The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-18
News ano Gossip Of Washington
By LuoIEN JULIEN WALKER.

Washington. Nov. 7.-(Special THE
law Of contrasts In morals was perhaps
never before so LUMINOSITY drawn. even
IN TINS capital OF contrasts as it was
In the mid-afternoon. when the sof,est
sunlight that beat upon the earth was
lending tints Of gold to the Drowned trees
In the park. the highest church dignita-
RES IN this country gathered upon a
easy Knoll at the seat of great Uni
Versity and witnessed a prince of the
church break ground for a noble train
ing school for pious and consecrated mis-
The vestments of tie high ministers of
deep green grass upon which they stood,
with brown trees and gray granite pal
aces of learning for background. and
with the gray cloudless sky overhead and
the sort golden glow Of sunshine over
all-this was a living picture SO striking
and so promising of yet higher things in
the long afterwhiles that whosoever saw
II must remember 1t Away as a sweet
benediction.
Four hours later, some old persons of
both sexes assembled In a Quaker meet
ing house down town to sound the praises
and proclaim the godlessness of one of
their kind, who, first of all, wished 1t
known that she died as she had lived, a
fearless, serene agnostic;' one whose
philosophy kept her sane and sweet, "
with mo fear for her soul. no dread of
any future life"
The praised dead bore the name of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton OF whom relig-
ious people have long heard as the enc
my OF faith, and her eulogist was one
aged Helen Gardener. described as hav-
ing been associated for many years with
panion and assistant In the work to which
she devoted her life;" that work being
the vain attempt to drag woman down
to the corrupt politics of the age and
III. L q l. 1t a. L.
so many instances offensive to the most
patriotic men.
Mrs Stanton. the Gardener woman de-
clared died as she wished to die. in
the full possession Of her splendid pow
ers. Three years ago, when the eloquent
voice of her friend and mine, that great
and splendid soul, Robert G. Ingersoll
was stilled forever, she said to me: Sad
as it is to lose him, 1 am glad that he
went just as he did. / hope it may be
so with me-and with you. 1 do not want
to live day after I fail to be able to
do good work Her wish was wholly
fulfilled"
This is vanity, vanity. vanity. But the
cheaper and commoner form of this bah.
bling Of vanity falls to the dead Level -
effeminancy when Mrs. Gardener tells US
that 1t was Mrs. Stanton's earnest wish
that her tireless brain, when she should
be done with 1t. should go to Cornell
University. that it might serve science
and mankind in helping to arrive at the
truth. after death. as 1t always had done
in life" And here we have pueriiity.
"She knew that the brain of no great
woman had ever been examined. She
knew that the brains of all womankind
had been judged and weighed and meas
ured by that which science had learned
about women through its hospital sub
jects. its unknown dead. She knew that
this was wholly unfair to women. She
knew that the brains of men were judged
by no such inadequate records; but that
they had their great ones carefully pre-
served and sacredly held, to show the
use and benefits of education, of oppor-
tunity, of the development of his kind"
The mannish Mrs. Gardener, who may
be mother, informs us that even Mrs.
Stanton owned to motherhood, for a
worthy daughter of this splendid moth
err writes of her last hours" Perhaps
her lover called her 'Bessie;" Mrs. Gard
ener's last lover doubtless called her
however that may have been. the
worthy daughters Of this splendid moth
err" Mrs Stanton, gives us peep at
the deathbed. Now said the dying
one to the doctor. IF you can't cure this
difficulty of breathing and IL / am not to
/ want you to give me something to send
me pack-horse speed to heaven. And
/ can just see the twinkle in her eye
when she said it, coquettishly says old
Mrs. Helen Gardener. Jolly old eye, jol-
" old giri-ha! ha! ha! Too funny.
this extraordinary meeting. of blasphem-
ers was William Dudley Faulke. one of
Theodore Roosevelts Civil Service Com
missioners; Clara Barton and Rev"
Olympia Brown. President OF the WIS
consin Woman's Suffrage Association.
And one good home-loving mother OF
Montgomery is worth a thousand such
as these!