The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-04-18
WEEKLY BAZOO.
CONSTANT WOMAN.

axe the olO, Ola STORY WHICH WAS mrs
heard in the Garden of Eden, where
meme but the one man and the one
woman lived amid the rich surround
ings of natures fairest adornings, it is
ever fresh and eHtrancing.
No pen, no brush. has ever yet re-
vealed all the heights and depths of
woman's nature. In the deep past,
buried under the dark covering of the
senturies, there CLEANS forth the
beautiful figure of woman in all her
magnificent drapery and wealth of
ieve and constancy. She alone clings
with answering fidelity and unbrok-
en- loyalty to the man who fills her
soul with divine emotions and makes
aer life one pseen of exultant triumph
We need not travel back along the
corridors of time" to fluid heroic IL
Illustrations of the constancy of woman.
Ruth, following the stricken and grief
laden Naomi. is not the only woman
10 whom men can bow In reveren-
sial admiration for this mysterious
Characteristic. There have been
Ruths in every age ard CLINE and un-
sill the last trump shall sound there
will be many like her.
When Garfield, shot and suffering,
sossed on bed of pain and death,
vas watched and tended by the
woman whom, years before. he had led
20 the marriage altar, the world APP
plauded her brave constancy and
silent sorrow. Mre. Garfield did
only her duty in her gentle ministra-
lions, but her accomplishing grief
her speechless agony, her brave and
hopeful bearing and words. found a
home in every heart and brought
words OF praise from all lips.
And, in strange contrast to the sur
roundings of this gentle woman, there
comes before US the picture of another,
equally as devoted, and as bravely
constant to the man who filled her
heart with the sunshine of love. She,
SO, was q wife and is mother. Unto
ane she chung with all the strength of
- true wife's constancy, even though
she world hunted and bounded her
hover and husband like a wild beast
Of prey.
No matter to her if he was an out.
law; if he wore the badge of infamy
upon his brow; If he had the blood of
innocent men upon his hands; if he
Vas accounted the terror of the land;
II his name was linked with foul
crimes and dark deeds; no matter if
he left her often for weeks, maybe
months. to seek his victims by stealth
and violence, the kiss he planted upon
her lips - be babe her goodbye was
- her . sweet memento of bis love for
her, and seal of their plighted VOWS.
We cannot look into the heart of
she widow of the man who was slain q
few days ago by the man he had shell
sered beneath his roof. It is not for
anyone to tear aside the veilings of
these sacred chambers and gaze upon
che secrets hidden there. We may
not fathom the reasons why this heart
elung 30 tenderly and yet so constantly
% the man who, save that wife and
his old mother. had not q friend in all
the world he would implicitly trust.
Reason 7 1t is not reason, but nature,
woman's nature, that caused her to
stand by her husband in all his fight
Against the law of the land and every
principle of honor and justice. She
loved himl What more can be said in
explanation. She was not charmed by
the glamour of his name as the bird is
charmed by the reptiles eye; that
would soon have broken its spell and
che would have turned from him with
adherence and disgust. No doubt,
but there often came to her . desire
or q Life of quite and peace. No