Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-10

gone INTO SIOfyr-Or Vi tneb hOuah ueu-
toned in the scriptures, who pat her all
into the Lords treasury?-or OF Jeph-
thah's daughter, who msde demonstra-
ton OF unselfish patriotism2-or OF Abb
gail, who rescued the herds and Hooks OF
her husband?-or of Ruth, who
toiled under q tropical sun for poor
old helpless Nsomi?-or OF Mrs. Adom-
rain Judson, who kindled the lights OF
salvation amid the darkness OF Burmah?
or of Mrs. HemRns, who poured out
her holy soul in words which will forever
be associated with hunters horn, and
captive's chain, and bridal hour, and
lute's throb, and cuIfew's knell at the
dying day?-and 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, ana
amiles to the Recommendation foot
steps heard along dSrk lane, and in gov
eminent hospital, and in alms-house cor
ridor, and by prison-gate? There may be
no royal robe-there may be no
PALATIAL SURROUNDINGS.
She does not need them; for all Charts
BILE men will unite with the cracking lips
of fever-struck hospital and plague
blotched l.zaretto in greeting her as she
passes: "Hail! hail! Queen Vashti."
Among the queens whom l 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 cites, selected out CT
vast number of applicants, because OF
their especial Intellectual and moral en-
doWments. There are in none OF your
homes Voc en- more worthy. These per-
CONS, some of them, come out trtm
affluent homes, choosing teaching as
a useful profession; others, finding
that father is older than he used to be,
and that mis- eyesight and strength are not
as good as once, go to teaching to tighten
his load. But l tell you the history OF
the majority of the female teachers in the
public schools when l say: "Fsther is
dead" After the estate was settled the
family, thst were comfortable before, are
thrown on their own resources.
It is hard for men to earn living IN
this Gay, but it is harder for women
their health not so rugged, their arms
not SO strong, their opportunities fewer.
These persons, after tremblingly going
through the ordeal Of Sn examination So
to their qualifications to teach, half-ba-
WildeTed step over the sill of the public
school to do two things-instruct the
young and earn their own bread. Her
work is wearing toathe last degree. The
management of forty or fifty fdgety and
intractable children, the suppression
of their vices and the de-
vslopment of their excellepcies, 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 lie, sends her home at night
Weak, neuralgia, unstrung, so that OF all
the Wesry 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 in the way.
II they come out ahead In the race, cheer
them. II you want to smite aDy, smite
the male teachers; they can take up the
cudgels for themselves. But keep your
haads Of of
DBFENsKLKss WOMEN.
Father may be desd, but there are enough
brothers LETT to demand and see that they
get justice.
Within q stones throw Of this building
there died, years ago, one Of the priuci-
| psIs of our public schools. She had been
| twenty-five years at that post. She had
left The touch of refinement on a multi
tude of the young. She had, out Ct her
slender purse, given literally thousands
Of dollars for the destitute who
came under her observation as 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 a
whole school. Worn out with nursing in
the sick and 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 fdel
ity; and when she went through the
gates, they cried: "These are they who
came out of great tribdlation, aud had
their robes washed and 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
brillisnt, was about to marry Madame dc
Mainsenon, he WAS asked by the
notary what he proposed to settle
upon Mademoiselle. The reply was
Immortality! the names Of the wives Of
kings die with them; the name of the
vile of Scarron will live always" In q
higher and better sense, upon all women
who do their duty, God will settle i'm
mortality Not the Immortality Of
earthly fame, which is mortal, but the
Immortality celestial. And they shall
reign forever and ever. Oh, the oppor.
tunity which every woman has Of being
q queen! The longer I live the
more 1 admire good womanhood
And have come to form my opinion Of
the character of man by his apprecis.
ton or transportation of womsn. II 8
msn have depressed idea Of womsnly
character he is bad man, and there is
no exception to the rule. The writings
of Goethe can never have any such at.
trSctions for me as Shakspere, because
nearly all the womaRly characters of the
great German have some kind of turpi
tude. There is his Msrians, with
HER CLANDKsTINE sCHEMING,
and his Mgnon, of evil p1rentsge, and
yet worse than her ancestors, and his
There's, the brazen, and his Aurelia Of
many intrigues, and his Philina, the ter
nigant, and his Melins, the furnished and
his Baroness, and his Countess, and there
is seldom womsnly character in all his
Voluminous writings that would be
worthy Of residence in q respectable Goa
cellar, yet pictured, and drsmatized, and
emblszoned till all the literary world
is compelled to see. No. No. Give
me William Shakespesre's idea of woman
and see it in Desdemona and Cordelia
and Rosalind and Imogen and Helena and