The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-08
Girls Who are Useful.

The notion that girl, are too delicate to
be useful is limited to comparatively
small part Of the globle. Throughout
Asia, Africa and in large portions even
of Europe and America, there prevails
an old belief that they are born to labor.
In Turkestan and on tho Tartar e,eppes
the Kirghese Sultans and their daughters
and prncesses, in whose veins flows the
blood of long lines of kings, still milk
the sheep, COWS and goats, and perform
the menial Offices Of the household, as
the Sauscrit maidens did six thousand
years ago in the same localities They
cook, take care of the smaller children
make garments, cure the skins Of the
wild fowl, with the feathers on, for caps,
spin cotton, weave cloth and tan leather
by means of sour milk. In this delect-
able region the mothers wear rich attire
while the daughter Coca in humber
weeds, like Cinderella. If there is a
piano the mother plays on it in the front
room Of the tent, while the daughter
brews the k0umiss, stews the mutton and
brols the camel chops in the back kitch
en-. This is the benighted condition of
patriarchaI people who adhere to nearly
absolete theory of filial duty. Similar
ideas prevail throughout India. China
aud among the native tribes of Siberia,
who have been driven nothward by
aggressive neighhors. The TungusiaD
girl gathers the snow. melts it, makes the
tea and soup, fish sews, and, being skiful
in archery, helps to keep the larder sup
piled with game. The Yakut and Sem.
ovedc maidens, and al! who dwell along
the Arctic ocean, help in summer to lay
up winter supplies, and in winter to per.
form all necessary domestic duties. The
Abyssinian girl grinds corn in the simple
mills in use in that country. The Kaflir
girl weaves baskets and draws water.
The girls in the other part Of the dark
continent pulverize the grain, weave
mate, make earthern vessels, aud are the
hatters Of their tribe. The theories of
the tribes and nations of Asia and Africa
are shared by the Indians of North and
South America, who compel the young
girls to learn the duties and hardships of
life at an early age.-Boston Transcript.
- The reason for badness is that peo.
pie desire to be clear headed.
1t is proposed to ask Congress for
$4,000 to pay 800 special policemen du
ring Inauguration week.
~ A Father and son are under sen.
tence of death in q Louisiana prison,
and for separate and distinct murders.
No wonder shirts are cheap. The
New York Herald has discovered firm
in that city which gels shirts made at
two and half cents each. The maker,
Silesiap, with his wife and one helper,
worked almost night and day from
November 26 to December 9, and during
that time made 29l shirts, for which they
received the munificent sum of 1878 or
deduct the car fares in taking the shirts
to the employers, 1858 GOD help the
poor.
= The Rev. R. Heber Newton, of
New York. has succeeded in causing
quite flutter in religious circles. In a
recent sermon DR.. Newton boldly ques-
toned the sanity of Christ. He said
that the idealist commanded attention
only 80 long az he gave no cause to doubt
his sanity. He should be followed only
when there was no mistrust that he had
not lost his way In the clouds. Christ,
the prince of idealists, DR.. Newton said,
might have lost his head in his in,agin
ings his mind might have become con-
fused and hiR feet lifted from tho
ground. DR.. Newton was accused Of
heterodoxy year ago because be denied
the divine authorship of the Bible. it is
believed that he will now be expelled
from the Protestant Episcopal Church.