Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
EDITED BY Mrs. 3. v. MILES.
HThat our Daughters may be as Cor
rer Stones, Polished after the
Similarity OF a Palace"


Similarity OF a Palace
q expected better things Of her, but
then, poor woman, she never knewthe
ways of the world" is the expression
often heard when women fail to make.
a financial success of affairs bequeath-
ed them by an indulgent- husband or
father. Knowledge'of the ways ofthe
world and disciplined executive abllitA
are two distinct qualifications While
the first is best learned by hard Knocks
that coming in contact with public life
insures, the other exercising the power
in cultivating plans that make'all the
minor details Of life a success. Childrent
taught to reason then exercising this
power makes obedience predominant
volition. This in turn makes them tie
master Of any situation. He who O.
beys well rules well. Habituated dis
cipline nerves them to struggle with
opportunity and battle with circum-
stance only yielding to the inevitable.
Were our daughters taught domestic
and political economy and civil govern
ment as universally as our sons are
they would not succumb to the "ways
of the world" and make wrecks OF bus
mess undertakings. Give them the
same incentive, the ballot, and the de-
sire to master the situation will ac-
quire the end. The feminine world
will be talked Of for what they say
rather than what they wear. Our
schools are filled with devotees of Mi
nerva, each answering to present cir
cumstances. Those whose limited
means, limits time for study, .grasps the
branch that will take him to the desir-
ed goal-a livelihood. This may seem
more expeditions than wise, building
upon narrow foundation. Still by
the power Of making the means SUBJ
serve the end, a change of base only in
dicates different direction. with the
same happy result. Adversity too Of
ten is the only incentive to a purpose
of action, and the more especially so
with girls, resting as they improperly
do to the maze Of matrimony, overlook
ing the fact that this uncomfortable
sea often precipitates them to greater
depths of necessity or on the neither
current strands them for want Of ex-
ecutive ability to rise. Every member
OF the family should be taught to be
self-supporting. When the proper
time calls to stand, they are there firm
and true. THERE'S nothing calculated
to give strength Of character and self
reliance as self.dependence, and this
should be exercised whether necessary
or otherwise. The time is coming
when self-supporting women will be
the rule instead of the exception.
When clear brain and undaunted
courage demands recompense for worth
and the strange woman is unknown OH
the streets because of cowradice and
wrong.
There are now one hundred and
twenty counties in Georgia gone
for prohibition leaving only eighteen
outside the temperance ranks
Mrs. III. M. Barker, Territorial Prs
ident Of Dakota w. c. T.U. has just
returned from very successful trip to
the Black Hills, Annual Territorial
Convention at Aberdeen is postponed
till 3rd. week in September, Is, 16, II,
r. Us.
Rev. II. d. Wizard, Supt. American
Home Missionary Society, will favor
washington Springs with temper
ance lecture, sometime soon, under the
auspices of the Pioneer Union. Look
out for time and place which will be
duly announced, and don't fail to hear
him. You will miss a rich treat in
this line it you do.
| And still the people live and learn,
down in Missouri as elsewhere, that
we have the best talent OF the day in
the temperance ranks. Says Mrs. Bos
worth, of the temperance camp-meet
ing, held in Kirkville, many who were
a little incredulous did not go out the
first day, and thus did not hear Col
Barnes address. When Sam Jones
was announced some held off with "it's
not the real Sam. JONES'" It is not q
farce we are acting in this. great dra
ma, but scenes that will grace the pa
iges of history for all time to come.
On September 2, 3, 4 and 5, the Meth
odist convention or camp meeting in
Guiding the fourth quarterly meeting
will be held at Washington Springs as
announcer by Rev. J. Trewartha, moi
long since. All Methodists in Jeraul(
county are requested to be present, an(
| all who are interes. ed are invited to at