Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-22
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you feel when you try to pare a peach.
That's about the way every suffragette
at st. GATHERINGS felt when an ANTI"
came around where she was. AS for our
lessons. Sister Irmingarde told me with
her own lips that If 1 didn't do better
during the coming month she would be
reluctantly forced to change her mind
about my ability as a student. You'd
better believe that stirred me up! 1
dropped everything at st. GATHERINGS
except study and suffrage. When the
other girls had spreads" in their rooms,
Mabel Muriel Murphy and were study
ing in our rooms with wet towels on our
heads for Sister Edna had reproached
Mael Muriel too. But when there was
suffrage or anti-suftrage going on, we
were both at our posts, like the boy on
the burning deck. For by this time it
was q vital burning issue. as the news
papers said, and was disrupting the girls,
just as Maudie had thought it would.
The evening of the debate came at last.
We had 1t in the assembly-hall right
after supper, and Sister Irmingarde and
Sister Edna and Sister Estelle we're the
jury, as they had promised to he. The
anti girls were all on the left side, and
we suffragettes sat on the right; and on
the platform there was a speakers
rostrum, with glass of water on 1t.
When 1 saw these three nuns lined up
in their chairs, and some other Sisters
In the audience, 1 felt sorry for Kittie
and Maudie. Sisters, especially Sisters
who teach us, make a very critical
M nd VA girlu had often fndand
observed that they had strange cramp-
ing effect on our style-the kind ones
family has. Both Maudie and Kitte
looked nervous. thought, and dreadfully
serious. Klttie wore her newest dress
one her sister had sent her the week
beforehand Maudie had on a new en-
broidered blouse. They were pale but
firm.
Maudie began, and dear me- Wasn't I
proud of her! Maudie had one fault, and
1 have pointed 1t out to her freely, like a
true literary artist to whom art comes
before all. Sho uses too many big words,
and is what Mabel Blossom calls high
falutin' in her style. mabel had pointed
out this fault, tool. But she began to
debate in the simplest, most natural way,
so that the minims could have understood
her IL they has been there. She said after
wards that she did this because she
wanted the antis to grasp her meaning
Maudie said the time came to every girl
when she had to look into the depths Of
her own heart, and make up her mind
what her life was going to be. Then,
when she had decided, all she had to do
was to go ahead and make 1t that. You
see how simple that was. The ants be-
gan to look bored right off, but l gave
Maudie a smile of loving encouragement.
She said there were only two things girl
could do-she could be an ivy and cling
to things, or else she could be a strong
support and let things cling to her. Then
Maudie drew a long breath and said the
best thing a girl could have clinglng to
her was principles. She waited for that
10 sink in, and we suffragettes applauded
Maudie went on the talk of duty and re-
sponsibility and the community spirit Of
helpfulness.
Then she started in, in earnest. She said
It was natural for the slothful and indol-
emit to shirk work. She said we saw II
done every day by some of those around
US at St GATHERINGS. 1t was easier to lei
the world go by. Maudie said, than &c
help make II move; but everybody shirked
what would become of progress, and who
would pass on the torch from hand t.
hand? She said butterflies were very
pretty to look at, but there was no place
for them in a beehive. They did moi
help the soul to climb. Little James stood
right up when Maudie said that, and tried
10 speak, but Adeline Thurston pulled hel
down. Maudie said the way to live ones
life was not in slothful pleasures. eating
spreads and neglecting ones studies
but To join hands in a ring Of helpfulnes,
that would reach around the world She
said II made her feel almost sick some
times to see the opportunities for uni
versal brotherhood and the community
spirit lost by girls who had the priceless
advantage of living at St Catherine
and seeing the examples of others whit
took life seriously; and she said Low,
should bo our guiding principles, and tina
every girl should devote half an hour I,
the reading Of the best books every day
Then she told about the man who rappe'
on the door of his beloved and wa
asked, who is there?" and he said, Il
is l." but the door didn't open; and h
raped again and was asked who he was
and he said 1T is l." And still the doc
didn't open. The third time he said Il
- lnOus ana Lne door opened right OIL
Maudie said that is what We must all do
rap on the door and be what's behind II
Then. all OF a sudden, she sat down, an
We girls clapped like mad The anti
looked at one another and smiled in
tired way.
When Kittie James got up
thought she looked puzzled. She SCENE
to be thinking over Maudies speech. an
there was SO much in it that l guess sh
didn't know just where to begin. But
last she said the previous speaker he
told q pretty story, but that it reminde
her OF another one about two doors-or
with a lady behind 1t, and the other wit
a tiger and the man rapping at thel
didn't know which was which; and 81
said that was the way with a good man
doors in life, IL was a mistake TO be II
thing inside unless you were sure
wasn't q tiger. All the girls laughed
this. and 80 did the three sisters on n
jury Sister Irmingarde looked quit
proud OF Kittie. Then Kittie James askt
what would become OF the wounded
the world was made up entirely Of Peep
fighting all the time. and she asked no
anybody could expect 10 read half Q
hour every day when we had so mar
other things TO do. She said Il was vel
inf in,