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The City Itemizer.
H. A. LEE, Editor "Devoted to the Interest of the Editor, Exclusively.” $1.00 Year
VOLUME, 16. WATER VALLEY, MISS., SEPTEMBER 29, 1910 NUMBER 51.
Our Manly Training of Girls.
Our training of girls approaches close
to the idiotic. The average girl, from
the minute she leaves her dolls to go
to the kindergarten till she matriculates
at college, is told about men and men’s
work—never about women. The kinder
garten tales and songs are about Lincoln
and Washington—and even the pictures
of animals show the lion and forget the
lioness. In older childhood she is
taught to build sand forts instead of
good old fashioned mud pies, and even
the sums in arithmetic dwell on "Billy's”
marbles and "John’s” apples to the total
neglect of sister,
Later still she goes to high school and
learns history with all its ideals of brave
men—and here again the woman's share
of quiet courage is completely over
shadowed. She learns carpentering,
although she can not cook an egg or
sew a seam. And finally, her education
finished, she knows all about the higher
mathematics and is short changed by
the butcher. She learns political econ
omy, but doesn’t know who are the
members of her own school board.
If your boy wanted to be a lawyer
and a neighbor told you to put him to
work in a carpenter shop by way of
preparation, you would think your
neighbor crazy. But you do not con
sider yourself crazy when you train
your daughter, who is to be a wife and
mother (and nothing can get away from
grim statistics, that women do marry
despite economic independence, the
higher education, and all other argu
ments in favor of co education,) pre
cisely as you train your son, who will
enter some profession or trade, there to
first earn his own living, and then to
provide for a family yet unborn. The
one to bear the family and to rear it,
the other to provide shelter and comfort
fertile mother of that family, and yet
both trained precisely in the same way!
— Woman’s Home Companion.
Love, when true, faithful and web
fixed, is eminently the sanctifying ele
ment of human life: without it the mind
cannot reach its fullest height.—John
Ruskin.
Of course it was an old bachelor who
said that women ought > hold their
tongues occasionally in o der to give
their thoughts a chance to catch up.—
Exchange.
Only when love gets into the will as
well as into the feelings do our lives
become really loving. It is easy *••> love
when we feel loving; it is hard to love
when we do not feel loving. Yet those
alone who love when it is hard to love
have learned the meaning of love. It
was said of a man who did not show the
tenderer, softer side of his nature as
much as do some whose feelings lie
nearer ths surface, that to him, “love
was not so much a sentiment as a guid
ing principle. And that means that his
love was worth more, went deeper lasted
longer, and accomplished more in the
lives of others, than the love of those
to whom the word means chiefly an
emotion. To love others is to hold their
interests always dear, and to be guided
in all our actions toward them by that
purpose. Have we learned to love with
our wills?—S. S. Times.
Through the Southern states no fruit
or nut tree is better adapted for geneaal
planting or more worthy of careful
cultivation than the pecan. It is to the
South what the apple is to the North—
worthy of a place in every fruit-garden,
on every lawn, and the most important
tree from the standpoint of the or
chardist. The pecan fits well into the
general farming of the regions to which
it is adapted. It must be planted
farther apart than other fruit trees,
leaving ample space for the cultivation
of general farm crops. These crops may
be grown advantageously, with benefit
to the trees, and will more than cover
the cost of maintenance, until they
commence to bear.—Jackson Bulletin.
A beautiful German story relates how
one day a little girl, named Jeannette,
witnessed a great army review. Thous
ands upon thousands of spectators
crowded around the stand, before which
the emperor was to watch the passing
regiments. While Jeannette was seated
in the stand, she saw an old, feeble
woman trying very hard to get where
she could see. The little German girl
said to herself: “It i-> not right for me
to sit here, when I am strong and well
and can stand, while that poor, feeble
old woman can see nothing. 1 ought to
honor old age, as 1 want some one to
honor me when L am old.” Then she
gave up her seat to the old woman, and
went and stood in the crowd. But while
Jeannette was standing upon her tiptoes,
trying in vain to see, a courtier of the
emperor, covered with gold lace, elbowed
his way to her side, as he said, “Little
girl, her majesty would be pleased to see
you in the roval box,” When the
abashed child stood before the empress,
she graciously said, “Come here, my
daughter, and sit with me. I saw you
give up youT seat to that old woman,
and now you must remain by my side.”
So God honors those who honor his serv
ants, and no act of kindness will go
unrewarded.
Once a fisherman was dying in his
humble, lowly cot, and the pastor sat
beside him saying things that hit the
spot, so that all his futile terrors left
the dying sinner’s heart, and he said:
“The journey's lonely, but I’m ready for
the sturt. There is just one little mat
ter that is fretting me,' he sighed, and
perhaps I’d better tell it ere I cross the
Great Divide. I have got a string of
stories that 1 have told from day to
day; stories of the fish I have captured
and the ones that got away, and I fear
that when I tell them they are apt to
stretch a mile, and I wonder when I am
wafted to that land that’s free from
guile, if they will let me tell my stories
if I try to tell them straight, or will
angels lose their tempers then and chase
me through the gate?” Then the pas
tor sat and pondered for the quest!.in
vexed him sore; never such a weJj-i
conundrum had been sprung on him
before. Yet the courage of conviction
moved him soon to a reply, and he
wished to fill the fisher with fair visions
of the sky: "You can doubtless tell fish
stories,” said the clergyman, aloud, "but
I'd stretch them very little if old Jo
nah’s in the crowd.”—Jhx.
To simply live alone, with no provis
ion for the gratification of the social
instincts, is apt to prove too severe a
strain upon the reserve forces of even
the happiest marriage, There is some
excuse to be made for the man who
seeks society outside the home wherein
no thought is given to social pleasure,
while the wife is apt to grow pstty and
personal, and so less attractive as she
shuts herself away from intercourse with
others. This dropping out is very easy,
but even when prosperity comes, and
large social functions are possible, it is
too late to gain that most valuable
possession, friendship, which is entirely
independent of financial success.
have and to hold a place in the sac
life of the world is not only the ri
but the duty of the young wife who <fcet
sires to have a home in the truest ai
best sense. McCall’s Magazine