Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-02

| OF all association of women to help in
| the administration of its affairs. And
then there are all the religious organ
lzatlons, such as the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union, the Woman's
| Christian associations, the missionary
societies, and the church guilds. Next
we nave political organizations, work
ing girls clubs, purely literary and
| social clubs, clubs of this kind that
KIND and the other, and there isn't one
of item but what could do a great deal
| in the way OF equipping hospitals ana
sending medicines, bandages, appli-
ances. Clothing and delicacies to the
American and Cuban soldiers Ind
Vlduals can do their part, too, just as
they did during the Civil War, and ii
| big part it is. Already | know of a
large number of women who have
started in making bandages. These
Womens organizations can send out a
| great many nurses from their ranks,
provided they are needed. During our
ClVli war the services of the Sisters Of
Chaflty as volunteer nurses were glad
~ accepted and We're most efficient.
and today they stand ready to go into
the fields by the hundred, while those
VINO stay at home will supply what
they and their patients need"
do you know" said the Southern
woman, Il think Woman's greatest in
fluence in time of war is not her self
sacrlllce and her ability to collect and
forward things to meet the material
needs of the soldiers. but it is the en-
enlargement she gives to the men.
women in general hate war, but when
1t comes they urge the men on to fight
Ihey inspire them not only with true
courage and bravery, but also with a
spirit of dare-devltry. l remember so
well case in the late war where a TO-
year-old boy ran away from home ana
enlisted. His mother was one of those
Southern aristocrats with outward
pride which even her own children
could not quite vanquish, and naturally
they We're a little in awe of her. This
boy came back to confess what he had
done and to say good-hy. He was very
much embarrassed and afraid to own
what he had done, but finally as twi-
light came on and he had to be going
soon be blurted out:
Mother, don't know what you'll ID
to me. but I've enlisted. | had to.
mother
She drew herself up. looked him
over from head to foot, and said:
After all, you are my own son
| aren't you? l was just wondering
what you would do, and I'd made up
my mind what l should do if you didn't
enlist. | should have disowned you,
and then she fell into his arms and for
the first time that boy saw his mothers
real heart. She encouraged him to go
TIA a
Every time you fire. fire as if YOU
were shielding the honor of the women
of your family my boy She said as a
! last Injunction: Kill whenever you
can. That same woman cared for no
less than 20 wounded Union soldiers in
her house during the war, and treated
them With the greatest tenderness"
The ferceness with which women
| urges man on to war is always ac-
| companied by that tenderness with
which she sympathizes with every one
| connected with the war on either 81 IL
who IS wounded, sick, or in any sort OF
| atiliction,' remarked the Northern
woman. That's why our influence in
time Of war means so much We en-
! courage our soldiers to kill their enc
| mics, and yet we grievc for the dead,
| dying, and wounded, and for their
| families. The Northern women who
| stayed at home during the Civil War
| had little chance to care for tn.
wounded Confcderates in their homes.
! but | know of case after case whera
| they aided them in one way or another
! and it was not at all uncommon for
! the Southern women to nurse ana
succor the enemies of their husbands
and sons when they fell i'll or were
wounded
Would you advise me to influcnc"
my men friends to volunteer, then -
asked the girl.
1T is always every Woman's duty to
| influence every man of her acquaint-
ance to 90 his duty. answered tn"
| Southerner With a sigh. 1t is a sad
duty AT times, but we women are -
towards. There's one way in which
woman is going to serve her country
in this war. if it lasts for any length
of time. In the last Is years she has
entered the business world in SO many
fields that she will be able to look after
the business interests Of those who 90
to fight In nearly every paper we
pick up we see where a wife or d
daughter or "A sister has assumed the
business of husband, father OF
brother who has volunteered"
After all, the women who stay al
| home viii have really more to do than
those who go out as nurses remarked
the girl. wasn't it queer that | hadn't
thought of any of these things? Ana
| believe that nine out of ten women
don't think of them,or else we Wouldn
| hear such "A deal of talk about what the
nurses will do and so precious little
about what the stay at homes can do
if subsequent events warrant action on
their part. For my part, you women
Whove had experience have convinced
me that woman at homo in case of wal
is powerful factor"
COLD WATER DRINKING.
Doubtful Nursery Legend That Cold Drinks