The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-19
HIGHER EDUCATION,
A Couple of Brooklyn Girls Try TO Get
Onto 1t,
Brooklyn Eagle.

Coupie OF brooklyn Girls lry 10 Uei
Onto 1t.
| Brooklyn Eagle
| My dear girl" said one young lady to
another on Fulton street. will you go with
me tonight and hear Professor Stone lee
tureT'
who is he? and what will he lecture
about?"
"Oh, he's lovely a Boston man, and is 60
ing to lecture on the Higher Education OF
Women Ma says il will be very instruct
i've, and pa says its only for a lot of old
! shflekers, and when pa and ma talk like
! that know its something worth hearing
rs it about that awful Tewksbury?'
"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:
" 1 wish were hip-po-pot-a-mus
l would swim the broad Euphrates and eat
grass
was one beginning"
mo, no, dear" said the intellectual young
lady TITS about admittingyoun ladies INTO
this college. Ma says"
Why, goodness me, Mamie, Cousin Ned
told me all about the entertainments, and
how they danced and flirted; 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, that! we'll, thank my starsi I've
graduated, and don't want to ever hear of
books again. 1t 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"
INA 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
"Oh l don't know they are always having
1t out over some question, and pa says if ma
had her way men would be home tying knots
in Irvine (macrems, you know, 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 education that
night"
Speaking of yokes, Mamie, reminds me
of that lovely 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
mighty upheaval; that we are to demand re-
dress
"Oh, Mamie, you giddy thing telling me
not to talk about dress, and here you go
and that makes me think. Pm going to dye
that old cashmere terra Gotta, and make it
with long polonaise-"
And If we go tonight we'll hear about
ODonovan Rosa. He's another hero, as
ma calls all these women's rights men,
as he from Boston toog'
"Oh, no. He's the man that brought over
the Bartholdi statue and Cleopatra's
needle"
Where on earth did you pick up so much
information, Mamie?'' said Nellie, bending
an admiring glance on her friends new hat.
We'll, one can't help listening" said
Mamie. with superior smile, land ma is al
ways 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 politics and dynamite talk
from pa"
But You used to be always talking about
art and culture and tone; now"
"Oh, that's old. Ma says that was first
passing fancy, but this higher education is
the thing now. Will you go tonight"
Would love to, but am going to the opera
with Cousin Ned Goodbye, dear; tell your
ma I'm coming to see her soon," and the
young ladies separated, each impressed with
the idea that she had spent very profitable
half-huur