The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-09

display, going right forward to serve
Christ and the race by grand and
glorious service, l say: "That wo-
man is queen" and the ranks of
heaven look over the battlemcnts upon
the coronation and whether she come up
from the shanty on the commons or the
mansion of the fashionable square,
greet her with the shout; IAN hail!
Queen Vashti." What glory was there
on the brow of Mary of Scotland, or
Elizabeth OF England, or Margaret of
France, or Catherine of Russia, compared
with the worth of some of our Christian
mothers, many of them gone into gloryi
or of that woman mentioned in the
Scriptures, who put her all into the Lords
treasury2-or of Jephthah's daughter,
who made demonstration Of unselfish
patriotism?-or of Abigail, who rescued
the herds and hocls of her u;band?-or
of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun
for poor, old, helpless Naomi?-or of
Mrs. Adomrain Judson, who kindled the
lights of salvation amid the darkness of
of Burmah!-or of Mrs. Hemans,
who poured out her holy soul III
words which will for ever be
associated with hunters horn, and cap
tive's chain, and bridal hour. and lute's
throb, and curfew's l1ncll 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,
and smiles to the discouraged their
footsteps heard along dark lane, and in
government hospital, and in almshouse
corridor, and by prison gate? There
may be no royal robe--there may be nc
palatial surroundings. She. does not
need them; for al Charitable men will
unite with the cracking lips of fever
struck hospital and plague blotched laz-
arctic 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. 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 en-
dowments. There are in none of your
homes women more worthy. These per-
sons, some Of them, come out from afffu-
ent homes, choosing teaching as useful
profession; others, finding that father is
older than he used to be, and that his
eyesight and strength are not as 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 / say: "Father is dead. !"
After the estate was settled the family,
that were comfortable before, are thrown
on their own resources.
Il is hard for men to. earn a 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 trembingly going
through the ordeal of an examination as
to their qualifications to teach, half be-
wildered step over the sill of the public
school to do two things-instruct the
young and earn their own bread Her
work is wearing to the last degree. The
management of forty or fifty idgety and
intractable children, the suppression of
their vices and the development of their
excellencies, the management of
rewards and punishments, the send
ing of SO many bars of soap and fine
tooth combs on benignant ministry, the
breaking of so many wild colts for the
harness q life, sends her home at night
weak, 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 in the way.
If they come out ahead in the race,
cheer them. If you want to smite any,
s1nite 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
there died years ago one of the principals
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 he1
slender purse, given literally thousands
of dollars for the destitute who came
under her observation as school teacher
| A deceased sisters children were thrown
| upon her hands, and she took care Oi
them. She was kind mother to them
| while she mothered a whole school
| Worn out with nursing I'm the sick anC
dying room of one of tae household, SHE
| herself came to die. She closed tht
school book and at the same time tht
volume of her Christian fidelity; anC
when she went through the gates they
cried: ''These are they who came out o
great tribulation, and had their robe
washed and made white in the blood o
the lamb.
Queens are all such, and whethef th,
world acknowledges them or not, beaver
acknowledges them. When Scarron
| the wit and ecclesiastic, as poor as h
was brilliant was about to marry Nine
de Maintenon, he was asked by the notar,
what he proposed to settle upon MAIDEN
oiselle. The reply was: Immortality
The names of the wives of kings di
with them: the name of the wife of Scar
ron will live always" In higher an,
better sense, upon all women who d
their duty, God will settle Immortality
Not the immortality of earthly fame
which is mortal, but the immor
tality celestial. And they shall reigl
forever and ever. Oh, the opportu
nifty which every woman has of beiIl
a queen! The longer l live the more
admire good womanhood. And l hav
come to form my opinion of the charac
ter of man by his appreciation or non
appreciation of woman. II ma
have depressed idea of womanl
character he is a bad man, and there
no exception to the rule. The writing
of Goethe can never have any such al
fractions for me as Shakespeare, becaus
nearly all the womanly characters of tn
great German have some kind of turp
tude There is his Mariana, with he
clandestine scheming, and his Mignon, {
evil parentage, yet worse than her ance.
tors, and his Theresa, the brazen, AN
his Aurelia of many intrigues, and h
Philina, the termagant, and his Melin;
the furnished, and his Baroness, and h
Countess, and there is seldom womanl
character in all his voluminous wri
ings that would be worthy of res
dence in u respectable coal cellar, "
pictured and dramatized and emblazone
! ill all the literary world is compelled