Human hopes and human creeds
Have their seat in human needs.
The day preceding the delivery of her public address she spent washing the clothes of the family and the linen of the household. Such exercise, more useful than golf and serving like purpose, strengthened the muscles, increased the blood circulation, made the brain active.
Commenting on the “wash-tub custom” her old physician said as she became so very tired after a hard day’s washing at first he used to protest, then facetiously remarked,
But her spirits always rose
Like the bubbles in the clothes;
and therefore he concluded that Miss Barton knew better than he did what was good for her.
LII
Clara Barton—The millions she has blest.
Kate Brownlee Sherwood.