The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-19

err. and she could not understand why
women wanted to try to- sing bass with
quite wide enough OF course these opin-
ions did not endear her to the new wo-
man. Co." said one, ''she 10 mans
woman. evidently, not a woman's wo-
man." she IL eighteenth, seventeenth
page and attendant 20 run before and be-
hind; she doesn't want to pick up her
handkerchief" And she did persistently
avoid public meetings and functions
where rights of woman were discussed
one Of her own poems before club.
"Oh no." she said, don't ask me, tina:
would be seething kid in its mothers
milk. let somebody read 1t who can do
persuasion had any effect. It was on the
great highway of travel that / first met
her, under circumstances which ties.
character to the utmost,-an .thuriel spear
conveniences and all the pleasures and
discomforts of voyaging and journeying
she was the same high-bred lady-the
most thoroughly refined person l ever
saw.-never a touch of selnshness or
once said Of her: she makes a pretti-
ness of eating and sleeping" Couriers
and servants were glad to wait on her.
In histories of cathedral and castle. she
was neve' at fault and yet never seemed
alton. why, eve .ybody knows that
she would say. And such a sense of hui
NOR. She would say things so apt and
so pat, SO cute, as we Yankees say, all
in the mountains where we again met
her, she came in to breakfast after a
five mile constitutional, she thinks moth
ing of walking miles, and her fine phys
ique contradicts ali our preconceived no
tons of the physical weakness If South
ern women We We're quite upset by a re-
port of some of our functions. made by
man who Is nypercritical so that ne
never has a good word for any one. She
had nothing to do with our functions,
said she, Il am surprised that you let u
worry you. You know them,--there is an
article out of which a silk purse Is not
made, and II the Angel Gabriel came
out of tune. or he walked parrot-toed
or some such. Whv do you mind him"
Our good temper was at once restored,
and we concluded not to rand him. That
Mt. Washington full in view, one of the
gentlemen spoke of woman preacher
and lecturer. Miss Cooke defined to talk
until directly questioned, and then insisted
that women should keep silence in the
churches; men should be the preach
ers. Yet, imagine our amazement, when
in the course of conversation, we discov-
cred that she knew almost the whole
Bible by heart-had the Epistles at the
end of her fingers. Many of us present.
men and women, had lectured and ex-
planned texts before congregations, and
here was this Southern woman born ana
reared in the country, who could give
us text after text upon any subject l
afterward, when we were done, l said,
Where did you learn so much of the
Bible?" She turned and looked at me
she has way of looking volumesm-n-
deed, whole libraries. and replied; why,
you good people left few Bibles in my
country, and happened to pick up one
| saw she did not like my inquiry, but
/ put my arms around her. and said
heartily. for 1 felt 1t: North, SOUTH
East or West think it Pr thsrs ar rs
plenty of women in the South superior
to me- she said. OF course | am not
at one with her in high Anglican views,
but for her unwavering piety | nave t'.e
greatest respect. Although the NE ne. ~
the company, called upon to contrlousSS
to it's pleasure in such way sne coula
not avoid 1t, yet prayer and church di-
ties were never neglected. In al tnc
hustle and hustle of travel she found TIM
to pray, slipping off so quietly That none
would know save those who were care
ful to observe her. The constant enort
to submit to Gods will, when her sou,
was torn to pieces with grief. none could
fail to see. One of my own ministers
said of her to me: "Ah, these are they
who come through great tribulation, we
don't get them any other way, but that
is Gods way to make up ms Jewels.
must tell you another inciuent. III WIS
another happening, for | was not one OF
the invited guests Miss Cooke was the
guest of honor and few persons VINO
desired to meet her were present one
man, remarkable for conceit and sell
and ,priding himself on nus
talked the whole even
ing, directing his remarks to MISS Cocke'
who replied only in monosyllables. FIN
ally. he took up what he called the great
advancing the most iatituulhaae
rian views Everybody had their say OF
negative and contradiction except MISS
Cooke. A gentleman next to me said'
(sotto voice0 She sees through MIN
he is airing his knowledge and trying 20
draw her out" At last, he turned de,
liberately to Miss Cooke and dfawl ~
out: II, for one, should scorn to get on
nv knees in prayer, | would not so DIS
honor my manhood or dignity MISS
Cooke answered serenely: You are not
alone, sir. in your opinion. | have head
in my life three persons say the same
thing. one, in my carly glrlhood. IN the
South. He proved himself poltroon,
backbiter. and hypocrite: ne liked 20
Kant, but professed religion and joined
a sect for purposes of his own and was
still full of Cant. those who knew MN
best told me he was wanting IN honpt
and MANHOOD. L ne SeCoHu Woo "
North. gentleman by birth. He was
a Z. srwards saved from arrest on charg %
of fraudulent dealing by interpolation or
friends The third was woman, not
unknown in city and hous repers wf"'ni
she visits tell me they are careful TO
hide bricabrac and valuables when she
calls. So you see, sir, you are not alone
in YOUR opinioa. Doubtless there are oth-
ers." It was interesting 20 see how he
into art criticism and accounts
of travel.
never saw a woman whose fine scorn
for deceit and pretense was so unmis.
taxable. I think her one of the best
acd Ioveliest of women, so generous, SO
noble, so self -abnegating, (and we cor
daily admit it, nut We do think she owes
n duty to clubs and enterprises Whicn
she evidently does not see.l Perhaps II
Ia Temperament. She could do much gooo
work ir; the club If she would. sac
isn't a bit fu Isy. and is so QUICK 70 re-
Cognizs and promote the good or others
and wins favor so easily. Even tne IN
dams in the mountains would speak OF
her as the queen with the long black
yeiI.' and would go out OF their way
to see her. 1900.
This is the verdict of a club-woman'
herself. possessed of no mean endow-
ments, Like her, am not In sympathy
with Miss Cooke in all her convictions
nor have [ been a sympathizer with the
south. Wrong she was and eternally
wrong in my opinion, but she must have
nlentY of good stuff to produce this all
around admirable and loveaole woman