Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-03-24

plete a pavilion, where their different
works of art and skin may be shown, and,
as usual, the best way OF raising the money
is by giving establishments. Titiens is to
sing at a grand concert ohelp build the
pavilion, ahd tie amateurs Of the City are
zoriHg every other night u theatricals for
tle sans.end, young ladies sAd gentlemen
Of the best families appearing at the Union
League Club Theatre before crowded houses.
One Of the city judges and his daughter
played together one night, the Judge, it is
said, appearing with the spirit and grace Of
young man of twenty-five. by the side of
his daughter of eighteen. The single per-
formance realizedsssOOO for thefund. 1
The decision of Mrs. Gillespie who is the
head Of the Womans' Commission In PRiia-
delphia, refusing with unnecessary curt
ness, to admit sll specimens of women's
work relating to dress, raised such criticism
that it has been found expedient to modify.
the rule. A strict Interpretation Of. it
would exclude all such valuable arts as
lace making, which has attained a very
credible stage in this country, embroidery
and design in dress, in which our women
can show much more creditable handiwork
than any thing they have done in painting,
let alone sculpture The action of the
committee at Philadelphia was in blind In
difference to the high esteem in which
needleEork is kheld in England where
specimens of lace, embroidery, and
dress form one of the most attractive and
elegant departments OF the Museum at
Kensington, of which Peeresses are the in
terested patrons and contributors, and in
which the Princess Louise herself is an en-
thusiastic amateur. In my way of think
ing, the Philadelphia ladies have done
their sex an injury by omitting to pay
proper respect to their peculiar arts, and so
elevating them above the level of trades and
drudgery. A very curious and interesting
department at the exhibition would be
specimens Of fine needlework from the days
Of the revolution down. The excuse of
the committee that to admit such things
would bring down on them all the dress
makers and milliners in the country,) is as
unreasonable as to exclude all maehiney
because the whole patent Office might beof-
fered. 1t was theirs to choose what to ex-
hibit. This is question which ought to
interest every woman in the country who
wants to see proper balance of respect
shown to all branches of woman's duty and
work, to sewing and dress making as well
as making poor clay figures and pictures
out Of drawing. .5f
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. lif.
You can't imagine the wild delight with
which the news of the glorious triumph in
New Hampshire was received by the Re
pubHcans of New York. If there is any
one thing that the New York Republican
breads, as business man, and aside from
any political feeling, it is the return Of the
democracy to power, for it means to him
the old Tweed rule, which is another name
for ruin. The sentiment of the Repubi-
cans Of the city was well expressed by
prominent business man at the Union
League club. "The election and the vic
tory" said he, 'fs not an endorsement Of
Belknap and the theiyes-it is a verdict
that the Republican party is not response
bic for the acts of few corrupt men,
And speaking of this election, it is sin
gular how it tears into independents. The
Tribune has awakened to the fact that the
Republican party is the only one that ever
did any investigation in its own ranks, and
the only one that ever punished its own
thieves. 1t really seemed to feel good
over the Republican triumph in the Gran
ite State, and read more like it used to
before Horace Greeley went insane than
it has for years. It would not be singu-
lar if the Tribune should get back into |
the. Republican fold, and be power in the
party once more. P1ETRo.
New York. March, 2Ist, 1876. PASS |