Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-13

| of the basket to be planted in their
homes and make it bright, sunny and
cheerful. Sweet graduates, my re-
marks to you will be short, because |
am allowed only fifteen minutes on ac-
count OF the hour of the train. They
are inspired by your motto, ITO be,
/ rather than to SEEM
| All! this is what I will call solid
! motto. 1t sounds the right note.
| There is positiyenes in it, and it is
| just what is needed in our days. 1t
| squarely discards that sham which en-
| ters d good deal too much as an in
| gredient of the modern social varnish.
! 1t is firm and direct protest against
| humbug, which is not only the stand
ard carrier for politicians, but finds
/ patrons in many of the members OF the
/ better half of our American people.
| Your motto means for you, young
/ ladies, il interpret it right, ITO be
! true women" that is, effective factors
! in the building up of human happiness
in family and society. A true woman
a woman with we'll built up. good
heart ami mental cultures one OF the
greatest blessings that Providence can
! give to the earth. She Is a sun whose
! life illumines every department. of the
home. Without resortiHg to any diplo-
macy or artificial tricks, simply obeying
her natural instinct and making use of
the treasures of goodness, kindness and
! loneliness which she has in store in her
own heart, she exercises on all around
! her such a beneficial influence as to
make everybody cheerful and happy.
1 IL %L.S -
say that when the Angels picked up
the Garden of Eden to carry it oct OF
the terrestrial globe, they let one drop
OF it fall on earth, and that the pre-
cious drop finds its expression in tie
smile of good, pure Christian woman.
Well, l really do believe the story, not
in the letter, but in the spirit. That
smile is sunshine to everybody at
home, a sunshine to the brother a
sunshine to the lover, of course, pro-
vided there be only one, for If there be
two or three, there might appear inter-
vening clouds--a sunshine to the faith
er and mother, sunshine to the hus-
band, sunshine TO the children, a
sunshine to the visitors, a sunshine to
all that come in contact with her.
Where good hearted woman smiles.
that smile is contagious. and every
body smiles.
In these few words, young ladies,
have given you a pietural description
. of the great noble and glorious mis-
sion you are now called to fulfill in this
world. Thus far you have been called
school girls" Scratch these words
| out OF your album. They do not ap-
ply to you any longer. The time has
come for you to go forward and take
| your place on the stage where the
builders Of refinement, of true lowell
ness and real happiness are doing their
efficient work, in tais, our dear Amer
/ lean country.
/ WILL now take the other side of the
medal. and bring out few features Of
the sham woman, not because you need
prevention medicine against that
course of life. but simply because 1t en-
tiers naturally into my subject.
The sham woman is the one that re-
verses your motto and makes it read:
TO seem rather than be-" She stands
for appearance rather that for reality,
she pays more attention to the bark
than to the core. she Is for show rather
than for worth She gauges. for In
stance, her value on the features Of her
prettiness, as Aepasia looking down
with pride and haughtiness upon Plato
falling ct her feet, o. Helen Or Troy
standing ! col witness q ne blood-