The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-03
CHAPTER VI Continued
Fessenden Comes.

Fessenden Comes.
May learn the details ol the
case? May | 90 into the lbraryo
/ said Fesscnden. hcsitatiug 10 40.
proach the closed door until in.
/ ,itcd
Yes. indeed; lll take YOU bon at
+ once Doctor Leonard. who {. m
/ there. is the county physician. and.
though a bit brusQuo I'm his manner.
/ ne is an honest old soul. and does
uilinchingly what hc Judge, ,o br
his duty"
Meter then nor at any time.
neither to Doctor Leonard himself
nor TO any one else. did Doctor
| Hills ever mention the difference
OF opinion which the two men had
held for so long the night before.
/ nor did he tell how he had proved
/ his own theory $50 positively that
Doctor Leonard had been obliged
to confess himself wrong It was
not in Doctor IIll's nature to say
Il told YOU So" and, fully apprcciat.
! ing this. Doctor Leonard said nothing
either. but threw himself into the
case heart and soul in his cudoavors
tc seek truth and Justice.
Fcsscnden and Doctor Hills enter.
ed the library whore everything was
much as it had been the night be.
! fore. At one time the doctors had
been about to remove the body TO
couch and to remove the disfigured
gown. but after Doctor Leonard had
been persuaded 10 agree with Doctor
/ Hills view of the case. they had
left everything untouched until the
coroner should come
The discovery OF this was a sat.
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the impulse and the method went
no deeper than the surface wrong
TO be righ,ed-the immediate suffer.
ing 10 be relicved--the immediate
good to be done. No lasting founda-
! tions were laid for permanent bet.
terments OF the social structure. no
| war OF determination was attempted
by system and organization to Grad.
icate social and civil evils.
With the organization of the Fed
Grafton of Women'S Clubs. all this
/ was changed. 4 new idea came into
vogue. new spirit was infused
into woman's work and vast field
OF potentiality in public life was
opened out before them. Accepting
the political status which placed
men in control of public affairs. the
great women who fostered and de.
Neloped the new idea said. it is not
FOR us 10 aspire to political place.
I AT least not to delay our work un-
Ill We have attained IT, let Us
seize the instruments AT hand and
make use OF the men themselves TO
accomplish our ends. II We cannot
run the governments. let Us help
the men To run them right. II We
cannot control our municipalities. let
us point out the right way To the
men who do control them and in
4 flucncc them 10 pursue that right
way; il Se cannot make the laws.
let ~ at least enter into halls
where those laws are made and use
our influence 10 have better laws
made, That was the spirit that dom
mated the founders of the Fedora
ton plan OF womcns cooperative
public work.
Yet this was but the manifestation
OF a deeper phase Of the movement.
II was an awakening 70 the true
meaning of Culturo-its real scope
and purpose. The dissemination of
culture-that was the very heart and
soul of the great Renaissance which
was expressed in this country in
the organization of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs.
Culture? some will .ay-what has
culture 10 do with il? What has
culture to do with better laws. bet.
ter social conditions, the amcliora.
ton OF the poor, the uplifting OF
the base?
This is the very point seek 20
emphasize and for the purpose Of
elucidating my view, am going 10
fall back upon tho great apostle
OF culture whose gospel upon that
subject had more 90 do with arous-
ins the thought Of the world 10 In.
real meaning ot culture and the vast
ntss OF it's scope than the writings
or the at,crances Of any other latter