The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-01
.STEQBNSON'S TRIBUTE TOH WOMEN

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u fate Leslie Smith Ii Il he author OF q
charming article lii The Bookloverss Mat. \
aXlre8 for JANUARY. " that ccncertls itself
With A Robert Louis ste efisot,'s altitude 9,
towards women ~ Y
l7rho article 'ls ono which Mil interest
iii women II we'll item Aand calls
nttottionsto mitch that reveals tho poe. ~
idea and ideals of truo woman hood Is IN
lis expression feeling towards !. s the
women OF hls own household and those 4
wlth whom he was brought Into Intimate
association and con,pa rionship.
FL NJ jss Smith quotes 1tevet son g lovely
poctii, FSwrittei, TO an oil.
suffiolet,t exposition OF his sen tttnent as
d husband. The poem 50 W Ss
tsTrtisty VA dtisly, syiSid true, III ID
with eyes of gold and 9hrair, ble- dew NJ
Steel -true and blade-str re- Oh 7, q, Bss
The great artiflcers 8S t 81 q IN
Made my ma te.
Honor, anger, va lor, fire II s 81 u
Above TINT life could !nevpr tire, ~ 4,
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The mighty ma tor q g33 II
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,~reacher tondar, conlrade vi Sc s II isss
4Arfellowe fardr9 trlie through life, M H
HeaIt-whoe and soul free MI IL NJ Il. 4
rho august Il fat her
Gave to ines !s III
al Miss Smith goes on to shy that ste ven
son describes his aunt, NJ iss Jane Bali
foir, as b. wit md 5l,eau ty, 81 " mo, n her
youth, was very I'm md SCI t-sltfi-
Client, but VIII was tran 81 orn,fd by an
Injury that rendered her nearly doa and
blind into woman who loved tto minis
ter Is ma serve there, The folloy'lr,g
lines from y AN Child ! Garden Of Verses
were 4 "a dressed to Miss Balfour$ by her
nephew poet Bs ssis
Chief OF our auntsnot only ],
sButRallsiof your dozet, a nurslings cry
what did the other hid rem DO 7AS N
And what were 3ch ildhood want ting YOU ~
NBrt follows that all spinstertoo iss glori1.
fed Sin these lines which voice Steven n
sons responsive estimate Of the; tender
ness md sweetness which, bril- htencd hls
Bchildhood Id ana indel IDLY 4 1presse.d h t,l
mind in;S the ilhuen ce eye ted by An I'M
married and chill Hess won,l AM who Eyst
had Il place IN her heart for al $ch rem
and a warm living syrnpat by for all boy
tshf toys and isorrows. M
surely NH tes MI ss snlitt, there isy si,1Ei
an literature III oba 81 VI no such butte
Sc warm ten1d en- graf tude to on old nurse
Az stevenson 3 poem, cioslr 81 VII y these
linea to lison8 Cunning he y, s$;s
And grant Ut. 4 Heaven, that all ho read
May and as dear "a nurse AT need; Sss
And every lid who lists III lynne, E
1nBtl,eibrig f1resid nursery lime.
May hear mas Kind aa voice 8 HI
gAs made my child !sh days rel oice. Y
$s,iA Additional evidence OF StsXenson's az ~
fectionate regard q for u Dane Alison p
oliioted from one Of hla 4 let teri. which
he,S says: Indeed Curnrp ~ Wish y might
becorr,e 4 man wort h kim of, liz were ere
only that you III ould not llaYe brown row
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tsb 81 no ok Or crook, ls ok or the next,
It's launch zee ;ard III alns
tond, somehow, sonnet time or ct her, to see
your face aud TO hold your hand Mean
while, this little PM ~ travel goes forth
instead, crosses the great seas and the
long plains and the dark mount and m
comes at last to- your cor IN NJ i,terey,,s
,.,,n ruad Nj tender greet iDgs ~, Pray you,
take him iii, II He comes from e house.
where, ave Il & ns In yotlr WI there are
"a thered toget her some OF Y the wal Isl Of
our con, panY of Oakland i house, for al
ITS outlandish Gaelic name Z ard distant q
station, where you are B well beloYed , NJ d
lis letters 4 q cond olence to II women,
writes hits chronicler, especial to- Miss [Es
lFerrierJ and Mrs. Jenki,l, 8 nro mod els Of
what such letters should be, and so rarelyy
nre-wrtten straight from he heart, witt9ht-
out a Thought Of conventional what