The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-01-31

AIas - alas -
and so on. Uaughter.) do not remember
the rest but, taken altogether, it seems to me
that poem is the nobIest tribute to woman that
human genius has ever brought forth-(aughter)
and i feel that IL I were to talk hours | could
not do my great theme cOmpleter or more graceful
justice than I have now done in simply quoting
that poets matchless words. Renewed laughter
The phases or the womanly nature arc infinite in
their variety. Take any type Of woman, and
you shall find IN il something to respect, some
thing TO admire, something 20 love. And you
ehall ind the whole joining you heart and hand.
Who was more patriotic than Joan Of Arc? WhO
wns Draver2 Who has given us q grander instance
OF selfsacrifcing devotion? All you remember,
you remember well, what q throb Of pain, what
a great tidal wave Of grief swept over us all when
Joan Of Arc fell at Waterloo. Much laughter.)
Who does not sorrow for the loss Of Sappho, the
sweet singer Of Israel. Qaughter.) Who among
Gs does not miss the gentle ministratiOns, the
softening influences, the humble piety Of Lucretia
Borgia? Iaughter.) Who can Join in the
.heaTtless libel that says woman is extrayagant in
dress when he can look back and call to mind
our simple and lOWly mother Eve arrayed in her
modification of the Highland costume. ROars
OF laughter.) Sir, women have been soldiers,
women have been painters, women have been
poets. As long as language lives the name of
Cleopatra will live. And, not because she con-
quered George m--Caughter)-but because she
wrote those divine lines
"Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them So"
(More ~laughter.) The story Of the world is
adorned with the names of illustrious ones of our
own sex-some Of them sons Of st. Andrew, too
SCOTT, Bruce, Burns, the warrior Wallace, Ben
Observation-Disclosures gifted Ben LOmond, and
The great new Scotchman, Ben Disraeli. (Great
laughter.) Out Of the great plains Of history
tower whole mountain ranges Of sublime women
the Queen Of Sheba, Josephine, Scmiramis,
Sairey Camp; the list is endless-Qaughter)-
but / will not call the mighty roll, the names
rise up in your own memories at the mere sug-
gestion, luminous with the glory of deeds that
die, hallOwed by the loving worship Of the
good and the true Of all epochs and all chimes.
ACheers.) Suffice it for our pride and our honor
that we in our day have added to it such names
rs those of Grace Darling and Florence Nightin-
gale. (Cheers.l Woman Is all that she should
be-gentle, patient, long suffering, trustfuI, I'M
selfish, full of generous impulses. 1t is her
blessed mission to comfort the s%orrowing, plead
Tor the erring, encourage the faint of purpose,
snccor the distressed, uplft the fallen, be-friend
fhe friendless-in a word, afford the healing OF
ter sympathies andG home in her heart for all
1he bruised and prosecuted children of misfortune
that knock at her hospitable door. (Cheers.)
And when 1 say, God bless her, there is none
itmong us who has known the ennobling affection
sDf n wife, or the steadlast devotion of a mother
put in his heart will say, Amen cloud and
prolonged cheering .)-EhgLsh paper.