St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-03-20
London, Feb. %.
THE LELAND STANFORD UNIVER-
SITY


SITY.
Leland Stanford University, at Pa
10 Alto, Cal, will be ready for open
ing next fall. 1t is to be co-educa-
tional, and one department will be
an art training school like that of
Cooper Institute, where girls who
have taste for designing may secure
instruction that will enable them to
earn q good living. The chief aim
will be to ground the students in Gle
mentary studies, and then give them
some practical training by which
they may easily support themselves
For dormitory purposes cottages
will be built to accommodate about
twenty students each, in charge of
teachers No creed is to be taught,
but the day will begin and end with
prayer, and each student will be I'M
der refined discipline. Many paint
ings and curiOs of Mr.. StanfOrd's
collection will be given for the adorn-
ment of the buildings, and copies are
to be obtained of famous paintings
all over the world. Mr.. Stanford al
ready has copy of Raphael's 1.-The
Lords Supper" obtained by permits
sion of King Humbert from the cathe
dral near Milan; and Emperor Will
lam of Germany has given permits
sion to secure copy of the famous
Sistine Madonna in Dresden.
DOLLS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The loneliness, the exquisite raj
mcnt, the infinite variety, of the dolls,
and the scenes which they enacted,
were enough to keep an intelligent
visitor amused all day They includ-
ed every nation and social station.
For the most part they represented
children, though there were some
Lilliputian ladies and gentlemen vari-
Ously occupied, as, for instance, iii
learning the minuet, three figures in
the dress of Louis XVIs reign,-an
old gentleman playing the violin, and
q handsome young couple dancing;
there were mechanical puppets, and
the slow, stately motions, the ineffa-
bic airs and graces, the pointing of
the lady's toe and dropping of her
fringed eyelids, were i'll keeping with
the business on hand. A delicate
sense of high life and humor designed
that group, which even to the very
chair and music-bOOk were of the
ancient regime; but what fingers
trimmed their dresses and tied the
bows and fastened the shoe buckles
1t was in such creations that French
finish and perfection of detail could
be studied. Even more delightful
than this was the party round the
cherry-trce,- half q dozen boys and
girls, about a third the size of life;
one cXulting i'll having got to the
top; another face of CONSERVATION,
losing his grasp and about to fall;
those below holding up hats and
pinafores for the fruit They repre-
scented charming children of eight or
nine, with expressions as natural
and vivaciOus as portraits. A group
on a smaller scale gave the daily
drama of the Tuilcries gardens. The
Russian nurse, in national costume
flor whom there is now q fashion in
France sits on a bench, holding a
beautifully dressed baby; but her
attention is absorbed by a rakish
doll i'll uniform leaning over her
shoulder, while Il toddling child falls
on the gravel, and cries with a piteous
grimace and tears of glass, q little
elder sister, full of anxiety, STOPPING
to pick him up. There was the ut
most cleverncss and truthfulness in
these small parodies of life; the
smiles which the nurse and her adj
mirer exchanged were enough to
raise blush Atlantic Monthly.