Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-20
THOUGHTS FOR WOMEN.


ground.
And stirred a million Sleeping cells,
The rose has hopes Of being crowned
Foxgioye dreams Of purple bellsi
No tiny life that blindiy strives.
But thinks the impulse all his own,
Nor dreams that countless other lives
Like him, are cropping. each alone
| What dizzy sweetness. when the rain
Has swept her I'LL OF laden showers,
To peep across the teeming plain.
Through miles Of upward-sprlnglng
flowers
The brown seed bursts his armoured
And slips white-yeined arm be-
tween.
White juicy stalks. touch would snap,
And twisted horns of sleekest green
Now shift and turn from side TO side.
And fevered drink the stealing rain,
As children fret at sermon-tide,
When roses kiss the loaded pane.
The tender. the resistless grace.
That stirs the hopes Of sleeping flow
erA,
Could shake yon fortress to her base.
And splinter those imperial towers:
Concentered, bound. obedient
The soul that lifts those dreaming
lids
Could mock old Rameses' monument,
And pile thousand pyramids,
Arthur Christopher Benson.
We do not realize in this day of rest
lestness that tiny things may work
Gods purposes as efrectually as do the
mlghtier agents. Conscious as we are
of our own feebleness and often losing
courage, we are liable to forget that
all which Is required OF us Is to put
our grain Of sand 1t may be. upon
the mound that in time Is to grow into
a mountain. II Is not fatallsm to Sc
renely contemplate the work in which
We bear so insignificant a part, and
TO feel that above our feeblencss there
Is guiding hand which makes even
our mistakes to contribute to the great
plan directed by omniscience. Neither
Is 1t want Of intelligent apprehen-
sion of what mutations signify to be
placid amid disasters. and when de-
feat meets us instead Of expected vic
tory. one person, one event gem
Grafton, an age are but atoms and in
ilnitesmal measures Of time. Victory II
at the end. The Immoral, the inhuman
IL 10 be crushed. distractions are tc
be removed and all that the worker has
to do Is TO exercise the powers be-
slowed in helping on the ultimate trl-
umph Of good over evil
Mlddle-aged women when thrown
upon their own resources too often are
wanting In confidence in their ability
to earn their own living, and this tim
ity often causes them to accept as cha ia
idity often causes them TO accept as
charity that which they might earn
without sacrifice OF Independence Every
woman thus circumstanoed should con-
troll her nervousness as to approaching
business men. and after learning what
she can do that they want done,
she should approach them without
whlnes or any sense OF favor, conf
IDENTIFY and frankly offer her services,
asking for the customary remuneration
and thoroughly understanding that In
so doing she is simply In business lines.
on the 10th of May there was uncov-
cred at Fredericksburg a monument
not only to noble historic woman. but
also an enduring memorial of what
woman's energy and perseverance, can
accomplish Years ago men undertook
TO rear Il monument to Mary Washing
ton They failed, and for years the
condition of this notable womnn's grave
has been IA reproach TO the country
Of which her son Is called the father
I Washington Memorial association. or
ganized and directed by Mrs Margaret
HetZel, Nirgnia, and her able assist
ant Mrs Waite this neglected spot has
been made beautiful. The monument
Is a plain monulith OF granite, fifty feet
nigh and stands upon a base eleven
rect square, This base bears the sim
pie inscription. MARY. Mother OF Wrsh-
ington.' u has been paid for by con-
tributons Of women from an parts az
the Union. patriotic women North and
South
High kicking is n recently discovered
Accomplishment and the number and
standing Of women and girls whose
vaultIng ambition scars I'm this direc-
ton, II known, would create a ripple of
surprise This new fad must have been
In the mind OF the clergyman who de-
soribed the present attitude OF the Epis-
copal church as that of standing with
one foot on earth and the other pointed
toward heaven.
Rev. Or. Pnrkhurst widely known for
his unique and successful methods OF
| carrying light into the dark places
Of New York city. has expressed his
| disapprobation OF what he terms in
woman manhood mania" In this de-
mentia he sees threat against tho
| home and he regards civilization thot
| sayu that woman Is but the female dupll-
cate Of man as false civilization. The
| weight Of opinion is on the side of the
| doctor. for there is no question that
womnn's stronghold is tile home and
her security Ii In womanliness rather
than in weak Imitation OF a man,
Learned professors In leading month
lies are writing wordy and obscure pro.
duetions on what is labelled Problem
OF Women" The curious feature In nh
those articles Is the use Of the word
problem" The present age seems Ia
abound in problems Whatever is sub.
iect for speculation straightway he
comes problem. II is doubltrnl
whether the life of woman Involves nnt.
more OF the unsolved than It has III
ways held or that II SIS any more enig-
matioal than " all mortal life Tba
present difficulty IL not so much ~
problem as the constant rlnylny ~
changes ON woman" "womnn's MI %
slen,' ''woman's rights" etc' Tho,
which woman now stands most az
need OF Is good letting alone ,rha
sex Is too prominent and too much ais
cussed, and the world Is fairly groarin,,
at present under the eternal feninin, (,
while women themselves are hror,'.,
| unduly self-conscioua The tr,,th a..