Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-12-18
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BILLSARP ASKS WHAT rs 10 B1cOME
OF THRMr-IoW THEY SHOULD
BE EDUCATED, AND WHAT
THEY SHOULD DO FOR
AlLIyING.
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Oh ,sny country. It makes me sad
and tired TO get 50 many letters AK
ing for help and advice. Helpthat I
cannot render--adyiceI that / cannot
give. The letters are. always welcome,
for it is good for q man to know. of
human trouble and to lend his,sym-
pathy. It is b%etterto 60 to the house
Of mourning than tho house Of FEAST
ing, but still these letters make me.
feel helpless. They make ms wish
that I was rich and wise, so that I
could respond to every call5of misery.
I wish that some great millionaire
would die and leave his money to me
ITO mo in trust for misery, Some
times whenI look around upon my
cheerful home it alarms me for fearI
have not had my share of trouble and
it will come yet before i die, and fall
upon my children. They are not
strong yet and trouble would go hard
with them. The child never gets
strong while the parents live. If the
old folks have nothing elseSto give
they can give comfort and sympathy
and advice, and when they die a prop
is gone. .S s.,
Bnt the girls--the girls Whist issto
become Of the girls? That is the ques-
ton that is uppermost in the minds
Of thousands of parents. It didn't
use TO be so half a century ago, and
what is the matter now? Of Curse
the old-time parents felt anxiety,
about their daughters, especially
about seeing them happily married and
settled down, but as a general rule
they did marry and the young cou-
pie went to work ~prudently and
sensibly and began to raise children
and chickens, and with a little help
We're comfortable and prosperous.
There was no. great hurrah about
how or where the girls should be
educated. The old field school was
good enough if the teacher was a
good one. Richard Malcolm John
stone taught one Of them for twenty
years, and a college didn't turn out
any better scholars than he did. My
numerous and lovely wife went to
just such an one until she was six
teen, and l didn't want her to get
any smarter, and so we mated, and
she knows as much abont. books and
everything else as her college-bred
daughters. There is not a school
boy thatican speak Marco Bozzaris
like she IAN.
But what is the matter with the
girls? The New York Wo77a is
ohock full of letters about them
whole pages Of letters that tell how
they should be educated aud what
they should do for q living. It
seems that an old gentleman wrote
the first letter and bitterly denounced
the prevailing methods and tho
modern colleges, and h9 accused
woman Of invading the sphere Of
man and doing unwomanly things,
and said that she had better stay at
home and raise the children and let
science and art and. politics and
temperance alone. His letter was
pungent and sarcastic and has aroused
the fair sex, and now we arc having
it hot and spirited on both sides.
Such notable ome as Ella Wheeler
Wilcox. and Marion Harland and
Mrs. Austin and Mary E. Bryan and
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher have
entered the field and given their
opinions in a vigorous and spicy
way. A score or two of other writer's,
male and female, have responded, and
the cry is still they come and nothing
is settled. 1t il hard to tell who is
ahead, for some Of the women are on
the old g%entlemn's side, and some
= half and halt, and so.ae ssay he Is
a lunatic and ought to be arrested.
The old gentleman has no patience
with the short-haired, pushing,
brainy woman, but wants woman to
be lovable and retiring rather than
cold, defiant and disappearing. He
wants them to stay at home and
mako IL comfortable and inviting,
expresses his disgust at the whole
tribe who are eyerlastingly writing
novels and dreamy analytical stories.
Woman, he says, was created to be
o mother and to nurse children. and
that is her highest and beat vocation.
Some Of tho women 60 for him
like yelloW-jackkets coming out Of a
hole in the ground, and they sting
him fearfully. I think that he has
taken to the bushes to get rid Of
them, for he has not yet put in a
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