The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-14
BERRY BAKER.

I'd rather be little girl In Sun
day school with good lesson than
anything l know of except a big
girl getting ready to marry the man
of my own choice. Capt. Gooch
used to say two of the prettiest
things be ever saw was little girl
dressed in red and peach tree in
full bloom. He was man of sound
Judgment. The question naturally
arises, how do menfolks know what
the womenfclks want unless they
(women) let their wants be known,
and every fourth year is set apart
for that special purpose in which
they can make arrangements and
engagements, &c, three years in
advance if they see proper? Moth
ing wrong about that; they should
take time oy the forelock and get
the full benefit of their first rights.
1t is right guaranteed to them by
custom, hence they should claim it.
If l was q girl I'd work up all the
matrimonial timber that was fifteen
10 work, and when l found my "fel-
Ter" wouldn't keep any longer, then
I'd marry and settle him down to
Business after short wedding tour
seross the plains of connubial de
1ghtfulness sorter to train him in;
and the best time to train him to
your iikin' is when you first put the
matrimonial bride on him. l hope
you will pardon me if l should use
snv references or quotations.
have to do so frequently in order to
carry nv "pint." In fact, | don't
know anything only what l have
learned from other folks, what little
/ have gathered from books and
what have acquired from animal
instinct. l suppose your ma got
the man she wanted. If she didn't
she is the best secret keeper l ever
saw. She and | married before she
was big enough for any other man
to come to see 'er; even her ma
thought she was too little. This is
one thing young folks are better
Judges of than old ones. Now,
girls, if you let this year pass I'M
improved the fault iieth at your
own door. My opinion is, the foun-
dation of many bachelor has been
laid on leap years. If this is che
case the responsibility will rest very
heavily on somebody. Girls, do
YOUR best and if there should he a
bachelor born in the year 1888 your
conscience will be clear and the
blame will be on him. II he refu
SEES all proposals he will be guilty
of leaving the gap down, and if there
is family minus at 'roll call" he
will be chargable with it.
Sunday schools now are not like
thew were when | was boy. The
only thing In which they resemble
is that we would frequently have
our Sunday schools on Sunday. We
have them all on Sunday now ex
cept the Sunday school picnic; VIC
have that on Friday sometimes
We didn't have them where ! lived
when l was little. There is consid'
cradle Improvement in the method
of teaching Sunday school litera-
ture, department and wardrobe fix
lures. 1t is keeping pace with rail
roads, teIegraphy, telephones an6
mans pocket book. The ligh
which is eminating from it and tn
rays that are penetrating the minds
of the children, as well as the olde
ones. are abreast with the wonderful
electric light which illulhiDates GU
homes, lights up our streets, cite
and thoroughfares after Joshua
pet' retires for the night. Ih
Sunday school is the Lords wor
shop where the timber is receive
in the rough, shaped, fitted and pol
ished for the mansion above. 1t
the ante-chamber of heaven-n
nearer view nor shorter route t
paradise than through the Sunda
school. If we could pull the doc
aiar and take peep in the gres
Sunday school beyond the river W
would see Baptists, Methodist
Cumberlands, Presbyterians, CAM
bellites, Episcopalians, etc., thel
who were taught the way in OF
Sunday schools here. Here we al
bigcted and egotistical-we rIgl
and everybody else wrong. Whe
we get there we will learn that OIL
ers were right as well as us. SUI
pose we turn round and look
ourselves and see If we amt wror
some too, and If so, right that wroi
right away. My son, give yo'
cousin Phranque my best regar'
and tell him I'd be delighted to CT
on him and will do so as soon
Sally is SO shat l can leav'er.
BERRY BAKER.