Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-01-22
Alas !-alas-a-alas!

Alas! --llaS.
and so on. Laughter. l do not
recollect the rest; but, taken alto
gether, it seems to me that that
poem is the noblest tribute to wo-
man that human genius has ever
brought forth-Tlaughter- and l
feel that if l were to talk hours |
could not do my great theme COM
pleter or more graceful justice than
1 have nov done in simply quoting
that poets matchless words. Re-
newed laughter The phases of
the womanly nature are infinite in
their variety. Take any type of
woman and you shall find IN 1t
something to respect, something to
admire, something to love. And
you shall find the whole joining
you heart and hand. Who was
more patriotic than Joan of Arc?
Who was drawer? Who has given
US a grander instance of self sacrl-
ficing devotion? All, you remember,
you remember well, what a throb of
pain, what a great tidal wav of
grief swept over US all when Joan
of Arc fell at Waterloo! Much
laughter. Who does lot sorrow
for the loss of Sappho. the sweet
singer of Israel. Laughter. Who
among us does not miss the gentle
ministrations, the softening in
iuences, the humble plety of Lucre
lia Borgia2 Laughter. Who can
join the heartless libel that says
woman is extravaganza 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 Cleo
patra will live And, not because
she conquered George III. laugh
ter, but because she wrote those
divine lines
"Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
TOT UOu lldIll I1due IIIolli 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.
toe Scott, Bruce. Burns, the war
rlor Wallace, Ben Nevis-TIaugh-
ter1-the gifted Ben Lomond, and
the great new Scotchman. Ben. Dis
raeli. TGreat laughter Out of
the great plains of history tower
whole mountain ranges of sublime
women-the Queen of Sheba, Jose
phine, Semiramis, Sairey tramp; the
list is endless laughter but
will not call the mighty roll; the
names rise up in your memories at
the mere suggestion. luminous with
the glory of deeds that cannot die,
hallowed by the loving worship OF
the good and the true of all epochs
and of all chimes. TCheers Suffice
it for our pride and our honor that
we in our day have added to it such
names as those of Grace Darling
and Florence Nightingale. [Cheers
Woman is all that she should be
gentle, patient, long suffering, trust
full, unseltish, full of generous i'm
pulses. 1t is her blessed mission to
comfort the suffering. plead for the
erring, encourage the faint of pur
pose, succor the distressed, uplift
the fallen, befrIend the friendless-
in a word, afford the healing of her
sympathies and a home in her heart
for all the bruised and prosecuted
children of misfortune that knock
at its h~ospitable door, [Cheers
And when l say, God bless her,
there is none among us who has
known the ennObling affection Of a
wife or the steadfast devotion of a
mother, but in his heart will say,
Amen! Loud and prolonged cheer