Show TIIE GENTLEMEN response by mrs ed eddy dy mr chairman ladies and gentlemen in particular it seems to me that tb at my shoulders must appear stooped and my my whole frame wear the marks of age so great lias has been tile the burdon of this duty upon me I 1 have always known that the men were weighty fity and ponderous ponder oui but 1 I confess I 1 have never before conceived of the enormity of their maani magnitude 0 tude I 1 woud wondered ered for some time why some of the married ladies did not convent consent to respond to this toast but after due deliberation I 1 came to the conclusion thit that it was because they feared the scene behind the curtin curtain that might follow then I 1 wondered why some of our charming young 7 ladies had bad not undertaken tho the task and I 1 was forced to the conviction that the fear of incurring the displeasure of the sterner sex had bad deterred them neither of these objections now ever held beld good in my case for I 1 stand on neutral ground there being in 0 no wrong 0 side fide to my cu curtain ertain and havin having 0 no loving favor to loose shortly after I 1 became aware of my illy duly to toast the gentlemen I 1 began to wonder what sort of a method I 1 had better uso use and there came to my illy mind a recipe for cooking a rabbit to cook a rabbit first catch your rabbit and tile then n cook it I 1 have been wondering if I 1 ought to proceed according to this method in i n toasting the men first catch them and then toast them the gentleman bocc occupying u the chair of english told me today that I 1 now had the greatest opportunity of my life and I 1 quite with him should I 1 proceed on oil his plan it would not bo be so difficult nor distasteful a task to perform in the singular but I 1 be beg to be excused front from the tho plural on one e would be quite sufficient I 1 trust that the gentlemen will excuse me file in my illy speaking of tile the clinging cake now and th then en make mention of the sturdy vines prof mcewan has taken you on back t to 0 the creation and I 1 certainly otio ought to be excused if I 1 do so an an cedato comes to mind of a little girl in an essay on girls wi wished shed to show their superiority over boys and this was her method she said abat in the beginning god made man inan abid when completed ho be looked at hint him and said well I 1 1 guess I 1 can do ietter better than that and so lie fie made woman my oh ob eject in relating this is not to make unpleasant comparisons but to tell you I 1 do not believe it is true then too her ar argument ament will not stand the hie scientific lists upon which dr twombly so strenuously insists swift says it is a mabun of thu the school that lattery flattery is the ford of fools but now and then ye roen men of wit will condescend to take a bit for several days i I 1 have been trying 0 to think of so ting real pretty to bay but strange as a it may seen my muse has utterly failed me but after all it is not strange for pretty sentiments would be all out of place rather let et me give expression to sentiments of strength 0 nobility and greaties gre atnes for t these here are characteristics of the true man I 1 wish visit to take exceptions to the last part of the quotation which accompanies my subject on the pro gramme S some 0 ane men wore born for great things and some were born for small some it is not recorded chy why they were born at all I 1 ibel believe that in the breast of every man there is A a spark of devinity and a god like purpose in ex istance true we can not dot admire mire some men because of their departure from this purpose but we can admire all either for what they are arc and may be or for what they might have been the ideal man is the one to receive our encomiums turns and such an one hai hag J G holland portrayed in the following god give us ua men A time like this xe demands strong minds great hearts true faith and ready hands men whom hom the lust just of office does not kill men na n whom the spoils of office cannot buy men who possess poc 9 opinion and will trill mentho men 2 who have honor ruen men who will not lles lie y sr tw f 0 can stand b before a ema and damn his hi thac ceroua f t Y ogue out win winking k ing r 1 tall men sun eun crowned who live above above tile the fog in public duty and in private thinking D for while the rabble nith t their beir tomb sworn worn creeds the their ir loud professions and their little deeds mingle in strife lol lo 10 freedom weeps wrong wr ong rules the land and fl citino eiting justice sleeps |