The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-15
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Ttttj WOMAN 51v11o TOLLS. BY Mrs.
John Var, Worst and Marie Van Worst.
~ Doubleday, 1,aget & Company, publish
~ nra. Nav York, $3.50 FOR salo by the
13ell Book and Stationary Co lsts
Is the book about which our sersa-
Stlonnl President wrote q mitch -discussed
letters letter about as strained and IL
considered as mitch that Is in this book.
tribe Woman who Tolls" was wrltttn
bytwo rractced writer's (women) who sct
DIT to discover by actual experience the
conditions OF American working-grls. In
d Pttsburg pickle factory IN mill town
az New York, among the clothing thak-
ers OF Chicago; in Lynn shoe shops ana
III Southern cotton mills. these more for.
tunate women have studied tho woman
who toils,o working side by side Will, her
at these various occupat tons
Books 81 this sort would DO all right
and useful In their way, II they werc not
nrnado to order,n But where wrter-people
start out on adventures ,pf this Kind, they
usually know exactly what they are go.
Ing after, what markets their resultant
wares arc meant TO Supply, and exacaly
to make It effective and to makegit go. \
rho trouble about books like this Is,
that people Of limited experiences and
observation are taken In by all that the
wel-advertised authors shave to.say, and
they are much moro concerned about oil
the fithdships and rough living and child
labor "horrors'' than the individuals writ
ten up. God tempers the wind to the
| shorn lamb, you know, and really 1t isn't
ali so bad as the sensation hunters mako
| out, what would be deprivation and
| darkness and misery to person OF some
culture and particular personal tastes and
habits, Is tho natural environment for;
the class OF people found In It. All this
sort Of writing is rapidly working the
| Decentralization OF labor and the further
INSTRUMENTATION Off society. 5,f la
Rudyard Klpllng has made another OF
his llackncyed appeals to the public sem.
timent Of England in poem entitled
'"rhe Settler IT'S theme is the recon.
struction of South Africa, especially as
lain to the scenes OF the late war Mr..
Kpllngs many lingering admirers and
others may have conscientious or a.
Lenten desire to go through tho reading
OF It. -Four Of the principal stanzas are.
as follows:'
Is Copyright 1908. BY Rudyard Klpling.)
Hero where my fresh.turned burrows run
dlu 8tllo Oetp 0OiA oup
will repair tho wrong that was done
RI, f& to the living and the dead:
Here where the senselcss bullet foil, and
the barrents shrapnel burst, iIf. 81
I will plant tree, will dig awell
against the heat and the thirst.
Hero In a large and sunlit land, whore
no wrong bites to the bone,
I will lay my hand in my neighbours hand
and together we will atone
For the set folly and the read breach and
the black waste Of 1t all;
Giving and taking counsel each over the
cattle -kraal.
Earth where we rode to Stay or be slain
our love shall redeem unto life;
We will gather and lead TO her lips again
the waters Of ancient strife
From the far and the fiercely-guarded
streams and the pools where We lay
in wait,
TIL the corn cover ourg evil dreams. and
the young corn our hate,
Hero Is the wastes and the troughss OF
the plans where the.healng,s fitness
lies, a!
And the vast benignant sky restraints,
8g and the long. days make wise 81
Bless to our5 use3 the rain and The sun
4 and theAblind %seedsin Its he'd.
That we may epair sths that. vas
80 done Ion II II 81 ;asnd
The entire poem appears ri Golfers
Weekly under date of March nth. Col