Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-05-25
Little Foxes.
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is hard work to watch them all the time but eter-
nal vigilance is the price of good character, and
evil is caused by want of thought
AS well as want of heart.
''It would be easier to be martyr, and 90 down
to the block or to the stake, and have ones head
cut off or be burned to crisp at once and be done
with it, than it is to endure eight or ten years
rheumatism. So much the more honor to the pa
tent victims Of rheumatism than to the martyrs
L know it is easier to be president of the United
States and be a good president, too, than it is to
go sleep with the earache, or with three small mos
quitoes in the room that have made up their minds
to a horrible repast of human blood. | know
out of the breadth and depth of my own expert
ence | know whereof | af1i1m-I know it is an
easier matter to edit a newspaper than it is to put
the baby asleep when the baby isn't feeling partic
ularly sleepy just then. know the little trials are
the hardest; the little temptations are the strong
est The man who would seorn to steal horse,
will swear little sometimes. The man who could
not be hired to forge note, will sometimes help
to circulate campaign lie; the man who will not
commit murder will occasionally scold his wife,
and the'man who would scorn to lie under any
other circumstances can't be trusted in horse
trade. 1t is easy for an honest man to refuse
sbribe il is hard for the same man to tell the truth
about the size and number of the trout he caught
1t is comparatively easy to obey the big command
ments it's the finer meshes of the little net that
will entanglo so many of us.
Clearly beloved, don't try to be heroes then
Don't aim to be wingess saints. Don't aspire to
the distinction of martyrdom. Try to be good
everyday, honest, Christian men and women, and
see if you have not your hands full. Don't waste
your time lion-hunting; the lions never hurt any
body; but Take us the foxes, the little foxes that
spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.
The following is from the speech of Rev. Annie
Shaw, of Illinois, before the United States senate
committee on woman suffrage in February of this
year;
We women have wept great while. We have
wept because we have been told it is proper for
women to weep. We thought that would bring us
justice; but justice does not come to weeping
women The only thing it has brought us is the
thought that we have no place in the government
because we weep. We have tried to be pleasant
because we have been told it is becoming to women
to be pleasant, and then we have been told that
we have been altogether too pleasant to enter into
poltlcal relations. 1t IS bar to our enfranchse-
ment We have tried to be sweet and womanly
and then we have been told that we are so sweet
and womanly that it would never do to injure the
sweetness and womanlness of our nature by
bringing us in contact with coarser things. After
having tried to be what we were told we ought to
be, we have discovered that we have only been
placing barriers to our further advancement.
But the mourning women have dried their tears
the pretty women have gone to looking after some
thing else; the sweet women have taken another
course, and co are come here as neither sweet,
pretty, nor weeping. We come here with strong
convictions. We come with the purpose Of com
ing just as often we permitted to come until
we obtain our request, like the woman in the
Word who appeared before the unjust Judge. 1t
would hardly become us to put you on a level with