| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: launched on a business career and my investments were paying me
much larger revenues than I could earn at my trade. It was a rule
of the union that when a man ceased to work in the iron, steel or
tin trades he forfeited his membership. However, the boys thought
that Mahlon M. Garland--a puddler who went to Congress--and
myself had done noteworthy service to the labor cause, and they
passed a resolution permitting us to remain in the organization.
Mr. Garland served six years in Congress and died during his term
of office. I still carry my membership and pay my dues.
I was in France when the great Hindenburg offensive in the
spring of 1916 overwhelmed the Allies. The French soldiers I met
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: for your hospitality and friendliness to us in our days of trouble.
May Englishwomen accept this in a kindly spirit as a New-year's wish
from
A FRENCH LADY. Dec. 29.
That, then, is the substance of what I would fain say convincingly,
if it might be, to my girl friends; at all events with certainty in
my own mind that I was thus far a safe guide to them.
For other and older readers it is needful I should write a few words
more, respecting what opportunity I have had to judge, or right I
have to speak, of such things; for, indeed, too much of what I have
said about women has been said in faith only. A wise and lovely
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