Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
THE DAUGHTERS or EYE.
GLADsToNEs VIEWS ON THE SPHERE
OF WOMAN.
A "Rustling' Time-Domestic Animals as
Vehicles of Infection-A Pantry
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A "Rustling" Time-Domestic Animals as
Vehicles of Infection-A Pantry
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Regular Correspondence of the SUNDAY UNIoNl
The eminent distinctions that have been
won by women Of late in English universi-
ties and the increased educational oppor-
tunities given to the sex in our own coun-
try are of the most gratifying character to
all who are interested in the growth of in
tellectual culture in the whole body poll
itic. This widening and broadening of
opportunities, which promises to bring
about many social changes, is undoubtedly
partly due to the great enlightenment
which the law has thrown upon the rela-
tionship between the two sexes and upon
their rights and responsibilities. The
state of women even less than a century
ago was anomalous and Peipfal; scanty
provision was made for their welfare, and
in many respects they were subjected to
fragrant and shameful injustice hardly
credible to modern ears. But one by one
their disabilities have been removed, and
in proportion as laws have been enacted
by States enabling them to make contracts,
to hold property, and to act as if they were
entities and not chattels, it has been real
lied that in order to live up to this newly
bestowed liberty they must be ftly pre-
pared and equipped for it. Hence the
movement for their elevation need not be
regarded as a mere chivalrous sentiment,
but rather as something which would nat
urally follow what statute law had de-
creed.
A few weeks ago Mr.. Gladstone made
an address to the pupils of the famous
Burlington School for Girls, in London, in
the course of which he said some things
that, although they would not be accept
able to those who would wish to see women
launched on the stormy sea of politics and
working in every field of human action,
will doubtless be accepted by all who are
looking to the good of the community, and
not to the triumph of some
WILD AND IMPRAcTICABLE IDEA
Speaking of the changes that have taken
place in woman's position, and OF the still
greater changes that are now being dis
eussed and to which so many are looking
forward with eager anticipations he re-
Trained from undertaking to say whether
these movements would ultimately result
in the good of society. But he did say,
plainly:
81 believe that anything that attempts
or affects to alter the fundamental rela-
tions which the Almighty himself has
established, and the designs which he has
marked out in our constitutions and
capacities, to draw woman out of her own
sphere and expect her to exchange it for
the sphere of man, or to act in both with
the presumption that she can act in both
eficiently-that schemes that involve
changes of that kind, for my part, | con-
template neither with approval-h
speak of anything so insignificant as my
own approval of so great seheme-nor
with sanguine expectation of happy
results"
There certainly can be nothing ex-
tracted from this which indicates a want
of sympathy with the efforts which women
are making to become more useful in the
world Mr. Gladstone observed that an
eminent physician had SAID to him more
than fifty years ago that neither the Wing
nor the Tories but the mothers of Eng
land, would save the country; and he sup
plemented this argument by adding that
the mothers Office is such that no ad-
ditions that We could possibly make to
woman's functions could ever stand tor a
moment in comparison with it as regards
the very vital bearing upon the formation
of character In everyone of US. And what
is the formation of character except that
for which God sent us into the world? 1t is
the sum and substance, the beginning and
end of the whole matter; and it is to the
formation of character that it is the bright
and glorious function Of woman, partly as
teacher, but infinitely more as a mother, to
contribute.
So far there has been nothing disclosed
in the opening up of new avenues for
women to Justify the fear that womanly
grace and modesty, and those tender affec-
tions which find their outcome in the
glow of hearth and home, are likely to
suffer from contact with sterner duties.
True education is that which elevates and
at the same time implants higher idea OF
responsibility; and woman, with her sphere
OF usefulness yearly growing, may yet fill
the dream of the poet, rising from one
height to another
RUsTLING sKIRTs.
The rustic of the feminine skirt will be
heard all over this broad land, the coming
winter. 1t is the coming tad, and not to
rustic Will be to the devotee Of fashion
about as odd as il she had been living in
the backwoods
The scheme comes from Europe and the
advance guards of rustlers have arrived as
the first of the sojourners have returned
from their summer travels abroad,
Woman will make noise in the world,
but she does it SO artlessly and inofen-
sively that it commands the admiration of
man. The only way that tyrant man can
get even with his partner in this instance
is to have a music-box located IN the heel
of his boot, so that he can turn on Annie
Rooney or some other choice air to drown
out the rustler.
The rustic is produced in this manner:
The muslin and soft silk underskirt is TO
be discarded Its place will be supplied
by a stiff underskirt OF silk so arranged
that when the outer edges of the under
skirt and the outer Lyons silk dress touch
there will be a rustic that can be heard
for blocks. When the avenue" parade
gets in motion some afternoon this fall
there will be such rustiing sound that it
will resemble the noise of dozen electric
cars on single track.
Ii is related that young lady, return
ing from Europe on one of the recent
steamers, prepared surprise for her
friends, and that she intended to paralyze
them with the rustic. She arrayed her
self one afternoon Just to see how the
thing worked. 1t didn't rustic worth
cent The lady was so chagrined that she
felt like tossing the underskirt into the
ocean, but she changed her mind and re-
solved to donate it to the Dorcas Society.
INFECTION FROM DOMESTIC ANsIALs.
1t is reported from Chicago that by no
means inconsiderable outbreak of scaRa-
tina has been brought about by a cat,
which acted as the means of conveying the
infection. 1t has long been known that
almost anything which can serve as a We
hicle for carrying the desquamating epi-
thelium of scarlatina patients may act as
an intermediary between sick and healthy,
and although recent study of the specific
fever tends to show that the period in
which these diseases are most likely to be
communicated is the acute stage rather
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