St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-28
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rem, nay, that they have frequently put
their brethren to the blush.
The Neroines of Gentle Deeds.
In peace, also. Woman's victories have
been no less glorious than those won in
war. The stories /of Grace Darling,
of Florence Nightingale, of Sister Ger
trude-are all familiar instances. All
these have been chronicled, and the
fact that they have been so chrOnlcled
has made them perpetual slim illus to
the race, and as an Indictment to noble
action they are among the choicest
heritages of the race. A great
deed properly recorded lifts the
heart to God; it brushes aside the
veil of prose i'll which our daily life is
shroudtd; it shows that beneath the veil
lies the poetry. the romance, the awful
beauty of the Godlike heart that makes
us one with God. 1t teaches us to think
better of ourselves and better of our fell
lows when we find that a responsive
chord within all of us thrills at the men,
ton of worthy deed.
The HerOisln of Private Life.
But what of the unchrOnicled deeds
greater than even those that have been
recorded? Men live before the world;
they take part in the external struggle
OF daily life; their deeds do not so often
as those of women fall unnoted by
their fellows. But women, who are even
more heroic than the most heroi C men.
do and suffer in silence. Theirs is the
sacred solitude in which they come
face to face, not with man but with
God Theirs is the true pathos and
sublimuity of human life. Shall we sing
of heroes, Of conquerors, or martyrs
who have given their bodies to
the flames and build no lofty
rhyme for those who have expe-
rienced the cross and not the crown
of glory? Shall we miss the high impe-
tuS that is afforded by the chronicle OF
deeds that nave illuminated the sanctu-
aries of private life? To certain eX-
tent we must. The inner conflicts that
find no expression through smiling lips.
how otherwise may they be expressed?
Much Of the most blessed side OF human
life and human experience we can only
guess at; we can never truly know.
But SO far as we can know let's put our
knowledge where others can share 1t.
Let Us teach the race that not only In
the past, not only in the storm of acIIon,
not only in the high places OF the
world are high deeds done. Let us
look around US and about us and see
the heart that beats today under calico
dresses, in humble tenements, In lowly
surroundings, is the same heart that
beat under the coat of mail of Joan OF
Are amid all the pomp and panoply of
war - the infinite, allencOmpasSlng
heart Of true womanhOod.
To Compile a Record.
1t is with this view that the woman's
New York branch of the Columbian eX-
hibition has appealed through the Sun
day World to its multitudinous readers
furnish such stories of woman's
heroism performed within the state of
New York AS have come to their atten-
zion. Every clergyman, every doctor.
every lawyer, every man who is thrown
into more or less intimate professional
relations with women must know OF
thousand cases of devotion and self
sacrifice. Nay, every man, no matter
how limited his field OF observation or
how small his circle of acquaintance,
must have his precious mite to offer.
1t is our hope and desire that the record
should be made as full and as grand as
the grandeur of the subject demands.