The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-27
TILE RUTLAND MORNING OCTOBER 81 1873

for 1t ? Many people make slaves of them
selves for the sake of strangers. They
don't live for themselves but for others who
don't care a sixpence for them.
Miss Dickinson then remarked upon the
inconveniencies of the sidc-saddle to which
ladies are subjected to while travelling and
upon the fact that the lady becomes at
once tired and weary, loses all sensibility
of the enjoyment of the ride and on the re-
turn never wants to go again,
Many want to live for their own sake
but do not dare to-havc not the courage
to live out their own life. Those who do
dare help others TO live theirs. The speak
er then referred to the marriage question
and in pointed language asked if half the
women married simply for their own sake ?
because the union would help her TO live a
life of happiness
The speaker answered in the negative
most emphatically, saying they marry for
home, for an income, for good clothes 20
wear because Mary was married last year
and Alice was to be married next year and
she wanted to get ahead of her for the
purpose of getting rid of becoming an old
maid, and other like reasons. Not for her
own sake but because an outside pressure OF
public opinion drives her into it.
The American man does not live twenty.
four hours in any of the 3G5 days of hi:
life. He is 'too busy, he "hasn't time,
and by and by he is dead. Busy for his
own sake -? No He gets nothing out of il
but life of drudgcry. He is doing it al
for the sake of other peoples opinions. lie
goes down into his grave having lived fol
his own sake not all hour
The speaker then eloquently referred t,
the man, who, said she, had buried himsel
in his work as painter-not for other
opinions, but to convey his own idea O
God to canvass and in that work had fount
Immortality. Centuries afterward, said til,
speaker, the world has written high alloy,
that of all others the name of Raphael.
Miss Dickinson then referred to love o
Americans for their native land and Of tn,
essence of that mitch bruted theme. 1hinl
you, said she, that the martyrs thanked
God upon the stake for Christianity be
cause it would give TO postcrity houses ant
lands, or because it gave to them, in tn
highest sense, that faith which sent then
rejoicing to what others called an ignomi
nous death.
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the love for the praises and opinions 0
the world. What does it matter said tn
speaker, if we accomplish what the worl,
calls us to do? Nothing at all. Th
world cares naught for us living and for
gets us when we are dead. In Hawthorne
story Of the shipwrecked mariner VIII,
finds his wife married to another. n 1
Enoch Arden, the author says. 9Th
great danger in leaving such gap is no
so much because of its width but because
will so soon be filled" In Grip Van Win
great character these truthful words
GLOW soon we are forgotten when we ar
gone !" With us or without us the grca
world moves on. The great question shoul
be with us, have we done that which W
are the best fitted to perform
The speaker then gave an interesting
and truly eloquent description of sunris
upon the mountain peak" like the daw
of Creation" the uplifting of dark
ness to the shining of the resplcndent beam
of the 'God of day The question is
said the speaker, in oloeinS, not in the rls
ing of the sun but whether we see it in a
its bcauty-not whether he climbs tn
mountain tops but whether the glory 0
God is there revealed