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Vague as vapor and fierce as flame
Out of the sea a vision came;
A vision grim, upon whose lips
There hung the shadow of eclipse!
A little, by the turbid tide
I looked upon it mystified,
And then, from out its cloudy cloak
The doom-declaring specter spoke:
“Sirens sow—sons reap;
E’arth will not the secret keep.
Sin is dead,
And flesh is heir
And so is bred
The world’s despair.
“Sires brew —Sons drink —
Stroke by stroke, and link by link;
So the mystic coil is wound
So our luckless limbs are bound.
Sin is sped,
And flesh is heir
And so is fed
The world’s despair.”
“Sires seek and sons find
For Nemesis is never blind;
Hate will scowl and murder grow,
And readily wax the work of woe.
Sin is sped
And flesh is heir
And so is wrought
The world’s despair.”
“Blows fall and wounds bleed,
Feuds wax and quarrels breed;
After having crossed the Atlantic
thirty-eight times, and after having vis
ited the best of the European coun
tries again and again, I am prepared to
say that so far as I know there is no
other nation in the world where the
men have as a rule so universally re
spected, protected, and defended, wo
manhood as In the United States of
America. -3 a woman can go out
alone at hour of the day, and al
most any hour of the night, unattend
ed, and pretty much every man she
meets is her protector and defender.
In Europe it is not so; instead of re
specting, protecting, and defending,
the more general spirit is one of mak
ing a prey of woman, and of woman
hood. The difference is perceptible
to any woman who travels. In America
she feels safe; in Europe the condi
tions which she finds everywhere make
her apprehensive. She must always
bear in mind that the little kindnesses
which are shown her upon steamboat,
railway train, upon the street, and
everywhere, are respectful and sincere.
In Europe she is constantly made to
feel that any attentions from men
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The World’s Despair
By ARTHUR GOODENOUGH.
American Manhood
By Sylvanus Stall, D. D.
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Vice rules and virtue serves;
Shame feasts and honor starves!
Sin is seed;
And sorrow fruit;
And never more
The past is wrote.”
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Thirst burn; tears quench;
Hopes shine but sorrows drench;
Joys go—but griefs remain
Pleasures pass, but not the pain.
Sin is sped
And flesh is heir
And so is bred
The world’s despair.”
Youth dreams, Age dies;
Fate contends and Death replies.
“Tooth for tooth and eye for eye”—
This is natures stern reply.
Wantons waste
And Vandals share
And so is traced
The world’s edspair.”
Strive knaves: —toil fools!
Manmor reigns and Moloch rules:
Truth is veiled and God is strange
But evil doth itself avenge!
Sin is sped
And flesh is heir,
And so is bred
The world’s despair.
whom she meets while traveling are
sinister, insincere, and only intended
to entrap her.
The influences which are at work in
America today in matters of dress, the
form of the dance, the influence of the
theatre, is to break down the splendid
manhood which has characterized the
United States. The tendency is to de
base womanhood and make her un
worthy of the respect which American
men have always been wont to show
her.
Unless a radical change is made in
these matters, not only our woman
hood, but our manhood, ond our nation
as well, must fall to the level of those
nations which are characterized by
the vices which corrupted, degraded,
and despoiled the nations which were
once great, but have passed into decay.
The declaration of the Scripture is as
true today as it was when it was writ
ten, “righteousness exalteth a nation,
sin is a reproach to any people.”
THE WORK OF THE WOMEN.
Let me tell you what women did in
the country in two years. One had
taught in one of the foremost colleges
for ten years and had lost all nerve
force and when she was advised to
seek the “open spaces” for quiet and
a complete change of work she felt
that she could not leave the college
and the lyceum and the university and
the atmosphere of culture in which
she had existed for many years and
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consideration and is making money
rapidly with fruits and poultry and
plants. Her green house sends some
of th'J loveliest and highest priced
flowers to the cities and her fruits
and fowls are in demand for the tables
of the rich.
This woman had some money to be
gin with and so the way was not so
difficult for her as for the other I am
to tell you about who had not a cent
and no influence and no strength and
just a graded school education. It
is wonderful the amount of work this
one accomplished and all the things
she did with some worn out gullies, a
few hens and some bulletins from the
Agricultural Experiment Station. She
has a home now and has given a home
to her young sister worn out with
clerking in a crowded store where
there was constant standing and hard
lifting and high reaching, and the
home is pretty and clean.
There are no picture shows conven
ient and no lighted streets but these
sisters are of the deeper kind who
long for the “reals” of a higher life
rather than the tinsel and glitter of
an. emptiness that leaves a bitter taste
that nothing can remove. Let’s be
fair to our country and to our people
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magazines long articles that lead the
world to believe that we are crowd
ing our people into unwholesome
places and congesting them into un
desirable conditions, we are not re
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one is compelled to accept these wages
as no one could be kept a minute
where he or she does not wish to stay.
Nothing is compulsory and all the girls
who are being so pitied and written
about and talked about and lectured
about are not tied to the shops and
factories and crowded stores. They
could leave any day and any hour they
wished to leave and find clean and
good homes and plenty to eat and to
wear and to do in the clean uncrowd
ed country—in the open spaces—in
the pure air of the trees and shrubs
where there is no glow of electrics and
no sound of the piano players and no
gleams of light from the alluring shop
windows. Be sure that the girls are
not to blame for clinging to the lure
of the city lights before you pity them
too much and spend too much money
trying to imd out why they will stay
in crowded places and submit to poor
wages.
Tessa Willingham Roddy,
Wiggins, Miss.
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