Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1917 — The One Woman. [ARTICLE]

The One Woman.

We’ve toasted all manners of women. We’ve pledged them, the old and the young, Since days of the gallant knight erranta All womanhood’s praises we’ve sung; , We’ve pledged them for love and for duty, For trust and a faith near divine — We’ve held high our glasses and pledged - them }n our first and last bumpers of wine; But -somehow, In zeal for their beauty. Fond eyes and their lily white hands, We’ve overlooked one in our pledging— The Woman Who Understands. Our poor limitations 'and uses. She knows them far better than we— She bravely accepts our excuses, And motives refuses to see; She overlooks all of our errors. The things we don’t do that we should, And knows, like ourselves, we’d be better And worthier men if we could; In the end, when our errors confront us. She soothes us with comforting hands. And erases the penance—God bless her! — The Woman Who Understands. ' —John D. Wells in Buffalo News.