The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-24

DAINTY HANDS TIED RED
eANDAGEoR HELD TIE
Terry AND NENERTR REM
SLED-PANlc IN piStE
LAND 3RoUGHTsoN
sT THE WAR.
,e great German who wrote

al NtEAfGrIfSN15
To garden the earth With the roses Q
heaven!"
precisely described Confederate condi
tons a century in advance. True,Scon
slant, brave and enduring the men
were, but the women set even the
bravest and most steadfast an exam.
pie. Nor was this confined to any one
section of the country. says T. c. Dc
Leon in a letter from Birmingham.
Ala, TO the Pittsburg Dispatch. The
girl with the calico dress of the low
land farms, the merry mountain
maid OF the hill country, and the
bellies of society In the cities all We'd
with each other in efforts to serve the
men who had gone to the frontto fight
for home and for them. And there
eager desire to do all they might and
more was more in evidence than an
other. In every camp in the early
days OF the great struggle the incom-
ing troops bore trophies of HON love,
and as the war progressed, to need,
then to dire want. the sacrifices of
those women at home became a poem
and one most pathetic. Dress, mis-
conceived as the feminine fetch. was
fogotten in the effort to clothe the
boys at the front; the family larder,
lily stocked at the best, was depleted
to nothingness to send to distant
camps those d%elicacies. SO equally
freighted with tenderness and dyspep-
STA. which too often never reached
destination. And later the carpets
were taken from the floors, the cur
tains from the windows-alike in
humble homes aud in dwellings of the
rich-to be cut into blankets for the
accomplishing fellows sleeping OF
freezing mud.
Zeal, Devotion and Sacrifice.
So wide, so universal, was h rule
of self sacrifice that no one reference
to it can do Justice to the zeal and de-
votion of "Our Girls" And the best
proof of 10Th was in the hospitals,
where soon began to ~congregate the
manned and torn forms of those just
sent forth to glory and to victory. This
was the trial that tested the grain and
purity of our womanhood and. left it
without alloy of fear r selfishness.
some OF the women who wrought
in home and hospital-even in the
trench and on the firing line-for the
boys had never before handled
aught rougher than embroidery or seen
more fearsome than its needle
prick. Yes. these untried women,
young and old, stood fire like veteran
regulars; indeed. even more bravely
in moral view. for they missed the
stimulus of the charge-the tonic In
thought Of striking back!
Again, taking Richmond as example, +
because Richmond was cosmopolitan
it's every phase, we find the strangest +
of women with danger. In
Iced, it literally bred contempt. In
early occupation of the capital
tPawnee Sunday" scarce became a
angling byword. The churches were
and futtering with ~expectant
well dressed femininity. At that
late war was mere shadow of a name,
his rigors had paled no feminine {
nor denuded her fullest gown or j
rill or Haunting ribbon. Richmond
women were eager to inspect the
and furbelows of their incom-
ng cousins. All the churches were
the one where Mr.. Davis and t
lis family sat, under the then ia c
nous DR.. Hoge. literally OVERLOOKING a
0 the streets. There a crowd awaited a
dismissal benediction. the men Gu a
to see the new President at close I
!%uarters, and the men and m s
ager alike to inspect-and possibly to
issect-Mrs. Davis n her brilliant s
lister, Miss Howell, of Mississippi. 1t d
Tasa balmy, breezy Sunday, the whole b
ace of nature and the futter Of society A
like breathing peace. Suddenly that II
hanged to a nameless, predominant y
nd never understood war panic
Whence coming none paused to ask; s
the invention of some fear G
RACED brain, more probably b cruel Il
OAK of some thoughtless wag, but the r
whisper ran around every s.
hurch simultaneously: THE Pawnee Il
5 coming!" II
The Panic of War;. "
That whisper was enough. Itcaused q
IN times the CONSERVATION that the y
lose cannonading for months did a =
REF year later; n it futtered dainty
as the whine of the Mimic, or Y