The age-herald., 1902-02-23

for example:
 Mary Little Lamb Bryck.s
 s'(Gould Bryck.)"
 Now MT. Gould Bryck, Twill you go way back and sit down." as Mrs. Presi- dent General Fairbanks saysi
 Yet one loves, adores. holds all the more truly in reverence these noble moth- CTS and grandmothers of the Daughters of the American Revolution. If any man assumes that they are not real descend ants of soldiers of the Revolution, he is badly mistaken. Every woman applying for membership in the order must give proof that she is descended on one side at least from man who risked or gave his life for American Independence; and surely no women in the world enjoy noblee or prouder heritage.
 They represent within themselves, in the blood of their tender and devoted hearts, the brave and dauntless creators of the greatest of the nations in our time.
 They are truly of the bone of our bone, of the life of our life, of the soul of our soul, of the spirit and valor of our spirit and valor as Americans who are Ameri- cans in sense that is practically racial of our continenti
 They are the heirs of valorous men who in that our revolutionists fought to create a country for themselves and their de- scendants to love and to fight in defend- ing The heroes of Saratoga, of Trenton, of Valley Forge, of Yorktown, these were not patriots-they were in just rebellion against their country and were engaged in making a new nation in a wilderness. From these greater and worthier than patriots spring our dear Daughters of the American Revolution, whose very femininity in the proceedings of their .congress" leads us to adore them the more.
 All hail these fair daughters! They rep resent to us the brave men who made noblest history and changed into broader and happier channels the current of the worlds affairs: they represent to us our own lives and cur own liberties!
 But one has end must have a wholly
 
 different view of those women who are seeking the privilege Of engaging in our always unclean politics. To all Americans politics is significant of uncleanliness, of corruption in some form, and those of us who hold most dearly to the virtues and graces of our women are unwilling to see women raving and ranting in the political mire.
 One woman of Kentucky with a. historic name, is writing to lawmakers of the na- tion pleading fer the right in regard to protecting white and black women'- mark the conjunction of races!-'in ex- ercising the rights of citizens of the Uni ted States to vote for mempers of Con- gress and Presidential electors upon equal terms with white men in the several states of the Union"
 Saints and ministers of grace defend us frc m that!
 And entreat you" this woman of Kentucky proceeds, mot to allow any in- depreciation that you may have put upon some passages of Scripture to prevent you from doing justice to women in this mat ter. For in tho 57th verse of the 12th chapter of St. Luke, Christ exhorts us to judge for ourselves that which is right. and since God IS a just God. and no re- specter of persons, we are all forced to admit that wherever we have so con strued the Bible as to make God enjoin injustice to any persons, men or women, we have simply misinterpreted the Scrip tuIes."
 Even a mannish woman may cite Scrip ture to her own purpose. In the sense that youth makes every maiden beautiful-crowns her with the glory, of innocence, the superlative quail ity of purity and makes her the sister | of joy and laughter-the child of the | nation. the fair young daughter of the l President, whom it remained to Ken 1 tuckian in Congress to drag into the | demagogy of politics, she is beautiful Two unhappy incidents have just | served to bring anew the family of the White House conspicuously before the public, the one being the dangerous ill ness of the Roosevelt boy at school, and 1 the other being Kentucky Wheeiers ln' | excusable reference to Alice Roosevelt | coming visit to London. All right mind | ed Americans are glad that fortune | smiles so engagingly upon this young | American girl, whose ''coming out' took place in the White House, before she was IS, and who Is to have'an unequaled | opportunity for seeing much of the best society of the old world. No real man | no real woman. however old or young 1 can fail to sympathize with her In the abundance of her maidenly happiness. l To one who has closely observed and | studied Alice Roosevelt in the decorous | merriment of reception and dance, shs has been an absorbingly interesting per
 sonality. Her very happiness Is beautiful her glee entrancing. Measured by ths l standards of physical perfection she Is not a beautiful. girl Her face is piquant