Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
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Some of the young women are talking about organizing a "shirt-waist club" for the summer months. It will be lim- ited as to membership. It's avowed ob- ject will be to be comfortable and to have good time. Gossip will be tabooed at all meetings-except when the importance of possible events demands discussion. "Horrid man" will not be even so much as named over the tea cup, and loyalty to fellow members will be the wateh-word. No new woman" or bloomer girl will be allowed, people who say disagreeable things will be properly squelched and Eden will be the result generally. One man has been mean enough to say that if the forego- Ing requirements be insisted on no woman will want to join, but his saying so didn't make it true
 The woman in white? Of course she is here. just as of yore. She comes look ing deliciously cool and feeling abomina- bly, hot. She can come nearer looking like an angel and feeling like demon than anything in the world It is her part to smile and be q villain. but for all that the picture she makes is thorcAgh- ly charming, and half of creation loves her.
 There's picture hanging somewhere that brings to mind strange thoughts. l is called illusion and portrays the vanishing of castles in Spain into nothngness from which they were
 sve,lved The face of the subiect-a womau--is a study of dsap ppointmont half hope and some despairing. She is stretching out her arms, but the castles go out of her reach. out of her life. and she knows they can never agaih be builded.
 Yes. they go-these castles Maybe they were of friendship, maybe of love- maybe of human faith and loyalty; one by one they go. and they never come back again. Grain in tie threshing is noa as it was in the ear-hope that brightens youth takes on other and evanescent gleams in the years that crowd about us Castles in Spain? As they tumble you and l watch them, and we wonder that we could ever have hoped to keep intact things so fair, so fral Castles built on love, on friendship. on gratitude or on any other sacred thing. are some | times the first to go for human amhi- l ton will sweep all before it. will sell it's soul and wade in the hearts bload of it's ] nearest and dearest. will barter love and 1 outrage friendship, but the eternal prin- l ciples of these things it cannot hurt If you and l keep our souls white, our | hearts loyal and our manhood, our wo- manhood unstained. we can afford to 1 lose that which goes, dragged down of ] its own weight. and i'll at ease on high | CT plane II may be we lose our illusions, 1 but the grand principle of love remains 1 the Same-Gods love for us and our 1 love for our fellow man.
 1 Compensation will come, It may be soon. it may be late but it will come, and 1 then all will be well with us-you and me-and we will understand that back 1 of the shadow h0vers always the sublime | promise of-Tght. MISS POLLY.
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