Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10

Lucy b. Serome, in the World Today.
In the army of grand old women
the wl,iteneads OF the modern age
Miss Mary 1~illinghast, at the rich age
of 40, still wakens to the thrill of Gre
alive JOY. Her stained glass windows
IN all stages of complexion, seem to
scorn the suggestion OF any limit to her
activities. Six O'Clock ZACH morning
finds her-a heroic ~figure-before her
easel. Seven at night often finds her
vigor Still! undated as a girls. Her
IDEAS flow freely, her keen eye Is as
sure. her hand as deft and her passion
for beauty as un~restrained as when the
.ancies OF youth f1oated in vague love
illness before her inner vision.
How many windows or how many
designs for large art works Miss Till
,nghast has created in her years OF la
Dor, she hardly knows. The number
must run far into the hundreds: but
she knows that h finds the purest de-
light in her work. that the DAYS are
not long enough for all she wants to
do, and that visions of surprising love
illness dwell with her through the night
hours, which make her long for day
light that she may be up and doing
TO enter into her big studio In Wash
ington square and look at the high
walls hung with the rich colorings of
her designs. is I entering into the
holy hush of IL cathedral with it's inn
pressions of purity and power
Th slash of the whip and the cir
cling red and white of circus clowns
form the picture on which Mrs. Anne
Aeamans, actress. manager and opti-
mist. gazes when she turns the wheels
OF time backward. At 10. with Billy
her boy brother, and her own con-
through the medium of the stage door.
and 1T was not very long ago. at the
age of q. that the she began rellear-
sails for the part OF an Irish landlady
IN the play. Her Other Self" Annie
has camped along theatrical
tra.1s. cooked for herself and members
or the company. taken care OF her ba-
bies and a few OF other peoples, turned
from tragedy to comedy and from
shakespeare to melodrama. been shak-
an out OF bed by earthquakes. and left
painless by the ups and downs of her
stage career. but there is one thing she
never lost-her equantmity. At 73
you see the result of a life Of sunny
hope. OF living up to a temperament
that simply wouldn't let itself 20 UNI
der. and a heart that still thrills to tie
Wild measures Of an Irish Jig. The
gray headed men In the audience are
still her boys" and she runs before
the footlights. q little stouter and hcay-
Ter than of yore, but still their Annie
Yeamans. the thunder of applause that
rolls up to the gallery gods makes the
roof ring and brings an old time fire
to her yet rollicking eye.
When n OF the millions Of little
Dundles that constitute the official doc
ulnents or the general land office In
washington Is needed by a hasty and
impatient chief. a stentorian call is is
issued for Mother Gridley." In a few
minutes Mother Gridley'' appears, her
SS-year-old eyes full of calm authority
II u M p1sNN avH-A 4 = L.
that acts as balm on the disturbed at
mosphere. A little dialogue follows:
Chief: Mother Gridley, 1 want those
PAPER about. I've had everybody
IN the Office looking for half an hour.
Can you find them?
Mother Grfdley: l know where every
paper. and document, and signature
and clause is in this Office. Here's
your papers; right where 1 said they
We're. (Quiet reigns and chief molli-
fled.)
For IS years Eliza Ann Grdley.
mother OF the hero of Manila bay. has
been answering similar questions n
is her duty to place the red seal on ev =.
cry document that goes out of the gen
eral land Office. and then to stamp
them. -Four or five hundred documents
a day Is Mrs. Gridley's average. When
she takes a vacation four or five per
sons are appointed al her substitutes
"O 11CI LSATldOlo SAUL
tation from the chief in charge on the
day before she leaves, is always: "For
goodness sake, don't stay a minute
longer than you can help. Things get
so mixed up while you're gone" And
1t Is words like these that make Moth
er Gridley" say: I'm an active work
er In the vast beehive of
affairs, n no one knows what a bless.
Ing 1t Is. that. though I'm getting along
a still work, work. work. And
why shouldn't I?' She ends with =
triumphant smile: II served as an
army nurse the last year of the war
n is child's play to the
horrors OF that time"
Guy de Maupassant once told a tale
In which he makes one of his charac-
ters say: "The sadness of it ali is
that our hearts are too young for OH
bodies" The hundreds Of thousands OF
women of America who. in the fullness
OF old age. still labor usefuily and com
petently In numberless fields. have con
quered this obstacle not by wartime
against the flesh, but by ignoring II
Their lives are rich in labor. brieht
with promise. replete with hopes. and
they have literally no time to devote
to the hampering weak arms and feeble
knees. Clara Barton. Of Red Gross
fame. who. at the age of IS. is still
Tho Poets.
Prom tho Kansas Ci<, Co.,