There is probably no one in the civilized world more proud of the possession of a domestic servant than the American woman who has never had one, and no one more prompt to consign her to the obscurity of the kitchen after a feeble pretense of making her feel at home. Robert Grant. Her maids were old, and if she took a new one Lord Byron. Woman and wages as a social and economic question is one of burning interest; but over against this stands the great work of woman without wages, the vast amount of service rendered without pay or even any thought of it,—work in the world's great philanthropies. Selected. Cooks I have found to be the best of all subjectsthe most phlegmatic flush into life at the mere word, and the joys and sufferings connected with them are experiences common to us all. Author "Elizabeth and Her German Garden." Man wants but little here below Oliver Goldsmith. "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long": "Tis not with me exactly so, But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, John Quincy Adams. Little I ask; my wants are few: And close at hand is such a one, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Genius has no sex,-I defy any one to distinguish between two canvasses, one of which shall be the production of a woman, and the other of a man. William M. Chase. Woman is naturally more artistic in her tastes than man, and it would seem that man must become somewhat womanly (not effeminate) in order to be artistic. Selected. No man was ever known to admit, even in thought, that a woman can do better things in art than himself! If a masculine creature draws a picture on a paving-stone he will assure himself in his own Ego, that it is really much more meritorious, simply as "man's work," than the latest triumph of a Rosa Bonheur. Marie Corelli. And that is what I call woman's genius, to make life beautiful, to keep down and out of sight the hard, dry, prosaic side, and keep up the poetry-that is my idea of our "mission." I think women ought to be what Hawthorne calls "The Artist of the Beautiful." Harriet Beecher Stowe. A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. Even as grandfather, he is too near, for one poet can lay a streak of poverty over three generations. Irving Bacheller. Was ever there a true lyric poet who did not at least once in his early days believe himself the victim of a heartless woman? F. Marion Crawford. Poets are all who love, who feel great truths Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, "Those who are free throughout the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson. Victoria was the uncrowned Queen of the whole world. Ascending the throne in her teens, she then displayed the qualities which have marked her entire reign-the simplicity, modesty, graciousness and veracity of true womanhood. Victoria never forgot the woman in the Queen. She represented in her life not the royalty of a monarch, but the royalty of true womanhood. Joseph Silverman. "France has had sixty-seven queens, many of whom led miserable lives. Eleven were divorced; two executed; nine died young; seven were widowed early; three cruelly treated; three exiled. A few of the others were poisoned, and most of them brokenhearted. Twenty-five presidents have entered the White House. Of the women who have accompanied them, some have come reluctantly, some gladly; but nearly all have acquitted themselves with a dignity and a sense of fitness that gave a new meaning to the national boast, Any American girl can be a four-years' queen. Marian West. |