Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of AmericaYoung, Charles Sumner
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Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America
Young, Charles Sumner
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
Referring to Clara Barton, at a public reception, one of America’s great
women said: “No one loves a self-sacrificing woman as well as—as all
other good women.” In America, as in Europe, Clara Barton was honored as
has been no other American woman,—by the “First Lady of the Land,” by
the Julia Ward Howes, by the Frances Willards, by the Susan B. Anthonys,
by all great and good women—all recognizing her “queenliness as a woman
and womanliness as a queen,” and graciously willing to crown her “Queen
Among Women.” Writers also have referred to her as “The Angel of the
Battlefield,” “The Angel of the World’s Battlefields,” “The Beautiful
Lady of the Potomac,” “The American Lady with the Lamp,” “The Angel of
Peace,” “The Angel of Mercy,” “The Angel of Humanity,” “Our Lady of the
Red Cross.”
XLVI
Life at best is so exhaustive. FRANK W. GUNSAULIS, D. D.
Clara Barton was a soft-voiced little woman, yet she had a way of
approaching her work in the most telling manner.
_Buffalo Express._
The Stars make no noise. IRISH PROVERB.
The secret of my long life, “Hard work and low fare.”
CLARA BARTON.
A surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
They are sick that surfeit with too much,
As they that starve with nothing.
MERCHANT OF VENICE.
This was the afternoon of Monday. Since Saturday noon I had not
thought of tasting food.
CLARA BARTON (At Battle of Chantilly).
You have the full record of my sleep—from Friday night till Monday
morning—two hours.
CLARA BARTON (Among the wounded at Chantilly).
At Cedar Mountain, among the wounded, Clara Barton had five days and
nights with only three hours’ sleep, and a narrow escape from capture.
PERCY H. EPLER.
I never think of weariness. CLARA BARTON.
Clara had some source of strength that we knew nothing about.
“SISTER HARRIETTE” L. REED.
Clara Barton’s endurance is unprecedented, and I have never known her
equal. SURGEON-IN-CHIEF A. MONAE-LESSER.
Gentleness, sweetness, quiet unobtrusiveness were her armor; from dawn
to midnight usually her working day; the frugal meal at Red Cross
headquarters was frequently prepared solely by her hand. CHARLES A.
BAKER, Treasurer, Red Cross.
Clara Barton: My working hours are fourteen out of the twenty-four.
Port Royal Nurse: You mean eighteen out of the twenty-four, Miss
Barton, don’t you?
I NEVER GET TIRED—EATING, THE LEAST OF MY TROUBLES
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