Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-02-26

patton in the community has mad
US optimlsts in spite OF ourselves.
Eut now and then We Of this coun
! Try newspaper office take note o
some exceptional person-some eX
ccptional struggle-some exception
al >uccess-cNpericnccd by SOMEONE
in cur village, it being the nature OF
cur business 10 note suck things. We
are forced to recognize that some OF
Us have been more successful thar
others. Occasionally there comes 8
Gaze where someone has done almost
the impossible thing, made the almost
thurman sacrifice, achieved the u
nc t improbable attainment. And
;hctc rare folk stand out in the high
light in a life that is sometimes very
.ull Of shadows and hcartachc.
Strange to relate, if we were To
ca n!o%uc and biographzc some OF
n SO, wo would be forced to rccoG-
mir Shat the majority Of them have
been women. What is more, judged
by conventional standards, they have
been quite average women. Some of
til III have come to our attention by
h daily new grist llitterinG through
ou' office for publication. Many Of
th'r1 have worked for US. AnG-wc
piro credit where it is duc--somc Of
tn N have married US, married these
~" mary, agarnvating, procraatina-
tir~, bcwhiskcrcd males who arc res;-
0 laihlc for this newspapers.
20 it has come to us that il would
10 be out of place or character with
;H function We are supposed 20 fill
il thi, community, to peak OF the
70 l;cvnmcn's. Of those in Il larger way
th!n our paper warrants, that th"T
may become as much Of an incentive
% those in the great world out side
# our valley IL they have been ~
Ii 35c within.
''or after all. ordinary. STRUGGLING
curious, hopeful, Disconnected, AM
or can folks arc not half so much
he bed on thorca"thlV way by preach
m"nt or prcccpt rs by the exposition
of others of their kind who have bccn
It Hng where they have been weak,
'V',2 have succeeded where they have
failed. There are giants iii the earth
in these dayS-and men and women
+ rcno~n But probe behind their
m; raj stature and popular rcnown,
an YOU discover the simple tale Of
Sonc plain man or woman who has
-. prlcd with the same problems
Il, confront millions of other ordinary
w kin" folk and solved them stccc.:s;-
~ IL. They have IGNORED the iEh"-
fn'n heights of their Gol@othns and
iii nbed doGgcdly, uncomplainingly
". i their crosses.
II is with these thoughts in mind,
in this setting and this atmosphere,
TO- these rcasons-that sit here be-
foe this old exchange table and be-
II the story of 81 woman's life.
''hc story of Mary Wood, to us in
his newspaper Office, is the frnil. de-
ic &c, beautiful little history of the
90 of girl for y man and for the
'0A.3 of that man which that girl bore (;
!iN. Yet somehow, o.; we grow older
IN 20 down the hill Of life and see
h, now children coming up and the
N"rria%cs taking place and watch tho
ri nds and loved ones and acquain-
aces dropping by the wayside-the
tory of little Mary Wood resolves
t. If into Il culogy Of the lives Of all /
'o3d women everywhere. And the :
reward in the telling is that
II good women everywhere may
now while yet on this side the Val
ny Of Shadows that we menfolk-
While often thouohtlcss and prcoccu-
icl with other things--do not Away:
." ct nor fail to appreciate.