WOMAN.
No woman is free from responsibility towards her own sex. All are to bear one another's burdens and to share one another's sorrows. This is the true sisterhood of women. However widely apart in station they re-act upon each other for good or evil. The prizes of virtue may be given to the humblest as well as the highest. After the late terrible war, the French Government; decreed three medals to women who had served the most faithfully in the hospitals. The first was given' to a poor sewing girl, the second to an actress, the third to a woman of rank and fashion, whose name has been often mixed up with the scandals of the empire. Who could but feel that the spirit of that noble English woman, Florence Nightingale, had been the inspiring example of these women, so widely separated in rank, and yet all united in the work of charity. —Mrs Henry Field.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3164, 9 April 1879, Page 3
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