Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-11-20
NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Loves Lenitive.

He that | loved was dead-beside
Ills grave, just made. l knelt and cried
Disconsolate despairing /
Wished, prayed that God would let me die.
Friends gently came with fond caress
And urged me in all tenderness
70 come with them-twas growing chill
And dark; they said l would be i'll.
Persuasion. force they tried; no. no.
In yain l would not. could not go.
At last l heard lisping tone
lit sounded almost like a moan)
20 mother don't, don't you die tco"'
My wounded heart each word pierced one
through.
rose and clasping to my breast
His child, left him in sweet rest.
Kathleen Kavanagh.
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The Leaves of Fall
The best things are forever new, and
Of the blessings of this our fleeing pill
grlmage none arouSeS in us devOuter
happiness than the multiform colors of
the autumn; the sober browns, the chang
ing yellOwS, the hectic reds. Nature
takes us on her knee and improves us
with serious discourse. In no other sea-
son does she lead us so inevitably to look
before and after; and there is a joy
even in pining for what is not. There
is happiness in being tormented by the
infinite. There is reflected everywhere
but music always. The birds sing less
often than they sang in spring. There
is in autumn no anodyne like the sum
mer heats. 1t is the season when our
knowledge Of life and destiny Is with US
always; when our sense of tragedy is
most awake. Tragedy is not the. worst
of life. for tragedy is filed with beauty
and significance; and in autumn lie the
tragic beauties of the year-Colher's
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But the Right Girl e
Is Not to Be Won by Them.
Ask her if she would not far rather
have honest words of true affection from
him and do without the gift, than get the
gift and not the affection.
ASK her whether sue wants his love or
his presents. She will confess that she
would rather have his love than all the
presents in the world.
That is why wife may be unhappy,
though sumptuously fed and clothed at
her husbands expense. Baskets full OF
gems, closets full of silks and velvets,
cannot compensate her if she Graves III
vain for her husbands heart.
Love without the gift is worth Infinite
ly more to loving woman than the gift
without love.
If she sincerely cares for a man. box
of candy or a bunch Of roses will never
really compensate her for a cutting word
or an hours neglect.
Oh, no! The gift will! never do. 1t
may satisfy a light hearted girl who does
not know what love is. But it won't do
for the woman's heart which Graves the
giver's love.
And let Mr.. Right never suppose that
the heart of the one and only She is to
be captured and kept in that way
r Of TIC C;vo Thante
Married or single, college bred or I'M
lettered, rich or poor. idler or worker,
women ali of us, let us give thanks be-
cause-because we are women. Think OF
the blessings of just that-to be Wom-
an! Think of what we have escaped
in not being men! 70 us belongs exclu-
sively the right to be beautiful. What
man dare glory in his face or figure!
Destined to find his greatness in mere
ly being strong, what man, moreover,
if he would preserve the respect Of men,
dare glory in his clothes? Oh, the joy
of being a creature whose duty it is to
be fair to look upon. who, to that end,
may rightfully appropriate to herself
whatever in nature and in art is varied
and exquisite i'll color, line in substance,
lending itself to grace OF motion and to
perfection of line-oh, the JOY of having
to have pretty things to wear! Let us
give thanks, too, that, being destined to
be beautiful, we seem destined, also, to
be protected. If the fancy take us, we
can at will develop minds and muscles
that put some mems to shame; but, be-
ing women, not higher education, nor col
lege athletics, can rob us of the infinite
delight of needing to be protected. This
ned is complementary to the mans des-
tiny of having to be strong; abstract
from women their weakness, and the
supreme need of mans strength is gone.
Let us, therefore, rejoice in our helpless
ness and thankfully permit ourselves to
be taken care of, not because we are in
capable of taking care of ourselves, but
persisting in our helplessness with the
altruistic motive of thereby enabling men
to be good and strong.
Beauty and frailty, however, are not
more inevitably the portion of woman
than are suffering and sorrow; where
fore let US again be thankful that we are
women. To us belongs especially the
divine right to forgive. Men, destined
to struggle with the world, must infict
pain, especially upon women. 1t is IN
the scheme of nature. In the acquisition
and exercise of all those qualities which
make them most truly men they are
bound to hurt women. Mothers under
stand this. They take secret glory in
the obstinacy, the Drawn, brag, and bru-
tality ftheir sons, even while it hurts
them, and they say in explanation, with
a ring of pride in their tone, How like
a man." AS wives, women are wont to
be less reasonable. When the hardness
of the man, his roughness, his selfshness,
his determination to have his way, crop
out in the husband, they weep and re
proach him for the suffering he causes
them. Yet, if the man were made only
of the stuff of lovers, he would be too
soft to win his way in the world. Let
us give thanks, then, for the selfshness
of men. 1t is the diverse of the war
rior. of the hero, whom the world hon
ors and we ourselves adore. And if we
suffer from it, let us still give thanks,
glorify in the exercise of the aye-woman-
~ function which suffering alone makes
possible our supreme woman's right to
forgive. All, let US, indeed, be thankful
that we are women, and. in particular,
be thankful that we are called upon to
forgive men their trespasses against us
for what should we do if we were the
men and had to forgive ourselves our
trespasses against them ?-Harper's Ba-
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