Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-06

woman is queen" and the ranks OF
heaven look over the battle ments upo1
the coronation; and whether she come up
from the shsntY on the commons or the
mansion CT the fashionable square,
greet her with the shout: "AlI hail!
Queen Vashti." What glory was
tne!e on the brow OF Mary OF
Scotland, or Elizabeth Of England,
or Margaret Of France, or Catherine OF
Russis, compared with the worth of some
| of our Christian mothers, many OF them
gone into glory ?-or CT that woman men
toned in the scriptures, who put her Gil
| into the Lords ;ressury?-or OF Jeph-
thah's daughter, who made 8 demonetra-
ton Of uDseIfsh pstriotlsm?-or of Abb
| gail, who rescued the he,ds and fOcks OF
| her husband?-or of Ruth, who
toied under d tropical sun for poor
| old helpless Nsomi?-or of Mrs. Adom-
rain Judson, who kindled the lights oil
salvation amid the darkness of Burmah?
or of Mrs. HemEns, who poured out
| her holy soul in words which will forever
| be associated with hunters horn, and
csptive's chain, and bridal hour, and
lute's throb, and cuIfew's knen at the
dying day?-snd scores and hundreds OF
women, unknown on earth, who have
given water to the thirsty, and bread to
the hungry, and medicine to the sick, and
smiles TO the discoursged-their foot
steps heard along dark lane, and in gov
eminent hospital, ana in slms-house cor
ridor, and by prison-gate? There may be
no royal robe-there may be no
PALATIAL sURRoUNDIEGs.
Sue does not need them; for all Charts
BILE men will unite with the cracking lips
of fever-struck hospital and plague
blotched lszTetto in greeting her SIS she
passes: Hail! nail Q1een Vsshti."
Among the queens whom honor are
the female day-school teachers Of this
land. 1 put upon their brow the coronet.
They are the sisters and the daughters OF
our towns and cities, selected out Of a
vast number Of applicants, because OF
their especial Intellectual and moral Ell =
| doWments. There are in none of your
homes woa en- more worthy. These per
sons, some OF them, come out frl II
sffluent homes, choosing teaching as
useful profession; Others, finding
that father is older tnan he used to be,
and thSt his eyeslght and strength are not
SIS good as once, go to teaching to tighten
his load. But tell you the history OF
the majority of the female teachers in the
| public schools when l say: "FAther is
dead After the estate was settled the
| family, that were comfortable before, are
thrown on their own resources.
It Is hard for men to earn living IN
this day, but it is harder for women
their health not 50 rugged, their arms
not so strong, their opportunities fewer.
These persons, after tremblingly going
through the ordeal of an examination as
to their qualifications to teach, hslf-be-
Wildered step over the sill of the public
school TO do two things-instruct the
young and earn their own brest. Her
work is wearing tosthe last degree. The
management OF forty or fifty ldgety and
intractable children, the suppression
of their vices and the de-
velopment Of their excellencies, the man
agement of rewards and punishments, the
sending Of SO many bars OF soap and fine
tooth combs on benignant ministry, the
breaking of so many wild colts for the
harness Of life, sends her home st night
wesk, neuralgia, unstrung, 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 teachers.
Now, for Gods sake, give them fair
chance. Throw no obstacles ia the Wsy.
Ii they come out ahead In the race, cheer
them. II you want to smite snY, smite
the male teachers; they can take up the
cudgels for themselves. But keep your
baads of Of
DBPENsELEss WOMEN.
Father may be dead, but there are enough
brothers left to demand and see that they
get !dstice.
Within stones throw of this building
there died, years ago, one of the princi-
pals OF our public schools. She had been
twenty-five years at that post. She had
left the touch of refinement on multi
tude Of the young. She had, out Of her
slender purse, given literally thousands
Of dollars for the destitute who
came under her observation IS q
school teacher. A deceased sisters chill
dren were thrown upon her hands, and
she took care of them. She was kind
mother to them, while she mothered 3
whole school. Worn out with nursing ia
the sick snd dying 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 f1del-
lily; and when she went through the
gates, they cried: "Thess are. they who
came out of gre at tribulstion, and had
their robes washed snd made white in the
blood of The Lamb"
Queens are all such, and whether the
world acknowledges them or not, heaven
acknowledges them. When Scarron, the
Wit and ecclesisstic, as poor as he was
brilliant, WAS about to marry Madame de
Maintenon, he was asked by the
notary Whist he proposed to settle
upon Mademoiselle. The reply was:
Immortality the names of the wives of
kings die with them; the name of the
wire Of Scarron will live always In 8
higher and better sens, upon all women
who do their duty, GOD will settle i'm
mortslity! Not the Immortality of
earthly fame, which is mortal, but the
immortality celestial. And they shall
reign forever and ever. On, the oppor-
tunity which every woman has of being
s queen! The longer live the
more 1 admire good womanhood.
And have come to form my opinion of
the character of man by his apprecia-
ton or non-eppreciaiion of woman. II s
man have depressed idea of womanly
character he is a bad man, and there is
no exception TO the rule. The writings
Of Goethe cSn never have any such at
fractions for me as ShAkspere, because
nearly all the womaRly characters of the
great German have some kind of turpi-
tude. There is his Mariana, with
HER CLANDRsTINE sCHEMING,
ond his Mignon, Of evil plrentege, and
yet worse than her ancestors, and his
There's, the braZen, and his Aurelis OF
many intrigues, and his Philins, the ter