The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-09

A wife was what he wanted,
Never one having had.
The answers came so thick and fast
He piled them up in layers;
But all the answers came from men
Who said, HE could have theirs"
There is much truth in the saying
that women are a new race, recre-
ated since the world received Chris
tianity." The intellectual power and
moral worth of woman is asserting
itself and the shrine of woman is
now fraught with higher respect, with
greater chivalry and more profound
affection than ever. The prevailing
manners of an age depend more than
we are aware of or are willing to adj
NIT upon the conduct of woman and
this is one of the principal things
upon which the great machine OF hui
man society turns. Our minds are
given to us, but we make our char
acters and the result is usually from
our conduct. We are moulding others
wherever we are and it is the motto
of every true heart and every noble
life that no one live for herself alone.
1t is a law of our intellectual and
moral being that we promote our own
happiness in the exact proportion we
contribute to the happiness and well
fare of others Those who allow the
influence which female graces have
to polish the manners of men would
do well to reflect now great an lf1u-
ence female morals must have upon
their conduct. We cannot here enum-
crate the long dark catalogue of ills,
woes pains and anguish of every
shade and degree brought upon the
human family by evil influences, and
in glancing very brielly over the his
tory Of woman it does seem, in view
of the present stage of our enlighten-
ment, that we of the twentieth cen
fury have just cause for encourage
mesA The old time usages and Gus
toraA are one by one yielding to the
holy influence of Christian women.
Thus every morning when she goes
forth she lays the moulding hand on
our destiny, and every evening when
she has done her duties she has left
an impress on eternity. 1t should be
our solemn purpose to make the most
and the best of the powers which
God has given us, and to turn to the
best possible account every advan-
tage within our reach. This purpose
will carry with it the assent Of the
reason, the approval of the conscience
and the sober Judgment of the intel
lect. if the sculptOr's chisel can
make impressions on marble in q
few hours which distant eyes shall
see and admire; if an artist can ere
ate work that shall speak the tri
umph of mind a thousand years
hence. then may true woman, alive
to the duty and obligation of exist
ence, do infinitely more. Oh, woman
working on human hearts and desti
MES, it is "our prerogative to do i'm
perishable work, to build within life'
feeting hours monuments that shall
last forever.
With such grand possibilities with
in the reach of our personal actions
how important it is that we live TO
something every hour of our exist
ence and for something that is hal
monious with the dignity of our pres
ent beng and the grandeur of on
future destiny. Although a miracle Q
divine contradiction, woman's step
music, her voice song; she holds tn
royal gift of soul to fill the atmos
phere where earth's weary toiler
dwell, with a brightness which the
cannot create for themselves, blu
long for, enjoy and appreciate, sh
scatters sunshine where clouds an
shadows reign, and yet there ar
some few women who have not pre-
crossed a hairs breadth from the pr
sition of the Greeks, who hold tha
woman was. sent here merely as
type of beauty, and when it comes t
utility she had better mind her house
hold affairs instead of interferin
with the controversies of men an
politics. The woman who bears he
part in the burden of life, bravel.
cheerfully, with the faults of con
panion not altogether congenial, wit
loving patience, hiding it from tn
world, and who refrains from broo
ing over shortcomings, who does M
feel an earthquake in every famil
jar, these great hearts alone, unde
stand how much glory there is in beir
good and to keep SO amidst the inju
les of man and the severity of Prov
dence. This is not the gift of hapI
nature alone. but strength and her
ism truly divine.
Mrs. B. B. Gilliland entertained
unique way on Friday afternoon
honor of Miss Gilliland, recently fro
the east.