The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-07-03
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
Tha SIN Oueen Wake.

She wakes! In the furthest West the
murmur has reached our ears
She wakes! In The fnrthest East the Hus.
=, sian listens and fears
She wakes! the ravens clamor, the winds
cry overhead, .< :.
The wandering waves take up the cry.
At last, ye have reused the Sea Queen; at
~, last. when the world unites, -.
She Stl ar.. from, her scornful silence. and
Alone. with world against her, she has
turned on the snarling crew,
NO longer the Peaceful Trader. but the
Viking North Seas knew
She calls, and her ships Of battie~-dragons
her seus haze bred
Glide into plymouth harbor. and gather
round Beachy Head
She wakes! and the ciang OF arming echoes
~, through all the earth.
Tie ring of warriors weapons; STERN m,l.
sic Of soldiers mirth.
III the e.o world Ia. there may be nations, and
80, there gathers round every throne
The. strength of earth-born armies. but the
AS she ruled; she still shall rulesat,, from
AS long as the winds are tanfelesszas long
as the waves are salt
This .mny be our Armageddpn; seas may
~purple with blood and fiame
AS we 20 to Our rest forever, Ieayiu. the
What matters There have been none like
II We af fe NOR %e a sEys to ,a tnme our prds
our fathers 'a dIed d"l' as they fell die as
What bet BETTER the seas that bred us shall
If we rock INK Us w TO rest it, at Lag, !ast' ,,
nailed to the nations mast.
Olive Phillips Wolley in the Columbian
Nerves.
Nerves are convenient pack horses OF,
which we lay the blaine of morbid TEN.
pers, irritability, and other unfortunate
conditions, without remembering that
nerves are to be kept ill., order by good
sense and d firm will: Healthy nerves
contribute ONLY to the pleasure and happi-
ness or lie, and never assert themselves
except agreeably. The diseased nerve
sends it's quivering lance-thrust of pain
10 the remotest corners of our being,
ana pain is therefore always danger
signal. and must not be passed by with.
out attention. If there be aching eyes
or cars or teeth, or IL weary sense of
weight ill the back makes the day a labor
ana the night Il torture. if there is even
a sense of discomfort anywhere, let the
nerves have. the credit of reporting the
trouble, and then let them be soothc,]
and strengthened. But to accuse. these
faithful servants whenever our own lack
OF se!f-control is the cause of our uueru.
LOUIS complaint or our foolish fear. is tC
snow ourselves weak and stupid We owe
II 70 our own cOnsciences to be candid
and II we shivcr at IA mouse, or scream
at Il spider. or trenlble and grow pallid
ana historical at the approach of a thun
IcrStorm, 1T is not on our nerves that the
fault must be laid.
Any woman who chooses to take the
trouble can be serene and uuiet-man
nered, can bear suffering with fortitudt
and meet disaster with heroism. The
higher one goes in the social scale. the
more one finds of calm and gentle bear
ing, whatever befalls the actor in life's
drama. Social training stands one III
stead when it is all affair of setting tn,
teeth and keeping still. or of filling the
air with outcries and clamur.
One chronic complainer with nerves
forever on edge can cffectually destroy
the tranquility of the domestic circle
Peace and comfort fly before the face
of the woman who is always at thu
mercy of nerves" That face, too. earl,
loses it's freshness and it's bloom. Wri1i
klcs cover it with a net -work of crossing
and intercrossing lines: small FUCKERS
weave themselves about the mouth
crows feet multiply around the eyes
No greater foe rnehaces beauty than a
belief that one must be the victim. moi
the commander of her nerves. Harper'>
Bazaar.