Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-20
IRON BOSTON,

THE PRESIDENTS VISIT AND HOW HE WAS ne
cE1yED-A woMAN's OPINION OF THE OHIO
ELEcr1oN-NEw WOMEN LECTURERS IN THE
FIELD.
BosroN, Oct. H., 1882.
The President has been here and is gone,
and we are settling down into quiet again af-
ter two or three days Of excitement aud feast
ing. l think l never saw a greater crowd of
people in my life in the streets Of Boston
than were out on Wednesday morning, the
day that the President arrived. Possibly it
is because ! never got mixed up in such
crowd before and never personally tested its
density. l have looked upon the heads of
the assembage from height removed, but
this time | was, unwilling enough, and quite
accidentally, a part and parcel Of it. l had
come into town early to avoid the crowd, but
rashly stopping TO do an errand on Washing
ton street, l was hopelessy caught and com
PEELED to stand for two hours on the curb
stone, unable either to advance or retreat I'M
til l had reviewed the state militia and takon
in President Governor, Mayor, Cabinet, and
all the rest of the dignitaries. l fumed in
wardly, but to no purpose, so I kept quiet
and admired the marching Of the troops, and
thought once in a while Of other troops in the
same uniform, that had seen marching in
the same jaunty way, when they were not
out for days pleasure to escort a President
but had started on a journey from which
many of them never returned to defend the
offices and the country. To these boys, play
ing soldier the war was as dim remem-
brance of their early childhood to many it
was but bit of history that they had learned
from story or book. How long ago the war
was, and yet how quickly the years that have
interviewed have flown. 1 saw some faces
that l knew had faced the battle days, but
they were the exception l must confess
that 1 thought more Of the past than Of the
present, until suddenly there flashed upon me
the familiar face of Governor Long and there
by his side sat the man for whom all this dis
play was made-a thoughtful man with
hair and whiskers more thickly sprinkled
with gray than when last saw him. at the
Inauguration of President Garfield and few
days after He looked tired, but at the re-
ception in the evening, after rest and din
ner which he must have sadly needed, he
was as fresh as though he and fatigue were
entirely unacquainted. The reception at the
Brunswick was a brilliant affair. Everybody
was dressed for the occasion the rooms were
gay with flowers and President Arthur found
what he probably knew was truo before, that
Bostonians know how to entertain. II, AS a
New Yorker he had ever dared to have
doubts Of it, he must have been thoroughly
convinced.
Right in the midst Of our rejoicing camo
the news from Ohio Women who are not
given to meddling with politics were appalled,
at it. Not because the Democratic party de-
feated the epublicans-that had nothing to
do with il in fact, il wasn't il at all but be-
cause party composed Of men who had be-
longed to all parties banded together against
the interest OF morality and won victory.
Because the Republican party bad been in
power and because laws had been passed 10y
u Republican legislature, forbidding the sale
of liquor on Sunday, the men interested de-
termined to punish them; SO they elected a
Democratic governor and legislature. Now
if the party in power will only show that
they too have the moral welfare Of the com
munity at heart-and certainly the welfare Of
home and of state is as dear to an honest
Democrat as to an honest Republican-the
men who are in the interests of immortality
will be hur. by their own weapons II may
be asked why We in Massachusetts, care what
goes on in Ohio; it is because we are moth
ers, and our children are going out from us
to seek broader fields for making their own
lives; ard they go into the midst of all this
temptation, away from the pure atmosphere
of their homes where they are surrounded
with good influences. 1t means more than
the mere fact Of open Sunday aud free liquor
in Ohio it means a lowering Of principle and
a moral contamination all over the country.
This is a woman's view of the Ohio situation
taken from moral heights outside and apart
from all party prejudice and it is the view
taken by all the majority Of women, whether
they have Republican or Democratic ante
cedents.
Lucy Stones daughter, Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, a graduate of Boston University
made her debut as a public speaker at the
Women's State Temperance Convention at
Maiden this week. Her subject was Social
Drinking" and she treated it most success
fully. Her address was clear forcible and
logical, and it was repete with genuine wit
and cleverness. Her manner was easy and
unconstrained and she charmed her audience
completely. Her platform presence reminds
one OF her father, Mr. II. b. Blackwell In
deed, she has much more OF his clear uuim.
passioned forcible logic than of her mothers
enthusiastic eloquence. Another woman
speaker, new to New England, but with an
enviabe reputation in the West and the Mid
die states, is to appear before New England
audiences this season for few engagements
only, as her literary work forbids. This is
Miss Leila E. Partridge of Philadelphia, state
lecturer for the Board of Education on the
New Methods" She is at present in Bos-
ton studying voice culture with Mr.. Henry
X White, Jr., the director of music in the
church Of the Advent and teacher of the
Rudersdorf Method at the New England Con
servatory, under whose instruction she will
remain during the year. Miss Partridge opens
the lecture course at East Dedham next week
with her lecture on 1--WE Girls" which has
been classed with Mrs. Livermore's what
shall we do with our daughters"
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