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To Dolores.
(Th* following lines are a variation of an old ni*c«
nrraaged especially for yon.) ° p,ece
I meet you in the crowded street.
My love no sweet and rare,
And jealous, watch the sunbeams D lav
About your amber hair, 7
You are the flower of womanhood.
Beyond all others fair;
Youth and love shine in your eyes,
And crown your amber hair.
me kj w ith winsome grace,
With grave and modest air;
You love me not, but I love you.
My love with amber hair.
8W f et ’ co y, you love not me,
Nor dream that I so care;
Yet, doth my heart lie’neath your feet
My lass with amber hair.
THE BETSEY CARTER PAPERS.
THE NEW WOMAN’S LEAGUE.
BY BETSEY CARTER.
T homas Jefferson car
ter came in the other day,
and he wuz rather warm.
Something had gone wrong with
him and I knew it the minute
he entered the door. He took a
seat in front of the fire, snatched up a news
paper, and commenced readin’. I remarked
to him:
“Thomas Jefferson, you seem flurried to
day what be a ailing of you?” and sez he in
quick tones : -
“Enough be the matter,” and from his
frosty accents I come to the conclusion he
had met with some political disappointment.
Now, Thomas Jefferson is a great politi
cian, and is always dabbling in politics where
it don’t concern him. At the present time
he is greatly agitated over the financial
question of the day, and takes it onto hisself
to speak in public whenever there is to be a
meetin’, and I didn’t care to get him started
on the issues of the day, so I just said, in
a cool sort of way:
“Three of the children needs new shoes,
Sarah Jane is bound to have a new dress, and
Matilda will have to have a cloak for it’s too
cold for her to wear last winter’s shawl, and
Johnnie be oblige to have—”
“What in thunder next? You wimen folks
never know when to stop spendin’ money.”
Just then I heard a knock and I went to see
who it was. There stood old sister Green. I
howl^y^h^J^i^J^en there a-
h'stenin’ m what^^^hadYbeen a-sayin', but
she smiled, and said howiglad she wuz to
see me. I axed her in r£y settin’ room and
called Johnnie to make a fire. She insisted
that it wuz unnecessary, as she only had a
few minutes to stay, but I knowed how she
would go over to sister Smith’s, and tell
her how she come mighty nigh freezin’, and
she knowed she would be laid up a month
with rheumatic, because I wuz too stingy to
have a fire lit, so I made John fix one. She
seated herself, drew her shawl a little closer
around her, and remarked that she thought
we’d have snow afore night set in, and then
she drawed her chair a little nearer the fire,
and sez she:
“Sister Carter, I come on a little errant of
business; you see we wimmen folks have
been a-readin’ about the ‘new woman’—”
“Whose she?” I inquired. “Is that the
Miss Jones who has lately come to town?”
“Oh, no,” sez old sister Green, in much
surprise. “You mistake my meaning, it’s a
new organization, for the protection of wim
men.”
“But,” sez I, “they don’t need wimmen
to protect ’em, they’ve got their husbands to
do that; now, there’s Thomas Jefferson Car
ter, he wouldn’t let nobody so much as say a
snappish word to me without takin’ ’em up
’bout it.”
“Oh, yes, sister Carter, I know all about
that, but we are goin’ to organize a kind of
society called the ‘New Woman’s League,’
and want all the wimmen members we can
get. Now the import of the league is to give
woman her full legal rights, rights to vote.”
“To do what, sister Green? To vote I why
the very idee of wimmen votin’, when they
have got man pardner to vote. Now wouldn’t
it look for me to go marching up to the
poles, along side of Thomas Jefferson Carter,
and a axin’ of him who to vote for,—why,
the very idee is redicerlous. ”
“No, sister Carter, wait until I explain
matters. Now, for five thousand years man,
that voracious beast, has been a havin’ things
their own way, a-runnin’ the government, a-
makin’ laws, and a carryin’ things at a high
hand generally—yes, for these last five thou
sand years.”
“And,” sez I, “I hope they’ll be a-run ,
nin* it for the next five thousand, that is, if
we expect to have anything in decent shape
of the governmental affairs.”
Sister Green waxed a little angry, but she
kept it to herself and continued:
“As I have said, they have had their term
and now it’s our turn. With advancement
the sunny south.
of civilization, woman has been cornin’ to
the front, and been makin’ rapid strides in
progress.”
“She had to advance a little to kinder keep
with the men folks in their rapid progress,”
I remarked.
“But, sister Carter,” sez she, “you don’t
look on woman in the right light. She has
been edicated more in recent years, more
even than the men folks, she has her reason
in’ powers well developed, she is logical,
and has a right to be in the law-makin’ bodies
of the country—to be man’s equal in every
respect.”
Yes,” added I, “and if they were in the
law-makin’ bodies they’d soon be in a wran
gle over the set of a feather in some sis
ter’s bonnet, and then one sister would go off
and commence saying hateful things about
some other sister, and then they would all
get into a general fuss, and the men folks
would have to come in and part ’em. And if
war wuz declared against any other country,
do you suppose any of these old sisters, what
goes around a back-bitin’ of their neighbors in
private and a-speakin’ for thffir rights in pub
lic, do you suppose any of them would be
willin’ to shoulder a gun, and go marching
along side of the men folks to the battles ?
How mahy do you suppose would go? Not
one, they would all find some work to do at
home that couldn’t wait another minute.”
“Oh, sister Carter, pray do not abuse
woman in that way, just think of what they
have had to endure, and to put up with !”
p “And, also, think, sister Green, just think
of what the men have had to put up with the
wimmen, its’ a wonder to me how some of
’em keep in their right senses.”
Sister Green commenced gettin’ mad. Sez
she:
“I see you are determined to run down
your own sex, sister Carter, and it’s use in
agryfying with you. Now, so many of the
wimmen have listened to reasonin’, and
joined the new league. They want to help
their sister wimmen, who are in a ditch and
under the very bans of slavery.”
I remarked that I hadn’t heard anything
about anybody bein’ in a ditch, and as for
slavery, there hadn’t been any in this country
since the war. She wuz mad, but she said,
in a cool sort of way:
“Well, sister Carter, I should ^think any
woman, with a husband and seven children
would, for her own benefit, want to join
some kind of an organization like ours, to set
her children a good example, and to show her
husband she wasn’t afraid of him.”
I didn’t like the way she wuz a-talkin’, so
I up and said: “Sister G A reen, me and Thomas
Jefferson Carter have been a pullin’ in the
same harness for the last fifteen years, and
we’re too used to pullin’ the same way for one
of us to go canterin’ off in another direction
now, and as for the children, I suppose we’re
bringin’ ’em up about as well as most people
would.”
She calmly added:
“Sister Carter, everybody hasn’t got a hus
band like yours, and don’t you think you can
do something to aid those poor unfortunate
wimmen who do not get along with their
‘worser’ halves.”
“Well,” sez I, “it wan’t mo fault, that
they didn’t get a man, like my Thomas Jeffer
son, and I can’t see why my joinin’ the
club would do them any good.
“Now to come down to a practical point,
sister Carter, you know that by you stayin’
out of our club, you will make your husband
very unpopular, and he will have no show at
all in the next election. Think of it, of
bringin’ ruin in your own family by not
joinin.’ ”
Sez I calmly:
“If Thomas Jefferson’s poperlarity is a de
pendin’ on his wife a-joinin’ in a league,
which sez the wimmen will have to make the
men folks’ places, I guess he would just as
leave I’d stay out.”
“Well, I see you are sot on stayin’ out,
but I’ll just tell you one thing you’ve missed,
sister Carter, and that is our new library.
We are going to accumulate all books written
by wimmen, what wimmen have done, and
invented, and all about them generally. But
we are not goin’ to have a single line from a
man, no not even one single book.”
I asked, in a simple sort of way:
“Are you goin* to have a Bible?”
“Oh, yes,” sez she. “The New Woman’s
Bible.”
“But,” sez I, “how are you goin’ to get
around that part of it that sez, ‘Woe be unto
him that takes from or adds to the scripters ?’ ”
Old sister Green was mad, and she couldn’t
keep it to herself so she just bounced up and
left the house in high dudgeon.
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Influence of the Mind Over Disease. .
The lengths to which mind-curists and
faith-curists have gone in advocacy of their
special methods, to the exclusion of all other
modes of treatment, have caused many per
sons to look askance at all assertions regard
ing the influence of the mind over bodily
functions and processes, yet no physiological
fact is better established than the existence of
such an influence. Regarding some phases of
it, Modern Medicine (February) has the fol
lowing to say, editorially, its remarks being
suggested by an address made recently by Dr.
T. S. Clouston before the Royal Medical
Society, of Edinburgh, Scotland. We quote
a few paragraphs below :
“Every bodily organ and function is repre
sented in the cortex of the brain, by means
of which all are harmonized and unified.
Each neuron, with its hundreds of fibers and
its thousands of dendrites, has relation to
some particular part and function, and is
connected not only with all other neurons
but, directly or indirectly, with multitudes
of other similar structures which help to
form the brain. Every function of the body
—laughing, talking, weeping, digestion,
sweating, etc.—is affected through the in
fluence of the brain cortex. . . .
“The evidence that the brain cortex regu
lates absorption, secretion, vascular tone, as
well as the various tissues, changes, and other
activities of the body, is complete. Sores in
melancholic persons will not heal. In cases
of lung disease in idiots and imbeciles, there
is so little resisting power against the tuber
cular bacillus that two thirds of them die
of consumption. Sir Samuel Baker noted that
grief or hunger is nearly always followed by
fever in certain parts of Africa. When in
Mexico two years ago, we found that quite
a proportion of chronic invalids attributed
their illness to getting angry, a fit of anger
in that country being usually followed by a
severe illness. Death occurs in many cases,
not so much because of disease as because of
the diminished resisting mental and nervous
force which opposes it. A bad memory and
an attack of eczema in a man of seventy-five
may be due to the same cause. A cheerful
and buoyant mind, as well as a sound brain,
is all-important in both the prevention and
the healing of disease.
“Blisters have been caused by suggestions
during hypnotic conditions . . . Warts have
been charmed away, gout swellings have dis
appeared at the cry of a *mad-dog’ or ‘fire.’
These are extraordinary examples of an action
just as real, though less patent, of the influ
ence which the brain is continually exercis
ing upon other portions of the body.
“Most diseases are aggravated at night
when the brain is least active. Most convul
sive attacks occur at that time. ‘What man’s
courage is as great at three in the morning
as at midday? What man’s judgment is a
clear then?’ ‘Hallucinations, as well as
fears, are most apt to appear at night.’ ‘To
check many diseases, we can not employ bet
ter therapeutics than to strengthen the cortex,
and thus strengthen the mental energy.’ ‘To
this end, the first thing the good doctor does
is to inspire confidence in his patient.’ Dr.
Clouston thus presents a good foundation for
a scientific mind-cure which some ingenious
therapeutist will doubtless some day work out
in detail.”
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