The Emergency Woman

Southland Times, Issue 12771, 2 December 1893, Page 4

The Emergency Woman

Wo Ml know her, the woman who is calm and collected in a panic 'and aids materially in subduing it; wbo, when someone falls in a faint, knows just wbat should be done and proceeds t> do it, thereby perhaps saving a human life ; who, in case of a fire, carries out the chiidreo and lets the rag-bag burn up, and neither scream* nor swoons ; who, when she visits a friend with a family of small children, has her thimble and thread-and needle in her pocket ; who always has a muchneeded pin handy, and is never caught travelling without a camphor bottle. We have all met this type of woman, and felt grateful to her for her timely assistance. Such a woman is thoroughly unselfish. She gives the better half of herself to the sirvice of humanity without expecting or demanding any return. The world at large is her home, and its people her family, but not to the neglect of any of her own house’

bold ”o£ faith. She carries her balm of Gilead with her for everywounded.go.nl and applies it while others gape and wring their hands, There is another type of emergency woman who deals with mental and, moral attributes instead of ; material things/. .She is almost as efficacious in her treatment as lhe other, although, instead of a pout-, tioo or a balm, she gives a smile, a kindly wordy a cheerful; grasp of the hsnd„ ft tear of sympathy. She, too,, lightens heavy burdens and leaves a wake of sunshine after her. She is always supplied with the courteous word, so that strangers meeting her feel as does one who, in passing through a dreary waste, catches a strain of sweet music. There is encouragement in her voice, sunshine in her smile, and a better atmosphere where she is. It is her mission in life to make the best of every/ thing by a constant tacit admission that the world is good. Men take off their hate in her. presence conscious of the royalty of her womanhood. Even if they did not,if they were rude and brawling, she would, not gather her skirts about ber and burr/ away, for she is an emergency woman. No, she would quell them with one look of appeal that would soften and disarm, but never wound. In the domestic atmosphere of her home the emergenoy woman is a central force around all lesser forces revolve in harmonious meSsure. She is never fussy or gossipy, or at odds with her neighbours, who are as quick to appeal io her for help and sympathy in an emergency as she is to respond. No novels have been written with her for a heroine, nor any song sung in her praise, but none the less, abo is known to her world as a most comfortable type of ber sex.—Detroit Free Press.