The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-02
CONCERNING WOMEN.
To a Wife.

CHARLES KINGSLEY.
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterdays sneer and yesterday s frown
Can never come over again,
Sweet wife,
No, never come over again.
For woman is warm, though man be cold,
And the night will hallow the day;
Til th- heart which at even was weary ana
OLD
Can rise in the morning gay,
Sweet wife,
To its work In the morning gay.
Mr.. Gladstone believes in granting col
legiate degrees to women.
Forty women studied in the London School
of Medicine for Women during the term just
closed.
"One hundred thousand women are said to
be working in the fields of the West" And
100. 900 able-bodied men are hanging around
street corners in the East, complaining be-
cause there are no nice, easy jobs for them.
1t is stated that the first lady telegraph
operator was Miss Sarah G.. Bagley, of Low
ell. Mass, who Begin her labors in 1876. AT
that time the prejudice against female opera
tives was intense, but it has gradually d.
minished, and there are now thousands OF wo-
men engaged throughout the world in this
occupation.
A letter has been presented to Senator
Don Cameron, Chairman of the Republican
National Committee, signed by lis Republi-
can members of the Federal Senate and
House of Representatives, asking that seats
be provided at the Chicago Presidential Con-
vention for "seventy-six women citizens, del
egates of the State and National Woman
Suffrage Associations"
A very different method of affecting a
union is reported in California. 1t consists
of an instrument filed in the office Of the
Napa County Recorder, signed by the groom
and bride, in which they declare, "this in
denture witnesseth, etc, that the parties do
hereby join in this declaration of marriage,
each promising and coyenanting with the
other to assume and carry out during their
natural lives the duties and obligations of
marriage in the sight of man and God"
In Police Court where man was aecus-
ed of brutality beating a woman, the woman
was severely cross-examined by the attor-
ney for the defense who was bent on prov
ing the lofty and immaculate virtues of his
client. In evidence under this torture the
unlucky victim stated that she had support
ed the man for about two years, and was, of
course, Immediately fallen upon for the dan
gerous inaccuracy of her "about" She must
swear to the precise period, and was brow
beaten for the exact time In which she did
beaten for the exact time in which she did
not support him. The much bsggered wit
ness at length turned. The times that ]
did not support him were exactly the times
when he was in jail"
Lamartine once advised brilliant Amer
lean lady collOquist to write book. But
never wrote anything for publication in
my life" she answered, and added, 81 would
not know how to go about it." "Write ex-
actly as you talk, and your book will be
eagerly read by everybody" was his quick
and gallant reply. Now that is exactly
what zone of them" has evidently done in
her some Women of the Day" 1t reads
from Alpha and Omega exactly like a IA
miliar conversation, in which brilliant mind
and full heart we're pouring out sparkling
thoughts and noble feelings "frae end to end''
without the slightest attempt at effort, or
apparent consciousness that this sentence
disclOses marvellous mental momentum,
or that a carelessness that reconstruction
could have easily put on bookish stills, and
at the same time robbed of the simplicity that
is its charm. The book is not so much of a
book as it is reproduction of glimpses OF
real life. Often when looking at Joe JEFF
fersOn in "Trip Van Wrinkle" one forgets
he is in theater at all, and looks on the
whole scene as real life. Just so does one
frequently feel while perusing many OF the
pages of this charming volume, and those are
pages from which we rise up better men and
women.