St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-17
ABOUT WOMAN.

sand islands it is intended to send the working
| girls Of Utica for week of rest. Nine per-
sons besides the attendants can be accom-
modated at the cottages at one time. There
is tendency in many cities, toward the
country week. and the practical and i'm
mediate benefits of such work make it popu-
! lar everywhere among the charitable.
1t is said of Mrs. Blaine, that should she
be called upon to occupy the position, twice
filed by Martha Washington, she will give
dignity and character to the social side OF
her husbands administration.
Srs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says: at
! rests with the women to train the present
generation of girls and boys into more re-
! fined taste and habits. In the meantime
we ask every mother, wife, sister, daughter
to charge the men of their respective house
holds, as they leave home in the morning,
to throw nothing on the streets. If you al
| low your children to throw things about the
house and garden, they will carry such man
ners into the street and intothe cars when
travelling The filth in our cars is national
disgrace. We have the most beautiful rail-
way carriages in the world, with every posi-
| bic comfort aud convenience, but the worst
manners Of any civilized people. We eat
all the time munching first one thing
and then another, and deliberately throw the
refuse on the floor. If women would use
their influence we could have our streets and
cars as sweet and clean as our parlors, and
our girls and boys taught to eat at their reg
ula meals and never to be seen munching
out Of season in public places.
A pupil in the Boston cooking school was
| "a ~ 20 nj fhot 4bo
was turned down, when it was desirable to
| increase the heat in the gas stove. Why
asked the beWildered one, in an awe struck
tone, ''wby does she have to fry her croquetts
in the darkl' She evidently thought the
| frying Of croquettes to be religious rite
which demanded a dim, religious light for its
| proper performance. The Boston Courie,
| gives this with other examples, as instances
not of ignorance of cookery, but of the lack
Of common sense.
The wife of Bismarck is very musical and
fine pianiste, while she is also thorough
house-keeper, and after the manner of house
wives of other days, is said to have a know
ledge of medicine.
''The woman who has always been care
fully protected, whose life has always been
bright and. free from care, may be very
sweet and loveable, but she lacks character.
Gold in its primitive state may be pure and
precious, but its real value and beauty are
developed by the crucible, the hammer and
the gravers lost. 'oIda Hrpr
The birthday of Francis E. Willard is to
be observed as ''children's day. by the w.
c. Y. w. of Indiana.
The associate editor of the gainesville,
| (Ohio) Democrat is woman.
The literary club of the Church Of the
Messiah, Buffalo, N. Y, has engaged Profes-
sor r. R. Raymond to give three Shakes
pearean readings in the early winter. Prof.
Raymond was for years at the head of the
Boston school of oratory, and is renowned
throughout the east as reader. Buffalo
lady who heard his rendering of 'Midsnm-
mer Nights Dream,'' said that it was re-
velation and something to be alwaya remem-
bered The literary club intends to make
English literature, to the Elizabethan period
| its work for the year, and those who have
seen the list of topics are anticipating de-
| lightful and instructive winter. Lectures
on physiology by Dr. Mary B. Moody, house
| hold talks by Mrs. DiaZ, and Mrs. Julia Ward
! Howe's 'Reeollections of Longfellow and
! Emerson" were dill given last winter under
! the auspices of the club, and their success
testified to its ability to conduct such enter
prises.
Ayoung girl, near Boston, has won some
local reputation for successful poultry rails
ing. When she graduated from school, she
looked about her for occupation and saw the
possibilities of profit in the application of
| science to this business. The beginning
was small but she is now in possession of an
| incubator and brood of $50 chickens.
! The nearness to Boston permits of the ready
/ sale of the eggs and chickens. When it is
remembered that many thousand of eggs are
/ imported from Europe annually to supply
| the needs Of our market it is easily seen that
other young girls could profitably initiate the
example of their eastern sister and thereby
| win for themselves comparative indepep-
dence.
! Women can vote at eleven thousand cleo
ton precincts in New York, on the last Tues
day in August, when the school elections
outside the cities occur. The Womaa's Jour
,tal strongly urges the necessity and duty of
! every woman to avail herself of the oppor-
tunity to oversee the education of children
The following persons of both sexes, over
! tweuty-one years of age. are entitled to vote
Owners or hirers of taxable real estate situ-
ate in the district; citizens, the parents or
guardians of child who has attended the
district school at least eight weeks during the
| past year; citizens whose names appear on
the town assessment roll for at least fifty
dollars worth of personal property Every
woman should understand she has this privi-
lege.
4 chambermaid at the Asquam hotel.
Holderuess, n. H., asked Whittier for his
! autograph. He complied with the request.
/ and signed his name after the following i'm
! promptu lines:
1.-The truth the English poet saw
Two centuries back is thine
/ Who sweeps room, as by Gods law,
Makes room and action fine.
/ And in thy quiet ministry,
! To wants and needs of ours see
! How grace and toll may well agree
| 1t is reported that Miss Phoebe Cozzens has
been appointed deputy United States marshal.
| and that she viii assist her father. the United
States marshal for Missouri, as secretary.
The degrees of Doctor of Science has been
conferred on Mrs. Sophia Bryant By the Lon
don university. At the examination for the
degree she stood first in the 10th class of ex-
animation. the requirements for which are
thorough knowledge of psychology, logic and
ethics. and general acquaintance with the
psychology of the nervous system of in man
and animals. with the history of philosophy
and political economy. Although this ex-
animation has been in existence many years.
il hiss been passed but once before, the for
inmate candidate then being Hindco gem
tleman. II is considered as the most severe
test of philosophical scholarship In England
q far a range of subject Is coaceraf.s