The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-19

nifty and into everlasting life; and salute
the rising beauty just shedding luster upon
Southern womanhood,
Before him he would behold the un-
crowned queens of the South,
Upon the one side would be ranged the
gray haired heroines. Who like Noumnid
and Nergilia In choosing between Corio-
Janus and Rome between the son and
husband and their country. chose their
country first; for every one of them sent
their husbands and sons to battle FOR their
homes, their fresidos and their native
land and with the Spartan mothers
deathess injunction. return with your
shield or unon It. They would be face to
face with, and would gaze With love and
rapture upon the gentle, golden hearted
women who, IN their dire distress and
hour OF need sent them food and cloth
ing and who Sustained their dropping
courage IN he field. whose every message
waited to them WIS freighted with love
and hope. who ministored 10 them in the
hospitals, closed their comrades eyes in
( death, and then tearhlliy laid them away
/ In their graves of glory, who toiled brave
/ ~ in sunshine and in storm, and who woge
and suun iucessantly In their lonely
homes during those sad and weary days OF
( war. and who with eyes upturned be
seech.ngy 10 heaven wept and prayed IN
I the silence OF the night until the very stars
I seemed TO pity those desolate watchers.
Upon the other side would bs ranged,
radiant with youth and beauty as spon
sors and maids OF honor, the Descendants
a. those women OF the Coniederaey Of
whom a great writer has beautifully said.
They have lost cause. but they have
I made trinmph--they have proven them-
selves worthy Of the best womanhood and
ia their posterity will leave no race which
shaft be unworthy Of the cause which Is
f..-A ~ "a =
who have taught such noble lessons Of
yirtuous effort and womanly endurance; 9"
they would behold the daughters and
Eranddaughters who are organizing chap
tera all over tho South aud building monu-
ments 30 our heroic dead. who in God like
mercy are assisting 10 erect soldiers
homes and provide comforts for the sick
and disabled old veteran In his declining
yeats, no are preserving In enduring
form the glorious history Of their fcra
I ifthers, who are scattering sweet flowers
upon the graves Of our dead and weaving
Earlaads around the temple az fame under
whose broad dome viii be gathered the
story OF the glory oi the South and of her
( undyiug heroes and beloved herolnes.
] The women Of the South wii i've Cor
ever in song and Story, as they were the
hope ana strong right arm OF the South In
( her mighty struggle and now. before these
historic and heroic female dgures--the
( grandesi IN hisiory-we may pause for a
moment in silent admiration; like the stu
I dent delying into the history az the hui
man race who comes suddenly upon some
great and renowned female Characters
whose names and deeds are inseparablv
interviewer With the gloom and glory Of
their eountry's history. and whose famo
/ Is recorded In the imperishahle annals of
heir Ting. All around these peerless
onaraeters from century 70 century lie
reads OF shattered hopes hlirhted sr,hf.
tion and uurewarded merit. and on eyerv
side OF decay aud ruin and desolation. mi
tncfe stanas IN hole relief. forever er
hlafonsd upGn The csrvas OF glory. those
great and benetiesnf characters. tsrsgons
| OF tneif sex presenting 20 all future ages