Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-03-17
THE NEWS CLEANER.


embrace, and the grim old monarch has shown
how 10th he is to relinquish his sway. So while
the sun shone in all his glory to assure the gentle
spring time that he was indeed her friend, and
with the song birds, the opened buds and the
pussy willows, the jonquils and the millners' win
dows to bear her witness, up starts old winter and
again rallies his unwecome forces, the frost and
the north wind, and threatens to put an end to
these foolish spring festivities in trice. No
more triumphanty has the air of The CampbelPs
Are Coming" ever heralded royalty than have
the song birds announced the approach of spring.
Sadly have Little Rockers seen her retreat into
her shell once more, and with true southern 10y
atty to climate they attribute the delay to the
breath of the northern blizzard.
Lent has cast penitential gloom over society;
and the deputed news cleaner rushes hither, and
you are in a very frenzy of despair to find items
wherewith to satisfy the natural craving of con-
fessed weakness - human curiosity. But, for
sooth, how may we be keepers of our brother if
we know naught of him. But methinks, in the
dominion of Mrs. Grundy the victimized ''brother"
has too many keepers for personal comfort. But
my kingdom for an item; so hasty visit to the
social intelligence Office. One man
looks up regretfully from column of figures he is
adding. News?- There was Miss IS
progressive euchre party Tuesday night. Who
got the BOBBY prize? I'll not tell. And then
Miss -, who has been visiting her sister here
this winter, will be married soon after Lent but
it's a dead secret. Don't put that in the paper!"
"Thanks' voice from within the directors
sanctum; " You can say my wife will not give an
angling party this week. "Thanks!'
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mud, over car tracks, crossings, ankles and hopes
the theaters have been well attended and we
have had some genuine gems of the profession on
the boards Rhea, with her accent adored and
criticized impatiently in the same breath, pretty
Marie Prescott, and Jim the Penman, all have
played to enthusiastic audiences.
A woman suffrage association was organized in
Little Rock not long ago. Who belongs and what
they do there has not been made public. The
Masonic goat is not shrouded in greater mystery.
Only by enlisting in the ranks can its secrets be
known. 1t anticipates sending delegate to the
grand jubilee a fortnight hence; so it is safe to
conjecture there are more than twenty-five already
enrolled as there is allowed one representative to
every twenty-five persons. A letter from Susan
B. Anthony to one of the leaders has lately been
published in the Life, and it certainly is porten-
tous Great oaks from little acorns grow and let
us all speed these women on the path of progress,
that Arkansas may not be left in the lurch when
suffrage becomes in truth the fashion. How too
dreadful if we were not in the world
memory class, under the technical instruction
of Prof. Levisette, is one of the recent diversions
in the east end. Mrs. Mo is said to have
made extraordinary progress and is able to COM
NIT to memory on sight; but the plan of action in
this instance-the same as the suffrage society-is
the deadliest sort of secret. However, we all
must admit memory class to be not a bad idea.
In lieu of the numbers of persons who so fire.
quently mistake their Imagination for their men,
DRY it must be an excellent thing. But then it
has its drawbacks. Fancy having to always re-
member ones own shortcomings, to have ones
own transgressions ever present Fancy always
being able to recognize on sight ones impecunious
acquaintance and the innumerable Inconvenience