The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-20

The sudden death ut Washington OF Miss
Bayard, daughter OF the Secretary OF
State, is a sad affair and is not without it's
warning at the Capital, as well as in other
fashionable centers. In the excitement and
whirl of society these comparatively fragile
young ladies undergo hardships and violate
the known rules OF health to a degree that
would break down IA stalwart 1t is
not often that the penalty is sc sudden
and fatal as in the case in point, yet it is
none the less true that the seeds OF disease
are sown, which, in most cases, bear early
and fate'ul crops. 1t is not only late
hours, high living, and the sudden changes
from heat to cold in the crowded reception
rooms, that conduce to injure women, but
it is also that absolute and reckless pander-
ing to fashion that requires low-nesked
dresses, thin shoes, and other like follies.
Physicians and practical people of both
sexes nave Tor years protested in vain
against the practice, but the victims, imag.
lining they had constitutions OF iron, con-
tinued on, needless OF the advice. only to
discover a few years later that they were
wrong. The health of women of all classes
and ages, as it is affected by dress, is be-
coming n serious question, and to it much
thought is being devoted by earnest and
competent authorities; but thus far the
changes suggested have been so radical
that it has been found impossible to in
troduce them. That an Improvement in
this direction must De made is certain, vet,
a.. - - ,l,-%nJ - will %,l.n%.,o ~, %l,oo
generations to restore our women to their
normal healthy condition, and to make
nervous and pulmonary diseases the ex-
ception instead OF the rule, as at present.
''THE scholar in politics. is a myth. We
hear OF him only in the middle of impor-
tant campaigns, when college presidents,
professors and scholars generally are forced
to the front, but in the face OF all this college
graduates do not come to the front. The
GlObc-Democrat, OF st. Louis, has been
looking into this subject and these are the
facts as it finds them: ''Those who insist
upon the value and necessity of collegiate
influence in our politics can find but little
comfort in the contemplation of the pres
ent facts in that connection. The President
OF the United States, Grover Cleveland,
never attended Il college of any kind. The
acting Vice. President, John Sherman, is a
graduate OF the common schools OF Ohio.
The Secretary OF State, Thomas F.
Bayard, never got farther than a Della
ware rural academy. The Speaker OF the
House OF Representatives., John G. Carlisle,
is a ~selteducated man. OF the entire
seventy-four members of the Senate, only
thirty are graduates Of colleges; and
Of these thirty only twelve hold
diplomas from the institutions OF ma
tional reputation. In the House, the ratio
OF college graduates to those who never
had any college training is less than one to
Tour, and the collegians are by no means the
strongest and most influential men OF the
body-a statement which also applies to
the relative standing and power OF the two
classes in the Senate. The party leaders
on both sides in both branches OF Congress
are nearly all men whose educational priv.
leges, in the strict sense Of the expression,
were confined to the ordinary country OF
village school. 1t seems incredible that
Harvard, with all it's boosted service and
it's long array OF alumni, really furnishes
but one Senator. Yale does some better,
having three Senators to represent her
while Princeton and Hamilton have
two each, and Bowdoin and vii.