Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-01-23
THE NEW WOMAN.
She Builds Her Kingdom of Heaven Il
Her Earth Life.


She Builds Her Kingdom of Heaven In
Her Earth Life.
Most people have queer ideas Of heav-
en-. They think that we shall die and
suddenly change into beautiful, daz-
cling angels, instantly becoming sweet
tempered and pure and gentle and per-
feet, as well as be entirely happy for
ever thereafter. Such transformation
would be no more possible than for q
tiger to be suddenly transformed into a
god. We shall never reach the kingdom
Of heaven, though we die Thousand
times, till we grow into it. What would
the average woman, with her weakness
of will, her petty treacheries, her little
falsehoods her sneering at and CRITICS.
ing of her friends behind their backs,
her bad temper, her envy of other women
whom she thinks more fortunate than
herself, her revenge for little sights and
great ones, her cherished grudges, her
giving down to years of gloom and de-
spondency and her whining over disap-
pointments, do in heaven? Angels alone
make O heaven, and until a woman is
something of an angel in her earth life
she can by no possibility associate with
angels after she is dead. What is death
anyhow? 1t is merely the slipping of of
the body. We ourselves are exactly the
same as we were before, with all our
meanness and littleness upon our heads,
and that is exactly how we shall be
ashered into the hereafter. Therefore
let us begin and perfect ourselves
here. 1t is the only way to enter
heaven after we are dead. Let us
first of all clear our minds of every evil
thought and passion. Let us learn to
control our temper perfectly. Let us
not admit for one moment an evil
thought of any human being into our
souls. either IN the way of anger, jeal-
ousy, malice or pride. 1t will take
years TO do this, but it will furnish us
an improving occupation all the years
of our earth lives. W. J. Colville has
said that the imbittering of life which
we permit to I'LL our minds is the secret
spring of all old age and decrepitude.
So it is. The sour, sallow faced spite
full looking woman is exactly what she
has made herself in the years that were
given to her. Look at her and take
warning. Let it be Tie task of your life
to fit yourselves here for the kingdom
of heaven Be geutle and sincere and
kindly. So shall you really inaugurate
the kingdom of heaven on earth.
There is nothing more delightful or
more reasonable than TO see mothers
chaperoning their daughters on bicycle
parties The mother who cannot ride q
wheel does not know how much fun both
she and her daughters miss.
There are more women stump speak
| ers in the political campaign than there
ever were before. Mary Elizabeth Lease
is actually the great gun of her party
oratorically Helen Varicks Boswell is
regularly employed to organize and in
struct women's Republican clubs. Mrs.
Elizabeth Sheldon Montgomery is speak
ing brilliantly in the New England
states, while Margaret Ingels. a young
girl, is enc of the champions of the
Democratic party in Kentucky. There
are many others.
Ii Hung Chang thinks bicycling for
women is immodest. All people with
Chinese minds think the same
Miss Glen Byrne is most successful
commercial traveller. Her speciality is
women's ready made dresses. From city
to city she travels, raking in orders for
her employers, dollars for herself aud
golden opinions from all.
ELIZA ARcHARp CONNER.