Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-29
The Normal Entertainment.


Opera house, last Friday evening, that
being the date of the closing of the In
stitute. Besides the students present,
numbering more than a hundred, no
less than two hundred of the leading
citizens were present.
The affair was under the the direc-
ton of committee of citizens with p.
A. Simmons as master of ceremonies.
The address of welcome was deliver
ed by Hon. T. A. McNeal in his most
happy manner and his effort was gen.
erously applauded. The response was
by Ii. S. Landls who conducted the In
stitute and his remarks were appropri-
ate in every sense, and in the course of
his talk, he complimented the citizens
for their iberality and for the interest
they had shown in the work of the Insti-
tute and for their uniform kind treat
ment of the students in attendance.
THE School Marms = God Bless
En-" was the subject assigned to
Chester /. Long and his talk was the
hit of the evening. In substance he
said:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
That mans second thoughts are always best
has become almost proverbial. That Gods
second thoughts" are best has never been Sc
riously doubted since man has become civiliz-
cd and woman, as result, has ceased to be a
slave.
Man may plan and toll and and build, but not
until woman, with her artistic hand and her
words of cheer and sympathy has added her
labor TO his, has his success been assured and
his work complete and perfect.
| In war, man marshals the hosts in contest
and directs the agencies of destruction; but
women in field, hospital and prison, by her
ministering, womanly spirit causes the sick
and weary soldier to think of home and wife
and mother and to renew his courage. Often
when on the dreary march, do thoughts of the
little cottage far away amid the hills and dales
of home and the wife who lives therein, caus-
ed lighter heart and holder, more martial
spirit TO be found beneath the dusty belt and
Jacket.
While in the steady, sure advance of popula-
| ton I'm this Republic toward the west man
has pursued and killed the wild beast and the
| savage, woman has not waited until The soil
| has been cultivated and subdued, but side by
side with father, husband and brother she has
done her part to make the dug-out and sod
house on thelonely prairie coy, habitable and
homelike. Long, long before hard hearted toll
has given place to luxuries or comfort lhas
she done her life work as only woman can and
been laid away to rest In the little frontier
church yard, tenderly remembered and sadly
| mourned by children yho reap where she has
sown and gather where she has strewn
In war and in conquering this mighty west,
making it to bloom and blossom, she may have
followed man, but in one field of human effort
she has always led. She who is first at life and
last at death. is oftentimes the only teacher
She was always known to be the one designed
by God and nature to lead and teach the boy
from the time he first saw light until he was
six or seven, but from that time until he be-
came eighteen or twenty when he generally
selected one of the fair of earth to teach, and
rule over him ever after, it was not supposed
that woman could teach, rule, or control
him. All is changed She has been weighed in
the balance and found not wanting. She has
been permitted after many years to occupy
the place that God aud nature intended her to
occupy.
GOD Bless the School Marmr' God blessed
man when he made him. God blessed woman
when he made her out of man, and he blessed
the school marin when he made he out of
woman. But as the blessing which fell on
man and woman over six thousand years ago
has lost its potency, and its frequent renewal
is desirable, so may not also this second hand
blessing which the school marin received be
also losing its power? Some of us have thought
so in times long past. Many of the younger
boys might think so and doubt her having been
blessed at all.
But, we older boys that feel not the pleasure
or the pain that often attends a close commune
ion with her, but behold her from afar as she
goes to and from her daily labors, or attends
the too short month of the summer Institute,
can truly, fervently ask that she be blessed;
she needs it in her business. She needs it to
tighten and cheer her daily toll We also ask
it as protection from possibly selfish personal
motives; for can you blame her for so acting
that once a school marin, always a school
marin" has never become an adadge? If she
chooses the best from among be numerous OPP
pOrtunities and exchange her large promiscll-
GUS school for one more select, with one pupil
that does not promise. but nevertheless does
obey her, implicitly, can you censure her?
Then ulet us tonight ask God to bless the
school marin, for to her and our mothers we
owe what we are. To her and our mothers does
this nation, great. grand and all powerful.
|
thrills the blood and fires the heart of the dull
est man, owe its greatness, it's strength and
its power. And as long as its citizens have
such teachers so long will liberty, freedom and
home the attendant Goddesses of the Repub-
lie be ours to enjoy and ours to transmit to pos
terity,
This was responded to by Mrs. S. E.
Wisner, of Sharon, who has at all times
been greatly interested in educational
, work. Mrs. Wisner also read a humer-
GUS selection for the edifcation of the
audience, and she was loudly applaud
ed.
81 Short addresses were made by Prof
j. +. Cook, his subject being :" AS the
Twig is Bent, the Tree is Inclined;n by
Prof. o. I. Beeson on " Our Normal OF
the Future, and by Prof. J. N. Wilcox
on "The Hoosier School Master
Refreshments were then served or
tables in the hall, the students being
the first to be served and afterward:
: the citizens partaking.
, The floor was cleared and to the mu
sic of Conlisk's orchestra, the youns
people enjoyed pleasant dance unit
long after midnight.
Altogether the occasion was one t.
be remembered. 1t gave the student.
: an idea of Medicine Lodge hospitality
and 1t gave the citizens an opportunit,
OF coming in contact with the finished
, and polished gentlemen and ladies VIII,
are to instruct the young of Barber
county.
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