Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-06-06
a Royal Weaver.

ioJci paiu'c, way 100 HlYn OF 100 r1Cn
TO perform this duty for her men folks.
In the last chapter OF Proverbs an
oriental queen gives a description of
perfect woman. | have always be-
lieved that description was flial pic
ture OF her own mother. What does
the royal author say? "She seeketh
wool and fax and worketh diligently
with her hands" This means that the
queen and her women made the gar
ments that her husband wore to battle
and to his kingly receptions. And she
was not the only royal parsonage who
boosted that the women who wore the
royal purple were the same women
who wove their royal garments. Alex
ander the Great never put a coat about
his shoulders that was not made by
his own mother. With pride he showed
the Persian princes who came to visit
his court the many beautiful robes
which were the results Of the skill Of
Olynpias, who was the daughter of
chieftain, the wife Of n sovereign and
the mother Of conqueror When the
Egyptian queen desired to make Il
n,
on whose account the Trojan war was
waged she sent to her piece Of her
own embroidery. All, do not tell me
that the spider that is n strand maker.
spinner, a weaver, has not a royal
occupation. If the queens and prin-
cesses Of old. with all the wealth OF
the royal palaces, thought it not he
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fingers for their loved ones. surely it
Is as royal an occupation for the wives
and mothers and daughters and sisters
Of today TO care for the Temporal
wants OF their dear ones in the modern
homes.
/ wish that the royal occupations of
Queen Olympias might be In vogue
among our women of today. | would
that the needle might continue to be
one of the sccpters of female influence,
because it IS the type Of female in.
dustry, like the spinning wheel and the
ancient distaff and spindle. / would
that the wives and the mothers and the
daughters Of our present generation
might not feel that their intellectual
duty OF looking after the temporal well
fare of their homes. Our picture gal.
lerics and popular books contain por-
traits of women in gorgeous attire, but
| think that il we had an artist TO
paint the portrait that IS dearest to our
memory we would not ask him TO find
the most flaring colors he had. but to
int IA I,,yI I. ~.
worn IN our nurseries in which mother
used to put us to bed. We can see her
now as she sat by table on which
was placed lamp. In her hand would
be needle and darnng gourd and a
stocking with big hole in it. BY our
mothers side would be n big pile of
clothes which she was mending. and
as we would look at that familiar pic
ture we would say; Yes, she was al
ways sewing for us She was always
working for us. She was always liv
ing for u.s." May God continue to make
our wives and our daughters like our
mothers and grandmothers of old
queens or the home, with the royal
sccpter of needle
An Example Of Industry.
But the spiders are more than mere
weavers. They not only set the exam
pie Of industry to man and woman and
child, but they are to be recorded
among the greatest benefactors of tho
human race. They are the greatest OF
all destroycrs of insect life They are
the mortal foe of the fly, the locust
and the grasshopper. If it were not
for the destroying work of the spider
In all probability most of the labors OF
the farmer and the husbandman would
go for naught. Then the plaques Of
Egypt would be here The locusts and
the grasshoppers would literally de
stroy ell the crops. The work of check.
Ing or keeping down the dangerous in.
crease Of insect life by the spider Is
simply infinite in It's importance
During the darkest days Of Robert
Bruce's life, after the king of Scotland
had been defeated in five diffcren,
battles and deserted by all his follow
ers and while he himself vas fugl
tive chased by the English soldiers. he
lay down one night to sleep in a little
cave. You all remember the legendary
story rs printed in your childhood
primer. During the night by the camp
fires light the noblest of all Scotch
men watched little spider spin his
web over the mouth OF that cave.
When morning came pursuing squad
Of English soldiers passed that way.
They were hunting for the fugitive
king. When one of the soldiers came
up to the entrance of that cave and
was about to enter another soldier
called: No need OF going in there
Don't you see n spider has spun his
web over the entrance to that cavei
No man would go in there without
breaking 1t down" Thus Robect
Bruce's life was saved by a spiders
web, But I want to tell You that the |
spider is just as much the savior and
protector of man today as he was sup.
posed to be in times of old in Scottish
history Over every tree branch in |
every flower garden, about every field
Of grass and crop OF wheat the spiders
every night and day are spinning thei
protecting webs. There they say TO
the insect hordes which are trying to !
destroy them: Stay out or will Stay |
you. Stay out. God has sent me to |
protect the grass and protect the crops |