The Sweetheart Tree
“I repeat, sir, that in whatever position
you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world.
As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is
convenient;
as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a
wet-nurse, she has no equal among men.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be
scarce, sir, almighty scarce.”
- Mark Twain
(30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910)
BIRTHDAYS
- TODAY AND UPCOMING:
The United States Marine Corps - 1775,
Tamsie Warren Ellis ('57), David Wittan
('57),
