Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-07
BOSTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WOMEN AND COLLEGIATE EDUCATION
A NOVEL IDEA.
Leaving the House for the summer-Ths
Way to Build College Buildings for
Women-About Longfellow.

Leaving the House lCr the Summer-The |
Way to Build College Buildings for
women-About Longfellow.
Correspondence OF the RECORD USIoS.l
BosToN, May %, 1882.
Under the head g Wanted" in .one of
the daily papers, was, among good many
other queer things, this " The care Of a
furnished house during the summer by two
young lady students. Undoubted refer.
ences furnished. Address, etc." Now in
what great city anywhere else out of Uto-
pia could that advertisement have appeared
without provoking more than suspicion as
to the coed faith, right intention and re-
spectability of the advertisers /? Here, if
the casual reader gave it a thought, it was
only "What bright notion what an in
nocent lark that might be for two nice
girls !" and / dare say some perplexed
housekeeper, whose vision of perfect sum-
mer rest at Gloucester, Nantasket, or in a
cliff cottage at Newport, has been obscured
by sort of silhouette procession projected
across it of the Irish clan likely to be riot
ing amongst the household gods of the
luxurious city home left nominally in
Bridget's or Elien's charge,
HAILED RAPTURoUsLY
This promising proposition, and, SO soon
as an interview could do it, secured these
novel guardians. Or, was there crowd
of anxious housemothers struggling for the
prize? Think what shortening of prepa-
rations for the summer exodus the plate
would go to the bank, the furs and woolens
into place of retiracy voila tout. There
would be 10 laborious collecting from every
nook and corner of every portable valuable,
every cherished souvenir, every fragile bit
Of bric.a-brac, and slowing away q good
half of home possessions under lock and
key, the whole to be troublesomely rein.
stated again in a few weeks or months. |
And breathing in the odors of new.mown
fields, or listening to the soft lap of waves
on some lonely shore, near or far, one need
not shudder with sudden fancy Of "me
own cousin Mike" of some garbage occu-
patton or other, occupying ones own be-
loved bed at home smoking his short, black
pipe in that dearest household shrine, the
library, or capering in an uncouth jig in
servants ball given in ones drawing room.
As for those pro-tempore young housekeep-
ers, Mrs. Whitney ought to tell their story.
Two Girls, she might call it, or Play
iag with Fire !" Lst us hope, in dismiss
ing them to their summer romance-for be
sure that's what they II make Of it if they're
worth their talt-that they're girls of an
old-fashioned sort, for whom nerves have
never been invented, and after days filed
with learning and light housekeeping, they
may 20 soundly to sleep unperturbed by
any necessity to look under all the beds,
into every creyice wherein mouse could
barely slide, TO punch all the garments
hanging in the wardrobes, or to explain to
themselves all the mysterious noises that
infest night and big, empty house. Bos-
ton might almost be called
CITY OF LODGINGS.
1t may or may not be less expensive way
of life than boarding, but it id freer, and
extremely popular. The lodgings differ
from the English ones in that the landlady
and her servants do not cook and serve
any meals to dodgers. These must provide
for themselves either in their own apart
ments or by getting table board in some
neigbboring house, or frequenting res
taurant Men choose one of the two latter
modes. Women generally get breakfast
and tea in their rooms with the help of
crate fire, or coal.oil or gas stove, and
dine at restaurant A glance at the gro
GERS windows and counters shows the provi-
sion made for this mode of life divorced from
kitchen conveniences. Cooked and potted
meats and fish, cheeses of all kinds, fruits
preserved in every possible manner, be-
wildering variety of the ready to hand
kind meet the glance. Aside from dish
washing it is, short Of hotel life, the most
1 attractive fashion Of existence for solitaire
in the city that we have in America. 1t
NAV be more economical than boarding for
one obliged to Cultivate literature Tor
anything else) on little oatmeal, but ordi-
narily freedom is its chief intent.
SPEAKING OF GIRL STUDENTS,
Have ever referred to those of what may
be called the Harvard Annex About
twenty girls passed the Harvard local ex-
aminations in 1879. The number was
doubled in 1880, and increases steadily.
They study in Harvard's 3 shadow, but it is
a fostering shadow, and it looks only a
question OF time before all the college
! doors will open widely to welcome them.
/ So far the taste of the female students here
has preferred ancient languages, history,
/ political economy, modern languages and
mathematics. Very few have chosen
courses in music or the fine arts. Some
come for pure love of learning, some to
perfect themselves in specialties for a
higher or some special position. When
girl students are admitted here as freely as
| their brothers, and may, like them, take
| their degree, of course the full round OF
| studies will be most popular No house
| vet has been built for the reception OF fe
male students but when it is, the build
ers will have the examples of Vassar,
Newman and Girton to stimulate them
into a remembrance of closets. Mr.. Vas
sar was astonished that two hooks should
not be ample for girls wardrobe needs.
and both at Newman and Girton few
hooks in the corner, with curtain hang
| ing over them, represent the closets dear
to womans heart. Yet Girton, built to
house twenty students, cost $4,000, and
is supposed to be quite luxurious in that it
gives to every student o sitting and q
sleeping.room.
LoNGFELLow.
Several lives of Longfellow are already
in the market. Mr.. Underwood's is the
authorized one, and is very admirably done
tasteful, clear, candid, gentle-the au-
thor hidden quite behind his subject. One
feels that Longfellow could have found only
pleasure in this presentment OF himself