The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-10
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4 BAND Of Noble Women.
Correspondence. Of the Chicago Tribune.
New YORK, Oct. 10.
There il in this city an organization Of
good, true, and noble women, who secretly,
or, perhaps should say, quietly, perform
the work Of ministering angels to the friends
who come to this great wilderness Of people.
Men or women, be they rich or poor, but
especially the Iattcr-fOr money purchases
that which stands in the stead Of friends,
somctimes-have only to make known the
fact of their sickness, or their sorrow, and 10.
there ministering angels are at their sides
aft riding them every aid that mortal hands
can furnish for them. Society, personal COM
fort, and pleasures of all kinds are no him
drance or consideration, when human being
requires their assistance, or their presence. 1t
is an organized ~'ciety which has been in
existence ~ long that it may he spoken Of
with safety. Sometimes these bands of
Christian women find their zeal or their
strength insufficient for the exhaustivcne>s Of
time, and die an early death; but not so
with our Sisters of the Stranger. They
keep an Office in which secretary il em-
ployed, to which the public through the
columns of the press is referred for assist
ance, and this person informs the Sisters or
rather the seraphs, who are nan,ele>s, and
without recognizable personality, and they
visit the sick, afford them the comforts Of
proper food, medical attendance, become
watchful nurses write letters, and perform
every service that the most devoted sis
ter could. These women belong to the
highest Of social positions; but. like the Mas
ter they serve, they are meek and lowly in
spirit, taking no thought for Themselves,
but manise~ting the spirit Of Christ in all
their acts. And yet they are not ascetics,
nor do they Aet themselves up a. better than
their fellows l saw one Of them in silken
array, filmy lace and lovely blossoms, sway
ing to the music of Strauss in a bewildering
dance, one lovely summer night, when hut
the midnight before l saw her in little
white muslin hood and gray gown, wetting
with cold water the Farched lips Of poor
German orphan boy who was burning with
fever, and waiting for heavens doors to open
and let him in 10 rest. This, said /, il
Christianity. 1t blslneth not itself, but
hideth the work Of its right hand from the
sacrifices Of its left We do entertain angels
unawares sometimes. and they do exist I'M
der alken bodice, and with feet that love to
twinkle to the music Of gallon, as l have
proven u msself Of late.
The WlekeAnsss ~ Cro4aeS.
IFrom the Brooklyn Union.
A Rev. Mr. Beecher-not Henry Ward,
nor Edward, nor Thomas H., nor Charles,
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eccentric family, but q Methodist miniSter in
WISCONSIN, offered 4 resolution in the Con-
ference, last week, declaring croquet playing
a sin. The Conference had no more sense of
right and wrong than to vote it down. But
Mr. Beecher can take heart. Every great
reformer is left without support in the begin
ming of his work. When the anti-crOIuet
party carries the election in Wisconsin and
Massachusetts, Mr.. Beecher will have a
Statae erected TO his honor on the top Of the
Milxauke lighthouse. He will be repre-
seated in the sublime actof throwing whole
setNof croguei mallets, balls, arches, and
striped stakes into lake Michigan, while a
bevy of>yicked> Young girls stand abon, him
in tears at the thought Of the destruction OF
SO important a branch of husbandry.
What did the Conference mean by laugh
ing 1T Mr.. ReeclHr? Ofcoarse croqua is a
sin. Charles Lamb said it might not be i
ain To eat a pine apple, bu, the pleasure Of ],
was SO great that y man Of tender CONSCIENCE
would hesitate a great while before ves tur.
ing to eat one. Croquet, ifyni haye Ilcss:
ant .cmnasg, must he wFkeA AAc<
Guyu,, tke FEench mystic asetl'to psN feb.
bles in her shoes that she might mot ENJOY
walking too greatly. We hardly think such
penance could have been good for the sole.
But II there is any virtue in making Oneself
miserable We think the Wisconsin Beeche'
has hit il. -Abjure croqpet. Never ief
CATER boot make roIuet- erOque with your
hall. Neyer give yourself the reyengefu
plGasure cfseodiAg An oppo0ea1t "a s.noae
The c,,rrant bushes. Never feel the exlui
site joy Of striking the stake 6rt in hars
&t croqnes has some redeeming features.
A fellow who boobies six times in succe.~iOr
"a tSan rho etss sent awas when he y =
| capital position u make two or thres
| arches suffer agony, enough to make hin
| eald ~ $3.50 odld d H.. I'VE saeekts'
that NJ. Beecher might inquire whether
| there are not some things to be set down PEI
co,strs.. xaT aoTA F,IIy 50IIkr q. ..t1,....
| We think We can imagine how this Wis
consin minister canse to think Of The SIN 0
croquef. He, was playing three-hsndet
game. There were two gentlemen and on
lady The Ady west through the 6ut tw'
arches. 20 did the other gentleman. Mr.
Beeches made BOBBY, and had 70 try over
The Lady CD she 7Otber seatlenen ,ysss a
swimrnihg Mr.. Beecher boobied thre'
times. Wherever he haPpened TO get On th'
same part Of the ground with the othel
two, tSey wanionly took tight-roquet Q,
his hall and lodged him in an onion bed nv
rods away. OF course Mr.. Reecker though
croquet wicked aser that Such plying a
that is surely ssinfsl. z We Do ,ast wonde
that human man should want It abOlished
For ourselves We are convinced. "
shall not touch naae until next summer.