Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK, June 8, 1890.

NEW YORK, June y, 1871.
Editor Womans Chronicles:
The average New Yorker has felt called upon
during the past week to defend the weather. so he
mops his brow and declares that this is the hotties
early June in twenty years. The sun pours heat
and light in floods on the avements-albeit, New
York seems nothing but pavements, and noise and
vendors, and when your next door neighbor har-
bors fendish parrot who shrieks the enduring
day, and the elevated trains thunder by every
second, and children cry and all creation seems to
be in the truck business and every truck seems to
be driving by your particular abode, you discover
all at once why all New York fees to the country
and the seashore in the summertime. Anon
comes shower, but the stones lick up the rain.
drops, and as the sun shines all the brighter the
sparrows peck at their own shadows on the smooth
clean pavement in a very condensed wrath, and
the stone houses reflect the heat savagely back at
each other, and save for the blue patch of gleam-
ing canopy o'erhead and some green in the dis
lance you forget that Mother Earth contains for
her children aught but staring stone masonry and
noise.
Within the house everything is arrayed in spot
less summer attire. Carpets, furniture, pictures,
mirrors, chandeliers, everything is linen covered,
and the whole presents an appearance uninviting
and uncanny, yet cool withal, and in view of the
fact that the windows are closed-quiet.
Coney Island is open for the refugees; the
World has started the fund for the relief of the
poor babies in the tenement districts whose suffer-
ings have begun earlier than usual and to whom
the fresh ocean air while so near is indeed so far
away; and all the hundreds of summer resorts are
reckoning with an alluring finger and with one eve
on the size of the family purse.
The schools and colleges are on the point of
closing, and saw the face of one of the students
of Columbia Law School brighten the other even
ing as he counted the days before he would be in
his home in Little Rock. My pen hesitates TO
consign to cold type the pleasant remarks apropos
to this one of Arkansas younger sons, but she
may well be proud of him, and his successes as a
student point to happy and prosperous future.
Gov. Hill of this State has signed the Female
Factory Inspectors Bill, and the wisdom of having
women to look after the interests of women EN-.
ployed in factories, workshops etc., will soon be
exemplified. Woman's cause, like the mills of the
gods, grinds slowly, but with woman's shoulder at
the wheel the grinding will in no wise cease
New York authorities continue to frown down
police matrons Perchance they don't want the
women to reform, or it may be that like that wise
and unerrng member of the Little Rock council
they think it unreasonable and more to their taste
to hire parson to pray with the men,
Matron Webb of this city, who has had nursery
on the top floor of police headquarters for the past
eighteen years, has handed in her resignation She
is nearly seventy years old and her advanced age
warns her that she can no longer fulfil the duties
1t is estimated that In that time she has cared for