The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-11
MEN WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

| PUBLIC LIBRARY.
At the June meeting Of the w. G. and L.
A., on Wednesday last Mrs. Dora Warder
was unanimously elected secretary Of the
association for the remainder of the year.
Lady Duffus Hardy tells her readers in
England that if any one travels in America
in perfect comfort and freedom from anx-
iety, it is the unprotected woman, to whom
all men yield Difference and respectful as
sistance. She is very sorry her own coun-
trymen are not always decent and polite at
such times.
In 1880, eighteen young women were
graduated from a school of Technology in
Boston. OF these, eight found at once
steady employment as designers in print
factories; one in pottery works; two in an
oil cloth mandatory: and one in carpet
mill.
1t is said that Leonardo da Vincis orgi-
nal sketch of the immortal Last Supper has
been discovered in Italy. 1t is painted on
panel twenty feet long and three feet
wide.
The Boston Society of Natural History
will open seaside laboratory for limited
number of women students at Annisquam,
Mass, on July ], the term to end Septem-
Der |. A windmill will supply running
water so that living animals may be studied,
and yacht will take out dredging parties
at suitable intervals.
Mrs. Fawcett, the studious wife of the
blind English statesman. has come to high
honor Her political Economy for Be-
ginners" is being translated into two of the
native languages of India, Canarese and
Marathi. Her "Tales in Political Econo-
my" are also beng translated into the lat.
ter language and into Swedish.
Mrs. L. e. Elliot is young widow left
with two children to support and educate,
and instead of sitting down and pinng at
her fate, she has bravely stepped forward
and opened ladies fancy shoe store in
Dayton, Ky.
Frances E. Willard says that to secure
home protection in Illinois, conventions
must be called, not by party hacks but by
honest, really Christian men, No office
seekers need apply. By the help of God,
Illinois shall have the most righteous cam.
paign that she has ever witnessed in all her
history, and many sad heart and blighted
life shall be reached and comforted by our
long pull, strong pull all together"
AT the opening of the new and msguif-
cent Academy of Music, which cost
$4,000, in Kalamazoo Michigan, the price
for tickets was IS. The audience, though
large and fashionable, was naturally lim-
ted. A short time ago Miss Frances Will
lard spoke in the same hall, under the
auspices of the Womens Christian Temp
erance Union, and was greeted by the larg-
est audience the hall had ever contained
over 400 people, who listened spell bound
to her inspired words for temperance and
reform.
In Philadelphia womans school of de-
sign has sent out during the last twenty
years, hundreds of girls qualified to earn a
comfortable income by this kind of work.
One woman, for example, receives employ
ment from manufacturer of gas fixtures
and chandeliers at salary of three thous-
and dollars a year. another received ten
dollars per week for painting cheap
Japanned toilet sets. The difference in
salary is due to the difference in the capac-
ity or artistic ability Of the designers.
To the thoughtful mind nothing is more
suggestive and touching than the beautiful
picture Of the sweet girl graduates" who
in snowy robes, surrounded by lovely flow
ers and admiring friends, stand upon the
threshold ofa new life, full of stern rea-
ties and joys and sorrows untried and I'M
known. lnstinctively we wish that the
bright, young faces might be shielded from
the cares and trials of maturer years, and
that no shadow might ever fall upon them
But that cannot be, and the wiser wish Is
that their years of preparation may have
fitted them for high, pure womanhood,
and the brave and steadfast bearing of
whatever burdens may fall to their lot.
That their influence may be for what is
best and truest in lite, and that each young
heart beating won with high aspirations
, for honor and usefulness may find its sat
: sfacton in duty well performed.
Superintendent Rogers, of New Orleans
says that the public school training given
to the colored people has had remarkable
results in the direction Of industry, order,
good manners and morals. In New Orleans
| both the public and private schools for
colored children have constantly increas-