Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-05-19
THIS AND THAT.

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The Washington Critic says: eve can never
get the saloon out of politics as long as we get
our politics out of the saloon"
The Burlington Free Press says that Indian
apols, Ind, has q woman whose voice can be
heard for mile We do not know what her call
ING is, but she must be successful in it.
A hole in the ground and smell of gas sold for
$4,000 in Ohio the other day. The hole was found
to be all right, but the smell of gas disappeared
with the owner of the and,-Detroit Free Press.
France has passed liquor law as follows:
aEvery person who may be condemned twice by
the police for open drunkenness will be held in
capable of voting, of elective eligibility and of
being named for the jury or any public office"
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth
of subscriptions for the proposed Temperance
temple" at Chicago have been secured by Mrs M.
B. Carse. The structure will be twelve stories
high with tower surmounted by statue of the
Sistine Madonna. 1t is believed the corner stone
will be laid about year from the first of May.
Light social conversation is really an art. So
cety could not we'll exist without it. 1t may often
appear trifing, but it is very agreeable, and it
should not be said of those who make themselves
agreeable that they are useless. Neither should it
be imagined of those who chat gracefully of trihing
matters that they can think of nothing else
Often such persons are found to possess keen
penetration, superior to many persons of more
solemn pretentions.
The trustees of Adebert college took very i'm
portant step at their January meeting by resolving
to at once establish college for women of the
first grade. They instructed President Haydn to
Immediately take steps toward the establishment
of the Cleveland College for Young Women The
female classes will not be opened until the end of
the present term, and none of the funds Of Abel
bert college will be used for the new college. At
ter the present term female students will not be
taken in the Adelbert college, but will 60 to the
new college. A new building will be erected and
the college established on funds already promised.
Both colleges will be connected with the medical
department of the Western Reserve university.
DR.. W. S. Studley in sermon on 'Woman,''
at the Central church, Detroit, Mich, said he had
no sympathy with the narrow minded policy that
would confne women to rocking cradles, washing
dishes and shirts, and mending clothes, but be-
leved in allowing them to adopt any honest pro-
fession or occupation to which they were adapted.
III speaking Vi Wolheh PleacihhS Uho SooPel ho
said that women appeared in public on the stage
in the DRAMA they danced and sang in public, and
why should they not preach in public? He com
pmented the women on their activity in Christian
work, and concluded his sermon by saying that
though there were exceptions, woman's sphere
would be the home, and from it she would rule the
world.
Sunday school pupils will be interested to learn
that the first Hebrew Sunday school in the world
was organized by the person who figures as Re-
becca in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe."
Her real name was Rebecca Gratz and she was
the daughter of wealthy Jew in Philadelphia.
Scott heard of her through Washington Irving,
who, when visiting Abbotsford, talked enthusiast
tically about the beautiful Jewess who was doing
much good among her own race here in America,
and was ready to adopt Gentle methods of work
if they seemed to be wise. 1t occurred to her one