Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-30

the FAVOR In which she is held. Her
contribution to her town, her State, the
English speaking people has been gen.
, erOus.
Miss Jewett had the good fortune to
, be born in an ideal home No other
surroundings could have been so well
adapted to fit her for her life work.
She is greatly indebted to her father
for the many truths of life which she
received through the prism of his clear
mind.
This gifted woman does not allow
the passing years and what they bring
10 sever her relations from friends of
earlier days. Is there a case of need
IN the community? Miss Jewett is
Lady Bountiful. Is there a young per-
son who shows promise of excelling in
art or music? Miss Jewett gives en-
couragement and substantial aid.
One could not talk with her long
without realizing her pride in and love
for her native town, South Berwick
She is keenly interested in the educa-
tional and social welfare Of the place
Berwick Academy where she received
instruction is grateful to her for works
of art and many books on the shelves
of the library.
Miss Jewett was still a child when
she began to write. For the most part
she has written short stories. Her
novels are Country Doctor" Country
of the Pointed FRS" and her greatest
literary effort, The Tory Lover" 1.-The
Country of the Pointed FRS is perhaps
the best appreciated of Miss Jewetts
books. Miss McCracken in a recent ar
ticle on the american Woman of Let
ters," explains the appreciation by say
ing that the New England of Miss
Jewett's stories is in America not
somewhere else and her exquisite pic
lures have for us all a sweet and sub
tie familiarity whether we see them
from the West or from the South or
with native New England eyes,"
Miss Jewett is now at the meridian
of life and from the wealth of her
heart and mind we may expect yet
other word pictures to delight all those
who love what is pure and natural and
entertaining in literature. She is one
of the best beloved of our Maine wo-
men and in her splendid achievements
in the realm of letters we may all feel
a just pride.
The next article was n bright, ear
nest paper, and full of information, en-
titled, "Ruskin's Idea of Womanhood."
1t was spoken by Miss Ruby Carver of
Augusta, which in part was as follows.
Like all great thinkers and interpret
ers of character, Rusllin attributed to
women an exalted position and a most
potent influence in the worlds doings.
The MIND of the man was peculiarly
fitted to be the source of such an ideal.
His breadth of vision, his charity,
sympathy and mysticism were all
adapted to such thoughts.
The simple, reverential regard Of Rus
kin for womankind so often expressed
in his essays is peculiarly his own char
acteristic of the great childlike soul of
the man. 1t reminds one of the old
mystical ideals of the Teutons, by its
simplicity, by it's fervor of that spirit
of chivalry which so many years fired
the soul of men to valiant deeds.
AS to the superiority of one sex over
the other, he showed the view of
Tennyson that no comparison is posi-
BILE, each lessening equality of position
as regards the other.
He saw and appreciated the great
and ennobling influence that women
have eNerted throughout the ages. But
the ideas of female emancipation pre-
scented by John Stuart Mill We're never
in accord with his thoughts. 1t was
mans part he commended. to discover.
defend, protect woman. to lessen the
sum Of human sorrows and make this
world sweeter and a better place in
which to live.
This was the essence of his deal-not
the gain of an emancipation which
! would dull the sensibilities of the soul,
but the possession of those qualities of
mind and heart that make women in
fallibly faithful and wise counselors,
| strong always to sanctify even when
they cannot save.
After selection by the orchestra an
article by Vernon Stanley Ames of
Pulpit Harbor, was delivered. His
| subject was. Influence of Science On
Poetry" And was in part as given
| below:
Science and poetry are friends not
| foes, nor can they be foes. for both
have the same primal elemerts-truth.
| The scientist seeks truth 10 Wlueii
knowledge, the poet to quicken life.
The poets have made the great concep-
| tons of modern science dear and genu-
| ire inmates of the household of man.
| We need not wonder if some of the
| noblest truths were expressed in verse
before science had revealed them, for
the Imagination is ever prophetic. and
| if science opens the way to the poet it
! is no less true that the poet opens the
| way to science. AS a matter of fact
the chief poetic passages treating of
the evolutionary theory were written
| before that theory was set forth by
Darwin. For example. in Tennyson's
| I'm Memoriam." published in 1850, we
| find passages expressing a clear con-
ception of evolution as opposed to the
then common idea of spasmodic and
special creations, but Darwins Origin
of Species was not published until
1859.
The next speaker was Miss Paulenah
NJ. Simmons of North Arson, who spoke
on Wordsworth as Master Of APP
probation" Miss Simmons delivered
her article in good shape, articulating
Ill ND;