The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-18
Woman on a Pedestal.

Woman is the strongest moral
force on earth and the helm of all
things human.
She is the mother of all living
hers are the sacred dead.
She is the most relevant thing in
nature. She is as sunshine on
holiday, Balm O. Gilead, strength in
weakness.
She is as a full moon in harvest,
prepetually recurring comfort and
consolation; as cold water to a
thirsty soul and as the shadow OF
great rock in a weary land.
She is a rod anu staff, friend
that sticketh closer than brother,
the eternal feminine that draws men
by single hair.
The words of her mouth are sweet
er than honey and smoother than
butter in a lordly dish; she is a
heaven-born apparition, sent to be
an earth-worn ornament-a help
meet given that men may know what
God in woman can bestow.
She is all things to all men-Lots
wife, Miriam with her harp, Ruth in
the cornfield, Rebecca at the we'll,
Hagar in the desert, Mary at the
,sepulchre. She is Cleopatra, Helen,
Boadicea. Lucretia, Borgia, Florence
Nightingale, Mother Bickerdyke,
Grace Darling, Jenny Geddes, Annie
Laurie, Bonnie Jean, Victoria Queen
and Empress, the Red Virgin of the
Commune, Emmeline Pankhurst.
She is heaven and hell incarnated.
Her love is eternal, her hate is i'm
mortal, her instinct passes the Wis
dom of men, her reason the wit OF
sages, her counsel is as the counsel
of princes.
She is fair as the moon, clear as
the sun, terrible as any army with
banners, and like dew on the gowan,
is the ia O. her fair feet.
Thrones, dominions, principalitles
and powers have bowed to her sway
she has crushed empires beneath her
feet, the proudest of the sons of men
have craved life at her hands.
She suffers long and is kind; she
suffers briefly and is cruel. She en-
vies not: she is filled with jealousy.
She vaunts not herself; she displays
her charms. She is not puffed up;
she cackles. She does not behave
urseemingly; she behaves herself un-
becomingly. She seeks not her own;
she fights to the death for that which
is hers. She thinks no evil; she sus-
poets the circumspect. She rejoices
not in iniquity; she finds JUNCTION in
scandal. She rejoices in the truth;
she is the high priestess Of evasion.
She bears all things, she believes all
things. She hopes all things; she
never fails.
She is strenuous and dilatory,
strong and weak. resolute and ire
! solute, determined and vacillatlng,
earnest and unearnest, vigorous and
debile, ardent and cold, bold and
fearful and energetic and feeble,
vehement and emasculate.
She is love and hate, affection
and hatred, attachment and dislike,
passion and ice, devotion and
estrangement, benevolence and un-
kindness, charity and uncharitable-
ness, kindness and malice.
She is loyalty and insurgency. fidel-
ity and unfaithfulness, allegiance
and treason, obedience and rebel
lion, constancy and INCONSISTENCY,
truth and falsity.
In the first blush of motherhood
she is the envied of gods and all
angels: she is a thing Of divine beau
tv as she cuddles to her breast her
frstborn to be a Christ. or crimi-
nal: a Judas, or Justus: Cassius.
or a Caesar: a Booth, or a Lincoln.
To be a Moses, or a Machiavelli; a
Goliath or a David: a Burns or a
bibbler: a Cagliostro, or Chitchton
Shakespeare, or a suffragist; a