Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-15

pulpit ana SuucdtOIS, anu dll Dul lnS
man who wants to go to the Legisla
ture again ard thinks that by oppoS-
ing it he can get the favor of the
ignorant, and their vote will send
him-sacrifcing his country for Just
a vote. | have worked and written,
and | hope to see the day come when
this bill will be passed and the chill
dren of our State saved.
1t Is the solemn duty of the teach
er to put her whole soul in her work,
and she is the lighthouse in the dis
trict to guide the little boats safe
to the shores, and to meet this duty
she must study up on all subjects,
and the smaller the child she teaches
the more she should know of peda-
gogy, and for this reason we want
to place teachers library in each
county superintendent of education's
Office to give sunshine to these bene-
factors of men.
The education of the defective is
big subject-so large that no one
in South Carolina has yet taken it
up, except for the totally blind and
mutes. Those doubly unfortunate, the
feeble-minded children are left out in
the cold in South Carolina, and the
number is alarming. Look for your
self for the defective ones. A man
said to me, 81 did not know there was
a person in Oconee needing a wheel
chair till you asked for help to buy
one, and now / find many who need
chairs" can prove to you that edu-
cation for the detectives pays, for
what have Helen Keller and John
Swearingen done for our country,
and we to-day see what education
has done for our own Annie Crisp.
These are the class our State pro-
vides for, but now look at thu "ri.
pies. viii any woman ever live to
be more honored than the beloved
Sophie Wright, of New Orleans? |
value greatly a Christmas greeting
from her which l received from her
last Christmas on this subject. Can
Louisville ever forget Jennie Cassidy,
the woman who lay on her bed for
years and worked with her sweet
voice and pen for the salvation Of the
working girls of that city? These
are a few of the worlds noted work
ers who are defective. My fondest
hope is TO see a home school for this
class I'm South Carolina, and | think
that those who have received an edu-
cation free from the State should
show their appreciation by donating
" tlllS CduSe. IldE loI lHlS ScHOOl.
Here let me speak OF the shut-ins.
Miss Margaret Richards is making
her living by her pen, and most
charmingly does she write. My faith
full boys, Carter Riser and Fred Nc
Kittrick, are SO cheerful that they
are making strong men come to
Christ, and their mission is as great
as any missionary in the foreign
field. To these shut-ins l am indebt-
ed for much of my office supplies.
These dear shut-ins had mothers to
train them, and they are benefactors
to man, while many Of my shut-ins
cannot read or do any work to keep
them employed, and they just sit all
day and look at the bare walls of
their homes, and as idleness is the
devils workshop they become so fret
full that they are a burden to the
whole community.
While we help the shut-ins we do
not encourage invalidism, but teach
them to be strong-teach them to
be spiritually strong.
Now / come to the cause of tenn
perance, and ! am glad that ! began
my public work by fighting the dis
pensary. Our State is going white
and let us keep it so, and, young
ladies, you can do more than all the
men can do at the ballot box. | was
invited to talk at the State Christian
Temperance meeting this summer, but
could not go, but sent a paper, and
made plea for the children of the
moonshiners. If we will send well
fare workers to them as we do to the
mills, in few years we can stop this
awful sin.
nd I To Zoe,
subject embraced in our work--im-
proving the homes. What can / say
to her who rocks the cradle and
whose duty it is to make the child
as straight as the pine, solid as the
oak, sweet as the balsam, and to live
for God and country? 1t is her duty
also to make her home a place Of
beauty and culture. 1t Is not the
handsomest home that is always the
most home-like. | know a small
home, beautified with flowers, that
Is so inviting that any stranger would
want to come in. This home was
once an eye-sore, but is now an eye
salVe. | have cen in more homes
than most women in this {, 'nty, and,
friends, don't be offended, ut / can
truthfully say that / can find a fash
ion sheet in even the poorest, while
fashion sheets to make the girls
women HE the wife Irwin describes,
or women like our leader, Mrs. AL
den, or Frances willard, or Marga-
ret San3ster, are not there. Let us
plant flowers around our homes in
the ground, and also make our girls
flowers Of usefulness, and above all,
Christian women.
My dear followers, I have tried to
show you what Sunshine is; | have