Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-17

| full. which does not move someone to
make the like remark to representative
| womanhood While women themselves
are too apt to say Yes, that is another
of the problems we have to solve. another
instance of woman's opportunity, and
| her obvious short-sightedness
l think, myself, that a deal of it is
gratuitous, and not infrequcntly i'll
advised and irrelevant, besides To any
thoughtful and authoritative utterance
from preacher, reformer, observer, or (sic)
seer, We are willing to give attention.
But, ct Is time someone said it, the
woman who thinks, much abused verb
on any subject, and especially of her own
duty, destiny and possible opportunities
is not the woman who finds a Yates In
such utterances.
The common springs Of humanity, the
wells of the past, and the clear streams of
present day wisdom, honey and
manna fresh, are as accessible to her as to
her brothers Her problems are for the
| most part the common problems OF the
| race. Whatever makes life plain, or
satisfying, or effective whatever clears
and strengthens its channels in order that
they may more surely carry and bestow
| something of God S life and love, thought,
duty, service, truth, love, sacrifice, in
! sight and faith, are common heritage.
And they need, for their Interpretation,
all that knowledge and experience sym
patty AMI inspiration, can supply
Why take the tricllling, roily stream
that comes from artificial and superfluous
conduits:
All this, however, is only by the way.
It is, moreover, merely an individual
protest, though one which venture to
think others will mentally endorse to
proceed. At the last meeting of the
society someone referred to the fact that
DR.. Hotspur's sister, who lives in B.,
had come to spend the winter as his
home; and that the reason for this pro
longed visit in our quiet town was her
shattered health. Someone else regretted
that she was not likely to be seen in any
of our gatherings, to which she would be
able, even incidentally, to contribute so
| much; for it was reported that she was,
even in b, "leader'' That she was a
prominent worker in many social move
ments and educational as well as philan-
thropic movements, and belonged to
many clubs and CLASSES" directing in
several cases, the various courses they
were pursuing. Someone else had been
told of her proficiency in the languages,
and that she contributed frequently, al
though anonymously, to the papers; and
Della Simpsilly had been shown a picture
she had painted, which she sent to Mrs.
Hotspur ut Christmas. Everyone drew a
long breath when Della finished, and
| no one seemed to have anything to add to
the story Of the lady's accomplishments
Then Mrs Peppersqueezer remarked
that it reminded her of story that was
printed in one of the magazines some
time ago. Perhaps we remembered it,
But it happened that none of us did and
so Mrs. Peppersqueezer went on; 1.-The
story was about very ambitious young
woman, whose first name was Helen and
l believe that was the name of the
story. Anyway. she belonged to
dozen or more Glasses, and societies. and
the NEST of them were culture clubs
And, as there were only ~ hours in The
day, and six days in the week, not count
ing Sunday, it kept her pretty busy. In
fact, 1t was about all she conld do to get
around from one to the other Of them.
NWeil, she was taken sick before long,
and no one could find out what was the
matter with her, or, which Was more to
the purpose, how to help her, or even to
bring her back to speech and conscious
ness. TIL, all at once, she began to talk,
or at least, to say something in a queer,
outlandish fashion. They couldn't under
stand it, but it proved to be some out-of-
| the-way language or dialect she had been
learning at one of her classes. Then,
believe, there came a lot Of history; and
$ 1t went on from one to another, till she
had said off all she had been packing her
Ipoor, overdone memory with that year.
And then she got well. I
" l don't know anything about Miss