The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-04-14

Soicitu 1e without appearing to be your gentle
ness OF feeling is like your touch; so light and
easy that the one enables you to deal with
wounds of the mind as tendsrly al the oshar
enables you to deal with wounds Of the body"
That man Of ripe literary judgment,
Major L--y, was put down with
this:
FIRST then a woman will or won't depend ont,
II she will dot. she will. and there's an end
ont;
BIT If she won't, since safe and sound your
trust il,
Fear Is aftront, and jealousy injustice"
Taat other eminent member of the
bar, Judge B-d, came up with this:
Disguise our bondage as we will,
IT'S woman, woman rules US still"
Shooting among the clergy the Rsv.
IA w. G--r was found attached
hereto:
II the heart of a man Is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelrd when woman appears"
From gospel to ginger they went,
and this came up marked ~. ii. P-t:"
o woman, lovely womAnl Nature made thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without
you.
Angels are painted fair to look like you:
There's IN you all that We believe OF heaven;
| Amazing brightness, purity and truth,
Eternal JOY and everlasting love-"
The name Of that scholarly gentle.
man, J. o. Nm, was attached to this:
20 womanl 10 our hours OF ease.
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
Blythe light Quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wiring the brow.
ministering angel thOup
G-ge F-lrG name was tied with a
pink ribbon to this card:
"she is pretty to walk with.
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.'
This, with the flavor of real spring
things, came on the card marked "a. e.
So:
"WomanI thou loVeliest gift that here below
Nan can receive or Providence bestOw."
That gallant member of the bar, w.
A. CT, was charged with this senti-
ment:
To garden the earth with the roses Of heaven"
These Quaker-like promptings came
tabled "A. 2. Sp-r":
"Sweet prUmptings unto kindest deeds
We're in her very look;
We read her face as one who reads
4 true and holy book
And F. D. B-r came next:
And man, the hermit. Esighed-till woman
smiled"
And from the racket Of pounding
iron G. s. lie is charged with this:
She is a woman. therefore may be woOed;
She is woman, therefore may be won."
That excellent judge of all good
] things, S-m B--f, wrote:
I" You say. sir, once wit allow'd
Awoman to be like a cloud,
Accept . simlle as soon
Between q woman and the moon;
For let mankind say what they will,
The sex are heavenly bodies STILL"
When W-r W--n was called on he
said: "Earth's noblest thing, a wom-
an perfec ted"
President B--n I'd thought that
"You see In no place of conversation
the perfection of speech so much as in
accomplished woman"
Elder TT said that Mature Is in
earnest when she makes a woman"
Lieut.. FIX WI thought: woman
is always changeable and capricious."
&c g. Nm was Of the opinion
that There is in every true woman's
heart a spark Of heavenly FIRE which
beams and blazes in the dark hours OF
adversity."
The secretary of the school board
said:
All, mel how weak thing
H.. The heart Of woman Isl"
Alderman Ne thought that "a
woman is easily governed If q man
takes her in hand"
The Rev. N. O'o-l said: God
bless 'em ALL"
And one VINO did not want TO be
known howled ont that he had cob.
served that most ladies who have had
what Is considered as an education
have no idea Of an education progress
i've through life. Having attained a
certain measure Of accomplishment,
knowledge. manners, etc. they consider
themselves as made up, and SO take
their station. They are pictures which,
being quite finished. are now hung up
in q frame-a gilded one, If possible
and hung up in permanence OF beauty!
In permanence, that is to say. till Old
Time, with his rude and dirty tingers,
soils the charming colors."
And another, for obvious reasons,
claimed the blessedn ss of obscurity
when saying that There are few dis
putes In life which do not originate
with woman"
The postmaster was glad to subscribe
to the opinion that "a woman has the
same human nature that 3 man has,
the same human rights--to life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness the same
human duties, and they are as inaltsn-