The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-11-21
About women.

They have kindergarlens attached b
the ST. Louis public schools. A nea
school board has been elected lately. and
the new school board resolved that aii
the teachers in the kindergarten should
pass an examination, which has not been
the custom heretofore. The departing
board, just before il departed, had as
pointed as teachers in the kindergarten
large number Of political pets. 81
school boards sometimes DO in cities
where there are no kindergariens. Many
of these pets Of the old ST. Louis school
boards we're young ladies who could mot
have obtained a certificate IN a kinder
garten or any place else. The scene nf
examination Is said to have been more
dramatic than the Ophelian funeral SER
vices in Booths Hamlet. There were
wrath weeping and Mysteries over such
questions as "What is the connection be-
tween the gifts and occupations and
"What is the sequence of giftsG At tho
close Of the examination, most of Che un-
happy "political pets" were as wilted al
Anabel Lee, who was chilled by n kill
ing frost.
Worth, the Paris man drossmaker.
has just finished splendid costumes for
ladies in America, as follows Mrs. Will
liam Florence, Mrs. John II. RAYMOND.
and the new Mrs. Senator Spencer
is said that the first wife Of Senator
Spencer died Of broken heart, and nov
the second wife orders her dresses FROM
Worth in Paris. SO ways the world
man.
In lecture on "War," John Rus
declared that the existence of wars Iu t.c
civilized State was wholly the lanIt
women. 81 must tell you women ta
said he, " IL the usual course Of war. n.
stead Of unroofng peasants houses ala
ravaging peasants fields, merely hfa
china upon your own drawing room ta
bles, no war in civilized countries would
last q week"
Minnie Wilson, niece Of the Newark
Bay lighthouse keeper, saw q boat with
three men in il upset out ia Che bay
She Jumped into her little skiA nnd row.
ed out to the party Ia time 10 save tho
life one of the party who was sinking
The three were all rescued, and they
gave the young lady diamond ring.
Mrs. Anne A. Preston writes from
Mortified, Mass, that Moody's reVivaIs
have made no real and lasting CONVEX
sion in that town (his home), aud chat
people talk more about Moody'a new rea-
idence, servants, carriage, dinners and
toilets, than they do about Moody rolig-
ion.
A favorite ideal Of japanese mythoIog
ical art is a wood-carving of hideou8
old woman sitting upon q cucumber.
She is Kappa, the bugaboo, who fright
ems children. The japanese boogar
man" is a woman.
Jennie June says il is really true that
Ben. Butler wanted 30 marry Anna
Dickinson. If Anna would wed Ben.
and take him on a starving tour, Co play
Henry the Eighth to her Anne BoIoyn
her fortune on the stage would be made.
A woman type-setter, writing 10 tho
Sun, suggests that the reason the Now
York morning papers will not employ Wo-
men cOmpOsitors is that, In that case.
they could not rent their Easements for
beer saloons.
Two Cincinnati ladies have won hone
orable distinction by works on art chic
year-Miss Mclaughlin and Keller. tho
latter teacher in the Cincinnati School
of Design.
According to "Judy" there was sent
to the English Indian famine fund q do-
nation marked as follows: "Finos in d
family for the misuse Of the word awful
one pound"
There is a large number Of women ar-
fists of New York, and some them
will undoubtedly distinguish thom-
selves. Mrs. Frost johnson is making
speciality Of animal painting.
The women Of Illinois have succeeded
in establishing an industrial school for
girls, to DO opened at South Evanston.
November l.
The Paris correspondent Of the Graphic
saws that Blanche Tucker lacks only ono
qualification for making a successful pri.
ma DONNA voice.
The Northwestern Life Insurance
Company, at Milwaukee, will not insure
the lives Of women.
A woman, Mrs. Oberly, is the editor
of the Caro- (Ill.) Bulletin, and is alto
gsther successful with her paper.
Sixteen hundred young men and wo-
men attended the Cooper Institute, for
instruction in the practical arts.
The call a ladies' afternoon party q
i" coffee" in Milwaukee.