If Our Vaunted Rule Of The People

A Race Cannot Be Purified From Without.

... [a] Girl One Day Flared Out And Told The Principal "the Only Mission Opening Before A Girl In His School Was To Marry One Of Those Candidates [for The Ministry]." He Said He Didn't Know But It Was. And When At Last That Same Girl Announced Her Desire And Intention To Go To College It Was Received With About The Same Incredulity And Dismay As If A Brass Button On One Of Those Candidate's Coats Had Propounded A New Method For Squaring The Circle Or Trisecting The Arc.

... Woman's Cause Is The Cause Of The Weak; And When All The Weak Shall Have Received Their Due Consideration, Then Woman Will Have Her "rights," And The Indian Will Have His Rights, And The Negro Will Have His Rights, And All The Strong Will Have Learned At Last To Deal Justly, To Love Mercy, And To Walk Humbly; And Our Fair Land Will Have Been Taught The Secret Of Universal Courtesy Which Is After All Nothing But The Art, The Science, And The Religion Of Regarding One's Neighbor As One's Self, And To Do For Him As We Would, Were Conditions Swapped, That He Do For Us.

I Constantly Felt (as I Suppose Many An Ambitious Girl Has Felt) A Thumping From Within Unanswered By Any Beckoning From Without.

As In An Icicle The Agnostic Abides Alone. The Vital Principle Is Taken Out Of All Endeavor For Improving Himself Or Bettering Hisfellows. All Hope In The Grand Possibilities Of Life Are Blasted.