| | 1 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SUSAN'S impulse was toward the stage. It had become a definite ambition with her,
the stronger because Spenser's jealousy and suspicion had forced her to keep it
a secret, to pretend to herself that she had no thought but going on
indefinitely as his obedient and devoted mistress. The hardiest and best growths
are the growths inward—where they have sun and air from without. She
had been at the theater several times every week, and had studied the
performances at a point of view very different from that of the audience. It was
there to be amused; she was there to learn. Spenser and such of his friends as
he would let meet her talked plays and acting most of the time. He had forbidden
her to have women friends. "Men don't demoralize women; women demoralize each
other," was one of his axioms. But such women as she had a bowing acquaintance
with were all on the stage—in comic operas or musical farces. She was
much alone; that meant many hours every day which could not but be spent by a
mind like hers in reading and in thinking. Only those who have observed the
difference aloneness makes in mental development, where there is a good mind,
can appreciate how rapidly, how broadly, Susan expanded. She read plays more
than any other kind of literature.
She did not read them casually but was always
thinking how they would act. She was soon making in imagination stage scenes out
of dramatic chapters in novels as she read. More and more clearly the characters
of play and novel took shape and substance before the eyes of her fancy. But the
stage was clearly out of the question. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | Addams, Jane | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Women and Public Housekeeping | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other re- spects it is enlarged housekeeping. If
American cities have failed in the first, partly because officeholders have
carried with them the predatory instinct learned in competitive business,
and cannot help "working a good thing" when they have an opportunity, may
we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the
traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform
activities? The men of the city have been carelessly indifferenct to much
of its civic housekeeping, as they have always been indifferent to the
details of the household. They have totally dis-
regarded a candidate's capacity to keep the streets clean, preferring
to con- sider him in relation to the national
tariff or to the necessity for increasing the national navy, in a pure
spirit of reversion to the traditional type of government, which had to do
only with enemies and outsiders. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 5 | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Louisiana Amendment the Same as Ours! | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The pending amendment in this State is a copy of the Suffrage Amendment in
Louisiana except the property clause. The Constitutional Convention of Louisiana
adopted the amendment in 1898. It went into effect soon after. There has been
the fullest possible opportunity to study the question in all its detail. The
city elections last year were held under the provisions of the new constitution.
This year the State election was held under it. No word of complaint has been
heard. No white man has stated that his right to vote was denied. No test has
been made of the question in the courts. So we take it that the working of the
amendment in Louisiana will be its working in this State. It has stood a
practical test there. In order that the people of the State might have the
fullest information on this subject, Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, has been to the State of Louisiana and
made a study of the question in all its bearings. He was specially active in
seeking information as to whether white people are disfranchised. His letters
from the South are interesting reading. He interviewed men of every shade of
political opinion. He did not confine his investigation to the towns. The County
Parishes—our townships-were visited and people themselves sounded on
the subject. Attention is invited to some of the leading points taken from his
articles. In the light of experience the people of Louisiana declare unanimously
that their amendment was the only possible solution of the suffrage question,
and the amendment is regarded as an entirely satisfactory solution of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bitterness of Women | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LOUIS CHABOT was sitting under the fig tree in her father's garden at Tres Pinos
when he told Marguerita Dupré that he could not love her. This sort
of thing happened so often to Louis that he did it very well and rather enjoyed
it, for he was one of those before whom women bloomed instinctively and preened
themselves, and that Marguerita loved him very much was known not only to Louis,
but to all Tres Pinos. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Search for Jean Baptiste | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE bred to the hills and the care of dumb, helpless things must in the end, whatever
else befalls, come back to them. That is the comfort they give him for their care and
the revenge they have of their helplessness. If this were not so Gabriel Lausanne
would never have found Jean Baptiste. Babette, who was the mother of Jean Baptiste
and the wife of Gabriel, understood this also, and so came to her last sickness in
more comfort of mind than would have been otherwise possible; for it was understood
between them that when he had buried her, Gabriel was to go to America to find Jean
Baptiste. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 8 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE very ancient conception of a genius as one seized upon by the waiting Powers for
the purpose of rendering themselves intelligible to men has its most modern exemplar
in the person of Herbert George Wells, a maker of amazing books. It is impossible to
call Mr. Wells a novelist, for up to this time the bulk of his work has not been
novels; and scarcely accurate to call him a sociologist, since most of his social
science is delivered in the form of fiction. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Woman at Eighteen-Mile | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I HAD long wished to write a story of Death Valley that should be its final word. It
was to be so chosen from the limited sort of incidents that could occur there, so charged with
the still ferocity of its moods, that I should at length be quit of its obsession, free to
concern myself about other affairs. And from the moment of hearing of the finding of Lang's
body at Dead Man's Spring I knew I had struck upon the trail of that story. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 10 | Author: | Brown, Charles Brockden | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a western
district of Pennsylvania. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the
employment to which he was destined. His wishes never led him astray from the
hay-stack and the furrow. His ideas never ranged beyond the sphere of his
vision, or suggested the possibility that to-morrow could differ from today. He
could read and write, because he had no alternative between learning the lesson
prescribed to him and punishment. He was diligent, as long as fear urged him
forward, but his exertions ceased with the cessation of this motive. The limits
of his acquirements consisted in signing his name, and spelling out a chapter in
the bible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The White People | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PERHAPS the things which happened could only have happened to me. I do not know.
I never heard of things like them happening to any one else. But I am not sorry
they did happen. I am in secret deeply and strangely glad. I have heard other
people say things—and they were not always sad people,
either—which made me feel that if they knew what I know it would seem
to them as though some awesome, heavy load they had always dragged about with
them had fallen from their shoulders. To most people everything is so uncertain
that if they could only see or hear and know something
clear they would drop upon their knees and give thanks. That was what I felt myself before I found out so strangely, and I was only a girl.
That is why I intend to write this down as well as I can. It will not be very
well done, because I never was clever at all, and always found it difficult to
talk. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | Canfield, Dorothy | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ivanhoe and the German Measles | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HIS name was Reginald Gerald Whitefield, and he was the sort of little boy who
surprised observers by not having freckles. He had the honest look that goes
with freckles and a turned-up nose, although his complexion was irreproachable
and his nose neither turned up or down but was quite uninterestingly straight.
He was the sort of little boy who endures a scientific and expensive bringing up
and is not spoiled by it. He had a French house-governess, he took "talking
walks" with a spectacled and conscientious German, he was sent in a black velvet
suit to dancing-school, he took riding lessons from a severe ex-cavalryman who
contrived in a miraculous way to exclude from the exercise all the fun that
naturally goes with it; he was taken to the concerts of the Boston Symphony, and
bore with fortitude lectures on "What the Nibelungenlied may mean to a child,"
and he became neither priggish nor misanthropic. It must be plain, therefore,
that he was a remarkable little boy. In short he did not deserve his exuberant
name. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 14 | Author: | Canfield, Dorothy | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Playmate | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MRS. O'HERN looked about her with beaming eyes. "Well, it may
seem queer to think of living in a barn," she observed to her old
friend, "but it suits me fine! Ever since I left Ireland I've lived too
much indoors, and it does seem good to be cooking half in the air
again." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | Canfield, Dorothy | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Ugly Duckling | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE fire on the nursery hearth gave a little flicker and the sleepy
child opened his eyes as the story finished. "—arching his neck and
looking down into the clear water the ugly duckling saw that he had
become a beautiful white swan, and all the sorrows he had suffered
while he was an ugly duckling vanished away and he was as happy
as sunshine and—" The fire fell together with a soft purr and the
child was asleep. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LET me tell you a story of To-Day,—very
homely and narrow in its scope and aim. Not
of the To-Day whose significance in the history
of humanity only those shall read who will
live when you and I are dead. We can bear
the pain in silence, if our hearts are strong
enough, while the nations of the earth stand
afar off. I have no word of this To-Day to
speak. I write from the border of the battlefield,
and I find in it no theme for shallow argument
or flimsy rhymes. The shadow of death
has fallen on us; it chills the very heaven. No
child laughs in my face as I pass down the
street. Men have forgotten to hope, forgotten
to pray; only in the bitterness of endurance,
they say "in the morning, `Would God it were
even!' and in the evening, `Would God it were
morning!' '' Neither I nor you have the prophet's
vision to see the age as its meaning stands
written before God. Those who shall live when
we are dead may tell their children, perhaps,
how, out of anguish and darkness such as the
world seldom has borne, the enduring morning
evolved of the true world and the true man.
It is not clear to us. Hands wet with a brother's
blood for the Right, a slavery of intolerance,
the hackneyed cant of men, or the blood-thirstiness of women, utter no prophecy to us
of the great To-Morrow of content and right
that holds the world. Yet the To-Morrow is
there; if God lives, it is there. The voice of
the meek Nazarene, which we have deafened
down as ill-timed, unfit to teach the watchword
of the hour, renews the quiet promise of its
coming in simple, humble things. Let us go
down and look for it. There is no need that
we should feebly vaunt and madden ourselves
over our self-seen rights, whatever they may
be, forgetting what broken shadows they are
of eternal truths in that calm where He sits
and with His quiet hand controls us. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Middle-Aged Woman | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE clock was pointing to six when Mrs. Shore and her son's wife
turned into a shaded street on their way home. The air blew sharply
up from the sea. Mrs. Shore buttoned her fur cape and quickened
her pace. Maria, as usual, lagged a step behind her. Maria was a
tall, willowy girl with delicate features and milk and rose tints in her
skin. She had the conscious pose of the acknowledged beauty in a
small town, for in her old home, Ford City, Kansas, newspapers had
ranked her with Helen of Troy and Recamier. But her blue eyes
were dull and evasive; she laughed at the end of every sentence, as
if not sure of herself or her companion or of anything else. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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