Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-06-09
!, York and Philadelphia
By Mrs. J. L. Minis.

toOksa boat out in the Harbor, which
was scheduled for Bedlows Island on
which the great Statue of Liberty
stands. The boat was filled with peo-
Pile having the same object in view,
in "a few minutes, Liberty enlight-
ening the World" was silhouetted
against the blue sky and reflected in
the e;EbIue water. We ascended the
statne part of the way by wind
| ing. stair and up to the figure in an
eleyator, where the rest of the as
cent must be made up narrow
winding stair to the height of 160
feet, We compromised here and
viewed the New York Harbor and
hegcity from the half way station.
This sonnet is engraved on a tab
let. in the statue as memorial to a
New York woman who wrote it:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek
fame,
With conquer:ng limbs astride from
land to land;
Here at our sea-washed sunset gates
shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose
flame
In the imprisoned lightning, and her
name
Mother of exile, from her beacon
hand
CLOVIS worldwide welcome; her mild
eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin
cities frame.
|,sKeep ancient lands, storied pomp"
Cries she with Silent lips, "Give me
your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses 'yearning to
breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teem-
s ing shore,
Send these, The homeless, tempest
tossed, TO me,
Lift my lamp beside the golden
door.
ss aehea I 4, began to
: l4Issa, lEsssbt nv pliiygical ability to pesse.
we're to the end of my Monday pro
gramme, but as the tickets had been
bought, we went to the Cart Thea
tre to see the famous play abraham
Lincoln The fact that staid awake
and enjoyed the play to its wonderful
but tragic ending when Lincoln's as
sassination was seen on the stage,
was one proof of it's power. ! am not
a connoisseur of plays, nor am l OF
ANYTHING, as for that matter, may
know a good baked potato when l see
it or a good corn muffin, and l can
enjoy good things as much as any
body if it is thrust upon me, but some
how my conscience and I best agree
when / do not indulge too much in
the pleasures of the world and / am
led to believe more strongly every
day / live that Christians should
eliminate more and more from their
lives the frivolities of fashion and
self indulgence. However, it did fall
to my lot to see in Boston two of the
worlds most Janus latter day actors,
Walter Hampden in "Romeo and Ju-
liet' and Robert Mantel in "Riche-
lieu," but the play "Abraham Lin
coln,' was the best / have ever seen.
We were strangers in a strange
land, though at home anywhere IN
America. No one knew US as we sat
among these devotees of Abraham
Lincoln, none the wiser as the throng
ed the vast theatre that two rebels
from the famous secession state OF
South Carolina sat there to see them
revel in this admiration of their hero
and stand aghast at his tragic fate.
They cheered and applauded to their
hearts content. We did not cneer ;ior
applaude. We could not but sit 81
lent, because while the North has
always been taught to idealize Abra-
ham Lincoln, we haS ,een taught TO
hate him. AS l looked on this ideal
lied Abraham Lincoln thus produced
in play by man who was not even
an American of the North or South,
but an Englishman. wondered If
concealed behind the idealistic per-
sonifcation of him, and hidden in
the shadow there really could have
been in reality the type of man we
had been taught he must be, and