New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-26
PERSONAL.

Mr.. W. +. Story, of The Chicago Times has lately
! been receiving medical treatment in Philadelphia
Professor J. c. Van Benschoten, of Wesleyan
University, has been chosen Director of the Inter-
| collegiate School of Greek at Athens, Greece.
| The widow of the late Colonel Thomas A. Scott
| is in Paris accompanied by her mother and daugh
| ter.
| The wife of Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
is recovering from the serious illness into which she
was thrown by grief at the death Of her little son.
Mr.. Henry Packer and Miss Mary Packer will
commence early next spring the erection at Lehigh
University-to which their family has already
given generous sums of mOney-of chapel in
memory of their mother Judge Packer is COM
plotting the work begun by his father by furnishing
the unvcrsity's laboratory in the most approved
manner.
OF the two American singers who have won such
fame in Paris an Inter Ocean correspondent writes
that Miss Van Zandt is lively, laughing capri
ci0us child, deicately pretty as a shepherdess IN
Dresden china, singing, Patti does, by the grace
of Cod gay and gifted and winsome, and withal the
best business woman in the world of theatres.
Miss Nevada (Wxom) is a sweet and serious yOung
artistic, whose passion is her art who studies indie
fatigably, and seems to live less for the applause
and gold Of the stage than for the realization Of her
own high ideals. She has beautiful blue eyes, large
soft and expressive In society she presents the as
from the notice excited by her renOwn
Both young ladies live simply and quietly without
any attempt at OsentatOn or display, and both are
good modest virtuous girls, against whom. despite
the trials and temptations of theatrical life. SLAM
der has never been able to breathe word
Because a man knows a great deal about art, lit
crature and philosophy is reason for considering
himan expert in caring for babies. But still Alr.
John Ruskin's ideas of a model nursery are of in
tcrest right or wrong, and so here they are, as
given by him In a letter which has just been pub
lished in England. Il have never he says,
written pamphlet on nurseries first, because L
never write about anything except what | know
more of than most other people secondly because
think nothing much matters ia a nursery-except
the mother, the nurse aud the air. So far as have
notion or guess in the matter myself beyond tho
perfection of these three necessary elements,
should say the rOughcr and palmer everything the
better-nO lace to cradle cap, hardest possible bed
and simplest possible food, according TO age, and
floor and walls of the cleanabest All education TO
beauty is first in the beauty of gentle human faces
round child secondly in the fields, fields mean
ing grass water, beasts, flowers and sky. without
these no man can be educated humanity. lie may
be made a calculating machine, walking dlctiUu-
ary a painter of dead bodies, q twungler or
scTatchcr on keys cutgut, "A discOYerer of new
forms of worms IN mud but properly so-called
use whatever by themselves. II the child has
other things right round 1t and given to tits
garden its cat, aud its window to the sky and stars
in time pictures of flowers and beasts and things
in heaven and heavenly earth, may bc useful to IL.
But see first that its realities are heavenly"