The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-19

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McCardle. educated him.
u. S. Grants mother, Hannah Simp-
son; his wife, Julia Dent.
Il. j. Hayes mother not named; his
wife, Lucy Ware Webb.
james A. Garfield's mother was
Eliza Ballou; his wife, Lucretia Ru-
dolph.
Chester A. Arthur's mother, NAL
VIVA Stone; his wife Ellen L. Herndon.
Grover Cleveland's mother, Anne
Neal; his wife, Frances Folsom.
Ben Harrison's mother not named;
his wife was Miss Scott.
William McKinley's mother, Nancy
c. Allison; his wife, Ida Saxton.
Now, of course, if a man can afford
to buy the separate biographies Of
these men, though some have not been
written, no doubt he could learn more
about their mothers and wives, but not
very much. We know but little con-
corning the mothers of Milton, Shakes
peare, Cowper, Pope, Gray, johnson,
Hood, Burns, Moore, Byron, Coleridge
or any of the noted writer's of England
or Scotland. The idea seems to have
been that women as a general rule
were of no OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to
bear children and stay at home and
nurse them. But that is not the idea
now. Women are coming to the front
and claim a more notable position in
history and biography. Mrs. Do. Burt,
of Brunswick, has in press a book de-
voted exclusively to the mothers of the
notable men Of Georgia, the mothers
of II governors and statesmen and
ministers and military heroes, and L
know she will do justice to them. Some
time ago a friend of mine died and as
he was a man of some note, his son
who is growing old, wanted to answer
Mrs. Burt's letter about his grand
mother, and he told me that he didn't
know anything'about her-didn't even
know her maiden name. He said that
he never saw her, for she died when he
was a child and he never heard his
father say much about her.
That has been the way, but it will
not be much longer, for the elevation
VI "OlIlu iNI PloRCI PoolbIOl W INC
side of man and not beneath him, is
rapidly coming on. This federation of
woman's clubs will assert woman's
rights. This recognition of woman
has gained ground rapidly since the
war. Before that our scho~ol-teachers
were generally men and where We
had m as assistants they were i'm
,~Nr+ol fu~-, H. -a.+L W. IaI Ero
in succession in our town. One by one
they got married and we sent off and
got another. Our well-to-do widowers
took a liking to them, for III girls
wouldn't marry a Widower and our
young men wouldn't marry a Yankee
school mistress. But since the war our
own girls have gone to teaching and
are found in every school room in the
land. If they are more fit to teach our
children than are the men, then why
are they not better paid, and why are
they not members of our school
boards? l have known men to be elect
ed on school boards who couldn't do d
sum in the rule of three and didn't
know whether algebra was Latin or
astronomy. Some of these same men
are put on the committee to choose
school books. School boards are not
always elected for scholarship, but for
sectarian influence and because they
have an ak to grind. But this is enough
for one letter. Ihope the young people
will cut it out and paste it in their
scrap books and keep it for reference
SO that when they are married and have
inquisitive children they can answer
these questions. Every young person
should have a scrap book. One of u
teachers was not long ago asking her
scholars about Washington. who
can tell me something about George
Washington" and one of the boys
said: He was BORN on Mount YER
mont" n little girl said: mo, it was
Mount Vernon" Another boy said:
HE was named for the city of Wash
ington," and another said: 'He was
the father of all the country children"
and another said: HE cut a cherry
tree down to git the cherries, and didn't
tell a lie about it and his father never
licked him for it, but that night he had
the collie mighty bad"
And here is a good kind letter of
sympathy from a full-blooded Cherokee
Indian, who writes from the Indian
territory and says he was born in Muir
ray county and loves Georgia and her
people. He asks about the Howells,
and says his father knew the old man
on the Chattahoochee and always said
there was some good Indian blood in
his veins. Well, they do look like it.
1 expect u Evan came sideways down
from old Powhattan, just as my wife
came from Pocahontas. Hello, Cousin
Evan; we are kin.-Bill Arp, in Allan
til Constitution.