The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-02-16
womANHooD or TODAY
Tan essay read before the Woman's
Club OF this city by Mrs. s. T.. Sis
trunk.)

fFTIr
The historians are performing a
long neglected duty when they go
back TO contemporary records and
ask for the truth that has often been
- buried under the hate and prejudices
succeeding generations. The ro-
Ger knows that he most eff
lsly bring out the beauty of his
- ~ by placing contrast at her
AA at the virtue of his heroine is
- ~ TNcated until he has created
Nm keep her company. With
IL INTENSE, or in obedience to
literary necessity many
Istory have been created,
- Ne that justice be
al W Scott wrote the life of
IN onsulted the tastes of
~Wshakespeare shows
-. - EEWMrookback, and so he
sh"M minds eye,
wemporaries assert
Ar> pr sAeformed. and only
SsaArer and tyrant
II anded and necessity
~ ais time. So Nero is
- - gas he has been painted,
frgias seldom poisoned ex-
- scape the draught mixed for
es. If Lucretia were not so
al as she has been painted,
80 was her character so black.
IS of the great achievements of
Ems work in the world are con-
wlly reverberatng through the
-iform efforts of this wonderful
H. ntieth century, and yet their
latest and real accomplishments
= e not much talked Of but their in
suence is greatly felt
In Shelly we find expressed our
IL ideal of the woman of today:
Frank beautiful and kind as the free
heaven,
Which rains fresh light and dew on
the wide earth.
From customs, evil faint exempt and
pure
Speaking the wisdom once they could
not think.
Looking emotions once they feared to
feel
And changed to all which once they
dared not be-
Yet being now, making earth like
heaven"
In the volume of essays which have
been newly translated on the "mor-
tally of women" Madame Key
breaches the faith with which Eng
lish readers made familiar by
love and marriage, and as she at
tempts to trace the poetry there floats
before her always that beautiful pic
ture drawn by Shelly, crystalizing
the deepest and subtle perceptions OF
'. her.
From California comes the report
of womans entree into the politics Of
that great and beautiful state, an en-
tree so distinguished by its dignity
that 1t must always be an honor tol
American womanhood 1t is this dig
~ nifed and gentle attitude toward the
worlds work in which she is taking
SO large a part that is the most en-
couraging phase Of the development
of femininity. 1t reveals an underly-
ing current of culture and refinement,
which for the last half century tsince
the colleges and higher schools OF
learning have opened their doors TO
women), has been constantly aug
mented An army of young women
60 to college each year, leaving the
farms and crude homes, with their
narrow limitations, for towns or
crowded cities In those places OF
high learning the principles of higher
culture are nculcated into their cnar-
acter Their tastes are refined ana
they are given higher ideals, ana are
Taught how to think and how to apply
their thoughts. In time they come TO
know that we'll developed BODY is
successful basis for the operation OF
good mind Outdoor life becomes
habit. and they are led to realize tnat
IN happier existence the element OF
haautv must always have part
Hundreds of young women leave
our colleges and universities eacn
wear and scatter all over the united
States: some to homes beyond the
seas. others, perhaps, go back TO the
dear old farm home where, in their
humble way, change of culture and
gentle refinement gradually takes
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