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Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Orator-Statesman
“LEST WE FORGET."
Frederick Douglass, unquestion
ably the most remarkable Afro
American yet produced, was bom
February 14, 1817.
American history records no great
er orator, and while his seventy
eight years were spent during a per
iod which tried men’s souls and pro
duced great orators, yet he was an
equally great statesman. Much did
he contribute to Freedom's cause by
his untiring effort, his matchless elo
quence.
Mr. Douglass seemed to possess in
herent greatness—to reflect a cul
ture so natural that you could have
scarcely conceived of him without it,
so that if you had been told that he
was the product of six generations of
Anglo-Saxon culture instead of the
slave pen, you would not have ex
pressed surprise or wonder. More
than six feet tall, of majestic mein
and presence, when you stood before
him, it was natural to reflect on what
Sidney Smith said of Daniel Webster,
“He was a living lie, for no man
could be as great as he looked.” The
charm of his conversation was as
pleasing as the gracious personality
of his manner.
He delighted you with stories of
his rich and varied experience, or in
spired you to activity by his prophe
sies of the wonderful possibilties of
the future.
What greater incentive can the Ne
gro youth of this generation have
than is contained in the life of Mr.
Douglass? What better evidence
have we than is shown in his life that
there is rich reward for him who can
labor and who can wait?
As the years go by, let the 14th
day of February be sacred to the
memory of our “Grand Old Man” and
let his name be familiar to every
child, for our own heroes are their
greatest inspiration. Contemplating
his life, we will be lifted to a higher
conception of duty of life. Well may
it be said of him:
“As some divinely gifted man
Whose life in low estate began
And on a simple village green;
Who breaks hiB birth’s invidious bar,
And grasps the skirts of happy
chance,
And breasts the blows of circum
stance,
And grapples with his evil star;
Who makes his force by merit known,
And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state’s decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne;
And moving on from high to higher,
Becomes on Fortune’s crowning slope
The pillar of a people’s hopes,
The center of a world’s desire.”
Fresh in our minds, honored in our
hearts be his memory throughout the
ages. L. S. E.
A TALK WITH MY PARENTS.
(By A Child in “N. Y. World.”)
If there is one word in the English
language that I hate with all the fer
vor of my little heart, it is that word
‘Don’t”
If I should tell you how many times
a day my mother uses that word you
would not think she had time to do
anything except say “Don’t.”
The peculiar thing about the word
“Don’t” is that it does not mean any
thing. At least to me. If I am pull
ing sister’s hair and mother says,
“Don’t,” what does it mean? Why
she does not use the word “Stop!” is
beyond comprehension.
When I am doing something which
I should not do it is worse than use
less to say “Don’t” without telling
me what to do instead of what I am
doing.
When I am writing on the walls
with a pencil would it not be better
to give me a piece of paper to write
on than to say, “Don’t” and leave me
there with a pencil poised in the air,
not knowing what to do next?
What I want is to be told what to
do. When I see my mother sitting
comfortably in a chair, the first thing
that enters my head is to make her
pay some attention to me. It is just
human nature to want to see her get
up or say that terrible word, “Don’t.”
AN OLD FAVORITE.
Little Boy Blue—Eugene Field.
The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the littletoy soldier is red with
rust,
And his musket molds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was
new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Lit
tle Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.
“Now, don’t you go till I come,” he
said,
“And don’t you make any noise!”
So, toddling off to his trundle bed,
He dreamt of the pretty toys;
And as he was deaming, an angel
song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue—
O, the years are many, the years are
long,
But the little toy friends are true!
Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they
stand,
Each in the same old place—
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face.
And they wonder, as waiting the long
years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy
Blue
Since he kissed them and put them
there.
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