The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-11-13


woman in her ninetieth year, who,
instead OF barking back to the good
old days Of the past, is always look
ing forward TO the dawn of new
era, in which right shall triumph:
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MRS. HOWE'S VISION
OF A NEW ERA
One night recently l experienced a
sudden awakening. | had vision
of a new era which is TO dawn for
mankind, in which men and women
are battling equally, unitedly, for
the uplifting, and emancipation Of the
race from evil.
saw men and women OF every
cline working like bees to undo the
evils OF society, to discover the whole
web of vice and misery, and to apply
the remedies and also to find the in
fiuences that should best counterfeit
evil and its attending suffering.
There seemed to be new, a won
drous, ever-permeating light, the
glory of which | cannot attempt to
put in human Words,-the light of
the newborn hope and sympathy
blazing. The source of this light was
born of human endeavor, the i'm
mortal purpose Of countless thou
sands Of men and women who were
equally doing their part in the
worldwide battle with evil, and
whose energy was banded to tear the
mask from error, crime, superstition,
and greed, and to discover and apply
the remedy.
/ saw the men and women, stand
ing side by side, shoulder to Shout
der, common, lofty, and indomit-
able purpose lighting every face with
a glory not Of this earth. All were
advancing with one purpose in view,
one foe to trample, one everlasting
good to gain.
saw them advancing like Nigh
ty army, laden with the fruits of
their research, their study, their en-
deavor, in this battle with the powers
of darkness, and ready to tear vice
from the earth, to strip away all
selfishness of greed, of rapine.
Then l seemed to see them stoop
down to their fellows and to lift
them higher and higher. Men and
women, vast host whom none could
number, working unitedly, equally,
with superhuman energy, all for the
extirpation of the hlackness of vice
and for the veal of the race.
And then | saw the victory
All of evil was gone from the
earth. Misery was blotted out.
Mankind was emancipated and ready
to march forward in new era of
human understanding all-encom-
passing sympathy, and ever-present
help.
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SIMPLICITY, SYSTEM AND POISE.
Three Essentials in Perfecting Home
Life.
BY Mrs. Burton Smith.
Some one has said, "The greatest
hour of life is the present" We can
find whole system of practical
philosophy embedded in that simple
remark. "a philosophy which will
take us straight to the heart of the
question before us. If'life is to mean
for us besides futile regret
and restless longing, we must make
it mean that something in the pres
ent. We must make it beautiful in
the passing hour, and when say that
| believe the three essentials of a
home life are simplicity,
system and poise, intend the reply
to stand the test of this philosophy in
it's broadest application. ] intend to
affirm that simplicity, system, and
poise in the home will not only make
the passing hour beautiful there, but
that the results will push beyond the
walls of home and carry good into
the great seething social life outside.
Truth, sympathy, self-control, or
ganizing ability,-these are some of
the qualities needed to attain SIM
plicity, system, and poise in the
home; and will not such qualities
serve, not only to perfect home life,
but to evolve spirit of the highest
in the individual?
To attain simplicity is to solve
of the difficulties that
now fret and furrow the surface of
our daily life, Why is it the days
are never long enough, our strength
barely equal or utterly unequal to
the demands upon us, and the life of !
the hour SO proverbially intense and