Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-31


through the eternitieS.
My chief anxiety, then, is not that
woman has other rights accorded her,
but that she, by the grace of God, rise
up to the appreciation of the glorious
rights she already possesses. 1 shall
only have time to speak of one grand
and all absorbing right that every wo
man has, and that is to make home
happy. That realm no one has ever
disputed with her Men may come
home at noon or at night, and they
tarry a comparatively little while, but
she all day long governs it, beauties
it, sanctifies it. 1t is within her pow
er to make it the most attractive place
on earth. 1t is the only calm harbor
in this world. You know as well as 1
do that this outside world and the
business world is a long
scene of jostle and contention. The
man who has a dollar struggles to
keep it; the man who has it not strug-
giles to get it. Prices up. Prices down.
Losses. Gains. Misrepresentation.
Gougings. Underselling. Buyers de-
rreciating; statesmen exaggerating.
Tenants seeking less rent; landlords
demanding more. Gold fidgety Strug
ing to keep in; men out trying to get
in. Slips. Tumbles. Defalcations.
Panics Catastrophes o woman,
thank God you have a home, and that
you may be queen in it. Better be
there than wear queens coronet. Bet
ter be there than carry the purse of
princess. Your abode may be humble.
but you can by your faith in God and
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with splendors such as an upholster-
er's hand never yet kindled.
The Most Oueenly Woman.
When you want to get your grand
est idea of a queen, you do not think
cf Catherine of Russia, or of Anne of
England, or Maria Theresa of Austria,
but when you want to get your grand
est idea of a queen you think of the
plain woman who sat opposite your
father at the table, or walked with
him arm in arm down life's pathway,
sometimes to the thanksgiving ban
Guet, sometimes to the grave, but al
ways soothing your petty
griefs, correcting your childish way
wardness, joining in your infantile
sports, listening to your evening
prayers, tOiling for you with needle,
or at the spinning Wheel and on cold
nights wrapping you up snug and
warm. And then at last, on that day
when she lay in the back room dying
and you saw her take those thin
hands with which she toiled for you
so long and put them together in a
dying prayer that commended you to
God, whom she had taught you to
trust-oh, she was the queen, The
chariots of God came down to fetch
her, and as she went in all heaven
rose up You cannot think of her
now without rush of tenderness that
stirs the deep foundations of your soul,
and you feel as much child again as
when you cried on her lap, and if you
could bring her back again to speak
just once more your name as tenderly
as she used to speak it you would be
willing to throw yourself on the
ground and kiss the sod that covers
her, crying, Mother, mother All,
she was the queen-she was the
queen."
To the Ballot Box.
Now, can you tell me how many
thousand miles a woman like that
would have to travel down before she
got to the ballot box? Compared with
lulS WOTh Oh Training Kings anu queens
for God eternity. how Insignificant
seems all this work of voting for alder
men and common councilmen and sher-
ifs and eonstables and mayors and
presidents. To make one such grand
woman as / have described how many
thousand would you want of those peo-
PIE who go in the round of goddess
ness and fashion and dissipation, dis
torting their body and going as far
toward disgraceful apparel as they
dare go so as not to be arrested of the
| police, their behavior a sorrow to the
good and caricature of the vicious
| and an insult to that God who made
| them women and not gorgons, ano
tramping on. down through a frivoE
and eternal destruction Oh, woman,
with the lightning of your soul strike
dead at your feet all these allurements
to dissipation and to fashion Your
| immortal soul cannot be fed upon
such garbage. God calls you up to en-
pire and dominion. VIII you have it?
| Oh, give to God your heart, give to God
your culture, give to God all your re-
| fnement, give yourself to him for this
world and the next Soon all these
| bright eyes will be Quenched and these
| voices will be hushed- For the last
time you will look upon this fair
\ earth; fathers hand, mothers hand,
sisters hand, child's hand. will be no
more in yourS IF will he night and