The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-09-07
THE AoME &.
ORGANIZATION.

| ouSopiohu unscAej' lou see tnaLT IL doe
not amount to much. But look at that (hold
ing up clinched fist); that is the difference
between Isolated, segregated, passive WON
anhood, and organized. vigorous, harmoni
GUS w0manhood. All the muscles. All In
spread out forces are In that little bal
doubled up like that, and what a whackinl
plow tney deal against all wrongs.
| see little, lonesome, stray snowflake come
down through the air; it falls and melts and
no more. Now see others come along
talking In that soft, gossiping way they have
and as the flakes come down more and more
tney nave evidently got something on theil
minds, and after while they are Joined by
others, and If an attack is organized 1t will
make drift 80 feet high, that will stop that
50-ton engine and send 1t back crouchinp on
It's haunches. and 1t can't do a thing. AND
lnto mat great snow storm you get a
Dres re, then it will whirl 1t all away in .
| second.
Now women are the snowflakes. And the
organized attack Is against this old, hoary
headed, materialistic, conservative way OF
DONG things. And the mighty breeze thai
shall set them flying is the power Of enthusi
asm, or God In us, and 1t will bring In al
that Is good and true and pure. 1t has beer
the curse of humanity In the past that half
the wisdom. more than half the ability, more
tnan nalf the gentleness, did not find any
The great power of organization for women
Is that 1t brings them out; it translates them
from the passive into the active voice; the
aear' moaest, ciinging things, didn't think
they found out they could. They come "a
you with quiver Of the lip, and look al Won
SO hopeful and expectant. and wonder II
they could do something; and year or two
perfect equipoise telling their dearest
thought to great audience, or you see them
In the silent charities, carrying ont their
NOBLE thought toward humanity. You know
what mighty power there Is In the snow.
linen go through this chemical process of the
organizing power, and how easy and simply
you can learn to do 1t by seeing others do it.
1t Is like the taking Of photograph-first.
the negative, which you don't know any
thing about; then 1t is. exposed to the sun
and colored. and brought cot in full perspec-
tive. 1t took good many years to bring the
women OF this country out into the perspec-
tive OF an International council, They were
not great enough at first, they were not large
enough, they were not fearless enough. The
popular concept OF w0manhood Is but a COM
posite photograph of woman made up from
the deductions Of million minds concern
.lp9 fnfiffGnS OF women, and the highest office
OF the modern woman Is that when the men
tai photograph she makes becomes part of
this mighty composite picture, so determine
tive se, OF destiny, that picture shall take on a
To my mind organization is the one great
thought of creation. 1t Is the difference be.
l bWCOh ShaVo ouu OAuCl 10 bu6 CONSTANT
occupation Of God, and, next to God, the
greatest organizer on this earth Is the mother.
| Woman Is a great diplomatist; In the de-
mocracy Of home woman Is a harmonizer,
who when things get mixed, talks to every
body and tells them to make up; 1she sets her
home In order and fits this to that. and sees
| that 1t has unity and entirety; mamie
didn't mean any harm, but he wasn't any
such harmonizer as woman, and down here
on the plane of force he said he would go
and get that W0pdorful aluh NJ
ment, and he has made 1t only half club
because, in the nature Of things, he couldn't
do IL any other way. But when woman
comes to stand besides him In law, then we
goes to make a world. We have only had
guessings and etchings, and monochromatics
yet; wait till you see the chrome and the
| full and beautiful oil painting. 1t never will
come tn you get woman's eye and mans eye
| get the grand perspective, the telescope
| view, until you get their eyes side by side.
| We want to make of humanity's heart that
| dual heart that shall beat as one. We want
to make 1t the sun-glass that brings all tile
divergent rays of power to one focus, and
through organization we will set our glass so
as to bring the rays Of power into converg-
ence, and make them burn and blaze on
every wrong until all error shall be swept
away and the blessed sunshine of truth
stream upon us, and we shall say: "Lo and
behold humanity is as God said 1t should be
Made In his own image, male and female
with domination over all the earth. "-Ex.
tracts from an address by Miss Frances E,
| Willard.
TO SEND FLOWERS BY MAIL
Cut flowers are constantly sent through
the mails. but seldom in such fashion as to
preserve their bloom and freshness. TIC
effect this, pack in light wooden box. moi
using cardboard; line the box with waddine
n r h0f 10 ,. -
tissue paper; then lay the flowers, not on
top Of each other but in rows side by side
the blossoms of each row on the stems OF
their neighbors pack closely, otherwise the
flowers Will be displaced and injured by the
journey. Before packing, they should stand
In water for several hours, In order to alb
sorb moisture enough to keep them from
whitening. 1t Is not well to sprinkle then
TOO heavily after they are In the box, fol-
without air this Is likely to produce mildew
HOME MADE FURNITURE.
Home made furniture is rarely successful
and more rarely economical. Occasionally
a husband or wife has gift at carpentry
and can do wonders. If the young husband
can build furniture so well that he would
not hesitate to offer to sell 1t, with fail
build all he can for his home. 1t will be
good, and of as much comfort to the house
hold as the dainty needle-work his wife NAV
have the skill to fashion. But let the ordi
nary hawa wleloeT b Oh Inc hammer. saw, and plane
cost half enough or more to buy the finished
article at reliable shop. After the furni
ture IS done, and money, time, and strength
have been devoted to 1t, what is the usual re
suit? A "t0ggled-up" article that is rarely
comfortable. generally cumbersome, and
Will come to pieces within year. A chat
made out Of barrel is always barrel, ever
though covered with raw silk and adorned
with velours squares. Far better an homes
cane-seated rocker than such hyp0critica
vulgar makeshift.-Harper's Bazaar.
| CHEAP JELLY.
Many good housekeepers do not know
that the most delicious jelley can be made Of
fruit skins and cores, such as are usually
thrown away. There is more gelatInous
matter around the core and skin of all fruit
tnan IN any other part. The skin Of peaches
with a few pits added, boiled In as little
water as possible, strained and made ur
with sugar, pint for pound, yields a most de
iicaous req Jelly. delightful jelly may
even be made of apple skins and cores
though 1t improves In flavor and ,jelIies more
easily II a small quantity of the skins and
cores OF ounces are added to IT, A very ex.
ceilent Jelly Is made Of grape skins and
ounce SKINS In about equal quantities. Pear
any other fruits, but If used In c0nnecticn
with ounce skins will make fair Jelly.
BLUEBERRY CAKE.
Here is a rule for burberry cake which
am sure will prove welcome at this season
when the fruit is so abundant: For one
sheet Of cake use one generous pint Of flonr
half pint of milk, one gill Of sugar. one
egg, two heaping teaspoonfuls of bakine
powder, half pint of blueberries and two
tablespoonfuls of butter. Mix the bakino
powder, sugar and salt with the flour and
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through the -four. Beat the egg till light and
add the milk to 1t. Add this To the div In
gradients and beat well. Now add the Der
rles, stirring as little as possible. Spread
the mixture In well-buttered, shallow bak
ing pan, having it about an inch and hal
thick. Bake In moderately quick oven fo
about twenty-five minutes, and serve hot
Maria Parloa, In Good Housekeeping