Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-13

+ THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER.

i THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER. /
/:
There are two phrases which we often
hear, mans humanity to man" and
woman against woman There are
those so optimistic that they do not be-
lieve in the former, but very few are
there who do not accept as one of the
axioms OF life that woman is full of
jealousy. revenge and evil deeds for an
other Of her sex. It Is significant fact
that the friendships. which have become
noted for their constancy and devotion,
have been between men. We speak of a
David and Jonathan and Damon and
Pythias, but we know of no women
whose love for one another has made
them famous. Madame de Stael and
Recamier are perhaps the two women
whose friendship is best known, yet the
brilliant woman, in whose salon the
destinies of kings and nations were
mapped out, confessed that she had al
ways envied the exquisite beauty Of her
friend. And one who writes formula
for friendship will never include in it
envy or jealousy for they are the fore
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the very reason that we do not expect
that when we find 1t we proclaim 1t so
recently published is remarkable IL for
of one woman to another which it por-
trays on every page.
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the life of Elizabeth, empress of Aus
tria, whose tragic death few months
ago recalled to public notice the sad
ness of her life. The book is written by
one of her ladies-in- waiting, who knew
intimately the life, both outward and
inward, of her sovereign 1t is a book
which holds and fascinates one. albeit
that one fears 1t is not always impartial
and unbiased. For the belief that 1.-The
king can do no wrong has found lodge
ment in the heart of the author, who
pictures Elizabeth as woman without
one flaw. THE Martyrdom of an EN-
press" may not be good history, but it
is good reading and it is REPUTATION of
the belief that woman is always against
woman.
Yet it is not among queens and their
maids alone that friendship is to be
found. Two young women We're speak
ing, the other day. of their friendship
They went to kindergarten together
when Miss Elizabeth Harrison, affec-
tionately known among her pupils as
miss Betty" held her first garden OF
children" in the parlors of the Presbyte-
lrian church. They have been friends
lever since then, without so much as one
serious quarrel. Other friends have
come and other friends have gone, bu
there has always been one friend, O
whom each one was certain. The far
Their time leads them away from thos
1.-TWO little sunny-haired girls the strong
, er and sweeter their friendship be
Icomes, for 1t has stood the test of years
Time changes all things, we are told
and there are those who would have II!
believe that through it's power friend
ship can change and even die. But vol
know that it is not SO. Poverty may
4 come and take away the golden coir
4 and the precious gem. but poverty ha:
no power to take away the golden til
i of faithful love or the precious jewe
Y of a sympathetic companionship. Scr
row may come and wound the loving
HEARTS but sympathy walks hand-in.
hand with sorrow and she draws then
|closer until, when they have healed
they have healed together. Death, even
may come, but love need never feal
!; death so long as memory holds a plac
| inviolable in our hearts for the day
; and friends that are gone. The suprem
t test is when amid new surrounding
t and new circumstanc we meet an,
/ care for new friends. Yet the old one
do not suffer, for
l Time teaches patience at bitter cost
And all the new loves which the year
may bring US,
, Fill not the heart place, aching for tn
lost"
; We are prone to ridicule Ella wheeie
! Wilcox and it often happens that PEG
lple who are ridiculed are not credite
!. with that good which they really do. ]
i few verses which the much -maligne
"poetess of passion" once wrote are in
. dicative of an optimistic faith which j
not superstition and of trust which
$ not cant. The first line is "A thing !
e never settled until it is settled right,
: and though the words at first ma
$ seem trite they will grow dear if on
4 can hold to them and come to believ
a them. 1t is because he believes Their
: that there is hope today in the heart o
t Dreyfus, who despite years of persecu
n ton and injustice knows that mere
) and right are somewhere and some tim
J, to be found.
1t is we'll that hope springs eternal i
g the human breast for if it did no
e where would mankind be? AS one VIII
t has lost his self-respect loses the abil
ity to do right. SO he who loses hop
d finds the power to do what he one
e Thought possible has been lost with i
J, Hope has kept many men and wome
Y from dying and it is all that has mad
d life worth living for many others.
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