The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-07
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
Sonnets in Shadow,

There Is such power even in smallest things
To bring the dear past back; tower's
-. tint, aza#ss - te&As = as = T. ~
snatch of some old song, the ieeting
Of sunbeans on the wave leach vivid
.Ef@ brings llg If J.. RI %
The lost days up, as from the Idle strings
OF n W,in4d-harp sad breeze cvokes the
>4s imprint
OF u loved hand the heart with, torture
@<& VIKINGS ~ / = <'tst <t!F-,, :
"sss speech;
q face seen in the crowd with curve of
cheek T.. $. '|@t -~. - =
Or sweep Of eyclash oar woes core can
%s*.s reach. 80. III: =.
How strong is love to ycarn. aud yet how
: To strive with fate; the lesson all things
As Of the past in myriad ways they
-Arlo Bates in "a New Library Of Poetry
i and Song"
College Mothers ani G ,,ie 20 D.,s',tar.
What wonderful thing it would be il
some ingenious person would invent Il
mirror which should: reflect to us our past
selves! Not the real underlying present
self--that were too disheartcnng. and
it is Il wise provision in nature that has
yelled it; but past phases of development.
that we might now and then take an
account of moral stock and determine
our minus or plus condition. Whether
the result showed Il deficit or an ac-
emulation we should perhaps he bene-
myself confronted the other day with
such a mirror as that, only it was double
faced, and personified in two typical col
lege girls. One was gay-hearted and
trific feathcr-hcadcd. but altogether
alert, intelligent and charming. The
other was solemn and elaborate in man
ner' took herself with seriousness. and
tl3n OF facts. whose specific gravity hal
killed all inclination to laughter. Were
we girls. on whom the first experiments
i'll college-training were tried like either
OF those types? ] determined to ask
Aspasia., who. of all my friends, can be
dependsd on to help out just conclu-
ton and admitted that the present under.
graduate was absorbing a good deal of
analysis and comparison
NO, said Aspasia. thoughtfuily. eve
were not like those girls; we were lot
half to clever us either of them-not so
well developed. not SO high type"
. AHptS1t' demonstrated. uftnlN. "
heard that priggish senior tell hewiI-
dered old lady from the rural districts
that :" hat women needed to he enlanci-
patct,. from was ignorance and supcrsti-
ton"
""Wcll. don't thcy?"
Even Aspasia will sometimes he OBJ
tusc.. | reminded her with reproarh that
when to state, truths, ana where. and to
whom arc. almost as essential acutlisi-
! tons of wisdom as truth itself. / bro.
tested that We were never so lacking in
fact in those old days which arc ever tbs
best days. But Aspasia held her ground
She said We made the same blunders
then, and that they went equally unrr-
corded; That satisfied senior will never
know how she appeared when apparcllrl
in her sclf-suficcncy until she comes
to the place where she does as we do
looks into the mirror of her callow past.
And when she gets there, life will have
SO snuhbed and beaten and drilled her
| into humility that she will have taken
her place in the rank and file. and have
learned to march patiently in step with
other women who took their training
wherever they Gould get it. in college or
out-1tarper Bazur.