Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1896 — Page 2

BAB'S LETTER.

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[Copyright, 1896.] NEW YORK, March 3,1896.

In the description giten of the tragic death of a well-known man, who bad gone away from bis home because he was ill, there occurs this line—which may be true or nntrne—"His wife would have been with him, but her social duties prevented her." Her social duties! What is the world coming tot Are the social duties of a woman to rise superior to her duty and her devotion to her husband? Shall your social duties, or my social duties, make us the less loving, the less quick to recognize that which is really right, or that which a woman should doT Of how much worth is society when put in the balance against true love? There fell on the newspapers as I read this, a little valentine sent me by a child lover, and below the flaming heart and the smiling Cupid, were the words, 'Tis love that makes the world go round." Is it? Or is it one's social duties? Did the wonderful women of the past, who gave their lives, not by merely dying, but by living from day to day in such a way that life was daily death—did these women consider their social duties as most important, or did they belive that it was love that made the world go round? Think of all the great women in history—think of all the women of tradition—think of all the women of Biblical lore, and be sure it was love of God or man that ruled them, and not their sooial duties.

BAB UPHOLDS MOTHERS IN-LAW.

Do you suppose that when Ruth clung to her mother-in-law, claiming that "Thy people shall be my people, thy God my God," it was becaueeshe thought it asocial duty or was It a reflection of the love she bore her husband, of the duty she felt she owed blm, and which made her help the wom iu who bore his name and needed her help? The comic papers and the vulgar people laugh and jest about mothers ia-law—It always seems to me a dreadful thing. A woman wins the Jove of your son—the pride of your heart—the obild that has been eared for by you through long illnesses, possibly nursed back by you when close to death, and to whom you taught everything that was beautiful and noble. Beeause of this new love, shall he love you any the less? And shall not the woman to whom be has given the strongest love of his life, and who feels honored by bearing his name, shall not this woman give lo you who bore him and oared so muoh for him, a great love, an enduring love, a love not governed by the law, but by the heart and its rules? Think it all over. Haven't you known mothers-in-law who were veiitable refuges in distress? I sometimes wonder if a woman ever thinks of her son when she is dls agreeable to the mother of her husband. My friend, even in this world, the law of compensation holds good, and as you treat the mother of your husband, so your husband, so your daughter-in-law will treat you. If you find that your social duties are too threat to allow you to consider the woman who Is the mother of your husband, you can look into the future and you will see that to you will oome just such treat me ut from the one who wins the heart of that son who, to day, is nothing but a baby boy. I despise those so-called mother-in-law jokes, and I oanuot imagine how a woman with either heart or brain can smile at them.

DUTY AND SOCIETY.

But that wasn't the text of my sermon —for I am moved to sermonize a bit today. Suppose the sooial duties of the two Marys had kept them from arising early that mornlng-*-would they have met the angel at the tomb? Suppose his aooial duties had kept Christ so busy that He could pay no attention to the poor and the blind, and th# slok of body and the sick of soul? What would have happened thau? My friend, did you ever try to think out what your social duties were?" Plainly put, they are simply what you owe to the soolety in whioh you live. But sometimes, I thinki they go further than that, and the soolety lu whioh we really live Is that In which love reigns, and no other soolety can demand a duty from us. Women are wonderfully true to the demands of the heart, but sometimes there oomes a curious, a tneao ambition. It is to be at the head of a gossiping, frittering, silly set who are friends, dear friends in prosperity, and who are indifferent -when Borrow oomes unless that sorrow Is draped In the most expensive crape and lived down aooording to the rules of etiquette, to burst out at the proper time in a great gladness and in overwhelming merriment. The soolety, it is true, Is made of men and women men and women with hearts, but hearts so well oovered with aooial draperies that, ex oept In a physloal way, they scarcely know how to beat. I don't know whether

It is for good 6r for ill that In the aooial world you and I and our neighbor wear the conventional mask—we teach ourselves to smile when oar hearts aohe we teaoh ourselves to overlook negleot

WHBIf WB ARB IN TROUBLB,

because It is wise to be on good terms with the aooial rulers we throw oarsolves down before the sooial oar of Jag gernaat, and are rolled over, crushed, wounded, hart, and we rise up with a smile.

Bat always somebody Is misjudged by soolety. Yesterday it was a woman, who, throwing back the great crape veil that soolety ordered she should wear, claimed her right to God Almighty's sunshine and hope. The day before It was a woman seen coming oat of a pawnshop—the looker-oo told the story, and soolety made ap Its mind that aha had pawned her jewols to pay her dressmaker's bill, whereas In truth they had been put there to get the monay to bury the dead. The day before that it waa a

girl—society criticised her because It said she affected religion—she knelt so many hours in church—and the truth was that the church was warm, and her tiny room in the fashionable boardinghouse was cold and cheerless. And she had not the courage to go where life was simpler and more comfortable, because she feared society, and because she believed she must live up to her social duties. Another day, it Is a man, and somebody laughs because he always seems so hungry at a dinner or supper— he will not work, and the pittance that comes to him monthly barely pays for his fashionable clothes and a room In a well known apartment house. Do yon wonder that he is hungry? Andheisn't just one there are hundreds like him. And there is another. No word is too vile for him now, and yet there was a day when he was truthful, honorable and a gentleman. Bat he felt the demands of society. He thought his social duties of most importance, and noc having money enough to live as he wished, he managed to get, nobody knows how, letters that compromised first this woman, then that woman, and then another woman, so always there was somebody to pay blm to keep from making those letters public. And he is A PROMINENT GUEST AT SMART DINNERS, and he is a favorite on yachting parties, and he is spoken of as being "so liked by all the women." Nobody thinks to say so feared. And yet, it was because he felt be must pay what he owed to Bociety by appearing well-dressed, and living like a lily of the field that, from being a gentleman by birth and education, he became a blackguard.

And there Is another, a woman, bright, piquante, perhaps a bit sarcastic but then men laugh, and say that probably she would have softened if she had married and the man who takes her out to dinner, doesn't dream that her beautiful fan Is paid for by a scurrilous story written against her hostess that her gown was presented to her by a woman to whom she wrote this note, "My Dear Dolly: I have just heard the story of your visit to Nice. It is most interesting. I am sure you would hate to have it get Into print. Would you kindly let me have, by bearer, a couple of hundred dollars? I will pay you when my rente oome in next month.—Lovingly yours, Maggie." A threat? Oh, no. But the woman who got that note oould read between the lines, and she knew, unless she sent that two hundred dollars, that story of her escapade, which was not really bad, only compromising, would be published in a so-called society paper, so slightly disguised that everybody would recognize the heroine. How do women reach this depth? From an over-weaning desire to pay proper attention to their social duties. To suoh women it Is hard to deollne an invitatlonj because a proper gown is not possessed, because new gloves cannot be gotten, or because the money for a cab is not at hand, and they stain their oharaoters and blacken their souls, and think, they are no worse than anybody else, because they never err from a sooial standpoint.

AT YOUR HUSBAND'S SIDE.

There is auother woman, a beautiful woman, a woman fond of society, but one who has vowed to love and honor a man who has become an invalid. She thinks her duty is done when she knows that be has good dootors and good nurses she goes in to show him how she looks before she starts to the danoe, or the dinner, or whatever it may be, and she drops a kiss lightly on his forehead and ssys, "Good night you will be In bed before I am baok." And away she goes. Soolety gives her the right to do this society counts her as among its deooratlons, and demands her. But what about the man 111 and lonely at home? What are trained nurses to him? It is true they may know how to attend to his physical wants better than the wife he loves, but be sure that be longs for her presence he longs for her womanly words, and be longs for what he has a right to demand—the presence of his wife. Women need not speak or aot to tell of a loving devotion, when there are nurses and dootors it is the being there only that is wanted it is the knowledge that to somebody this sick man is more than all tue world, an'd that he oomes before the duties of society.

LOVE LIKE STERLING GOLD.

And the little valentine says, Tis love that makes the world go round." And it means not jast to-day, but yesterday, to-day and forever. It. means that finest of all loves—the love which forgets self, and which is worth, well, it is worth all that there Is in the world, and it means all there is in the world to oome. I do not mean by this the love whioh finds its best expression in continual oareeses, in oontlnual words of love, bat I mean the lore that works always in one way or the other, the love that denies Itself something for dear love's sake, the love thatoan end are and keep qaiet. I have never been muoh of a believer In the love that told of itself continually in words. Bat there are those who think this love the finest. Think of a woman who knew that death was only a matter of a few months! yet who, daring that time, made herself lovely in appearanoe, oharming In manner, and never once let the man she loved know that that moat dreadful of all things, a cancer, was eating away her life. She died looking pretty. Thorn months when she suffered had been months, not of life bat of death, bat at the last sheoould say again, "I love you," and she knew that daring that time she had created a strong love that would make all ths world better for her parpose. It does, my friend, It does. Then can be no great love without this world gaining from it. The man who lovea a woman wall will respect and be gentle with all other woman for bar saka. The man who loves a woman who has shown to hlca how beaatlful Is an nnselfish

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love, how beautiful it is to chink of others first, to care tor others most, and to remember those who suffer, has preached a sermon in her life greater than any that ever came from the pulpit. Men, as a general thing, are not prone to speak of their lovea—when they are great —but they are influenced by them, *and he who is hard of heart will suddenly one day find herself growing tender for a woman's sake. He who is stei\in judgment will discover mercy he has loved well, and he who saw fa ing but that which was dark and glo^gi will grow hopeless because a wotgd bids him to, and believe in a future dj[ she earnestly asks him to, because their love will be consummated inA finest way.

SENTIMENTAL? ALWAYS

And always when I say that there ooi|F back to me the one line in a play?, there were more women whose were full of sentiment, there woal^| fewer unhappy men." All the *r®\,ca jj, noble actions in this world havi prompted by sentiment. Men w! loved women, men who have triots have alt been men of sently jjr, You cannot cite a bero who did oopipjja a woman, and th«re is not one in tbjnarei tory of the world in whose life tbi||2t man love was not the best and tenets part. It seems to me that what went, men of to-day need to learn is no£ social duties, those of us who are nofc quainted with them may learn V* from book of etiquette, but to love Sa that means to make better men cjpst sons and of our husbands. To ma|i3r life better. Do you remember great woman writer said, a woman not like that pretty new woman of to day, but a woman great of heart, great of brain and overflowing with love toward ber own, toward all the world, and (o ward God? "The world waits For help. Beloved, let us love so well, Our work shall still be better for our lovers? And still oar love be sweeter for our work, And both, commended, for the sake of each By all true workers and true lovers, born."

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MARCH 7,1896.

ISN'T THAT THE IDEAL LOVE? 14

And the man standing beside her, said seeing their love in the world to come, framed by that wondrous wall that had "Jasper first

And second saphlre third, chalcedony The rest in order—last an amethyst.'' And so it stands forever the perfeot love of the man and the woman, unselfish, beautiful, greater than all the social duties that may arise it is writ upon an amethyst, the sacred stone whioh means God's love and man's love .in union. A preacher? 'Tis love that makes the world go round," and in its whirl are drawn all human beings. It reaches out and makes sweeter the heart of humanity, and to form that heart, that great, kindly. unselfish loving heart, is needed you and your neighbor, and— B^B.

If Ton Have a 8tok Child This is Surely a Message of Hope. This is the best of news for parents of weakly or sickly children. It is a fact that our people have heretofore not had the same opportunity for having their children who suffer from obronio or lingering oomplaints treated and cured by eminent specialists in children's diseases as do the residents of the great cities where suoh skilled physicians reside. In other words our people have been debarred from seeking a cure for their children by the great pbysieians, owing to the cost of travel to the large oity and the high fees charged by such physiolans.

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My opinion of Italians, acquired from the reading of romance, was that they were mostly brigands or robbers. Here was one of the type. While I fastened my gaze upon his sinister countenance, What was my horror to see him stealthily draw a stiletto from his pocket and lay it by his side. I coughed—my husband ignored it. Then I placed my foot upon his, which he drew away, annoyed. Cold chills seized me. We had watches and money. People had been murdered for less. I feared to speak. French, German, even English, the man might know. My husband spoke Dutch. Would that I could have imparted my fears in that tongue! There was little danger of the highwayman'8 knowing it.

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An old engineer was getting hip sight tested by a doctor who lived in a house facing a large park. The doctor used to say to his patients, "Look over there and tell me what you can see." When the engineer learned that his sight was to be tested, he had arranged with his son to take his bioycle half a mile into the park and be oiling it. In due time the old man was led to the window, the doctor saying, as usual: "What do yon see?"

The old man, peering out, said, "I see a young man stooping beside his bioycle. "Do you?" said the doctor. "I don't see anything at all." "Nonsense," said the engineer. "Why, he is oiling it."

The doctor* took up a pair of fieldglasses and plainly saw the same. "Magnificent sight I" he said.

The engineer is still drawing his wages.—Elmira Telegram. .'I, '^Why He Voted Aye.

When Dr. Kenealy, being returned to parliament by the electors of Stoke, took an early opportunity of moving a vote of oensnre on the judges, he found a teller in Mr. Whalley. On the house dividing it was found that 488 men of all parties voted in the negative, Dr. Kenealy's proposition being supported by a single member. The single member was Major O'Gorman. Asked afterward why he had gone against his own party, for once merged in -the majority, the major, mopping his massive brow, answered, "Bedad, it's a hot night, and I knew there would be more room in the 'aye'lobby."

Paradoxical.

"It seemed sort of strange at first," said a stroller, "to see a one legged man looking at the display in a shoe store window, for it didn't seem as though he would take more than half an interest in shoes, but as a matter of fact be appeared to be as much interested as anybody. "—New York Sun.

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