. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . her to occupy a position for which she is notqualified in any respect. Woman in her sphere is all-power-ful, but dress her in nude attire, let her unsex herself, andsacrifice womans softness, tenderness, and modesty to aninsane desire for womans rights, and she loses her inlluencefor good. 1 dislike to see women strutting about in Bloomercostume, mens jackets, and standing collars, as if they couldnot assert their rights without making themselves ridiculous. Women have work to do, and every woman who has forceof character enough to conc
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . her to occupy a position for which she is notqualified in any respect. Woman in her sphere is all-power-ful, but dress her in nude attire, let her unsex herself, andsacrifice womans softness, tenderness, and modesty to aninsane desire for womans rights, and she loses her inlluencefor good. 1 dislike to see women strutting about in Bloomercostume, mens jackets, and standing collars, as if they couldnot assert their rights without making themselves ridiculous. Women have work to do, and every woman who has forceof character enough to conceive any rational enterpri AN ERRAND OF MERCY. 217 benevolence is sure to carry it through. When ElizabethFry and her noble helpers first entered the cell where awild, half-savage looking crew of women were mustered, thesheriff said, Ladies, you see your materials. A lady whoaccompanied her said, I felt as if I were going into a den ofwild beasts, and shuddered as the door was closed upon me,yet the brave, gentle-hearted leader was left alone with them. THE PRISON* VISITORS. for hours, and such was the effect produced that the New-gate ladies, as they were called, became advisers at theHome Office in the matter of prisons and Florence Nightingale, at Scutari, wanted blanketsfor the poor, sick soldiers, she was told that they could notbe obtained without an order from some official, signed andcountersigned. She cut the red tape by ordering the doorsto be broken open on her own responsibility, and the blankets 14 218 UNFAIR ADVANTAGES. were appropriated lo the poor, wounded men. Clara Bartonand scores of noble women in our own country devoted yearsi i unwearied devotion in ministering to our brave soldiers. Some men have the faculty of obtaining their ends bytaking advantage of accidents, forgetting that truth cannotbe affected by contingencies; and they often obtain a tempo-rary triumph, although for the moment they may seem to
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