The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-02-10

II is nafd Tor men 10 earn living in this
day, but it is harder for Women-their health
not so rugged, their arms not so strong, their
opportunities fewer. These persons, after
trembllngly going through the ordeal of an
examination as to their qualifications to teach,
hait-beWildered step over the sill of the public
school to do two things-lnstruct the young
and earn their own bread. Her work is wear
ing to the last degree The management OF
forty or fifty fdgety and intractable children,
the suppression of their vices and the
development of their excellencies, the manage
ment of rewards and punishments, the
sending of so many bars Of soap and fne-toOth
combs on benignant ministry the breaking OF
so many wild colts for the harness of life,
sends her home at night weak, neuralgia, un-
! strung, so that of all the weary people in your
cities for five nights Of the week, there are
none more weary than the public school teach
| ers. Now, for Gods sake, give them a fair
| chance. Throw no obstacles in the way. If
they come out ahead in the race, cheer them
! II you want to snite any, smite the male
teachers; they can take up the cudgels
for themselves. But keep your hands off of
| defenseless women. Father may be dead but
| there are enough brothers left to demand and
| see that they get justice.
Within stones throw of this building
| died years ago one of the principals of our
| public schools. She had been thirty-tve years
R< that post. She had left the touch of refine
ment on a multitude of the young. She had
| OuG VI HtI SIcHueI purse gwen literary
thousands OF dollars for the destitute who
came under her observation as a school teach
er. A deceased sisters children were thrown
upon her hands, and she took care of them.
She was a kind mother to them, while she
mothered a whole school, worn out with
nursing in the sick and diving room of one of
the household, she herself came to die. She
closed the school book and at the same time
the volume of her Christian fidelity; and when
she went through the gates, they cried:
These are they who came out of great tribu-
lation, and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb"
Queens are all such, and whether the world
Acknowledges them or II OF, heaven acknOwl-
edges them. When ScarrOn the wit, and eccle-
slastic, as poor as he was brilliant, was about
10 marry Madame de Maintenon, he was
asked by the notary what he proposed to
settle upon Mademoiselle. The reply was:
immortality the names of the wives of
kings Ole with them; the name of the wife of
Scarron will live always" In higher and
better sense upon all women who do their
duty God will settle immortality! Not the i'm
morality of earthly fame, which is mortal, but
the immortality celestial Aud they shall
reign foreverI Oh the opportunity which
every woman has of being a queen The longer
live the more | admire good womanhood.
And have come to form my opinion of the
character OF man by his appreciation or non
appreciation of woman. If man have a de-
man, and there is no exception to the rule.
The writings of Goethe can never have any
such attractions for me as Shakspere, because
nearly all the womanly characters OF the Ger
man nave some kind of turpitude. There is
his Mariana, with her Claudestine schemlng,
and his Mignon, of evil parentage yet worse
than her ancestors and his Theresa, the
brazen. and his Aurelia of many ntrgues
and his Philina, the termigant, and his Me-
lima, the furnished, and his Baroness, and his
countess, and there is seldom a womanly
in all his vOluminOus writings that
would be worthy of residence in a respectable
coal cellar, yet pictured, and dramatized, and
till all the literary world is com
PEELED to see. No No. Give me William
Shakspere's idea of woman; and l see it in
Desdemona, and Cordelia, and Rosaind, and
lmOgen, and Helena, and HermOne and Vio-
la, and Isabella, and Sylvia and Perdita, all
OF them with enough faults to prove them
human, but enough kindly characteristics to
give us another idea of womanhoOd, his Lady
Macbeth ouly dark background to bring out
the supreme loneliness of his other female Guar
acters On, women of America rise to your OBJ
Be no slave to pride or worldliness,
Or sin. Why ever crawl in the dust when
you can mount a thrones? Be queens unto
God forver. Hail Vashti
Again: | want you to consider Vashti the
yelled. Had she appeared before Abasuerus
and his court on that day. with her face I'M
covered, she would have shocked all the deli
,acies of Oriental society, and the very men
who i'll their intOXication demanded that she |
come, in their sober moments would have de- |
plsed her. AS some flowers seem to thrive |
pest in the dark lane and in the shadow, and |
where the sun does not seem to reach them. so |
Iou appoints to most womanlY natures a re- |
iring and unObstructve spirit. God once in |
while does call an Isabella to a throne, or a |
Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front of a
losf, or Marie Antoinette to quell French |
mob, or Deborah to stand at the front of an
rmed battalion, crying out: Up! Up! This |
$ the day in which the Lord will deliver Sisera
ntO thy hands," And when women are called
o such outdoor work, and to such heroic DO
itiOns, God prepares them for it, and they
ave iron in their soul, and lightnings In their
yes, and whirlwinds in their breath, and the
borrowed strength Of the Lord Omnipotent in
heir right arm. They walk through furnaces
S though they were hedges Of Wild-fOWers,
nd cross seas as though they were simmer
ng sapphres, and all the harpies of hell sink
own to their dungeon at the stamp of their
indignation. But these are excep-
ions. Generally, DOrcas would rather make
garment for the poor boy; Rebecca would
ather fill the trough for the camels; Hannah
.ould rather make coat for Samuel; the
Hebrew maid would rather give a prescrip-
ion for Mammals leprOsy; the woman of
ooh a meal for famished Elijah; Phebe would
ather carry letter for the inspir-
d Apostle; Mother Lois would rather
ducate Timothy in the Scriptures When I
ee woman going about her daily duty
nth cheerful dignity presiding at the table:
nth kind and gentle, but firm, discipline
residing in the nursery, going out into the
'orld without any blast of trumpets follow
II in the footsteps of Him who went about
Ding good say: This is Vashti with a
ell on" But when | see woman of I'M
lushing boldness, lOud-voced, with a tongue
infinite Glitter CHATTER, with arrogant look.
assing through the streets with a masculine
wing gayly arrayed in a very hurricane of
Millinery cry out: "Eashti has lost her
Ell. " When / see a woman struggling for
Official preferment, and rejecting the duties
home as insignificant, and thinking the
ttices OF wife, mother and daughter of no
Importance, and trying TO force her wav on IN
ltO conspicuity, | say: "Ah, what pity:
ashti has lost her veil" When see 4 w0-
ian of comely features and of adroitness Of
ltenect and endowed with all that the
chools can do for one. and Of high social pos
lion, yet moving in society with supercilious- .
esS aud hauteur, as though she would have I
eople know their place, and an underlined .
ombinatiOn of giggle. and strut and rodom. /
ntade, endowed with allOpathlc quantities Of .
ak, but only homeopathic infnitesimaIs Of .
ense the terror Of dry goOlS clerks and rail- Z
bad conductors, discoveries Of significant
leanings In plain conversation, pr0dgies OF
adness and innuendo-I say: ''Vashti has
st her VEIL
D. Il.