The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-05
MEN. WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ihe oDJecuon frequently urBeu, when
the library first opened, to its position upon
the levee, and in the second story, which
could be reached only by a long fight of
stairs, was entirely lost sight of last week.
Every one interested in the good works of
theilibrary rejoiced that its valuable posses
sions were so far above high water mark,
and the librarians and board of trustees
were agreeably relieved that there was no
moving" to be done in that quarter.
That the library was closed on the 25tt
of February was entirely an accident, and
owing to the fact that the librarian was
unavoidably detained, the assistant librar-
ian without key, and the janitors under
mistake about keeping the door open,
there was no panic or highwater at the
library.
Books that should have been returned
that day, will be credited another week.
DUTY TO GIRLS.
The poorest girls in the world are those
who have never been taught to work. There
are thousands Of them. Rich parents have
petted them. They have been taught to
despise labor and depend upon others for
living and are perfectly helpless. If mis-
fortune comes upon their friends, as it often
does, their case is hopeless. The most for
lorn women on earth belong to this class.
1t belongs to parents to protect their daugh.
tiers from this deplorabe condition. They
do them great wrong if they neglect it.
Every daughter ought to be taught to make
her own living. The rich as we'll as the
poor require this training. The wheel Of
fortune rolls swiftly around the rich are
very likely to become poor and the poor
rich. Skill to labor is no disadvantage to
the rich, indispensable to the poor. Well
TODD parents must educate their children
to work. No reform is more imperative
than this.-Ex.
A few months ago some masculine be-
lever in the doctrine of woman's inferiority
declared in words touched with bitterness
and gall, that women are failure in Jour.
nalism. Still the journalistic work of
women continues to be acceptable to news.
papers and readers. Nearly every leading
newspaper in the United States numbers
one or more women on its staff of editors
or correspondents. The leading editorial
writers in all Of the departments of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger are women.
Miss Kate Field and Mrs. Louise Chandler
Moulton have been engaged for Judge A.
| w. Tourgee's new literary weekly The
Continent. Miss Nellie M. Hutchinson has
been connected with the New York Tri-
bune for over ten years, and some of the
best editorials in that paper are from her
pen.
The indianapolis Daily Sentinel has in
it's Sunday edition whole page devoted to
o most entertaining department, called
"Womsn's World"-edited by Florence NJ.
Atkinson in an able and successful man
ner. In the issue of February 10Th is a
complimentary notice of the efforts of the
Woman's Club and Library Association of
Cairo, Illinois, to establish free public
library and reading room. Almost every
paper of note has department edited by,
and in the interes. Of women, and such
columns are usually found to be the spiciest,
most valuable and entertaining the paper
contains. The CAIRO BULLETIN is in
cluded in this class, we understand.
The wives Of number of leading Ger
man citizens of New York have inaugu-
rated movement looking to the importa-
ton of Austrian and German servant girls.
They say that many young women in the
Fathcrlani find it difficult to earn an hon.
est livelihood, owing to the dull state of
| tIhuC duu IoAimSiNC, buV luSN tIlO Aiphho
with which to emigrate to America. The
object of the society is to establish agencies
which will care for the girls, forward them
from one point to another, and arrange for
the ocean passage. On reaching New
York they will be received into home,
where they will remain few weeks and
learn something of American house-keep-
ing.
Frances Hodson Burnett is the literary
lion of Washington. She has pretty lit
tie house where she receives Tuesdays and
Tuesday evenings. She has a coterie in
} her own particular den mp stairs. She
looks very pretty, standing in the center OF
her cozy, celed drawing-room, a wood
} fire blazing on the hearth, and herself in q
pretty pale gown, receiving with natural
grace and cordially that is very captivat
, ing.
For the first time in its brief but bril-