XXVII
Advice is seldom welcome. Lord Chesterfield.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Rochefoucauld.
I do not like giving advice; it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. Beaconsfield.
Those who give bad advice to the prudent both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. Phaedrus.
I pray thee cease thy counsel, which falls into my ears as profitless as water in a sieve. Much Ado About Nothing.
Clara Barton—in her 77th year—followed to the fever ridden tropics, to lead in the relief work on Spanish battle grounds.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald.
In Cuba one saw only
Nodding plumes over their bier to wave,
And God’s own hand in that lonely land
To lay them in their grave. Clara Barton.
Mr. Cottrell, private secretary of Clara Barton, says: “Miss Barton was the means of saving thousands of lives in Cuba. She was a small, unostentatious woman, very quiet in her demeanor and spoke in a soft, sweet tone. Her habits were simple, but she had a great capacity for organization work.”
New Orleans (La.) Times-Democrat.
My post is the open field between the bullet and the hospital.
Clara Barton.