The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
TENNYSON'S WOMEN.
The Poet Never localized the Work of the
Wage Garner.

The Poet Never localized the Work of the
Wage Garner.
Tennyson gave the world pictures of
some of the fairest feminine creations
in poetry-winsome maidens, demure
and trustful; womanly women, loyal
and companionable; devoted wives, gem
tie and faithful; noble matrons, loving
and self sacrificing, serving the best in
terests of home and country.
Tennyson's conception of woman and
her sphere may be regarded as rather
old fashioned He was evidently not in
full sympathy with some of the adj
ganced notions of the modern woman.
His burlesque Of woman's rights in
1.-The Princess" has not hurt the cause
of the weaker sex He understood the
right relations of the man and the wom-
an, and his utterances in the closing
passages of this poem go to the heart of
the problem. 1t is still true that wom-
ans chief place and browning glory is
to be queen of the home. There she may
have an unlimited field for usefulness
and exert farreaching influence for
good if she but realize her opportunities
and improve them. In the household
woman finds her proper sphere and
work.
Her office there to rear, to teach,
Becoming as is meet and fit
link among the days, to knit
The generations each with EACH
No other poet has done more to glorify
the maternal sentiment or to make the
family relation sacred Woman's work,
as he conceived it, is not only training
the plastic minds of the young, but
squirting the man to more resolute en-
deavor and grander achievement Yield
ing to her subtler forces and gentler
agencies, he aspires to a higher plane Of
being. While accomplishing his man.
hood by REFRESHING the baser and Gull
tivating the finer side of him, she at the
same time works out her own salvation,
humanity speaking, in the truest sense.
In word. it is by loving and being
loved that she reaches the fullest devel-
opment and renders the world the best
service. Conserving and fostering good
ness and greatness, ministering to the
wants of the lowly, scattering gloom
and softening the sting of anguish-this
is wOman's mission. -ChautRuquan.
The Uses of Tectorium.
Recently inquiries were sent out by
the state department. to consular officers
in Europe asking for information con-
corning the commercial product called
tectorium, which is described as fol-
lows:
Tectorium consists of galvanized
iron web covered with gelatinous sub
stance and is translucent but not trans
parent. 1t is described by manufac-
turer as a substance that, first, can be
bent without being broken; second, is
both tough and flexible; third, is not
softened by the rays of the sun; fourth,
is nonsoluble; fifth, is not affected by
severe cold sixth, is a bad conductor
of heat; seventh, is well adapted for
roofs Oh account Of it's extreme light
ness; eighth, when exposed to the sun,
it loses its original yellowish color in
time and becomes harder and more dur
able; ninth, can be made, by very
cheap process, to initiate stained glass
in such manner that it cannot be dis
tinguished from the genuine article;
tenth, can be cut by shears, nailed to
wood and transported without danger;
eleventh, can be easily repaired in case
it is cut; twelfth, does not break, and
thirteenth, is well adapted for factory
windows and skylights for lighthouses,
market halls, verandas, transportable
buildings and for roofing.
The consuls state that it is sold in
small quantities in few places, but
that it is not known to the general pub
lie and as a commercial product is still
an experiment.