Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-17
w. C. r. U. COLUMN.
CLIPPINGS.
Lady Henry Somerset in Behalf Of the Arme
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IL Is editorially conceded by the Daily
News, the most important Liberal paper
IN London. that the speech of Lady Henry
somerset at the great national meeting in
support Of the Armenians held Nav was
tne most impressive and the best received
OF any, although several of England S most
famous orators We're on the platform and
two dukes and several bishops spoke. The
meeting was one of historic imoprtapce
and the subject is one of vital interest 10
All. When Lazy Somerset referred to the
Armenian mother only IS years old, that
sad-Iaced woman arose. She was in a
prominent seat on the platform and at
tired In the picturesque garb of the Ar
menlan women. She did not lift her ewes
Dut stood there, the Niobe of her pitifui
nation. There was hardly dry eve in
that great audience, and Lady Somerset's
Voice was touched with tenederest motion
The Methodist Times says that sin the
absence of Gladstone, no speaker could
have expressed SO adequately the feeling
ald purpose of the English people, No
doubt many q thoughtful mind ask, d
itself why the mere fact of sex should be
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It's best and most statesmaniike minds
anu troest hearts In crisis like the pres
ent. That this should have been the case
SO long will be the jest of happier ages.
1t is token Of esteem felt for our ma
tlonal president that she was made one of
the conveners of this great national dem
onstration against the hateful Turk. 1t
Is not usual to include the name of a
foreigner on such list at such time.
But that word foreign will be weeded out
OF the dictionary some day. Already our
sisters are writing u, not to use it, but to
speak Of distant" rather than foreign
lands. And some day this will not be
done, for the magic Of invention will have
brought all within speaking distance of
CHI other.
Brooklyn, N. Y, women have won a
great victory. After June Is five women
will be members of the board of education
the petition signed by Mayor Schieren
last week bore the signatures of
5000 cultured women No worker
or equal suffrage need be discouraged in
these days.
The Chicago Woman's Club has freed
itself of all prejudice by adopting last
week the following bylaw: "The qualifi
cation for membership shall be character,
intelligence and the reciprocal advantage
of membership to the club and the indi-
vidual, without regard to race, color.
religion or politics. This is the result of
proposition last fall to admit an educated
colored woman, Mrs. Fanny Williams, to
membership in the club. Her name was
at first rejected but according to the new
bylaw, she or any other woman, white
q black who meets the requirements of
bharacter and intelligence. may become
a member. All honor to the Chicago
sWoman's Club.
@When the temperance girls of our land
tAke such stand as the young women of
Ranbury, N. Y, are doing, the "brothers
a girls" will more seriously think on the
cup of the "mocker.' In this town is
society of young women numbering about
400 whose members are, among other
things, pledged not to marry men who
drink. The society is regularly organized,
being now known as the St. Peters Ladies'
Temperance. Society. These brave 10Th
ceI&ury girS, expect to enroll 1000 names
on lheir records. They are wise in their
daE.and generation, and their house will
surAy not 6e left unto them desclate.
,x"Sin worketh, let me work too,
sSin undoeth; let me DO;
sTAs busy as sin, my work I'll ply,
Till rest in the rest of eternity.
"Death worketh let me work too,
Death undoeth, let me do.
AS busy as de ath my work I'll ply,
shall rest in the rest of eternity