Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-12-13
A MOTTO FOR WOMEN.
HERE ARE WIT, WISDOM AND INFOR-
NATION.

Scattered like diamond dust through
the rich quarries of a peoples thought
CLEAN the strange, magic words that
have melted men to service, girded cour-
age on a woman's heart and upset the
DC order OF things, and all around the
burning and shining light OLA mere
motto. With the Norman came into
England "Dieu ct mon droit,' and it
abldes today. The "Honi soft uui ma
y penso' of Britain shield was born of
k1ngly courtesy i'll the rough days we
call the dark ages-13OO A. D.-wheu
Edward l relieved the embarrassment of
a lady at a court ball and bound he1
garter around his knee and instituted
the good old Order of the Garter, today
the proudest distinction which the crown
can bestow on the peer, or tho man Of
letters, on the brilliant actor. or the dis.
coveror of a constellation. "Liberte.
Egallto, Fraternite" wreathes every coin
tina trades for French interests TODAY
o the Seine to Madagascar. These
three great words that clasp Columbia's
hand i'll kinship We're wrung from the
crimson sweat of 1870, when an empire
went down at Sedan. They are the echo
words that rumbled with terrific NEAL
ing through Paris with the tumbrels of
l793. "Deutsches Reich, :" says lacou-
lcally the pond German coin. And the
two words flashed into fullest meaning
from the creative gaze Of two eyes lust
70 years agoNthe eyes of Bismarck.
h pontifical symbol, with its crossed
keys, has stood the swing and the shriyel
OF centuries. Breathes there Il man with
soul so dead who never to himself has
said, This is my own, my "E Pluribus
Unum?''
Now, home is the backbone of the
state. | believe it. 1.-The II who
have influenced all history were the wo-
men OF the home" When Eve woke III
III Eden, she saw that the first thing to
do was to make Adam comfortable. |
believe it. And therein was her happi,
ness. One delighted gaze at herself in
the liquid pools Of Parulise-ycs. chats
femilllne-and then she saw that the
first thing to do was to get breakfast.
Could Adam, the first mar of letters.
nave named all the animals Mess he
had had a good breakfast? Put il TO
yourself. have had DISTINGUISHED au-
thors tell Tue they were at peace with all
mell--and HI WOmen-aftcr 4 pretty
petit elmer | had served. Think how a
nlan'E 'traln, OF Il nations, puts forth
bral.1lus t4lar reach unto the ends Of tl!e
earth when ncaco is established. Yes.
and a WOman's brain, too, for tho Bible
says, "NWith the fruit Of her hands She
plantoth u yineyard'--that is, after
breakfast. just look at Proverbs thar
have stood the change and chance Of
time! And you can't get ahead Of the
old Bible, dear ''new' women, believe
me.
NOW, there is 4 great current of cook
cry friHzling through the nation lust
now--political cookery, United States
navy cookery, diplonlatic cookery, hot
with the southern spices grown on Nenu-
zuela soil. The backbone of the state /,
the home, I repeat, the home and all its
comforts, loneliness, adornments, rest.
Let woman, while developing all her
other Eden gifts, dig ont deep the
trench through which a bright current
Of cookery shall flow, but in the home.
l am sure her little fair hands were
never made to scratch ont nations ewes.
shoulder musketS, gCsticulato from p0-
litical platforms. Her pen is mightier
than the sword she would assume Her