The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-22
The So-calIed Weaker Vessels.

the at.-London Field.
The So-called Weaker Vessels.
"A prize of seventy-five dollars is
given annually to the best male Greek
scholar in the high school at Newport.
This year the best examination was
passed by the daughter of George Rice,
the colored steward on the steamer PHI
grin, /; but as she could not be given the
prize, wealthy New York gentleman
sent her seventy-fve dollars in gold.
1t would be odd if women suffrage
should become the custom in Great
Britain soonerthan in the United States.
That this is possible is indicated by the
vote in the house of commons of ia
ayes to 130 noes ON Mr.. Mason's mo-
tion to give the suffIage to those women
whose property qualification allows
them the municipal franchise So
small hostile majority must be a hol e.
full sign for the friends of woman suf-
frage.
The Graphic says it was woman
who stumbled and fell that caused the
first fatal block at the Brooklyn thea
tire fire in 1877 F.; it was woman who
stumbled and fell that caused the block
at the fatal panic in the Sixteenth
Street Catholic Church a few years
ago and it was stumbling woman, SO
far as it can be known, that started the
panic on the Brooklyn bridge. The
Graphic might have added that it was
stumbling woman who induced Adam
to ''bring death into the world, and all
our woe.'
Miss Ada Ward, an English actress
of intelligence and experience, now in
New York, has very little hopes of the
stage in England. She says that the
facility offered to handsome and incom-
petent amateurs to obtain lucrative p0-
sitions and to command press recogni-
tiOn had worked an immense amount of
mischief among painstaking and con-
scientiOus players. The largest for
tunes had been made of late years by
women who had nothing to recommend
them but their beauty, and they put
this into the market against experience,
skill and good taste, and walked away
with the laurels.
WHAT A WOMAN LIKEs.-A hus-
band who is not always "a little short. +"
Who gets home at reasonable time of
night and in reasonable physical condi-
ton. Who always let her know before
hand when he brings a friend to dinner.
Who dosn't want to sleep till noon
every Sunday morning. Who takes
pleasure in buying his wife a new
spring bonnet. Who compliments her
occasionally and calls her pretty whit tltr
she is or not. Who, when he comes
home late at night, will come in like a
man, and not like thief. Who can
ll9 III DVu WhilS ulo NllO Ndlho Will lut
baby without swearing like a trooper.
Who isn't always telling her the times
are hard and business is poor. Who
will give her credit for working as hard
as he does and sometimes harder. Who
is willing to put up with poor dinner
on Monday. Who won't keep the din
ner waiting, and then growl because
the roast is overdone. Who won't
labor under the impression that cigal
ashes on the carpet tend to keep the
moths out. Who knows when it is
time to get up, and does not rely on his
wife to arouse him. Who takes his
wife along occasionally when he "runs
down" to New York on 'business. ,
Who, when he takes his wife to The
theatre, will not go out between the
acts "to see man." Who won't
sharpen his lead pencil ON the carpet
Who, when he builds an addition" t
the house will allow his wife to arrang,
for closet room. Who admires hi
wife and has the common sense to tel
of it. Who will not insist upon havin,
the pillow with the most feathers in il
Who will be as polite to his wife as t,
any other women, and will lift his ha
to her on the street. Who is willing t,
share the evening paper.