The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-09-05
Notes by the Way.

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fascination springs and that is receiv-
| ing letter.
Though this having our correspondence
answ cred in the pages of the MONITOR is
quite new to us Quot forgetting dear old
s'Josiah'') yet it adds Il charm it could not
possess if no Jacob" or "Rebecca' made
response. Letter writing is pleasant ork,
| but it is made infinitely more so il ones let
| tiers are answered, no matter if the power
| of expression is much less or greatly ex-
ceeds that which was shown i'll our own
| effort. it shows at least that the recipient
was sufficiently interested to lay dull care
| aside, or wean themselves from their own
| favorite pastime or pleasure, as the ease
| NAV be, for a sufficient length of time to
| chat with the author through the medium
| of the pen, Therefore we feel encouraged
for having received such a tribute as was
! given by Jacob in last weeks Mon
IToR, and the greatest expression OF appre-
| citation we can give in return is to say
with the old Arab proyerb-''thatw when it
| would say the best and the last word ABOUT
| a young man, writes him down as broth
er of girls, this ,,"Jacob' must be.
Though all of Us know what an untold
interest there is in the receipt and unseal-
ing OF mysteriously closed epistle direct
ed to ourself, and though Jacobs letter
was unsealed and read by many no doubt
before our eyes greeted it, yet we assure
thee jacob the interest, the pleasure
was no less keen, and we thank thee in be-
half of our sisters, for the. beautiful tribute
thou hast paid true womanhood.
Our idea at first was to simply acknow-
| ledge having seen Jacobs communica-
ton and to thank him for the kindly words
given; but after more deliberate thought
the golden rule presents itself and we de-
eide to follow its injunction of doing as we
| would have others do toward us. There
| fore rs was stated in the beginning it gives
us pleasure to "take our pen in hand to
| let thee know" thus was the style in our
nfantile years when we did that seemn G.
| ly insurmountably ponderous task of writ
| ing our FIRST, our very first letter that was
to be sealed, stamped and actually taken
| to the post office and sent to our big broth
er " no was of TO boarding school. SO
vivid does the Writing of that first letter
still dwell in our memory that the date
of the year in which it was written comes
out before our mind AS clearly as though
it were penned but yesterday. probably
more so, and ere it not for telling our age
to those who may be reading We could name
the exact date and the number OF years We
had been an inhabitant of this lovely
world And we would ask every indivld-
ual, W no of us do not remember when we
were six going on seven, or eight go
ing on nine as the case may be-a time Of
life with every child when they begin to
feel themselves of some importance i'll the
world
We are exceedingly glad" Jacob accep-
ted our letter as tribute to man and
trust others did, but we were not aware
that any beside cur own LONE brothers
would recognize it so readily, in fact we
hardly knew ourself that we were paying
any more than and hardly distribute to
man. But from the fact that we have so
many brothers of our own, and mingled so
much in organizations with other girls
brothers we may have come to know their
worth and value more than some who have
not had this opportunity of .co-mingling, and
we know they do as rule possess finer
feeling and greater purity OF purpose
than they are often credited VI it'll. To any
women, if there. be any who regard all men
as suspicious characters We would say, be
careful lest there is that within ourselves
which exeites like suspicion, and as tru-
ly IS friendship begets friendship, so
suspicion begets suspicion. We have
COME 10 KNOW DIOllltlS So We'll ludt VIC
would as soon trust them with precious
thought as we would our sisters knowing
how true they are to the trust reposed in
them, or how staunchly they stand by you
when others censure. Always bear in
mind, dear girls, that God knows every
Thought and intent of the heart, then there
will be little fear of our using other than
the purest, cl earest expression to the
thoughts We would convey to others,
and remember too, that there is not so
much in what we say as in the way we say
it.
Since jacob has spoken of an honest
man" as being ''the noblest work of God"
we conclude to tell wherein we cannot adj
mire man, because he is so dishonest not
only to himself, but to those who may
come within breathing distance OF him,
whether one meets him socially or simply
on the street.
In the first place God has given US a
pure, bright, fresh, beautiful world to
dwell in and it seems to us it is the Just in
hertance of every iuhabitant thereof to
have at least all the pure air they want to
breathe, but " ben We are robbed of this
right by any human being who chooses to
make chimney or swill-tub (pardon the
swinish expression) OF himself wc conclude
that he is foully dishonest, hot only to
himself, but to everyone With whom he
may come in contact, mott to mention how
he is robbing often times his own kith and
kin of many of the necessities of life that
he may graufy his low, vulgar taste For
it is noticeable fact that it is those who
can least afford it who indulge in this fill
thy, UNIV holesome practice. For different
reasons We have at various times of short
duration wished ourselves a man. He can
gain employment where woman cannot.
and beside, he is better paid than woman
who works side by side with him, though
he does no more and probably not as
thorough work as the woman, yet his
salary is often double, and the question
naturally arises, what of honesty is there
in the employer who pays his employees
thus? GU may answer it is custom So
it is, but a terribleu niust one, and NAV
God speed the day when women may have
the right of franchise, her honest inheri,
lance, though in this year of grace, when
the Prohibitionist rs to be DISTINGUISHED
| here in this Spanish commonN ealth, it
would be of little value To her. There
is no sex in Heaven and God endowed wo
man with as bright, as true intellectual
faculties as man and it is only custom that
has put her in the back ground, pushed
there-because she allowed herself to be
pushed-by her physically stronger broth
er. Though We have at times ~ ished our
| selves man, We have said too, that if we