The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-27

souls of women in those same days?
Sitting in the liberal geniality of the
nineteenth century'S sunset glow, We
insist upon having our grumble at the
/ times and the manners of our genera
ton: but If we had to exchange places,
periods and experiences with the peO-
pie who lived in America through the
last quarter of the eighteenth century
there would be good ground for de-
spairing mutations. And if our men
could not bear ii, if il would try their
souls too pOignantly, let Us imagine
I the effect upon our women. No, let
US not imagine IL: but rather let US
give full credit 10 the heroic souls of
the mothers and the maidens who did
actually bear up in the center of that
! terrible struggle and unfiinchingly help
( win for US. not only freedom, but the
vast empire which at this moment is at
/ once the master of the world and the
model toward which all the nations of
( the earth are slowly but surely tend
/ ing
( If Alice was an extraordinary girl.
she was not awtre of it; nor had she
/ ever understood that her life was be
( ing shaped by extraordinary cOndi-
I tons OF course. il could not but be
+ plain TO her that she knew more and
/ felt more than the girls of her narrow
/ acquaintance; that her accomplish
/ ments were greater that she nursed
splendid dreams of which they could
have no proper comprehension, but
until now she had never even dimly
3 realized that she was probably capable
I of being something more than a mere
I creole lass. the foster daughter Of Gas
pard Roussillon. trader in pelts and
furs. Even her most romantic visions
4 had never taken the form of personal
/ desire. or ambition in its most nebu-
+ lous stage: they had simply pleased
( her fresh and natural fancy and served
{ to gid the hardness and crudeness OF
her Iife-that was all
Her experiences had been almost too
( terrible for belief. viewed at our dis
/ through scenes Of incredible horror and
suffering but her nature had not been
/ chilled. stunted or hardened. In body
/ and in temper her development had
! been sound and beautiful 1t was even
! thus that our grandmOthers tri-
/ umphed over adversely. hardship, in
describable danger We cannot say
that the strong, 1.-THE, happy-heartec
/ Alice of old Vincennes was the only
one of her kind. Few Of Us who have
f, inherited the faded portraits Of OuT
revolutionary forbearS can doubt that
beauty. wit and great lovabieness
I fourished in the cabins Of pioneers al
. the wav from the Edisto 10 the Lick
I ing. from the Connecticut to the Wa
/ bash
I Beverley's advent could not fail &c
{ mean a great deal in the life Of a girl
like Alice; a new era, as il were. would
naturally begin for her the moment
/ that his personal influence touched
her Imagination, but il Is well not Il
measure her too strictly by the
standard of our present taste and the
specialized forms Of our social and
moral code. She was true child Of tbs
/ wilderness. a girl who grew. as tbs
wild prairie rose grew not on account
OF innumera bic exigencies. accident.
and hardships but IN spite OF tbs
she had FLUSHED unseen, and haf
wasted divine sweets upon a more thar
desert air But when Beverley cam'
! near her. at first carelessiy droning hi
masculine mcnotonies, as the wandering
bee to The lonely and lovely rose anS
presently striking her soul as with TIT
wings Of love. there fell change int
her heart OF hearts. and 10. her haunt
ing and elusive dreams began 70 con
dense and take on forms that startles
her with their wonderful splendor anC
beauty These she saw ali the time
slee3ire or waking, they made Drigh
summer OF the frozen stream ant
swapping gale. the snowdrifts and n