A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape. Lavater.
Her smiles were like the glowing sunshine. Bullard.
If He has a place and work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready. A. Lincoln.
Clara Barton’s energy and humanity, with a “God bless you.”
Boston (Mass.) Journal.
A noble and attractive everyday bearing comes of goodness, of sincerity, of refinement. William Matthews.
I have no higher ambition than to work obscurely, and singly, where I can see the greatest necessity. Clara Barton.
CHEERING WORDS—ALWAYS READY—WEARS A SMILE
No being other than the human knows how to wear a smile. A smile is as significant as are words—the smile oft proclaims the mind. Wearing apparel is the gift of man; the smile, the gift of nature. Wearing apparel wears out; the smile that is genuine never wears off. Of a woman it is said her face is her fortune. It also may be said, to rob the world of woman’s smile would leave the human race poor indeed. Of Clara Barton an author has said, “her heart made music and her face radiated sunshine.” Of Clara Barton a soldier said, “No discordant word ever escaped her lips; in camp or on the field she always wore a smile.” Her smile and her cheering words won the heart of the private soldier, the heart of royalty—won the heart of the world.
A woman without effort may receive a “windfall,” in wealth; but success is achieved through personal qualities, by effort. Said a writer: “The life of Clara Barton should be familiarized to every child. Her history and work should be as well known to the young of the nation as those of the great Presidents. Her history should be taught in the public schools for the enlightenment of all pupils, boys and girls, that they may realize how great a task for humanity was undertaken and accomplished, by a weak woman.”