Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-10

despoiler distressingly nigh, there
is Incompatible woman to be seen.
When all the medical officers have
retired from the night, and silence
and darkness have settled down up
on the miles of PROSTATE sick, she
may be observed alone, with a little
lamp in her hand, making her sol.
itary rounds"
The Hon. Sidney Godolphin o.
borne said "Her nerve is wonder
full. have been with her at very
severe operations. She has an utter
disregard of contagion. l have
known her to spend hours over men
dying of cholera or fever"
1t is said that rough, brave fell
lows VINO had refused to have oper-
atoms performed absolutely would
be overcome by a few calm remarks
by her. Do you wonder these men
would kiss her shadow as the pass
ed that the "cussin' and swearin' "
ceased and the quarters became as
holy as a church?
"Happy deeds which in their
enumeration proclaim their own sur
prising worth" Miss Nightingale
possessed knowledge of the an
cient and modern languages and
higher branches of mathematics.
For this labor she refused COM
pensation, and returned after the
war in disguise into England to
avoid any demonstration that would
be sure to follow in her honor.
Imagine our military commanders
refusing such honors if you can
honors that not only England, but
the nations of Europe, were anxious
to shower upon her.
"Must blessed things come silently
and silently depart?
Noiseless steals spring-time on the
year and comfort on the heart.
"God spake not in the thunder nor
in the crushing blast.
His utterance was in the still small
voice.
That came at last"
Would we send our Miss Night
engale TO the Legislature with brut-
al men? Yes, if they could be of
service. If they could end war as
we'll as to heal the wounded, there
would be the place.
The only question evolved ought
to be the good that could be done.
This achieved would more than
balance the behavior of brutes and
! blackguards. Such women are too
pure to be cowardly or corrupted.
Purity means, not ignorance, not
innocence, not weakness, but weigh
ed in the balance and not found
wanting.
| The ignorant, innocent and weak
might chance to be pure, but not
necessarily.
Purity means the distillation of a
power and beauty that disarms rib
aldry and is secure against tempta-
ton and time. 1t means more than
a coat of "adipose tissue" without
which this beautiful creature is a
fraud and a snare to engulf the race.
Henry Drummond, in his "Ascent
of Man." says "Is it too much
to say that the one motive of or
ganic nature was to make mothers?
1t is at least certain that this was
the chief thing she did,"
This being true, isn't it a little
ridiculous for a sex considerably
lower than the angels debating to
the chief work of nature, pointing
out the paths she is to follow aud
the position she is to occupy!
Imagine Cordelia, the mother of
the Gracchi, being told by her sons
TO keep her proper place. The
chief work of nature out to be able
to seek her own level.
Drummond, in speaking of the
father, says: among the carnivora
the mother has often to hide her off
spring from his least they be de-
voured."
We have fathers to-day who have
daveloned far beyond the stage OF