Let us insist on doing our share of work, and only our share. When we do less we are shirking our duty; when we do more we are letting somebody else shirk. Let us adopt the “I can and I will” motto; but let us use it with discretion and “will” only what is right.
Let us keep a steel-rod vertebra instead of an india-rubber one in our back-bone, especially when we have disagreeable things to do. For back-bone is what too many women—and men, too—lack.
Let us believe there is much more of good than of evil in every human being; and let us help every one with whom we come in contact to bring forth the good.
Let us remember that Evil is but Ignorance, and that to “know all is to forgive all”; and let us think of this every time we are inclined to condemn another woman.
I came across a little poem in a newspaper one day, unsigned and uncredited. I am going to adapt it for every-day use:
“If I should see a sister languishing in distress,
And I should turn and leave her comfortless,
When I might be a messenger of hope and happiness;
If I might share a sister’s load along the dusty way
And I should turn and walk the other way;