The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-09-18
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By BARONESS BERTHA Won SUTTERN
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still farther. grows into glory.
greatness and power, or sinks and
erumples up and disappears. II II
allows itself to be overcome By
other Kingdoms Therefore the
most important and the highest
aim for which any individual has
to struggle. and for which he
ought to be glad to die. Is the
existence. the greatness and the
weli-being of the kingdom.
1 impressed these words on
my mind In order to put them
down the same day In the red
volume. They seemed to me to
express so clearly and strongly
in my student days from the
books of history, feeling
which in these last times, after
Amos departure. had been driv-
en- out of my mind by fear and
pity. 1 wanted to cleave to IL
again as close as possible. in or
der to find consolation and sup
port in the idea that my darling
had fallen in a great cause. and
that my misfortune itself was
only one element In this great
cause
Aunt Mary had, on the other
hand. a different source of con-
ISOLATION ready.
DE not weep. dear child" she
used to say, when 4 was sunk I'm
profound grief. do not be SO
selfish as Co bewaiI him who Is
now so happy. He IL among the
blessed. and is looking down on
You with blessing. After = few
quickly passing years ON earth
You viii find him again I'm the
fuliBess of his glory. For those
who have fallen ON the field of
battle Heaven reserves its fairest
dwellings. Happy those who were
called away just at the moment
when they were fulfilling a holy
duty. The dying soldier stands
next Ian merit to the dying mar
tyr"
Then 1 am to be glad that
mo, not to be glad, that would
be asking too much, but to bear
your lot with humble resignation.
IL is a probation that Heaven
sends you, and from which you
should emerge purified and
strengthened in faith"
80, in order that I might be
tried and purified, Arno had
To-
mo, not on that account. But
who dare seek to sound the hid
den ways of Providence? Not I
at least"
Although such objections al
ways would rise in me against
Aunt Mary's consolation, yet in
the depths of my heart / readily
fell In with the mystical assump-
ton that my glorified one was
now enjoying In Heaven the re-
ward of his death of sacrifice.
and that his memory on earth
was adorned with the eternal
glory of sainthood.
About fourteen days later than
the news of the defeat of Softer
inc came the news of the signing
of the preliminaries of peace at
Villafranca.
My father took all the pains
possible to explain to me that for
political reasons IL was a matter
of pressing necessity to conclude
this peace, which / assured him
that 1t seemed to me joyful news
anyhow that this fighting and
dying should come to an end.
-Four years later, my two sis
ters, now seventeen and eighteen
years old, we're to be presented at
court. On this occasion l deter
mined that 1 would also again ego
into society"
The time which had elapsed
had done its work, and gradually
mitigated my pain. Despair
ehanged>into mourning. mourning
into sorrow, sorrow into indiffer-
ence. and even this at last into
renewed pleasure in life.
woke one fine morning to the
conviction that l really was in an
enviable condition, and one that
promised happiness. Twenty
three years old, beautiful. rich,
high-born, free, the mother of a
darling child, a member of an af-
fectionate family-was not all
this enough to make my life
pleasant
The short year of my married
life lay behind me like a dream.
No doubt I had been desperately
in love with my handsome hussar'
no doubt my loving husband
had made me very happy-noI
doubt the parting had caused me
grievous pain and his loss wild
agony but that was all over
Overt My love had assuredly
never grown so closely into the
whole existence of my soul that
I could never have survived fts
uprootine, never have lost the
pain OF 10; our life together had
been too short for that.
We had adored each other like
q pair of ardent lovers; but to
have entered into each other,
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