Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-07-12
MISS FAWCETT,s HONOR.

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bridge, is the daughter of statesman known ia
vorably throughout the length and breadth of the
British Empire. AS this is the first time woman
has distanced all her male competitors in collegiate
honors, papers all over the world have We'd with
each other in their appreciation of the victor.
One of Miss Fawcett's friends writes for the
Pail Mall Gazette an article about the young lady
which will be found interesting She says:
4Of course, Mr.. Editor, you and the public
want to hear all about the Lady Senior Wrangler,
the Newman girl who has put the coping-ston
upon all that Newman represents. 1t would be
very wrong of you and the public if you didn't.
But the idea Of Philippa Fawcett being inter.
viewed! To those who know her it is quite laugh
ably unthnkable for she is the quietest of girls,
with perfect hatred of all formality and show.
As for talking about herself, your interviewer
would have required a thumbscrew; unless in
deed, he could have somehow argued this very
clear minded young lady into believing that the
ordeal was positively demanded by the interests of
the Cause. In the interests of the Cause, Miss
Fawcett has been for years the most docile subject
of King Conyentionaity- least so far as is rec
oncable with the possession of strong, active fac
ulties an original and fearless mind, and a habit
of looking at the inside of things instead of the
surface.
"When she was younger, Miss Fawcett dressed
estheticaly, had no proper horror of old clothes,
wore her thick brown hair down on her shoulders,
and has even been known ESQ have heard) to ride
on the top of bus could tell you lots of
simple, natural delightful little unconvenonalities
Eow 70 ham,
she knew that if there were the remotest pretext,
even the most innocent, it would be seized on by
all silly scribblers who try to make out that the
women's colleges are peopled by sort OF lmpos-
sible race of eccentrcs. Trhes, after all, matter
little If to be commonplace will reconcile silly
prejudice, conscience can save itself for more i'm
portant things. The Cause demanded it, and Miss
Fawcett with sigh resigned herself into the hands
of the milliner You must take this as figure
of speech, of course, for | have never seen her
slight, tall, grlish figure dressed in any but the
most unassumng style.
sWe this is clearly case for the judiciously in
discreet friend You shall hear how it all hap
pened. You have already told how cooly MISS
Fawcett approached the contest, declining to go
down for a week because she preferred to go IN
in the swing of ones ordinary work, and answer
ing to the question, Don't you wish 1t were all
over?' by the cheerful remark, NO. don't want
to have three weeks taken out of my life. Well,
that is Miss Fawcett all over Sage people up here
who did not know her personally used to shake
their heads and conclude that girl however brill
liant, would not be able to stand the nervous strain
She would fall behind at the end, they surmlsed.
GAS matter of fact probably no one ever went
in with more selfcontrol. Keen as she was to sue
coed, Miss Fawcett made rigid habit OF going to
bed by i and rising about 8. None OF that trad
itional wet-towel-and-teapo business to which even
the male wraugler is supposed to succumb "nen
the ordeal drew nigh, Miss Fawcett simply raced IL
wirh the consciousness that she had done her best,
and that worrying would only DO harm ehe SlePC
every night as soundly as ever In ner me- OIL onc
wrote her papers cooly deliberately, without era
sure. She thought, of course, that she had done
ILL hut ono tbino which gave her this idea was