Idaho Semi Weekly World

Work of Southern Women.

As in St. Paul's cathedral, London, on the monument to Christopher Wren, so we can say of the work of southern women: "Look around!" As nothing surpassed her courage, her fortitude, her untiring patience and energy, her persistent effort during the war, so the still greater demand for such virtues after the battle was over, found her as ready and responsive as before. Wherever woman can labor without losing the dignity of womanhood, the women of the south go. In the home, in the school room, at the ledger and the desk, with the needle, the pen, the pencil, the brush, in music, in useful and decorative art, and all handiworks where deftness and delicacy supersede physical strength, she is at work. In short, whatever her head and hands find to do, she is doing willingly and uncomplainingly.

Out from the stately homes of wealth and luxury, out from the genial fireside of comfort and thrift, from all ranks of life and degrees of fortune, from the stone mansions of Virginia to the graceful and picturesque villas of Alabama canebrakes and the Mississippi valley, she has gone, at the call of duty, into the rank and file of working women, clad in the invulnerable armor of patient endurance and womanly dignity. And for this she is entitled to sympathy and honor.— Zitella Cocke in American Magazine.