The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-02-23
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1ut great triumph Vi ali VI OOu
creation Is good woman, and when
perverted man brings sorrow and mis-
cry to one OF Gods beautiful creation
be sinks nearer the kindred OF his
Satanic majesty than mortal man was
intended to fall. There is grand
little woman In this port-in fact
there are number OF them, but the
idea that prompted this suggestion
comes from the knowledge OF the
oyerpowe.ing grief OF just one little
woman. Man is woman's natural
companion-and protector. Some
man, somewhere, is the ideal OF every
fine little woman. In him she sees
nanght but good, naught but the en-
nobliDg characteristics that God
Almighty implanted primarily in
every man. His weaknesses, his in
firmities, his criminal instincts, she
is the last, above all others, TO see, let
alone 10 admit. God bless her species
for this one particular attribute OF an
gelic possessions on earth. Some IN
kind critic has seen fit to babble forth
that "the female OF the specie Is more
deadly than the male" Jocundly,
many people agree with this pessl
mist; seriously 90 one agrees with
him 10 other than isolated stipulated
instances When the Angel came
from Heaven and announced TO Mary:
blessed art though amongst women, y
1T was but the Superlative OF Happi'
ness conferred upon womankind. For
countless ages Mary's sisters have re-
ceiyed, but in a minor key, the same
glorious message. This minor-keyed
message has been delivered by males,
however, before and since that glo-
rious morning, and the fact that, un-
ia but few Instances even
the elastic Imagination Of the woman
directly concerned could attribute it
to the Angelic Presence, the Import
has been always the same. That mes
sage has not been delivered to the
S plendid little woman, the knowledge
OF whose sorrow prompted these
thank God, but even in the
a bsence thereof there still remains
the sordid fact that mans brutality,
be it 10 whatever shape or form 1t
may assume, has brought to her bleed
ing heart additional sorrow when 1t
should have been, and was his duty,
to care for and protect that heart
from the cruel bruises OF the outer
world. 7 had 0ne sad pleasure OF
needing this particular little woman
recently, and the misery OF her pre-
llcament did not necessitate her lit
tie statement: Now, this is me. you
KNOW to impress the Indebtedness
Of the shattered hopes, desires and
as pirations over which her great sor-
row lowered magnificently as a mon
lment to the "Things that might
nave been" Somewhere in this wide
and wicked and cruel world there
wanders her soul mate-yes, her heart
mate, albeit that heart mate may De
Scared and scared aud, perhaps,
lwarfed out OF bis former proper
ions, but, wherever she may go,
wherever the burdensOme duties or
life may call her, deep within the re-
:esses Of that noble, generous and
nagnanimOus heart there must
always rankle the bitterness OF life,
| hope, destroyed God bless her.
God help her. Man has done his ut
most to bring to her misery and a
broken heart.
The press dispatches recently have
carried more than their share or the
1itiful stories of disasters at sea, and
he reading public has been regaed |
With brave reports, Imaginary or !
Of the sturdy mariners who |
lave faced an additional danger OF
he deep. 10 imagination's eye have
cen but recently a sturdy vessel |
trike upon the reefs and there be
ALTERED to pieces. That vessel left
Ter home port fully equipped for the
voyage. She started
Jack home again to bring JOY and
to her owners, unless they
appened to be money-mad perverts,
nd to the wives and families (per-
APPS sweethearts) Of the men who
banned her. The vessel herself ap
cared to take unto herself human
hape, and as human being battled,
long with other vessels, in the surg
1g sea OF humanity. A storm arose,
S they arise in your life and mine as
,ell as upon the briny deep, and it
ecame necessary to buckle down to a
esperate nght-one Of those passing
fairs that result in the loss OF dol.
hrs. character or life and are then
the vessel fought its
est fight. The weather cleared, as !
reamed in the beautiful sunshine OF
he following day, and high on the
each the hulk Of this helpless vessel
waved hither and thither as the
enom Of the subsiding winds, not
ct content with the misery and
reckage they had wrought. bit VIC
,usly at the helpless mass resting
lere unable tn help Itself. Day fol {
wed day and it became necessary to
md helping hand to the brother 10
stress out there on that lonely and
srren jetty. Remember, ] saw this
! applied tn fellow humans. That
elpless hulk, that had carried and
tched many priceless cargo, was !
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