Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-10

The st. Louis GlobeoDemocrat,
after paying an elegant tribute to
the wifely devotion and love of Mrs,
Garfield, says of woman generally:
1t is in cases where the actors are
conspicuous t at this sentiment of
general appreciation is seen at its
strongest. We seem, somehow, to
catch hint of surprise, at once con-
fusing and reassurlng, in the sight of
a WON N above the common level
taken captive by feelings that are
shared by the humblest of her sisters.
1t is hard to persuade ourselves.
except by these occasional shining
examples, that God has made of one
pattern all the women of the earth.
The heart of a queen on a
throne and the heart of a maid
at her spinning are touched to the
same issues, and capable of the same
lofty and unselish fealty to "the
thing they love. We shall never
cease adniring the noble and deter
mined constancy of Lady Franklin,
but it was exceptional only as it
proved rule. The unappeasable
and Grazing grief of NJ .ximilian' S
poor Carlotta" does not prove that
she is different from other women
SO much as it demonstrates that she
lis essentially like them. We yield
ready homage and pity to faith
full and patient Eugenie, alone with
her dead and her dreams, and yet she
but furnishes us another instance,
not of how an empress can bear ca
lamity with for itude, but how wife
and mother can cons crate herself
And SO with Mrs. Garfield. She wins
our praise and great esteem by be-
havior that, instead of sett ny hel
apart, shows her hinship to her sex
evt rywhere.
The country is rich in good and
true women who would have dupli-
Gated the loyalty and loving service
of the Presidents wife under the
same or similar circumstances-not
in any high Roman fashion, but as g
simple matter Of Course She would
be a phenomenon, indeed, who would
fail in such a cris s. The wife Of
Smith, the carpenter, or Jones, the
brick-layer. or even Robinson, the
: ne er>do-weel, would rush as hur-
, riedly to her wounded husband, and
bower as closely about his bedside
as if he were a President and she
the mistress of the White House
It is Mrs Garfield s privilege to be ap
plauded for what hundreds of womer
do daily in unnoted and strit 81
homes, without word of cheer anC
with no comfort but their own throb
bling prayers. Life is so swift ant
events 50 crowdlng that only the I'm
usual and the accidental are look &c
, for and trumpeted; and thus it fre =
quently comes about that we mistake
, for marvel what is really a ch2rac
ter'stic. The fact that a woman oc.
cupying an elevated position ha,
done just what any other good wo
, man would have done in q like situa
, ton, is not wonderful and we de-
tract nothing from the appreciation
she is receiving when we say tina
her fidelity and wifelv kindness ser.'
. to illustrate a law of being, and no
t mere way of thinking.
| lt C IN do us no harm to keer
:. always in mind the truth that womel
are women the world over. No on,
of them is exempt from that rulins
: power of the heart which is the re-
| llg1on of the DeS. 1t is our custom
, to laugh at their vanities and patron
ize what we call their weakness, bu
we know all the time that when occa
I sion demands they shame us wit
Q their sincerity and strength. We d,