The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-06

days Of this year-at these various
schools are met the alumnae 10 do
honor each to their alma mater aud 10
receive a baud Of picked recruits.
coming out from their college walls
with beating drums and flying colors
In the calendar year, June is the
month when Natures miracles, so
long in preparation, are accomplished:
it is the time when the world breaks
into a sea Of blossoms. In the calen-
dar year, June is the month when
lessons long in preparation are learned:
it is the time when the "sweet girl
graduate" dawns upon the world a
vision of youth and loneliness. The
eye is charmed by these visions OF
beauty, but we know that in the
world Of nature there must be a
season of greater glory, Of deeper
fOliage,-a season of waving grains
and Of ripening fruit; so 10 the in
tellectual world there must come a
time Of more seriuus thinking, Of
higher living, aud OF diviner visions
for the eye Of the spirit alone. In
the intellectual, as well as in the
natural world, there is a hidden
loneliness at the root of this riotous
poisoning. The fruit and the grain
must succeed the blossoms, for the
world has a multitude Of people 10 be
fed: the woman must succeed the
"sweet girl graduate, " for this same
world has need of sympathy and of
service. A few months hence and the
gamers are filled to overlooking: ere
long, and the books of the living will
not suffice to record the history of the
lives and deeds of good women.
To the woman who first quoted to
Abd-el-Kader the Polish proverb, "a
woman draws more with a single hair
of her head thai a pair of oxen well
harnesSed, the old philosopher is
said to have replied: 1.-THE hair is
unnecessary, woman is powerful as
Neither the unknown author
Df this proverb nor Abd-el- Kader
were in advance Of the thought of
their age, for the world has long since
realized that deep rooted in the life of
the heart of every woman, side by
side with the intense instinct of
love Is to be found the inextinguish-
able desire for power-for influence.
God it is who has placed this desire
for influence in the heart of woman
and God it is who keeps it there.
Woman's responsibility consists in
seeing that she possesses this power,
and that it does not possess her.
woman may be rightly inclined to
the use Of this power, but a noble
educatiOn-an education including
not only mental but moral and spir-
itual training-and that alone car
enable her to so use this power that
it may guide and elevate her anG
through her guide and elevate all
who may come within the circle o.
her influence.
There have not been wanting thos,
who have given Of their means Il
erect noble buildings to be used a
schools for the education of women
but, according to the old Greek stole
Epictetus, the person who woult
re8der the greatest service to stat
and to country, must not only rails
the roofs OF buildings but elevat
the souls Of people. 1t is not suf
fcient that a woman learn to Sc
with her eyes, hear with her ears
or arprehend with her mind, sh
must, II she would be educated, lear
to perceive with her soul, for 1t
the soul that perceives all thing'
and, only in SO far as the soul
noble, is there truth and beauty !
Its perceptions. 1t is a beautifI
thing for a woman to know foreig
language, but far more beautiful Il
hsE to know how to speak kindly [
astranger and understand the swee
ness Of a strangers tongue. 1t is
desirable thing for a woman to kno
The worlds great classics, but VIII;
does this avail If with these gre;
books she does not lay the ~foundatiC
Tor her theories of existence ar
mount on them, like stepping stone
TO the temple Of Truth and of Life.
is well for a woman to know all thi
concerns this world in which 81
Wives, but better far that she shou
now how very small is this lit
prld In which she lives and loves