The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-21
Higher Education.

'sMy dear GIRL said one young lady to
another on Fulton street, twill you go with
me tonight and hear Professor Stone lee
ture?''
'.Who's he? and what viii he lecture
aboui?''
''Ohl he is lovely, Boston man and is go
ing to lecture on the Higher Education If
Women Ma says it will be very instruc.
tive, and pa says it's only for lot of old
shriekers, and when pa aud ma talk like
that know it's something worth hearing.''
SIS it about thai awful Tewksbury?''
s.Oh my, no, it's about Columbia College,
and ma says
How nice" interrupted the other "Won
der if he'll sing any class songs. Cousin
Ned is Columbia boy, and last vacation he
sang more funny songs. Did you ever hear
this?
wish / was hippo pot anus;
l would swim the broad Euph rates and eat grass
It's too cute for anything; and then there
was one beginning
mo, no, dear" said the intellectual young
lady; tits about admitting young ladies
into THIS conege. ma says
"Why, goodness me, Mamie, Cousin Ned
told me all about the entertainments, and
how they danced and firted, all this at the
college, and this Mr.. Stone pretends that no
women have ever been admitted"
"But, Nellie dear, he means the admitting
of women into the college as Students
"Oh, thatl well. thank my starsl I've
bod ovI r
books again. Ii makes my head ache now
cram, cram, cram; but my dress was lovely.
Did ever show you our badge? It's too
sweet-black enamel crescent and gold star
below"
ma says that we women should vote, and
only by higher education can women gain
strength to throw off the yoke"
"What yoke?' queried Nellie, innocently.
ooh! don't know; they are always hav-
ing it out over some such question, and pa
says if ma had had her way men would be
home tying knots in twine (macreme you
know?), then ma says that would be as lofty
as guzzing beer till midnight, and then pa
turus up his nose and ma cries, and / don't
hear any more about Morgan Dix or higher
education that night"
''Spe liking of yokes, Mamie, reminds me
of that lovely Mother Hubbard gown. The
yoke was Irish point and trimmed"
Ou1 NCtilCt PfCdoC bOh y H4Cubiun UEebctS
now. Ma says that we are on the eve OF a
mighty upheayal; that women are to demand
redress
"Oh, Mamie, you glddy thing, telling me
not to talk about dress and here you GO
and that makes me think. I'm going TO dye
that old gray cashmere terra Gotta and make
it with long polonaise-"
"And if we 90 tonight we'll hear about
O'Donovan Rosa. He'sapother hero, as ma
calls all these women's rights men,"
SIS he from Boston tooT'
"Oh, no. He's the man that brought over
the Bartholdi sta ue and CleOpatra's needle"
''Where on earth do you pick up 30 much
information, Mamie?" said Nellie, bending
an admring glance on her friends new hat
'Well, one can't help listeDing," said Ma
mie, with superior smile, "and ma is al
ways talking and pa can hold bis own, so /
get the benefit Of all their conversations. ]
get all the religious and higher education
from ma, and politics and dyuamiteta from
pa"
but you used to be always talking about
art and culture and tone; now"
"Oh, that's DID, Ma says that was first
passing fancy, but this higher education is
the thing now. Will you go tonight"
t'Would love to, but am going to the OPP
era with Cousin Ned Good by, dear; tell
your ma Pm coming to see her soon" and
the young ladies' separated, each impressed
with The idea that she had spent a very profit
able half hour.