Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-16

some it is held a woman desires flat
terry as she requires food, but if this
is conceded, it must also be admitted
Of the male portion of humanity. 1t is
desire of the human family to hope
for laudation and some times unde-
served praise, and yet 1t must be con-
ceded that deserved reward is often
withheld, while caluhnny is frequently
the portion of honest effort.
Success is based on intelligent ener-
gy constantly applied; no matter what
the object, victory seldom comes TO
one unsought and unf0ugbt.
I am not familiar with the tcnets of
your order, and do not presume to tell
you how to accomplish your purposes,
hut l know there are many things you
might take up to the benefit of the
State and community, such as the SUBJ
ject of education, rearing Of children,
the general morale of the community,
right and wrong thinking, Woman's
Suffrage, penalty for crime in it's petty
and its grosser forms.
1t is a common saving that woman
instinctively arrives at conclusions
without analysing the pros and cons
of q given proposition. If so, isn't this
the outcome of her environment and So
cial limitations rather than her mental
short-coming? If she were given equal
responsibilities in nation, state and
municipality, with man, wouldn't She
soon develop a capacity for detail OF
subject second to none? But even sup
posing some short-coming in this line,
who is to determine whether subtle
instinct in arriving at conclusions is not
equal and possibly superior to logical
precept?
l find the superlative quality in man.
hood or womanhood is most frequently
brought forward by necessity, and this
applies to both good and bad We are
'all apt to decry the Universities that
come to US, but these conditions, by
contrast of circumstances, often de-
velop latent powers least suspected.
I would call your attention to the
fact that the strongest natural law the
human family has to cope with is that
of heredity 1t makes or l. breaks 4
career according as the inherited ten
denotes are wont to travel and allowed
full scope for action, and these ten
denotes are largely transmitted from
generation to generation by the mon
tai, foral and social life of the COM
munity.
Responsibility. therefore. for devel-
opmont of the human family rests to 8
great extent upon each preceding gen
Grafton: avoid it we cannot; accept il
we must, and our individual efforts
collectively concentrated toward pro
/ nd 5.1-plnnr1onnt will ~ r.
the desideratum of God-given goodness
You cannot legislate goodness into
4 person; it must be implanted within
the Individual from the commencement
of termination, and human agency may
assist in bringing it to the surface
so we all may be of service in promul
eating the best thought action ant
progress of the world. "That which i:
seen is temporal; that which is, unsce1
is eternal" We do not see our neigh
| bor's thoughts, but we feel them. al
| though sometimes uneXpressed. Prin
cipics may be eternal, and there Is ~
doubt but your principles Will go 81
forever though the individual perish.
| The visions of the present are TIL
reality of the future. The dreamer ma.
be inpractcahle in his application o
thought to present day affairs, but il
the unfolding of the future the impress
of thought on the disc of his mind, con
= veyed by that silent. subtle manne
known only to the creative powers t
other and more active forces transfer
the impractical to the realm of prac
teal realism hitherto undreamed b
the mind Of the unimaginative.
In the course of human life woma
has played as important a part as mai
I do not propose to go into biographies
sketches. or relate historic events wit
with women as the center of attra'
ton. but it may not be amiss to spea
of some of the women who have occl
pied important positions. Several
the Queens of England have had no
able reigns, and perhaps the most IN
t portant and far-reaching is that
r Victoria. whose gentle but firm har
carried England through many an IN
. portant event. Mrs. Julia Ward How
, that peerless woman now almost ce
tenarian. Frances f. Willard, Lax
: Henry Somerset, and many othe
). whom I might mention.
4 Then consider that wonderful w
: man of France. Joan of Arc; her II
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