Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-19
has decoration from the President of the United States of Columbia.


 Tello isn't prig. Some of his man. uscripts which ''Olive Harper" treasures are almost pheliomenally neat. but when he has finished one we are assured on her word of honor he turns somer- saults on the floor. He is always plan ming for his next number. but he plans just as cleverly for his holidays. Some times he will begin on Friday.
 .sNow, mother, you know you say don't get exercise enough. We'll, tomorrow morning if I were to hurry with your errends, don't you think it would be good thing for me to go to the park for the day ?''
 Thea, when his point has been gained, off he goes with another boy and sails his catamaittn on the lake and runs and whoops and stays until long after dark and rides home on the top of Fifth avenue stage in blissful forgetfulness of editorial cares.
 Tello doesn't use the editoriol 'swe." His mother didn't notice it in the ''The Sunny Hours" first number, but letters began to pour in asking the why's and wherefores.
 "I can't say 'we,'" said Tello, ''be- cause 1 haven't got any partner, and I don't want to lay the blame on any other fellow for my blunders.' .''
 ''Tho Sunny Hour" is sixteen page paper with a pretty yellow cover and about ?, 900 paying subscribers, though Tello often prints as many as 15,000 copies to send to people to interest them in hunting up shoes and stock ings. His mother thinks it will grow to be a great magazine and Tello says, with much gravity, that the charity it represents will be his life" work If you knew the persistence of the boy you might think so. too. Already it is we'll enough known so that Tello some times gets two dozen letters of morn Ing, and some of them are addressed simply to ''Tello d Apery, America" and reach him without moro explicit directions.
 The other day I heard a newspaper man say: 'It I controlled New York daily l would open youths depart ment, and get Tello to edit it. and it would be bigger success than Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett's syndicate columns"
 Barnard College, though but two months open, has taken at once it's rightful position as the head and front | of the movement for the higher educa- tion of women in New York. The occupies, Is but few blocks from Col um bia, and is four-story and base ment brown stone front, admirably adapted to it's purposes. There is no dormitory system, but the girl students | who come from homes in the city. from | Brooklyn, Newark, East Orange, Eliza beth and other places have a cosy sit ting-rooM on the second floor with Q big oak study table and oak mantel, | rows of bookshelves, pictures of literary and learned worthies on the walls and rich dark rugs under foot, partly covering the stained floor Here at any hour of the morning or | afternoon you will find groops of blue | eyed or brown-eyed freshwomen of | whom the youngest is 16 and the oldest 22, and in whom it would be imp, ssible | to trace any likeness to the popular l idea of woman who goes to college. Not one of them looks as if she fed on Greek roots for dinner and extract of | logarithms for tea and dragged her hair | back from her forehead and pinned it in severe knot with sharp pointed lead pencils and wore blue stock tngs and bad gowns and talked only transcen- dental theories and esoterio problems. These girls on ths contrary, are fresh faced and bright-eyed, and the sound of their laughter comes ripping out at the open door so merrilY that. unless you listen fay, Ibid tho iodine color your starch graias?" and 'sYes, mine Came out beautifully all inside the cell walls, you needn't suspect them of anything more ''unfeminine' than curly bangs and cakes and bouillon.
 The college has admitted only a freshman class, as Smith College did al it's opening, and the girls who had be- gun the ColuM bla course for women, a dozen of them or whereabouts, are going | forward with 1t, without regard to Der nard. There are about twenty students this term, and the college has money enough pledged to pay it's running ex' penses for two years. Tho house has been leased for five years, and it is Indeed, the interest which the college awakens is so great, even at it's modes, beginning, that it seems in every way probable that before it's complement ol classes is full, It will fairly compel gift Pf money. etc, which shall properly en dow it and place the Columbia annex on a secure footing. It was only last March that the women who have pressed the project really secured per mission from Columbia, and yet the col lega IS open and has received the gift of a fine botanical la boratory, which Is now in running order, and the offer of 8 chemical laboratory which without doubt will bo accepted. There is nc chemical laboratory in New York ope T to women, and in this one much ad
 sanced work will be done, for Barnard College hopes to enlarge it's bounds nc the Johns Hopkins plan and to give post graduate and special courses and to becoma in the true sense of the word university for women. The new Uni yersit Club, membership in which i: limited to college graduates, has room: in this building, and several courses O. lectures have been planned which will open to New York women generally and will rally them about the girls college.
 The Seidl Society, whose President is Laura c. Holloway, and whose ob jects are musical and philanthropic makes many interesting and some pa
 tAetie discoveries. Ono of the attend ants at course of lectures on Wagner
 which has been given recently undel
 the society's auspices, was young seamstress who stitches all day fol small wages, and takes singing lesson.
 in the evening. This girl is said to have
 as tine contralto voice as Anna Louise
 Cary Raymond, and to be an enthus
 fast in her devotion to musical study
 but the drudgery of her daily toll s,
 wore on her that she would fall aslee|
 at the lectures, unable to enjoy wha |