The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-14
wONIAN'S KINGDOM,
Sayings and DOings That Most
Do Interest the Ladies.
Fashion FOibtes aud Gossip GEN.
orally.
WOMEN ON LAW AND ORDER

SayS Lucy SGOues ~ ue SUPP tllltCy VI
law Is the fundamental condition upon
which human society rests, and even
military despOtIsm is preferable to an-
archy. 70 women, especially, mob law
is fatal, and although they have been
Tor centuries, and Still are, compelled to
work for less than half the wages OF the
railroad men, they have never yet re-
sorted TO fire and bloodshed as means
Of COERCION"
Mrs. Hale says: "The points l wish
to make are: First, that these boys VINO
are roaming about the streets, ripe Tor
murder and plunder, were somebody's
boys. They all had mothers. Out OF
obedience in the home, out of respect
Tor home government, grows easily 0De-
dience to law, respect for Slate and Ma
tional Government, and, more than all,
reverence for tnat higher nature which
asserts itself in every one OF US. Ii
mere be a nation on earth where obe-
dIence to law should be insti!led into
the child's heart with his earliest les
sons. it is in this republic. Can there be
any respect for law, any Difference for
any thing outside that rlOtous self-will,
When that selt-will tyrannizes over the
household from the cradle, and bullies
weaker wills into submission before the
little esotist could speak his vernacu-
larw
Mrs. William Grey writes: "Women
| want a higher education, because the
duties allotted to women by the Creators
order require the highest mental and
moral discipline, and low-minded
mother Injuries society at its very root,
IN the family"
The Bishop of Manchester writes:
| "Ihere is a great Cry at present about
| mo- riThtS | WiC n w
all tne rights that belong to them; but l
would remind them OF tue great maxim,
| 'CeSt Ia femme Qul tait les mdenS.' Not
only do they 1oim the manners and the
morals of children, but when they are
growing up it is still women VINO must
purify the moral atmosphere around
tnem."
| The London Times, quoting from the
report OF the educational office OF the
| Society Of Arts, states thai i'll this So
| cietv GIVE Young men had taken first
| class honors in cookery" the first prize,
| however, being conferred upon "a Wo-
man.
The following extract from a private
letter OF a South Carolina widow who
shas nine children, most OF them girls
and all but one at home, and who has
seen better days, has got into print in
that State, and has called out several
subscriptions in her behalf: IL am liv-
expect TO buy if can ever
raise the money; price $50. This
acre l have had plowed, Tor which
| paid, and with wheelbarrow, chip
manure and rotted pine straw, l, my
self, nave raised 50 many Irisn potatoes
that a ter grabbing tor SIX weeks to sup
ply my table, wnele L and nine children
SIT regularly, l have in the past few
days dug over three barrels. L have
corn taller than my head, early cow
peas, tomatoes, turning, kora In bloom,
and had over one hundred heads "!
Deautlul young cabbage, some squashes
anu cuCunbeIe destroyed Wy my noish-
boris pigs. l am not in despair, howeV-
er, Tor AS soon as my friends finish sell
lIng ouL their slips l will buy enough tor
quIte patch, and pay for them IN labor
returned by working on the sewing ma
chine, Some persons say l am lanatlcdl,
Be 1t 80; ; better that than gaddlng about
and CONSUMING precious Time in idle
mess. | am quite Indifferent to the
jaunts | hear OF such WORK being unla-
dylike. am only dong work that has
10 be done, and l would like TO have it
nicer; but there is no alternative. With
all my striving | find but little margin
lur clothing, and none tor the education
OF my dear children"
There are at present three counties in
California wnere ladies hold the posi-
lion of Superintendent of Common
Schools, viz; Mono, Trinity and Tue
lumnc.
MITs AND GLOVES.
A cabal has arisen in the fashionable
circles in Paris concerning SaXony klG
gloves and Partisan mittens. The latter
are advocated by arlstocrats, who de
clare that none wear mits to advantage
who are not gifted with microscope
hands, the result OF hign lineage aud five
, centuries OF laziness. The democratic
lair, having had only industrious mem
bers in the family, contend that loose
SaxOnies without buttons simulate tiny
hands and conceal all the muscle tha
mas been wanted for the accumulation O
fifty years. earnings. Both camps arr
proud of their arguments, but amateurs
Of ladies' hands generally incline TO th'
: latter Paris Letter.
II Judging from observations at all thu
hops, should say that kid gloves ar
out or fashion for evening wear at Sara
toga. l saw only three pair worn OF
saturday evening. ihls must not DC
viewed by hasty Judges as an evidence
| Oh 6COuuuyS iUI AdCS Mibbcho dlS "oAi
by very stylish laales, and these cover
ings for hands and arms cost from Sl5 II
$40 a pair in this country, and 70 II
, Paris.-[ Saratoga Letter.
FASHIONS AT CAPE MAY.
ii We have the tradltlOnally handsome
, widow at Congress hall. Sne halls from
SAN Francisco, and Is popularity know
as the "Calilornia charmer," and, to
gether with her beauty of form and lace
she is playing sad havoc with our beauX
, 1t may be interesting to some Of our lady
readers to learn OF this season.
style of dressing. The costumes, as {
= general thing, boast simplicity rathe
than elegance. Cape May has Away
!. been noted Tor its extreme latitude il
' this particular. We have BaltimOr
7 belle here who is thought by many II
t carry OFT the palm tor tasteful costumes
Alta recent hop she was gorgeous in 1
, miracle OF iyory-whlte crepe and duch
ess lace, draped in front with cascade
Q of lace intermixed with dropping spray
of violets. On another occasion the fai
damsel was respleadent in zephyr
like dress Of cIel-Dleu crepe, the bodic
, cut la Verge and ornamented witt
J.. garuitures OF silver-wheaG ears. !
, fashion has been invented when meet
with general appreciation Dy those o