The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-24


clubhouse for their use before long.
Inc Knickerbocker canoe club of New
York, which is the largest in the country,
mas now eight honorary members or the
gentler sex, all of whom are skillful wield-
ers of the double paddle on the Hudson,
and some of whom have gone on long and
adventurous cruises, among the Thousand
Islands, on the Delaware, the Connecticut,
the Ohio and other streams Each lady
wears silver badge on which the canoe
lists paddle and the seahorse. the emblems
of the club, are conspicuously displayed.
The Ladies' cricket club, of Orange, n.
j., probably the only organization OF its
sort IN the country, has been revived.
There are two elevens made up of Is and 10
year-olds this year. One eleven wears
red silk Garibaldi blouse, red and white
striped serge skirt and red and white cap;
the other a similar uniform in white and
green. Their practice games are held out
of reach of spectators, but they are said to
field and bat well.
IF PRoHIBITIONISTS COUNTED
there would be one wife the more who
would prove a potent factor in the Presi
Dental campaign. Gen. Fisk, who proba-
bly, doesn't expect to be master of the
white house, could install as mistress there
as modest and retiring little brunette as
ever entered its doors Mrs. Fisk is round,
dimpled, brown-haired, given to dressing
tastefuly in quiet, dark colors, woman of
opinions though not voluble in their express
sion. She shares her husbands views
fully, is Methodist and devoted worker
in church and charitable affairs
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is occasion
ally seen on New York streets again. Her
strong-fe ,tured face, with its intelligent
eyes and crown of beautiful white curls,
never fails to attract marked attention
from pa~sers VINO stop and look after her
till she is beyond view. She is very gener-
ally recognized, her pictures having made
her face familiar. If there is anything in
the theory of a sound mind in q sound
body, Mrs. Stanton's vigorous mental hab-
its may be associated with her sturdy
health. Even now with her years upon her
and something of a burden of flesh, she
has sound constitution that puts ner-
vously -prOstrated women to shame, and i'll
her younger days she used to be proud of
bearing her children, like barbaric moth
ers, almost without pang.
Mrs. Caroline H. Dali is another Of the
earlier group of reformers who has been in
New York this spring. Mrs. Dali was,
with Olympia Brown and Phoebe Hanua-
ford and Elizabeth Brown Blackwell,
among the first women to preach in the
pulpits of the liberal churches. Her forte
is social science and her books are models of
direct, clear expression. She never minces
matters on any topic in which she is inter
ested. Alfred University made her an
L. l.. d. some years ago.
MISS ALICE LOUIS POND,
who received her sheepskin at the Columbia
College commencement last week, is the
only living alumna of the college, Miss
Hankey, who completed the full course last
year having since died. Miss Pond is a
girl of 20, of slender, delicate beauty, with
very gentle expressive eyes. To receive de-
cree on completion of Columbia's course for
women is something of an achievement
since the path of the girl student is much
more tborny than when its privileges were
first offered. OF the young women who
have begun the course some two or three
who went away without progressing much
in it applied for teachers positions here and
there, pluming themselves greatly on
coming from Columbia. The young mems
hostility was at once aroused lest half-edu-
Gated girls should hurt the reputation of
Alma Mater by parading as her daughters.
The result was change in the atmosphere
of the college on the part of students and to
some extent of professors also, who be-
came lukewarm and at times decidedly
cold to the girls. To persevere to the finish
inspite of tncse discouragementsa and to take
high rank without instruction, simply re-
ceiving lists of books for study and submit
ting to periodic examinations, is feat to be
proud Of. Miss Pond is a New York girl
who lives in West Twentieth street, and
who has ambitious plans for further study
abroad.
Miss Mary B. Dennis. the ornanizer
the Chautauqua walking science club
which, by the way, both practices the
science OF walking according to Thoreau,
and studies science while walking, so that
its name has two meanings and both of
them good ones-is pieasant-faced, plainly
dressed little lady, who has a genuine in
terest in her work and has succeeded in it
remarkably. She has profound CONTEMPT
for mere book teaching of botany, zoology,
entomology, dendrOlOgy, ORTHODOXY, and
the like, and has some amusing stories to
tell about her difficulties with school prin-
cipals and trustees who didn't at ell see the
use of "gadding at out" the old fields with
her pupils, picking flowers to pieces to see
how they were made, and gathering her
charges about her in admiring contempla-
ton of toads and woodlice When the
Chautauqua school isn't in session Miss
Dennis is the curator of the museum and
teacher of the natural history at Flushing.
Long Island, where her new tangled and
eminently practical ways of teaching are
fully appreciated.
ONE OF THE INTERESTING WOMEN
of New York is Mrs Margaret Moore. an
Irish Noman and a colaborer with Miss
Annie Plrnell in the founding of the La
dies land league. Mrs. Moore is a tall.
slight woman of graceful figure, with clear
regular features and bright dark blue.
beautiful Irish eyes. She has served three
months in Tulamore Jail in the cause of
Irish liberty, having been arrested in
Donegal while aiding evicted families. Her
sentence was six months, but she was re-
leased with other suspects before its expir-
alton, after sending out witty letters from
the prison which were passed out from hard
to hand, getting a large private circula-
toin in Ireland. She is a land reformer and