The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-04
Over the Nuts and Wine
BY FRANCES couR7EnAY BANo OR

I, DURING tutlr pol1Lo tdiHiIIcS. ol tug
East Indians, when suffering as they
some times dc from utter failure in ali
/ their breadstufrs; of fathers VINO toos
but one meal day for months, ano
! went Off into the bugs ana swamps t.
4 die, that they might not be a tax on
! their families; OF mothers who literally
starved patiently. day by day. till they
| fell into stupor or deliriun, but never
failed to feed the baby till they lost
consciousness, of friends who divided
| the last bushel of wheat or barley
with a neighbor. and then ate the bark
of trees. grass, leaves, anything that
| promised to satisfy terrible craving
| Even an Eskimo mother. when FISH
| and blubber and seal are scarce, VIII
/ deny herself until she is literally q
!. living skeleton, that her old mother
and her young children may not lack
Sir Philip Sidney's cup of cold water
| was noble one, but here are these
\ poor, simple. Ignorant creatures sui.
! fering for months and dying by inches
for those they love. with divine self.
abnegation. knighthood's flower of
| chivalry is beautiful; but TINS seems
even more so to me. No one sees It,
applauds II, knows 1t, sings its praise.
\ The unknown, unrecorded deeds of
heroism on earth are part of the hid
| treasure Of Cod. who alone has
inspired and seen them. 1t is that
| of the common soldier, of good wo-
men, of very noble men, since the
world began, and. like the jewels
hidden in the earth, our fellow
mortals shine. indeed, when revealed
I In their true colors: the ethics OF the
dust. that is Deity. are glorious And
they are all around us. If we could
| har o. n Mt
rock under the powerful microscopes
| OF the Sheffield Scientific School Of
yale. how the Rock would sparkle and
glow in them-the mute lnglor!ous
Millions village Hampdens," poor
seamstresses, humble mothers of af-
dicted children and many another.
| Not only in His magnificent heavens
lis the glory OF God set forth, but on
and in His earth.
A Lnnd of Plenty.
| 1t is wonderful to think OF our
cattle on thousand hills of our
millions Of bushels of grain, of our
lmyriads Of domestic animals, OF our
wealth Of fruits and fish. of our con-
tinent of abundant fields. and hocks
In green pastures, and happy homes
and wealth of every kind. Our vines
and tig-trees. our plantations. and
farms and ranches of 10000 acres and
more are marvel Of prosperity, luck
and pluck. And not content with
Itese, we are irrigating the Western
1wllds and draining the FlorIdian
everglades and reclaiming the delta
| nds of Louisiana and Mississippi
Yes, we have plenty. plenty, plenty,
thank God, to meet the need Of our
people: but not their greed, Properly
| managed. we have enough resources
to comfortably sustain a population OF
hundreds of millions. Yet thanks to
acknowledgment, extravaganza, selfish.
ness and dishonesty, 1t is not every
American family that sat down to a
really good Thanksgiving dinner; that
sits down to fairly good one every
day. The trust bnrons need Runny-,
mede sand the American people Mag
ma Chnrta. Let us hope that the recent
elections will mean that very thing
No American family of honesty, indus
try. probity, ought to suffer in this
country for a thousand generations to
come for the necessaries OF life, at
least, nor even for many of Its luxur-
les yerbum sap: Messieurs, the poll
sticians.
Mt a New England invention.
The Puritans of New England simply
brought from old England the old
old English, British, Celtic Saxon
Roman. Grecian Assyrian. j udean har-
vest festival, and added to 1t the es-
|,pecial home feeling that belongs to
lchristnnas: the assembling OF families,