Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-02-03


s1TY EDUCATION OF woMEN-oscAR WILDE
AND HIS BooK-A COMING VOLUME OF POEMS
BY MRS. wooLsoN-THE MASSACHUSETTS
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND ITS woRK-A
NEW COOK. K.BooK.
Boston, Jan. 3Oth, 1882
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts
society for the promotion of the university
education of women, which was held last week
Saturday, drew together a large number of
those persons interested in higher education,
chiefly women, although there was a fair
sprinkling of broadcloth and the principal ad-
dresses were by Col. Hgginson, Mr.. Arthur
Gilman and DIR. Dudley Sargent Of Harvard.
1t was great fun to hear Mr.. Gilman plead for
the Harvard annex" and see the faces of
the women as he talked. II was, on the
whole, rather queer place for him to urge
the cause of his pet institution-among
company of women who are heart and soul in
Boston university. And well they may be-
for this young and hourishing college was
opened with the same advantages for young
men and women, and there are in the society
a number of its graduates. AS a rule, the
women don't much care for the annex" II
it was anything but an "annex"-known by
any other name-it would not be quite as bad;
but, even though it is in reality no part of
Harvard, and is associated with it in no way
except so far as some Of the professors in
one teach in the other, there is an impression
abroad that such is the case, and the young
women Students az a rule, prefer to go where
they are welcome rather than where they are
merely tolerated. Among the women who
were present, and who are active members of
the society, were Mrs Julia Ward Howe, Mrs
exGov. Cafin, Miss Mary F. Eastman, Mrs
Henrietta L. T. Wolcott, Mrs. Emily Talbot
Miss Florence Cushing, and Miss Helen Cola
more. Mrs. VIM. F. Warren, wife of the
president of Boston university, presided very
pleasantly. An important feature in the meet
ing was the reports from foreign countries
gardiDg the work there, presented by Mrs
Talbot; interesting accounts came from Rus
sia, Belgium, Switzerland, and, above ALL
from Italy, where the movement has lately
received decided impetus. Quite a deal of
practical work has been accomplished during
the past year. Nine students have been as
sisted in their work of obtaining an educa-
ton. 1t is the aim of the society to establish
scholarships for women in some of the lead
ing colleges where women are received on
profits, and also to endow professorship for
women in some of these colleges. This lat
ter will be work of time, but they have en-
tered upon it with zeal.
The coming sensation is Oscar Wilde. He
makes his bow before Boston audience for
g. a; 4
hall will be crowded. We have heard all
about his velvet knee-breeches and silk stock
ings from New York. and we have read &C
counts Of the English renaissance" as eI-
planned by its chief apostle but that has only
made us all the more curious concerning him,
and more anxious to hear and See for ourselves.
He is to stay at the Vend0me-s sensible mani
and will be feted in every possible way. He
is beyond all doubt a success, and his mana.
ger will make good thing out of him. His
manager, D'Oley Carte, is also the manager
of a Patience company which opens at the
Globe this evening. Here will be a chance,
rare indeed, of contrasting the caricature with
its subject Mr.. Wilde's American visit has
started the sale of his poems wonderfully, and
his publishers, Messrs. Roberts Bros. cannot
supply the demand for them. / hear that
Mr.. Wilde is not satisfied with plain exterior
for the volume which contains his verses; the
English edition was bound in white vellum,
was adorned with all sorts of appropriate de-
vices-in which probably lilies and sunaowers
had a conspicuous place and was printed ON
delcately- y-tinted paper. The publisher did not
''go in" for so much display, but he has made
a neat attractive volume, and, plain as it is,
it sells like hot cakes Apropos of poetry, l
have heard it whispered that Mrs. Abba Goold
Woolson contemplates volume this spring.
She has written some very beautiful poems,
and they deserve a permanent abiding place
instead of drifting around in newspapers.
There will be about fifty poems in the book,
and they will cover period of about fifteen
years. 1t is possible that the winters lecture
work may delay the publication, but l hope
not 1t certainly will be printedat an early
date, even if not in the spring.
1t may interest some of my readers who are
interested in farming to learn that the Massa-
chusetts horticultural society is testing the
advantage of orcharding as most profitable
work for New England farmers. 1t has been
devoting several of its recent Saturday meet
ings to the subject of apple and pear culture,
and it seems to be generally agreed by most
of its members that money can be made from
apples, even though the price they bring is
low, because the labor of cultvating them is
so comparatively slight and the harvesting so
easy, and also because the soil and climate of
New England are especially adapted to the
| Of ha fr,it nnNipo fla fttpf
passed l so often noticed in my drives, or
chards going to decay, with no attempt to re-
place them by planting new trees and won
dered at the unthrift; but in speaking about
| it we always received the same answer, 'or-
chards don't pay" l must say don't see
why they shouldn't when rightly managed,
for apples are something indispensable, aud
| it is very rarely that the supply exceeds the
demand. For beauty, nothing excels we'll
kept orchard with its thrifty, well trimmed
trees, and am glad to hear such eloquent
pleas made for them.
have just received a new pamphlet cook
| ing book, containing all the receipts that
have been and are to be taught in the cook
| ing class at Lassell. 1t contains rules for
making all sorts of dishes, from the simplest
to the most elaborate. This is the fifth year
in which cooking has been taught at this
school, and there is in the new wing model
kitchen with all the appliances, where the
lectures are given and the practice class held
Mr.. Bragdon evidently intends, as far as pos
sible, to refute the charge that nothing prac-
tical is taught at school. In addition to the
cooking department, there is a class in dress
making, one in millinery and one in art nee
dlework. Mrs. Smith from the Royal School
of Needlework at South Kensngton, and the
principal of the Boston needlework school,
has charge of this department, and whatever
the girls are learning they are learning thor