The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-30

make the whole world nomef&ke. Bnt
IL my opinion the homeltke world wlll
De made only by making IL "A world of
homes Home can never le general
love OF one man for one woman
Make. fer ~nstance- your Masonic nall
never SO beautiful, with It's velvet
carpets, It's luxurious chairs. its mir
rors and gems Of art. Make e SerusiS
hall TO match. with the added grace
that woman's taste VIII suggest. Let
the manners ii both societies ac never
- refined, and their thoughts never
So exalted. Let them interchange
courtesies. have mutual receptions
and all that. and YOU still have DOR
touCheG home. But. when some young
mans hear says with fcrvent trath.
She IS all the world TO me, and ofn
woman's heart answers with q love
that a keep through all tho years
the spirit of John Anderson. fnE 10.
and they join their hfe's destiny in
~Teciock's deafness bond. there you
have home. though there are none of
the Injuries. and few OF what p
world calls the refinements of lie.
There : No New Woman.
There is no new woma0. They are
all ldentically the same as Eve and
Sarah and Ruth. They have the
same natures, the same intuitions. the
same love Of family and home. and
the same desire TO be OF use Is others
that women have always had. There
is nothing greater in life than this
great principle of h~elpfulness and
service and love for others. It may
be the the world of home, it may be
the schoolroom, it may be the ranks
| Of fashionable society. or it may be
the small country town. but her love
and her service are needed, and home
making is the life-work for j ma
jority Of ome
When the great Greater bestowed
upon woman that property which per-
mits her TO be the instrument FOR the
propagation of the human species.
there was placed in her care the high
est physiological function OF which q
human being might be capable. The
relpetuation of the race is a primary
concern of the divinity of biology, and
motherhood is her divine heritage. 4
mission so amazing. 50 divine. de
mands Wonan's soul, her life, her all
Walter Scott or Lew Wallace takes
the dead ages and makes their Weap-
onS and battles, their ships and
houses and temples, and their very
horses, intensely interesting to US bH
weaving around all some ViVid
threads Of personal human life anC
destiny. And here is a being wht
may hold such y life in her hand
from its very inception, 10 mould a!
the potter the clay, for majesty O.
degradation. If there should come I,
her a fair Twins head, with a brain
capable of looking across the ages an,
up to God, with frame Of Wondrou
mechanism from the biOod-vessel
that make alive its tiny bones. to tn
delicate cells that pink the skin, al
instinct with life and the future, an
she able to make of it almost Wha
she Will, pity her Tor the loss 0
loftier destiny! Not all Rosa Bon
hours canvas horses, nor all Harie
Hosmer's Ole marbles are equal t
one ruddy, smiling, cooling baby wit
just the right antecedents behind hin
and just the right training befor
him.
The eXcellences of the great me
} of all times have usually been fore
Swallowed, if not exemplifed, in tn
characters Of their mothers. Joche
, bed was the guardian of her infan
2 boy from the edict of Pharaoh. an
the boy became the guardian q
2 Jethro's flccks, and then the shep
herd, guide, the laW-giYer Of the ma
| ton IN its greac exodus and wilder
ness march. Elizabeth was the chOs
/ en- one to whom was given the homo
e of motherhood to him who was "mOT
y than a prophet'-the harbinger {
the gospel itself. The genius and in
telltCludI sweep Oh 10GIUc were 1bEt
tOkened in h nany-sided b~rillianC
of Frau Rath. Hannah's faith fOun
its largest fulfilment not in the Dirt
and infancy of her first-bOrn son. bl
in the purity and strength of tn
prophet judge and his illustriol
career as the restorer of the nation
+ 4 woman's gentle voice in the ma
I sery changed the civilization {
: England. Was there any create
work that Csburga, the queen {
j., Ethelwolf, could have been doing tina
reading Saxon poems to her sons, an
awakening the mind Of one who b;
. came Alfred the Great. Susann
= Wesley found time from the domest
9 duties and trials Of Il large househoI
to devote to the secular and NOR;
education of her boys and girl
! ~Beautiful, anaiable. thoughtful, d
vout. and intelligent" says her biz
grapher, both linguist and lover, 81
a was no more interested in the parsir
ri Crock nd Latin thap I'm T no ~ ~