing up a visit to this college, it
will be seen that the institution has 300
pupils in charge of President, twelve
professors and a matron. Not only are
these girls being subjected to rigorous
and wholesome course OF collegiate
studies, but each and every one of them
is perfecting herself in some industry
that will always give her the means OF
earning an Independent livelihood.
The college opened on the 22d of Octo-
ber with 300 pupils. So far 1T has
proved to be a successful, healthful,
admirably conducted institution. 1t Is
pervRded, in classroom and private
apartment, in social hall and parlor, by
an unmistakable atmosphere of refine
ment The dominant sentiment that
animates coilegian and professor is one
of nobility and high mindeduess. 1t has
already been proved in this college that
a voman's sense of honor is no less high
than a mans Throughout all these
halls one feels the gracious, charm
ing presence of woman and is consciou;
of her subtle influences for good, of her
instructive refinement, gentleness and
courtesy that no ambition nor learning
) nor famous station can divorce from
her.
Now that the college is fairly under
way the Mississippians generally ex
hibit patriotic pride in it. They are
conscious they have taken the n ost pro
nounced step of any State in the Union
in behalf of women. They have an
|, nounced by a most noble act that they
, , recognize no sex in intellect. They have
opened the doors of great college ano
training school and have said to the girh
, of Mississippi, take your rightful places
in the world as intelligent, skilled work
, women; become in training the equal O
YOUR brother. Accept independence
And when this college was thrown oper
and its great doors were set wide, oh
what an eager, restive throng besieged 1
|, at once. How the young ones clamoret
! at its gate-fully hundred more ap
piled that could not be accommodated II
the dormitory. Not all who came coult
pass the examinations, and many wer'
e cent away sadly. Mere than one young
thing hungry for wider lie, for an un
: known culture, begged not to be sen
: back. More than one girl sent out tn
Z pitiful cry that ii it was not the college
? it would be the cotton field that woul'
become her fate in life.
The cry and the story of the young
Il girls clamors for the benefieent cul
e ture and training of the college me
L with a response from the wives an
IS mothers of the State, that was as nobl
and as brave as that of any Sparta
woman whose fame is crystalized !
e history. And at once these MISSISSIPPI
u women began to organize county indus
q trial loan associations. These count
associations are branches OF slmlia
e State institution of which Miss Ellie
y Martin, Professor in the college, Is Pres
y dent Each member pays into the ss'
q ciation a yearly fee of one dollar, an
the SUN thus collected is lent to som
n deserving girl to pay her way in the co
ut lege while she perfects herself In son
I'd industrial branch. When the pupil b;
ct finished her course, and by its meal
1e become self supporting, she may If I
to clined. pay back the sum SO mob
ey loaned and it will serve to fit some 9TH
ge girl for the stern duties of living. v
NJ hear great talk of what the women OF u
ms North and West sre doing for the Sc
ir- But all along the line of women worker
er from Maine to Mexico, there must fias
to an electric thrill of pride in this work
k; the Mississippi women who have iisten'
en- to the cry of the young and strugglll
ly. and who have extended to them firi
IN, sweet hand 1t makes one feel that
one were in want or trouble in sad hes
~, and desolation one could turn, on,
da gladly, to the women of Mississippi |
of help-to the Mary's amounting hea
he and healing wounds.
ity - CATHARINE Cole.
Try
an, Had Her Teeth Put Back