Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-02-16
Mechancsown Frederick County, Maryland Thursday February 49, 1898

ture to BE- busted and the tambour
frame was called into requisition. That
she was somewhat meek and lowly in
her disposition we think is proven by
the words Milton makes her to speak to
her self ordained lord and muster !:
God is thy law, thou mine, to know no
more. is woman's hlg hest knowledge
and her PRAISE AS the submissive
creature stood in surpliant, dropping
grace before the lordly Adam. very like
with tim:h eyes veiled with her taper
fingers, what would she have said could
shs have taken peek down the Wis
ia OF centuries, at the woman of to day
with her divided skirts, and pugnacious
determination to get at lea her halt
CT the family bit betwixt her teeth
Think you che would have regretted
that our time was not her time!
No! such are the perverse and
curious convolu,,ons of the mind feml.
nine. She might have breathed sigh
OF relief and reegated herself with su.
preme JUNCTION. to hel pinnacle Of hon
or-first woman Of the first century, on
the very top shel: Of history. Not be-
my student in he chronology Of that
epoch, we cannot vouch for the season
OF all those happenings. but one of the
traditions Of tue east--than which ncne
are more lich in poetic beauty than
those which have their birth in the
Orient-tells US all the roses, always
the emblematic flower OF woman, were
originally white. but when this erling
couple were driven from out the gar
den, bv the angel with the flaming
s~ old, rhey bent their snowy heads
aud bushed from ralest pink to deep
est sLamed crimson" In the ORIENT
the flowers bloou early ard whether
it was the IA h Of February or not his
tory fail: to tell u.s. but Eve WAS really
prehistoric valentine. and as such we
trust Adam loved and chrstrnrd her,
At least there we're no pangs OF Jeal
ousv on the score Of com garrison.
False may be the allegor,, but from
it we dcduce this truth. love, which
Americas bachelor poet calls, The
white flower from the tree of Col
drorped down to us from heaven
aboye,' came into the world with our
first parents and, though terror came
with it and woman is accused Of being
the agressor, so, too. we look for man 3
redemption, and highest uplifting,
mainly through womans perfected Nil.
ture and effort through her hroadened
intelligence aud retiring iah"'nce, we
look for the elimination OF SIN and IN
pnrity from the world. And We hold
love is to be one Of the alchemists for
tie lettering of the human race. when
marriage j, more commonly founded
upon an intelligent harmony Of tastes
and natures, and there is more Of spirit
and les. of the material Then can We
look for more perfect race of human
ty; more beautiful. both spiritually y and
pl.ysicallv, and we fully endorse the
remark of an intelligent physician. who
said if people would have little more
care Of generation. there would be less
need of 80 much talk of regeneration
With A candor which Graves no favor,
we would say. let the worldly mother
who folds herself complacentlv in her
mantle of superior in'ellig"nceand self
satisfied religion. look well to 1t, as
with Il LITTLE hoard Of maxlms she
breaches dcwn a daughter heart, and
with skillful diplomacy steers her into
marriage whose main consideration is
worldly eli gibiltv. At the door Of the
super refined. worldly mother we lay a
very large bundle of some Of the evils
that aNicr society. and bean monde had
best hold up the mirror to some Of its
own folli-s and shortcoming, before
wasting so much spurious sympathy IN
other dlrections
1t is said all the world loves lover.
Probably it always will. And one of
the pretty, graceful traditions not yet
pinned to the raters of the past bv the
stllptto of realism, Is that Of St: Valen-
tine, the pat ron saint Of that interesting
class-lovers. And here again we find
tradition directly traceable to relig-
ious source, for his salntshir was fat
bishop-leaatwise we take 1t he was Fat
as we never saw u lean one who, We
are told by some writers. was beheaded
at Rome in the reign Of Cloudius and
canonized. Others say he was burned
and then N 4de into saint; custom,
by the way, which has in mo'lhed
form descended to our day, although
the roasting is apt to be the gridiron OF
uncharitv, and the toasting comes in