Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1910 — THE AGE OF CHIVALRY. [ARTICLE]

THE AGE OF CHIVALRY.

At the World’s Columbian Exposition, conspicuously placed in the beautiful Court of Honor, rose a fountain representing the ship of state, on which Columbia rode in majesty, with Fame before her. On each side four female figures, symbolic of the arts, sciences and commerce, bent gracefully to the oars, seeming actually to impart a foreward to Columbia’s barge. An old 1 lady, waiting for her party to come up, was one day seen gazing earnestly at the fountain; but the ad--miration it was wont to stir in the spectator was lacking in this case. Her indignation finally burst bounds, and she turned to a stranger sitting near. “Do you s’pose,” she demanded, “that they reely did make women do that kind of work —in them days?” However one’s sympathies may turn, in regard to the suffragists and the “antis,” there can be no reasonable doubt that this is the day and America is the country of and for the women. The demand of the ladies themselves for exemption from the severer tasks imposed upon their sex—“in them days”—is paralleled by the deep-seated determination among them to accord them the privileges and the honors. A small boy, a member of whose family is connected with the army, recently visited New York. As military affairs are as the breath of life to this youngster, his cousins, taking him to Central Park one day, naturally called his attention to the SaintGaudens equestrian staue of General Sherman, at the Plaza entrance to the park. Before the general’s splendid charger steps the proud figure of Victory. The boy stood silent, although reddening cheeks and flashing eyes showed that he was moved deeply. But in this case also the emotion was not admiration, “I don’t believe he was much of a soldier!” he finally exclaimed, indignantly. “Why didn’t he get off that horse And let the lady ride?”