The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-08
HIGHER EDUCATION.
A Couple of Brooklyn Girls Try to Get
Onto IL.

A Couple of Brooklyn Girls Try to Get
From the Brooklyn Eagle.]
"My dear girl" said one young lady
TO another on Fulton street, "will you
go with me tonight and hear Prof.
Stone lecturer"
"Who is he? and what will he lecture
about?"
ooh, he's lovely, Boston man, and
is going to lecture on the Higher Edu-
cation of Women Ma says it will be
very instructive, and pa says its only
for a lot of old shriekers, and when pa
and ma talk like that L know its some
thing worth hearing
us it about that awful Tewksbury?"
"Oh, my, no; its about Columbia Col
lege, and ma says
How 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:
~ wish were hippo pot-a-mus:
would swim the broad Euphrates and eat
grass
Its too cute for anything; and then
there was one beginning"
"No, no, dear said the intellectual
young lady; It's 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
ever been admitted.
But, Nellie dear, lie means the adj
hitting of women into the college as
students.
"Oh, that! well, thank my stars!
I've graduated, and don't want ever to
hear of books again. 1t makes my
head ache now-cram, cram, cram; but
my dre, was lovely. Did L ever show
you our badge? It's two sweet-black
enamel crescent and a gold star below"
Ma SAYS that we women should vote.
and only by higher education can
women gain tr,ngth to throw off the
yoke"
What yokc?" queried Nellie, inno-
Gently.
oh l don't know; they are always
having ii out over some question, and
pa saws If ma had her way men would
be home tying knots in Irvine (macrems,
YOU know. then ma saws that would he
as lofty us 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 HubL ard
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 redress"
ooh, Mamie, You giddy thing, telling
me not TO talk about dress, and here
You go-and that makes me think I'm
going to dye that old cashmere terra
Gotta, and make it with a long polo
naise-"
"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. toO?"
"Oh, no. He's the man that brought
over the Bartholdi statue and Cleo
patra's needle"
much information. Mamie?" said Nell
lie, bending an admiring glance on her
friends new hat.
We'll, one can't help listening" said
: Mamie, with superior smile, land ma
is always talking and pa can hold his
own, so / get the benefit of all their
conversations. l get all the religious
and higher education from ma, and pol
itics and dynamite talk from pa
But you used to be always talking
about art and culture and tone; now"
ooh, that's old. Ma says that was
first a passing fancy, but this higher
education is the thing now. Will you
60 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
her soon, and the young ladies sepa-
rated, each impressed with the idea that
she had spent very profitable half