Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-09
POST-LENTEN.
DIR. Morgan Dix on the Necessities of Fair
Women-The Philharmonic Society's At
tractions-The Union Leagues Exhibi-
ton of Works of Art.
Correspondence OF the Globe. !

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| New YORK, March PA winter at which
| everyone has grumbled in catarrhal uni
| son, is succeeded by spring so backward,
| coy, and uncertain, that the Easter bonnets
| declined to appear on Sunday, and winter
| plumes and plushes held their own, to say
| nothing of the comfortable fur-lined
| wraps. No tender flush of green on brown
| sward or bare trees foretells the vernal
| equinox; the ungenial breath of Manitoba
| chills airs that should be blithe, and warns
the market-gardeners of our suburbs to
still protect their cold frames and longed-
| for salads with mats of straw.
The ''Fair Maid of February" as our
| English ancestors POLITICALLY named the
snowdrop, has not yet opened her chaste
bells in our borders, and altogether the
| non arrival of the jocund spring now some
seven days over due, begins to SAVIOR of
| mysterious disappearance.
Now that the gloom of Lent is over. we
begin to realize that it is less a peniten
tial than restful season, and this year its
dolors have been agreeably diversified by
the Lenten lectures of Dr.. Morgan Dix,
whose text has been 'Fair Woman"
The origin of these studies into the
'need-cessities" of women, appears to
have been the demand for higher educa-
tion, which has manifested persistent ac-
tivity of late, against the wishes publicly
expressed of the most eminent men and
women of the metropolis. DR.. Dix, having
the power to decide, declares that Column
bia college shall maintain its Sorbonne
feature as regards women. It shall be
sacred from their intrusion; beyond those
awful portals the inconsequential
feet of woman shall not pass. She
shall be left to solace herself with frivolity,
scandal and tea. Her intellectual pabu-
lum shall still be who said what? although
it give her an indigestion, and she would
infinitely prefer the Tertiary period as a
theme for conversation. She shall not see
Isis unveiled, although she was the first of
human beings wide Genesis, Sd chap, 9th
W who 80 longed for wisdom, as to buy it
al the price of all ber soft Arcadian idle
ness and ease.
DR.. Dix opines that were co-educati on
establisho3 Athen@ would soon be dis
placed by Aphrodite; and the bIue-ey
Pallas has resented the imputation, to the
extent Of netting her daughters to much
outer " hich the lecturer has need to be
Socratic indeed, to endure.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, an ardent
advocate of some much needed reforms,
has wittily and justly reviewed the
heresies of the rector of Trinity, afford
ing as the spectacle OF the liberalism of the
nineteenth century, tilling with a wander
ing spirit estray from the middle ages, and
carrying off something more than half the
laurels.
Miss Emily Faithful has aimed an ar
of
he fires with q MunohaUsenio gun, both
ways at once, and IS reminded OF a prob
lem OF her youth, the answer to which was:
''Those who ask can't have, and those who
don't ask, don't wants Last of all Mrs.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith has set her pen ~
rest to defend the position OF women who,
conscious of the talent entrusted TO them,
are fain not to hide it in a napkin, but
rather to make it bring forth four-fold.
Never has the cause of woman been
without gallant knights-errant, il this
favored land; and Easter Sunday was
made brighter and balmier by a
sermon from Rev. Robert ColIyer, who
holds that ''while her hearts motive is
right, woman may cross the Uttermost lin
its by which man has bound Ter, and still
not lose one atom of her WOmanhood and
purity and by a sermon from Rev. Mr..
Hodge, Uniyersalist, who quotes Tennyson,
and says:
The woman's cause is mans; i
If she be small, slight natured, miserable,
How shall men grow?'
A question well worth pondering in our
hearts.
But Lent has not all been devoted to
wrangle over woman's true mission,
whether it be to enter sisterhood and pc
ruse the Book of Hours or to buy oil, like
the wise virgins, to feed her intellectual
lamp withal.
We have had music, masques and art to
beguile the days, and the heart that should
perhaps have been bowed down in
penitence, has filled with involun-
tary upwellings of gladness at the
beautiful sights and lovely sounds for
which the austerities OF Lent have afforded
an interval.
Among the many good things the Phil
harmonic club have afforded US in its sol
! rees of chamber music, was new and de-
| licious character-piece, by Hofmann, with
| the title ''In the Sunshine, In the rendition
| of which, Richard Arnold's wonderful vio-
| lin wrought spells to set Us dreaming of
meadows of bush grass and bloom, basking
| in the fervent nosn-tide heat, while grigs
| and grass-hoppers, bees and beetles, tuned
their small pipes, and shrilled, or hummed
or droned in joyous symphony; and the
| strains of the German flute wandered
| through the whole like some small bird
moved to GLAD, involuntary bursts of song.
/ Wholly different wss the experience, at a
| small musicale, where Professor Watson
| furnished the entertainment. His son,
lad of fourteen years, played upon the
| famous amsti, which was Ole Bulls favor
ite instrument, and which the maestro be-
queathed to the present youthful owner,
who exhibited it with afectionate pride,
and proudly told its history; how it was
made the year that Shakespeare died; was
lost fer an incredible space of time, and
was recovered by means of peculiar
shading in the spruce (of which it is partly
made) distinctly resembling a capital
IF. OF these cremones there are at pres
emit only two in existence, Master Watson
possessing one, and the Duke Of Edin-
burgh the other. To have touched a relic
so almost priceless, to have awakened a
few harmonics from she'll on which we
know not what Apollos have drawn de-
licious sounds, makes one feel almost dis
tinguished, and able to sympathize with