Some forgotten Pennsylvania heroinesShoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton)
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Some forgotten Pennsylvania heroines
Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton)
Pennsylvania -- Biography; Women -- Biography
the lovers sleep their long sleep side by side. There are many more
forgotten Pennsylvania heroines, but the list just given will suffice
for the present. If we can honor these, as are their due, we will have
enhanced the cause of Pennsylvania history and helped to place it
alongside that of New York, New England, the South, and other sections
where deeds of worth and valor are recognized. All of these forgotten
women were brave, courageous, simple and God fearing, well worthy to
serve as a high ideal for our young girlhood. They also show that the
noblest traits are found in the humblest homes, that womanhood can be
brave and intrepid just as much as man, that there are self-made women
as well as self-made men. Some day let us hope that in the rotunda
of the Capitol at Harrisburg, purged of its group of professional
politician statues, or some Hall of Fame specially constructed for
the purpose, we can gaze upon lifelike effigies in marble of Lucretia
Mott, Mary Jemison, Regina Hartman, Molly Pitcher, Peggy Marteeny,
Mabel Hite, Frances Slocum, Mary Wolford, and above all Nancy Hanks,
typical of the most exalted heights to which womanhood can attain,
unaided, many of them untaught, but pure in patriotism, pure in heart,
the bright galaxy of the glory of Pennsylvania womanhood. We cannot
honor them too highly, we cannot praise them extravagantly enough, for
they are milestones in the normal development of our feminism. This
great work is going on. That women of equal worth are being born under
similar conditions and are alive today, let us but remember that Jane
Addams, the daughter of a Berks County innkeeper, has done more for her
sex, and for humanity in general than almost any other woman living,
and carries out fully the lofty standard that Pennsylvania sets for its
womanhood.
[Illustration: Woman]
Transcriber’s Notes
p. 4, hyphenation of “folk-lorist” has been retained.
p. 6, “horeback” changed to “horseback”.
p. 7, period spelling of “moniment” (monument) has been retained.
p. 7, “Pensylvania” changed to “Pennsylvania”.
p. 9, “loftly” changed to “lofty”.
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