go FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



as compared with their brothers. And 

 withal, there appears to be a certain intui 

 tive unreasoning clearness of perception in 

 some directions, where all man s careful 

 study occasionally leads him astray, or 

 befogs his vision. 



A truce to the absurd discussion as to 

 which is the greater power. In a certain 

 volume which used to be widely read, it is 

 written, &quot; So God created man in his own 

 image, in the image of God created he 

 him ; male and female created he them.&quot; 

 And I think that I speak as by authority 

 for one-half of the human race, in saying 

 that out of the smoke of the battle, and 

 out of the dust and heat of the conflict of 

 life, we of the rougher, coarser sort look up 

 for needed refreshment to those who may 

 be a little removed from the worst of this 

 soiling contact ; ask for an occasional breath 

 of a higher, purer air, for a touch that will 

 cool and freshen us, a guiding hand to lead 

 us to the serener heights, whence we can 

 gaze into the infinite distances. And we 

 hope that the time may never come when 

 we cannot repeat, as now we fervently 

 say : 



The ever-womanly leadeth us. 



APKIL 23, 1894. 



