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Show I 4 j Look To Your Laurels, Sailors! Woman Follows Sea For 18 Years t I s.i l ; K Kv XKW 1'i.iRK Whai of the sea for 1 women? There Is a woman In port who In- followed the i?,i for eighteen .: e.irs-- hi name i Agor-s Stevens.4gnd her !hlp is the Saxonia. j "fflriitJIy she is known as a 'stew-1 artless" hut -he i calico Hie ' s a - mother" ami the "teller of stoma wo- j man.' She Is M v.ars old and her hair is as black as the day m- firs: learm-il to braid it and she JCiifcllsh and! she lores her Fnglutid, but moat ..f all, .she Is sondriven. and the Uir ,.. ins IP raj in her p)66d, and sh knows j 00 fr o UXD I oli iolM. ii Mut if you ask her what ah- thUlkl of the sea for the young woman, she i will answer you slowly In her strange Knglish dialect "The seas no place for a alrl land. land, that's he, place, land and lov Hml marriage and chll-di chll-di r u- 1 Know." And asked what she means bv what she knows she mv5 flatly: "Thore In too much romance on ihe Water voung stewardesses are tool flight) . know not hlnc ; u- nursing the l k Ixt them be as b m-tic m-tic anrl tender us vou please, tluj! have had no c;.crlericc.'" Rut .Mrs. Stevens thinks that for thf experienced woman especially the Widow (and ahe is herself a Widow) j ' is ilolhlng like a life on the wa ter, she srocs on to Iny thai trier woman learns courage not only ih,.' COUrjage to face disaster, of family and friends, for this an woman can do.1 but courage to face perilous adventure' - ' en death. Vou learn r.i tnir v our God and' no land folk know ipifte such trust I and you learn bow lo lalk to children.", r.lLl s in i ii I SKA. And it's particularly her talk to! (hlldrr-n that hag made Mrs. Stevens I One of tho beloved. She teiis tln-m fin- la !-. one-- tftgt she has learned in strange porta and folk-tales she hat heard whiSDejid by alien tongues at nightfall. Sao nukes up gtorlea her self and perhaps the most popular with the children, are these. What -io 1 tell them abour ' The sea. of course. j.aod stories are ajl well enough when oiire on land, but sea varus are ihe onlv thing to hear after the shore line has faded." And as for the worries of the house- ! ' ' i j ' t2S A -'-T -"T-VKf "J,'r, Oiflclall) nlic i- known a- a "stcwareatf" bttl ln- i- lulled tin soa m oilier" ami ih; ''teller of stories wo man, hold thai draws wrinkles in the faces of millions of women they will never nev-er draw a line in Mjs. Seyens face fr there si DO WOTTJ "f the hlg'a cost qi living mi a boat voA nb petty mar- kcting to be done, neither Is there ;iny trouble to keep the furnace groing rhero's onl: a salt wind blowing and perhaps somewhere a child crying for j I its bed -time Story |