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    "ocrText": "-2-\n\"Mary Lou Wingate, as slightly made\nand as hard to break as a rapier blade.\n\"She loved her hands and they made her vain\nthe tiny hands of her generation\nthat gathered the reins of the whole plantation\n-\n\"The velvet sheathing the steel demurely\nIn the trained light grip that holds securely\nShe was at work by candlelight\nShe was at work in the death of night\nD-\nSweating out troubles and healing schisms\nKennedy of 1\nAnd doctoring phtisics and rheumatism -\n\"She knew the whole duty of a woman-kind\nTo take the burden and have the power\nAnd seem the well-protected flower. 18\nPerhaps to some of you that speaks of a Southern world now\ndead and gone - but to me there is much wisdom in it. Even today it\nis not out of place to take the burden and have the power and seem the\nwell-protected flower.\nWhat Mary Lou Wingate did in the South was no more than the\naccomplishments of one pioneer woman who helped to settle the West,\nor of our own valiant Pilgrim forbears. Since I have many New England\nancestors I may quote the wit who once said - \"We hear so much of the\nhardships of the Pilgrim Fathers - but think of the Pilgrim Mothers -\nthey not only had to endure the same hardships, but they had to live\nwith the Pilgrim Fathers!"
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