The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-10-05
HOME, SWEET HOME.
Something About WOman's Work Above
and Below Stairs.

| Inc ISG OF CanQlOateS WHO nave ODtdllleu
honors at the recent examinations of the Lon
don Metropolitan University has been issued.
| In intermediate examinations in medicine no
womans name appears in either sections of
anatomy, materia medica, chemistry or physi-
| ology, but in the examinations in arts and
| Sciences more particularly in the sections Of
! modern languages, women are far more sue
! cessful. In the mathematical honor list the
names of women do not appear, nor in that for
! zoology. In science generally the female
| students can hardly be said to be Pre-eminently
! successful, while in modern languages other
than English they have secured far more than
the average proportion Of the honors due to
their numbers To the doctrinaires, who
maintain the absolute identity of the intellec-
tual powers in the two sexes, the publication
| of these results must be the reverse of crafty
| ing; while to those who recognize the rapid
| perception and great intellectual acuteness of
| well-trained girls the list will not be surpris-
| ing. That young women should prove better
linguists than men of a similar age is what
| every experienced educator expected. That they
should not be equal to them in abstract or
practical science will disappont no one except
those crotchety individuals whose conclusions
can hardly be excused, even on the ground of
| their want of experience.
81 am Quaker, as you know Philadel,
phian recently said, and it is reported that
shortly before Jenny Lind's visit to our
city an aged lady arose i'll one of our meet
ings and said she had heard that Jane Lyon,
4 very wicked woman, was on her way TO this
country to sing and she hoped that none of
the young people would be drawn away to hear
her. Nevertheless, an uncle took me and my
brother TO the Saturday matinee. We had
seats in the balcony, and SO near the stage that
we could in way see behind the scenes.
Early in the entertainment Jenny Lind sang
Home, Sweet Home and the audience was
beside itself. Among the members of her COM
pany was her future husband, Otto Gold
schmidt. He was to the audience simply an
unknown pianist, and to be obliged to listen
to anything but the voice of Jenny Lind was
provoking. Well, the man played, and from
where we sat we could see Jenny Lind behind
the curtain listening most intently. When he
had finished the audience seemed in nOWise
disposed to applaud; but Jenny Lind began to
clap her hands vigorously, observing which, we
boys re-enforced her, and observing her face
light up can see the love-light on it yet
we clapped furously until the applause spread
through the audience. When he had finished
playing a second time my brother and l set
the ball in motion, and the applause was great
enough to satisfy even the tiancee of Otto
Goldschmidt."
At the afternoon session of the WOman's Suf-
frage Convention, speeches were made by Miss
Phoebe Cozzens, Mrs Newman, Mrs. Boner,
Miss Amelia Boomer, Mrs. Mckinney, and
Others. In the business session of the confer
ring committees it was decided that the cam
paign committee should consist of Mr.. COudt,
Mrs. Bittenbender, Mrs Russell, and two Off
GERS of the National Association. The head
quarters will probably be at Omaha. About
800 persons attended the convention in the
evening. in spite of rain storm. Speeches
were made by Miss Matilda Hindman, Of Penn
sylvania, who spoke on wages, and the Moral
Effect of Woman's Ballot" by Mrs. C. T.
Saxon, of Louisiana, and by Mrs. Gougor of
Indiana, who answered questions put by the
audience. The campaign committee of the
National American and State Suffrage Assoca-
ton has decided to hold a suffrage mass meet
ing in Omaha once every week up to the day
of election.
Dispatches from Omaha announce that a
committee of the National Woman Suffrage
Association has been in conference with COM
mittce of the Nebraska association mapping out
plan of campaign. 1t was agreed that Miss
Anthony, Mrs Saxon of New Orleans, Miss
Hindman Of Pennsylvania, Madame Neyman
of New York, Miss Phoebe COzzens of st. Louis
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delphia, and Mrs. Colby of Nebraska, would
stump the State until election.
The recent wedding of Miss Bonner, daugh-
ter of Robert Bonner, and Mr.. Forbes, says
New York paper, was an occasion for the most
lavish and beautiful floral display ever made
in that city. Horticultural shows on the
other side never brought together such a
wealth of rare and lovely flowers as adorned
Mr.. Bonner's house and the church where the
ceremony was performed. Even the brides
orange blossoms were natural and added not a
little to the effect of her rich and costly dress
of which the lace alone was worth a princes
ransom.
The writer recently spent an afternoon in
examining some new invoices of American
made surahs, silks satns, and merveillcuX.
These goods were of almost every conceivable
shade and pattern, the texture of some of them
being so fine to the touch and beautiful to the
eye that a lady who was present and who had
always purchased her silks abroad, expressed
doubt as to the truth of the statement that
these were really American goods. Many
ladies purchase these handsome fabrics and ask
no questions, under mistaken belief that all
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are manufactured abroad.
TEA-TABLE GOSSIP.
When woman wants to get rid of her hus-
band for an hour she sends him up stairs to
get something from the pocket of one of her
dresses.
"No" she said to the waiter, ono, I do not
care for soup, but you may bring me some of
that"-and she pointed to cOnSOmme JruaoiSe on
the bill of fare! Where ignorance is bliss it is
the height of absurdity to be intelligent.
An English bishop recently dismissed
schoomaster for being engaged to marry the
daughter of a Methodist. a am deeply
grieved," he wrote, that you had not loyalty
or courage enough to save you from the
wretched fall you contemplate" ave are
deeply grieved," adds the London Echo :" that
the bishop had not sense enough to save him
self from this wretched exhibition of bigotry"
An eyewitness of the baptism and confirma-