Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-28
HIGHER Educatiou.

"My dear girl" said one young lady
to another on Fulton street, ''WiIl you
90 with me tonight and hear Professor
Stone lecturer"
who's he, and what will he lecture
about?'
''Oh! he is lovely, Boston man and
is going to lecture on the Higher Edu-
cation of Women Ma says it will be
very instructive andpa says it's only
for lot of old shriekers,, and when pa
and ma talk like that know it's some
thing worth hearing
lis it about that awful Tewksbury?"
ooh! my, no, it's about Columbia
College, and ma says
GLOW NICE" interrupted the other
"Wonder 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:
I wish l were ahip-po-pot-a-mus;
would swim the broad Euphrates and cat
grass.
It's too cute for anything; and then
there was one beginning
mo, no, dear" said the intellectual
young lady; "'tis about admitting young
ladies into this college, Ma says"
why, goodness me, Mamie, Cousin
Ned told me all about the entertain
ments, and how they danced and fiirted,
all this at the college, and this Mr..
Stone pretends that no women have even
been admitted"
'But, Nellie dear, he means the ad.
hitting of women into the college as
Students.
ooh, that! well, thank my stars!
I've graduated, and don't want to ever
hear of books again. Itmakes my head
ache now-cram, cram, cram; but my
dress was lovely. Did | ever show you
our badge? It's too sweet-black en-
amel crescent and a gold star below"
MA says that we women should vote,
and only by higher education can wom-
en- gain strength to throw off the yoke"
What yoke?" queried Nellie, inno-
Gently.
ooh! [ don't know; they are always
having it out over some such question,
and pa says if ma had her way men
would be home tying knots in Irvine
(macrema, you knOwO, then ma says
that would be as lofty as guzzling beer
till midnight, and then pa turns up his
nose and ma cries, and [ don't hear any
more about Morgan Dix or higher edu-
cation that night"
Speaking of yokes, Mamie, reminds
me of that ovely Mother Hubbard gown.
The yoke was Irish point and trimmed
''Oh, Nellie, please don't mention
dresses now. Ma says that we are on
the eve of a mighty upheaval; thatwom-
or, o,-o +o dom nd 1,oIroCc -
''Oh, Mamie, you giddy thing, telling
me not to talk about dress and here you
go-and that makes me think. I'm 60
ing to dye that old gray cashmere terra
Gotta and make it with a long polon.
aise-"
"And if we 90 to night we'll hear
about O'Donovan Rosa. He's another
hero, as ma calls all these women's
rights men,"
SIS he from Boston too?"
''Oh, no. He's the man that brought
over the Bartholdi statue and Cleopa-
tra's needle.''
"Where on earth do you pick up 50
much information, Mamie?" said Nellie,
bending an admiring glance on her
friends new hat.
''Wel, one can't help listening" said
Man ;. with a superior smile, ''and ma
is always talking and pa can hold his
own, so / get the benefit of all their
conversations. get all the religious
and higher education from ma and pol
tiles and dynamite talk from pa"
But you used to be always talking
about art and culture and tone; now"
sob, that's old. Ma says that was
first passing fancy, but this higher ed
ucation is the thing now, VIII you &C
to-night?''
would love to, but am going to the
opera with Cousin Ned. Good by, dear;
tell your ma I'm coming to see he1
soon," and the young ladies separated,
each impressed with the idea SeIf she had
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