The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
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Editor The Washington Herald:
II yo1 cannot write poem,
You can make one of your homei
Acts Of kindness, tropes q sgnshlne
Gentle words in lyric tones.
These round oct the shining eautos
Ring the bells In lifes high dome,
Sing the measures, chant the movements.
Build the epic Of the home.
John Langdon Dudley.
The lines above. written many years
ago by ar. Dudley. seem. in these days.
prophetic. Home has now more enemies
than anything else. For love, free di-
vorce. Mormonism with its foundation OF
pOlygamy and. withaI. free whisky; stimu-
lating TO license immor9r ty-au have
come TO the front, 10 conjure the politi-
clan who aims, not 10 lead, but 10 please
the people. Home is seriously menaced
by these insidious agencies. The merest
trifies send people TO the divorce courts,
and the most unprincipled lawyers are
encouraging the weak-minded to break
the marriage tie on the fimsiest preteXts.
Age-long conventions, sanctioned by the
wise and good. are trodden under foot as
ruthlessly as if right and wrong no longer
existed
employed to assist in care Of Mr.. Dud-
| ley. Almost his last words were these.
The nurse had gone out for her daily
rest, and we were alone together: do
you mean TO tell me that women like
/ this nurse go about taking care Of men,
I he asked. Yes"
We'll. I don't like it." he said. his dark
eyes growing darker 1T destroys wo-
manly modesty: 1t lowers life. and it
ought not to be. There is that which is
/ proper. and becoming, but it is not proper
/ for a strange woman 70 take care OF q
man in sickness. Men should be the
/ nurses of men"
/ over and over have those words como
back 20 me, as I have seen the evils q nd
| the deterioration resulting from women
| encroaehment upon the world Of men.
Voting carries with It no indelicacy, but
! personal association Of men and women
beyond the pale Of propriety is indicate,
if no more
II is good 20 note that Wimodaughsis
is TO nave a botany class. ] want 20 join
lit before the blue lupins come. Are they
/ about Washington, those wolf fowers2
| In Massachusetts, I have seen them over
a hillside, when It was easy 10 fancy
the clusters were indeed blue wolves rest
ing in the sun.
Our poor relations run wild, often gain
more than wealth. II is pitiful to hear Mr.
Carnegie begging to be allowed to still be
"a bee 10 gather and distribute honey"
Not long ago a magazine paid him 20 de-
clare that rich folks are not OF a high
order Of Intellect" He read that in a
newspaper and boldly appropriated II for
a magazine, but IL ne admits he don't
know much, what IS his advice WORTH
The trouble is rich men create poverty
and then give back in charity what they
took by force or fraud. They don't know
enough to love their neighb0Ts as them
selves" and let them have a chance 10
buy their own libraries. Even schools do
no good to those too poor 20 attend them
It is the very rich. too, who are worst
J IN all Observation-Disclosures women,
and wine. and murder, often.
If Milwaukee had not robbed me OF my
property to give 1t TO lawyers, too lazy
to work for q living. I would not build
me a sarcophagus 10 live in in the fash
! ionable slums OF any city, but I would
have a home with a small D." with
z woods aud fields and fruit and waving
, grain, and every soul about me should
work with his hands, because. while toe
] much manual labor ) degrading. there
) lis spiritual culture in labor not 10 BE-
gained otherwise. Why was the Cnrlst q
7 carpenter? No education IS complete
without the trained hand of toll. Politics
is not so interesting as religion. The
Eucharist has a lesson in Rhode Island
higher than that Of the stern sister, Mas
; sachUsettS
D MARION CHURCHILL DUDLEY.