The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-02
CoNoERNING woaEN.

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Mas Marianne North, pretty English
artist, is making tour of the world with
very high credentials for the purpose of
painting the distinctive flowers that grow
wild.
Mrs Matte r. Field, Of the editorial
| staff of the New Orleans Times, is a rising
woman journalist. Mrs. Field is young, en-
thusiastic, and great favorite in New Or
leans.
Mrs. Garfield is understood 10 have said
that she will not interfere with the Presi-
dent-elect il he chooses TO have wine at for
NAL dinners, and her Washington friends
say that she will confne herself To tho affairs
Of her private household, with which the
public has nothing to do.
Women are too commonly adiudged YER
dant in all put pdrely womanish affairs. No
philosophical students of the sex thus Judge
them. Their intuiti0ns, or insights, are the
most subtle, and if they can not see cat in
the meal there Is no cat there. A man,
therefore should keep none of his affairs
secret from his wife.
Arthur Helps In many things women
are the superiors Of men, in many things
they are inieriors-never our equals. There
are souls masculine and feminine. If L were
suddenly asked to give pros of the good
ness of God to us, think should say that
it is most manifest in the exquisite difference
he has made between the souls of women
and men, so as to create the most charming
companionship that the mind of man can
imagine.
There are two reasons writes a man
why women desire the suffrage: one is as
| ofx uhat 20 than 81, 10
justice, and they are unable to imagine why
this Justice should be denied them, except
on principles which they feel themselves
strongly called upon to protest against. The
other is the plain fact that in some degree
women have special interests. 1t is for
these reasons, far more than the desire of
influencing the policy OF wars and armies,
that thew wish 10 vote.
The devotion of women has another ex-
emplifcstion in the wife of Sheppard Cow
| ley. She visited him almost daily during
his whole term of imprisonment, she never
ceased to assert his Innocence and maintain
that he was a victim of passion and pre-
judice, and by incessant efforts she managed
to raise money enough to pay his fine when
his term expired. The amount was only
$3.50, but it was not by any means easily
1 RhbutICu up AlbtI buC dIItcb VI ucI NUS
band, she made her home in tenement
house, and lived as poorly as some of the
destitute women who are on the relief lists
of the charitable Societies.
The education of women in Europe is
advancing. In the Victoria Lyceum,
Prussia, regular entrance and closing ex-
aminations have been instituted, and
certificates are given for excellence in
classical and scientific studies, and in the
humanities, and woman has been appoint
ed to a chair Of philosophy. Canon Barry,
principal of Kings College, London, said
recently that he considered that it was
pestilent heresy that girls should leave off
studying just at the time when their brothers
are beginning to enjoy the advantages of
College work The Russian Schools for girls
have rather formidable courses of study and
strict systems of examination. In the lower
classes they learn sacred and universal
history and geography, and they begin in
the third class the history of at, history of
modern invention and discoveries, and of
Miss Francis Power Cobhe, in her "Duties
of Woman: Course of Lectures" says:
"0f course, no woman can be so dull Of
observation as not to know that men are
invariably hsttered by the abject appeal of a
woman especially if she be young and pref
! tyl to save her IRON some transient pcrll-a
runaway horse, swaying boat, an irrasci-
bic bull. Obviously il makes the the small
lest masculine soul swell with Herculean
glory to be clasped round the arms Tor in
extreme cases the legs and beseeched to ex-
hibit the heroism of his sex. Possibly he
may be shaking in his shoes, and the sp-
plication to help anybody, but himself may
| be rather inopportune, especially if the sup
plant be plain or elderly Ionce
asked dentist whether gentlemen or ladies
gave him most trouble: and he replied; 90,
gentlemen beyond question. operated
upon great many offers just before they
went to the Crimean War, and l assure
you that many of them who are now Bsla-
klava and Inkerman heroes behaved in a
very unheroic way indeed in the chair in
which you are sitting. Women scream a
little but are always ready to thank me for
what do for them. Men moan, and groan,
and abuse me-