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man, rounded but hard-beaten, deep 
through the chest and thick through 
the fists, with a complexion total 
gules, which is polite heraldic lan- 
guage for red all over. His nose ts 
jong and thoroughly fortified, up and 
- down, with the cartilage one needs in 
_ bucko mate. 
resisting the insubordinations of a 
His eye is blue—a 
_ weather blue—with the puckers about 
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it that tell of sun and wind. His lips 
—there we perhaps begin to see sev- 
- eral generations of comfort—are full. 
They are the lips of a man who has 
lived in the midst of civilization, am- 
a 
e 
- 
ply. But they are also extraordi- 
narily firm-pressed—the lips of a man 
'- who has met even civilization con- 
batively. And his chin is massive, 
_ with creases in it, commanding ones. 
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me 
“Tn other words, Gardner is that 
most aggravating specimen of the pos- 
sessor of inherited wealth—the kind 
who looks as if it would be terribly 
hard to take it away from him. 
“Gardner can take care of himselr 
on the trails and rivers of the great 
woods as ably as any of his pioneer 
ancestors. 
“They say that a fellow Congress- 
man was once telling him how glad he 
was that he had earned his living 
from his boyhood; because it had 
taught him to do so many things for 
himself. \ 
“He then produced a heinously dull 
knife and remarked that it hadn’t been 
sharpened for two years, because for 
_ two years he hadn’t encountered any 
of these itinerant knife-grinding men. 
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Gardner took the knife and sharpen- 
ed it himself on behalf of his better- 
trained colleague. 
3 
SUFFRAGE LETTER 
The Writers’ Equal Suffrage 
league has announced a talk on 
“Poetry,” with readings from his own 
works, by Edwin Markham, the dis- 
tinguished American poet, to be held 
at the house of Miss Eugenia Froth- 
oe 
ingham, 476 Beacon st., Boston, on 
‘February 15, at half past three 
o’clock. The proceeds were to go to 
the National Suffrage campaign, but 
in the unhappy event of war being de- 
_clared they will go to a special war- 
€ 
relief fund. 
The tickets, which are 
only one dollar, can be obtained at 
either the Boston or Mass. Suffrage 
headquarters, of Miss L. R. Stan- 
wood, Brookline, Mass., or at the 
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a 
such fine minds are. 
sure to say or read something timely 
door (if any are left). This is not a 
Suffrage meeting, or talk, but Mr. 
Markham is a strong Stffragist, as ail 
And will be 
and inspiring at this serious time. A 
very interesting occasion is expected, 
as 
Gre 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
“He isa Yankee still. He could 
probably sharpen a knife if alone in 
a boat with it and a fishhook. He is 
a Yankee still in other things, too. 
“Westerners do not remember as 
much as they should about that little 
cluster of memorable towns. It in- 
cludes Salem and Gloucester, both 
older than Boston. And the Choates 
came from there. Yes, sir. And old 
Joseph Choate once sat in Gardner’s 
present seat in Congress. And the 
Storys came from there too. And 
old Joseph Story, who did so much 
to establish the American habit of 
writing commentaries on the Consti- 
tution instead of rewriting the Consti- 
tution, was also a predecessor of 
Gardner’s in the House of Represen- 
tatives. And so was old Timothy 
Pickering, who, additionally, as 1 
member -of Washington’s Cabinet, 
founded our regular army by build- 
ing West Point and founded our reg- 
ular navy by laying down the keels 
of those immortal fighting boats the 
‘Constitution,’ the ‘Constellation,’ and 
the ‘United States.’ Why shouldn’t 
Gardner be for preparedness? 
“Gardner happened to mention 
Connie Mack not long ago to his 
father-in-law. ‘Who,’ said Henry 
Cabot Lodge—‘who is Connie Mack ?’ 
‘Connie Mack,’ warmly replied Henry 
Cabot Lodge’s indignant son-in-law, 
‘is a man who is known to millions of 
Americans who never heard of Henry 
Cabot . Lodge.’ Augustus Peabody 
Gardner has an astonishingly accurate 
hunch as to how statesmen get on and 
as to where they get off. 
“Tt is this honesty that leads Gard- 
ner ultimately to being, in effect, a re- 
with many well known people present. 
If the worst really happens, we 
hope that the Writers’ league will be 
among the very first to help, even 
though they have been, and are, earn- 
cst Peace advocates. The Suffragists 
are all quietly ready to do their part 
in patriotic service. We must stand 
by the President at this time, for he 
has done all that he could no to pre- 
vent war. We must also stand by 
him in still hoping for peace. It is 
shocking to find some women—a few 
who seem to welcome war eagerly. 
They have become over-excited with 
preparations. We urge all women to 
be non-partisan in this crisis. 
It seems a cruel shame that the ad- 
vancing Suffrage movement in this 
country should be interrupted, with 
many other works of progress by such 
insanity as war. For _ instance, 
North Dakota has just come into the 
Suffrage column, and several other 
states are approaching campaigns 
while in Boston, as in many other 
former, and yet it also leads many 
casual observers to regard him as a 
cynic. When, for instance, in any 
campaign the time for mutual recrim- 
inations approaches, Gardner does not 
say: ‘I will now expose the forces of 
evil.” He realizes too keenly that the 
forces of evil, like the forces of good, 
never get bunched on one side. What 
he is more likely to say is: ‘Well, boys, 
come on! The hour has struck for the 
“shin-digging”’ to begin,’; and he goes 
out and ‘shin-digs’ with all his might. 
Everybody does it. Gardner is pecu- 
liar only because he also says it. 
“Gardner cannot be numbered or 
ticketed. Even the best explanation 
of him ends in the air. It is this: 
“His  industriousness makes him 
study every proposition laboriously ; 
and his irony or “cynicism” or mental 
honesty makes him study it without 
any illusions, on its own individual 
merits; and so he arrives at an inde- 
pendence which is absolutely incalcul- 
able and unpredictable. 
“T sum him up: Augustus Peabody 
Gardner, a hard-headed, hard-hitting 
man, whose principal occupation is 
daring the electorate of the Sixth 
Massachusetts to catch him napping 
and fire him, but whose mere self-re- 
spect and native courage are constant- 
ly getting him into fights, whereupon 
he fires all guns—r2-inch and spit— 
till the decks are awash and would 
rather go down to the strains of 
‘This Is the End of a Perfect Day’ 
than ‘My ‘Country, ’Tis of Thee’ for 
fear somebody might think Augustus 
Peabody Gardner was thinking him- 
self noble about it.” 
cities, a very successful Suffrage 
school has just started, with large at- 
tendance, including instruction in 
government, etc. These things may 
be interrupted, but of course Equai 
Suffrage in this country—and in the 
whole world—has gone beyond the 
point where it can really stop for any- 
thing, for in many states and coun- 
tries it is now an accomplished fact. 
The importance of women to the state 
is being better understood every day, 
and we hope our men will not wait 
for the cruel test of war before they 
allow us to work with them as citizens 
of the country we love even as they 
do. 
—L. R. S. 
The lack of the sense of humor has 
turned many a man into a fool—H. 
C. King. 
“The life-blood of all eloquence is 
character—it is the man behind the 
word that counts.” 
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