The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-11
Honorable Mention.

Honorable Mention.
Give us that grand word woman" once
And let's have done with lady"
Ones a term
Full of fine force-strong. beautiful and
firm,
Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen.
And ones word of laekeys.
One suggests
The mother, wife. and sister; one the
dame
Whose costly robe mayhap gave her the
name.
One word upon its strength leans and
rests.
The other minces, tiptoe.
Who would be
The perfect woman" must grow brave
Of heart
And broad of SOUL to play her troubled
Wen in Iife's drama; while each day we
see
The perfect lady" skilled in what to do
And what TO say, grace in each tone and
act
CTS taught in schools. bat needs serve
native tacO.
Yet narrow in her mind and in her shoe!
Give the first place. then. 20 the nobler
phrase,
And leave the lesser word for lesser
praise.-E. ". W,
MAE f. SHAW.
Perhaps more just and beautiful COM
pliment was never paid to a woman than
the following by Judge Story:
ITO the honor. 10 the eternal honor. OF
the sex. be it said. that in the path OF
duty no sacrifice is with them too high or
too dear Nothing is with them impossi-
Bile but to shrink from what love, honor,
innocence. and religion require. The
voice OF pleasure or power may pass by
unheeded but the voice Of affiictiOn
never. The chamber of the sick. the pill
low Of the dying, the vigils of the dead,
the affairs Of religion, never missed the
presence or the syTnpathies OF woman!
Timid though she be. and so delicate
that the winds of heaven may not too
roughly visit her, on such occasions she
loses all sense of danger and assumes a
pTeternatural courage which knows and
fears not consequences. Then she dis
plays that undaunted spirit which neither
resignation which utters neither murmur
nor regret. and that patience in suffer
ing which seems victorious even over
death itself"
Is there in mans heart an answering
tone TO a sentiment or such depth7
TALIsULAH De 5. SMITH.
mot she with traItorous kiss the Saviour
stung,
Not she denied Him with unhoiy tongue;
She. while apostles shrank. could dangers
brave,
Last at the cross and earliest at the
grave"
Christmas will soon be here, and on
that happy morning let none forget
mother. Be she ever so far away. let
some tribute of love be sent her. Think
not because that beautiful brow is sill
vered with the dews OF time that the
heart has also grown old. All, no.
Though her hair may have grown gray
and her cheek become furrOwed. her
heart is still young and throbbing for
YOU with holy affection. mothers Lowell
Who can fathom its depths? Time has
failed 70 do so. and eternity will bear
witnesst TO its sanctity. Years of trials
and sickness perhaps have stolen the
freshness of her life, but, ike the ma
tured rose the perfume or her love Is
richer than when in its first bloom. The
lips may have become pale and shrunk-
en-. but they are still the sweet lips that
have kissed away many a scalding tear
from childhoods cheek Her eyes may
be dim, yet they glow with the soft radi-
ance of a holy love that can never fade.
The sands Of time may be nearly run.
but she will go farther and reach lower
for you than any one else on earth.
Should the world despise and torsake or
shame overtake you. vet she VIII gather
you in her arms and take you home and
tell you of your virtues until you almost
forget the disfiguring effects OF your
vices
IN whose principles" said the dying
daughter OF Ethan Allen 10 her skeptical
father-~in whose principles shall I die
yours or those of my Christian MOTHER
The stern old hero of TiconderOga
brushed a tear from his eye as he turned
away, and with the same rough voice
which summoned the British 20 smren-
der, now tremulous with emotion, said:
In your mothers. child-in your moth
er's' Mrs. |. p. CHAMBERLAIN.
The modest virgin, the prudent wife.
or the careful matrOn are much more
serviceable in life than petticoated phil
osophers, clustering heroines, OF virago
queens. She who makes her husband
and her children happy. who reclains
the one from vice and trains up the other
To virtue, is 4 much greater character
than ladies described in romance whose
whole occupation is to murder mankind
with shafts from the CULVER of their
eyes LAURA V. ALLEN.
Richer than miser with perishing treas
ure,
Served with a service no conquest could
bring.
Happy with fortune that words cannot
measure.
Light-hearted. I on the hearth stone
can sing:
King. king. crown me the king:
Home is the kingdom and love is the
king.-DuTyea-
And the power behind the throne" is
the gentle influence of woman. As she
sits ''at her wheel, In russell gown and
apron blue" weaving the fabric Of your
happy song, open the easement that the
light from your fireside of humble con-
tentment may stream upon the dark out
side road. Let it guide the traveller from
scenes OF bitter loss and barren gain, for
he has met shadows in glded halls, and
here is a real heart of home, she who
has learned
How great the virtue and the art
To live on little with a cheerful heart