Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-07-05
Woman Wins at Cambridge.

have always said that, with all our Boosting
over the superiority of American women, French
women are vastly ahead of us in executive ability
IN housekeeping, in taste, in manners and in hus-
banding resources, while the best representatives
of English women exceed us in culture and in
brains. America has produced no Mrs. Browning,
no George Eliot. Even our universities where
co-education exists, make no such showing as Cam
bridge, England, where Miss Philippa Fawcett,
aged twenty-five, has taken the highest honors in
the late competitive June examinations. In COM
menting on suggestive fact, the New York Her
aid exclams: "This is no longer mans world."
The Herald is more gallant than accurate. The
world is still mans, but the signs forete that, as
women make up half of it and bring both halves
into existence, equality in all things must come to
pass sooner or later.
Miss Fawcett is the result of evolution. In spite
of loss of sight at the age of Twenty-Five, her
father entered Parliament when young and re-
NAMED there until the day of his death, serving
also under Gladstone as Postmaster-G General. Her
mother is one of the cleverest of Engshwomen.
Mr. -Faweett believed in the absolute equality of
the sexes. With such wife, who went with him
almost everywhere and who was literally the apple
of his eye, how could he think otherwise? Is it
strange, then, that the only child of this union
should carry off honors at Cambridge? The truth
that two positives make a negative is often adj
yanced to show why children of clever parents do
no credit to their ancestry. Probably, if invest-
cation went far enough it could be shown that the
mother either had not the quality of brain that
properly balanced the fathers, or that both were
unwise in their idea OF education. When mother
not only thinks reason but carries reason into
daily life, her children are not likely to be failures
Philippa Fawcett is the avant-garde of grand
arising of women destined to convert mans world
into habitation for both sexes on equal footing.
Kate Fields Washington.
How TO Do IT.-Muncipal Dgnitary Ito police
Officially: ''Order the force to have everything in
readiness for descent on the gambling houses to-
night" Police Official Ito subordinate oficer)
"Te the men to get ready for raid on the gam
bling-houses tonight" Subordinate Officer Ito
squad of police) "Boys be around here about
eleven O'Clock We are order to make haul of
the gambling houses" Policeman Ito gambler) {;
GERRY, we're goin' to raid ye about midnight.
Tell the byes. Chicago Tribune
1T is in and through the incidents OF daily lie,
in work we'll done, in simple duties conscentiously
performed, that we progress toward the Higher
Life. We advance most rapidly when we stop to
help other wayfarers. We receive most when we
sacrifice most. We attain to the largest measure
of Divine love when we most unsel6shly love our
sisters.
The beautiful defined as Perfection, demands a
sort of appreciation similar to that on which
esteem is founded. The enthusiasm which the
beautiful ought to inspire belongs neither to the
sensations nor the judgment; it is an innate dis
observation-disclosures de Stael.