Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-08
FROM BOSTON,.


WOMAN SUFFRAGE soCIABLEs.
BosToN, Dec. =, 1882.
The West keeps its eye steadily on New
England, and sends strong temptations TO the
men and women of advanced thought who
are at once originators and workers. The
truth is the West has breadth of thought
and idea of which its praries are a fair type,
and with its resources for wealth it can com
mand almost anything it wants to its pres
ence. This is apropos of tho resignation of
Col Francis Parker from tho board of Boston
school supervisors, and his appointment as
principal of the Cook county normal school
of Illinois, with an enormous salary and the
privilege of lecturing Col. Parker is, as you
doubtless know, the originator Of the famous
Quincy" method of teaching, which made
the town where he was SO long teacher and
superintendent of schools so famous that
everybody far and near who was interested
in the cause of education, took pains to visit
it and study its wonderful school system. Bos-
ton secured Col. Parker on its board of su-
pervisors, but has not appreciated what she
had, and, as usual, some of the fogy element,
headed by Mr. Philbrick, the former super
intendent, have made things as uncomforta-
BILE and disagreeabe az they could for him.
The consequence is a perfectly natural one
he got tired Of fighting, the West wanted
him and urged his coming, and he very SEN
sibly went I've notion Boston will realize,
now that it is too late, what it has lost
II anybody has an idea that this city of
ours is modern in thought, takes kindly to new
ideas, aud is the home Of advanced move
ment please disabuse your mind at once. Ex-
cept in some individual cases, which stand out
so prominently that they are noted the world
over, there is nowhere a people who cling SO
fondly to old traditions and hate to take up
anything new, as do Bostonians. They are
conservative to a degree, and are so sure their
old traditional ways are right that they have
no patience with any one who tries to tell
them anything that shall change them.
l have never been more more firmly i'm
pressed with this belief than in reading Lydia
Maria Child's letters, recently published by
Houghtou & Mifiin, in which she tells some
thing of what the old autislavery set-that
noble band of men and women, so few of
whom are left now--had to endure at the
hands Of the rich and respectable citizens of
this city. II all reads like romance now,
although there are some of us who still re-
member what we heard as children of the
days that just preceded the late war. We
were living history" at a tremendous rate
We have had an echo of those days recently
both from Mrs Child's book and from Mrs
John Browns visit to some Boston friends
which brought together on several occasions
the few remaining friends of her husband,
aud the children of those who had passed
away. She has returned now to the West,
but Boston people are taking care that she
shall spend her latter days in comfort, and
are busy in making up a fund for her. After
the little abuse of Boston in which 1 have
Just now INDUCED, it is only fair to say, that,
If her people are conservative, they are equal
ly generous, and never refuse a call for pecu-
MARY aid Since have known them they
have turned their pockets inside out several
times to give assistance to those who needed
it.
Winter is nearly upon u.s. and we have had
two days of snowstorm this very week. Eve
rybody scolded about it, yet everybody was
out in it, You know the genuine Boston
woman nridss bersoIf NJ, scornine, ,be veatber
and se,,ino ,bo .l.r,or,s ot dosonoo Sbo
goes out at all times and under all circum-
stances, and one Of the first articles of her
creed is Il believe in the efficacy of water
nroofs and r,,hhers aud have ir,rlioit 9Th
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from Rra,,ls ~ Royl.,o, on ono ~ ,boso
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within orr GATES - who had NOT Learned Tho
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tbroa,erod oil day Tho s,rosts Iook so ale
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what ,,,ev ala a fs,v years aoo ubop everv.
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r,odo into .vol,nirous oirc,Iors ,biob mus,
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samer cloaks have made a nerfsct revolution
they are so Goht so convenient To carry
when not needed and suob a Genuine protec.
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