The morning news., 1889-04-26

in dressmak.ng, millinery, the art OF cook
ing good dinners out Of Inexpensive mate
riais and such domestic accomplishments,
may evolve themselves 1t Is not unlikely
that simple physiology and hygiene, win
talks on ventilation and the services Of
woman physician may be arrived at, though
it is meant that the teaching shall be in
formal and largely by example, the forma-
{ oa Of classes and anything that looks like
t1e formidable enginery Of education usu-
alv set in motion by philanthropic effort
being avoided.
Aud the older women. Can one refine
them and brighten them, and nit them to
live more intelhgentlyE
There are no women in America who have
80 little comprehension of she meaning of
the word enjoyment as the adult tenement
women The girls have their beaus, the
men and the boys have their saloons, their
clubs their dance halls and street rendeZ-
vous. The married women have nothing.
They drudge as hard in the tenement facto-
ries as their husbands and they drudge at
home for a swarm Of babies. They have
dropped into a weary rut, it is too late t.
get them cut OF it, and t1e college girls do
not propose 10 preach to the or
to the conclusion, apparently in little
lecture at them, or try to teach
them, but simply to get claim on
their good will by offering them nice things
pleasure. So many people try to do other
people good that il is not bad plan, olcs
in way, to try simply to give people
good time.
With all its bodness and originality the
plan is modest one 1t looks to no scheme
for reforming creation, bat the sweet faced
schemers do propose to try to live with
some less fortunate fellow-bsings on terms
of simble comradeship AID common kindli-
ness, trusting that experience will show
them many ways TO make their household
a benefit to their neighOors
Aud when does this project 60 into oper-
alton!
Not until the hottest Of the summer days
are over. The college girls have friends
who are unwilling that they should go
through a summer in the tensmeatS until
they nave first tried winter and become
acclimated.
And who are the people who believe that
young women can do this thingl
The Rev. DR.. Rainsford of st. Georges
church approves it, and so does Edward
Everett Hale Miss Grace H. Dodge, one
OF New York's women school commissioners,
is greatly interested, as is DIR. Mary Putnam
jacob and Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, OF
the State Board of Charities. The whole
body of the Collegiate Alumn8 are ints-
rested, which brings in two or three college
presidents, half dozen women professors,
women fellows or JOnnS Hopkins ana bryn
MaNr, women doctors, dentists, newspaper
writers and magazinists, a wo nan trustee
of Vassar and another of Boston University
women, professional and non-profesSional,
keeping school aud keeping house and hus-
band all over the country.
And what will come of it?'
Nobody knows. But Miss Fine has al
ready made friends of 200 or 800 tenement
people in the district in which it is proposed
to settle and can count on their de-
voted cooperation to ease the adventurous
beginnings of the enterprise. Sle is clear
| eyed aud cool-headed and-a bell sounds.
II have class" she is gone through a
doorway, and there's no questioning her
further or saying more about her this after
noon,
In world which is apt to show face
that is cynical, it is refreshing to come upon
unselfish enthusiasm ready to spend and be
spent for an ideal.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.