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

lauy 0enlOf ClaSSlc, aQQS one more to the striking
statistics lately published by Mrs. Sldgwek to
prove how unfounded is the assumption that you
ruin woman's body the minute that you improve
her mind. Never have the friends of Miss Fawcett
her brighter and more active than at the pres
ent moment.
g I am sure it is great lesson to you all, said
Miss Clough at the dinner on Saturday evening, "a
great lesson to you-to 60 to bed early A chorus
of laughter followed this homely moral, pointed by
the most beloved of Principals both laughter and
cheers, in this assemblage of Newnhamites, sound
ing queerly shrll and feminine beside those
'rougher voices of the men to which cheering
generally belongs and which were contributed
later by the chivalrous invaders from Sewyn.
Very sweet and very venerable looked the sister of
Arthur Hugh Clough as she presided proudly over
the hour of Newnhams triumph, Well might
Miss Fawcett allude to the privilege of being
three years with Miss Clough as the distinctive
privilege of Newman life Never mind DEAR
the Principal is said to have whispered to Miss
Fawcett when, in the confusion of the Senate
House, the announcement of her place relative TO
the Senior Wragler sounded a moment like 'brack-
eted.' Never mind it is just as WE'LL because
now they will not be so fercep But nobody was
fierce at all; everybody was glad, and only sorry
for the gentleman who was first read out as Senior
Wrangler, only to find that he was really second.
By the way, in your account of the dinner you
forgot to mention that one girl read out lay of
triumph in the Macaulay manner, which she had
composed for the occasion.
"When Miss Fawcett got back to Newman, she
walked into Clough Hall, the new wing where her
rooms are, marched in the most everyday way up
to the pegs on which the sin and out labels are
hung, and put her own right before proceeding to
her room. 1t is pretty little chamber, looking
out at two aspects on the pleasant lawns and gar
dens in which the three wings of the college
are set, where you may see girls sitting under
trees, playing lawn tennis, or stroling about in
twos and threes, arm-in-arm, with the easy aban-
don and good-fellowship which men learned long
ago to associate with college life. For furniture,
mahogany bureau, and old oak table, a bed in
one corner, and thoroughly cozy chair; for dec
Grafton, low relief of Donatello in white plaster,
some photographs and autotypes, few panel de-
signs in paper, and water-color bit from the
shore near Mrs. Fawcett's little house in Sussex,
hang on the severe plaster walls. In the book
shelf, above rows of mathematical tones, are vol
umes of very varied reading-scence, poetry,
economics, and novels A few have been prettily
bound by the fingers of their owner, who is also,
by the way, not too emancipated to be an expert
needlewoman, with nice skill in embroidery. If
it be teatime, kettle singing on the hob completes
this characteristic little corner of Newman life.
"Among many other interests, Miss Fawcett has
inherited from her father and mother strong one
in political and social economics, and her speeches
on these and other subjects in the college debating
society have always been markedly practical and
to the point. Rhetoric is foreign to her nature,
and clearness and cogency are the only qualities
at which she aims. AT the time when she was at
tending in London course of MATHEMATICAL lee
lures from Mr.. Karl Pierson, one of the advanced
wing of Socalistic teachers, she used to express
sometimes a half humorous fear lest the course
should be interrupted by the lecturer getting him
self put into jail You see, it's land the instru-
ments of production" Miss Fawcett would re-
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