The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-31
MEoman's g. Column
"A DEPARTMENT DEVOTED TO WOMAN AND THE HOME
- EDITED BY PRUDENCE pRUDE 80


There are women so beautiful in ma
ture and men so noble in character
that they never seem other than visi- !
tors on this EARTH passing this way, !
deeply interested in what they see,
deeply attached to those they meet
and yet always, in their interests, their
friendships and their occupations liv-
ing according to the standards of an
other and a higher existence.
"The man of skeptical temper who
declared that he never remembered his
mother without believing in immortal
ity put this form of evidence in the
most direct fashion.
ut is not what we plan to do for
our fellows that counts most but what
we are to them. 1t is not through
our specific service that we help them
most; it is through our personality;
and there is no more beautiful help
/ fitness which one human being can
render another than to keep clear be-
| fore him the hope of Immortality, not
/
something realized and incarnate,
hour by hour, close at hand and in the
most intimate relations. And there is
/ no sure way to grasp the great fact
of the unbroken continuity of life than
to so express life to others than we
not only make the best things credi-
BILE and real to them but confirm and
strengthen in ourselves the faith that
inspires us. TO become an evidence
of immortality is first an; foremost to
have ourselves an mistaken faith in
the life beyond
Which argument does your life
strengthen?
The girl who meets boy or girl
friend in the street with a loud and
careless hello" that possibly attracts
the attention of passers-by may be
perfectly sure that she is not doing
the perfectly ladylike thing. Obtrusive-
ness on the street is never in good
form, no matter what the provocation.
The girl who let's one of her boy
friends pass her in the street with
only q cool nod of the head is paving
the way for masculine disrespect il
after times. Any man VINO has had
proper training as boy knows that
he must take off his hat to a woman;
so train the boy to the necessary cUUr~
tesy by staring straight over his head
until he has learned the proper mode
: Of salutation.
The girl who is ashamed to say
sir" to her father knows little OF eth
er respect or fashion The beautiful
: word has come back in use and moth
ing is SO surely indicative OF breed
+ ing as to hear a girl say: Yes, sir,
l and mo, sir" to her father.
: The girl who says solely yes OF
= no" in replying to some speech from
! Ter mother strikes the polite world as
1 an unspanked cub. Filial respect and
: correct custom as well demand that
r she return the speech with yes, moth
4 err" and mo, mother" To all elderly
= persons, teachers and clergymen she
+ replies in the same way, INTRODUCING
the word grandmother, aunt, Mr.
= Blank, Mrs. Blank, Miss Blank witt
S her affirmative or negative.
f The girl who thinks it is not neces
+ sary to answer the pretty little note
a OF invitation she has received from I
S school friend is doing something dis
n tnctiy tabooed in the book OF ct.
|. Quette. 1t must be answered at once
S with the prettiest note at her com
/, nand, with her acceptance or refus
It al plainly stated, and all the littl
+ missive couched in a graceful, ever
s. grateful tone.