Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-19


 Ing good wagon roads, and when they want to go to town they have road to travel on that at any and every season Is fit for a royal | procession.
 THE FLEETING SHOW.
 Some Of Its Facts and Fancies, l Written Expressly for the JouRsALAND CouRIKRl |
 THE WAY IT SEEMS TO THE MILKMAN.
 The belated milkman, hurrying through our streets on Sunday morning to escape ar- rest, may sometimes wonder, as do other peo- pie, why the law should single him out to treat him as 0 criminal if he plies his traffic in necessary and perishable article of food beyond certain hour, while dealers in com. modities unnecessary or harmful, or both, are allowed to conduct their business all day without fear of molestation. It may strike the milkman, as 1t does other people, that this regulation is inconsistent and unjust, as church attendants on their way to and from services are much more annoyed by the open stores, and in one quiet and reputable quar- ter there are four within stone's throw of each other, carrying on all day and evening long brisk trade in cigars aud soda water, than they are by the rattle of wheels and jingle of milk cans for few hours in the morning. It occurs to the milkman, as 1t does to other people, that these things might be provided on Saturday night for Sundays supply of meat and butter, or hats and shoes, by all who consider them valuable and in- dispensable. The milkman wonders, and so do some of the rest of us, if cigarettes and cigars would sour over night, or soda water curdls in the bottles, and why fruit should decay if kept at home, when it remains so fraah and famnfin0 at the frnifarar,a also questions within himself why the but cher, the baker, the fish dealer and himself should not be allowed the right to carry on business according to the new command ment: Seven days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. if so it seemeth right in thine eyes. It really seems to the milkman and to a few other benighted people as if there was not the least necessity for these places being kept open, and as if public opinion might in measure obstruct that which the law for- wards. They talk of avoiding on week days the stores that are open on the Sabbath, and think that it enough men and women Of character would join in such movement, the weight of their displeasure might be sen. sibly felt But, bless their innocent hearts they do not sufficiently consider the power and majesty of ths Law with capital l., or know how dangerous @ matter it is to set themselves in opposition to 1t. Let them ponder we'll before they attempt a scheme 80 revolutionary, for If no worse thing befalls them they shall at least be dubbed with the undesirable and damaging title of Crank. THE WORK OF THE PANsY BRIGADE. A novel flower bed is the one to be seen each morning at Q railway station In Boston composed of flowers that possess the peculiar property of vanishing entirely in few hours, leaving behind them only the bed-a I l. al ,,tt |, | wide-meshed wire netting, which stands near l the track where suburban trains come in
 upon the Boston and Lowell road. The | flowers, brought from the pleasant villages
 and country towns around, are deposited
 here by early corners to the city; brilliant and rare blossoms from conservatories, sweet
 told fashioned" flowers from old time gar-
 dens, grasses of the field with wayside flowers and ferns from cool forest depths, all
 are crowded side by side, lovely sight, and
 lovelier still when one knows that they are
 only waiting to become little messengers of love and consolation to the sick and sorrow
 ing. Many of these are the contributions of l young peoples societies, who each are re-
 sponslble for days supply, and their gener- ously filled flower baskets are transported by
 the courtesy of the Adams Express company.
 The flowers are carried from ths station to
 the Ipgraham public school, where the girls
 of the "Pansy Brigade" assisted by older
 members of the Hancock Flower mission
 make them up into bouquets and start ou,
 with their well-laden baskets on a round oi
 calls, each being provided with list of sici
 people in her own neighborhood. They pasi , bravely through ranks of street urchins who
 have waited their approach to beg for "on' flower, only one," and who seize upon fall
 ing blossom as a treasure, and go on into
 narrow courts and alleys and into crowded
 tenements. where there is want and pressing I ,;a ae t.,h ha xvitb syla xuord
 of gratitude, or the wan smile of the suffer ing, or the tears of the pale mother who witl
 despairing look bends over her little moan :. iuQ child. Sometimes the flowers are held Il fevered hands until death loosens their clasp } oftentimes they are reverently laid upon tn , breast of one who, too weary to bear 1t fur |. ther, has laid down the cross of sorrow, o 2 ? who, like flower, has bloomed for day an, l withered in the unwholesome atmosphere. Truly the flower mission is doing wor |. that will be most helpful to many becaus
 of tho assurance it brings them of huma g love and sympathy; indeed 80 complete ( It's success that 1t Ia expected every depot | Q the city will soon become flower station with brigade to each for the work of diI y tribution. Might not some of the kindl - disposed In this city of gardens find time A plAu and carry out the work of simils ', nissiont Or an opportunity be thus afforde u for the Society of Christian Endeavor to c, l- tend tho work of its flower oommittsesi e "wira uoNoas THICK ABOUT TnEM."
 This 10 good year for girls, for soho ,f and college girls in particular, and the el ,s thusiastie praise that is awarded the ,- achievements the world over aeems to pro- ,t that everyone is unaffeotedly rejoiced ,a their success.
 0 Tho list of girls who have won high homo 70 for scholarship ia q long ono, but theIe are l. few shining examples set for imitation. d To begin near home, girl who all her II - has "worked to winh Ia Sylvia Clark i- Derry, N. H. Ambitious and undaun T. ed in her purpose to gain ss collegiate education, the scholarship prize al six hundred dollars awarded her by the Bo |, ton Herald for excellence in English comp y sition, and which she gained over two hu
 dred and nineteen competitors, will be
 great assistance to her in carrying out h Id cherished plans.
 re of Roumania, has attained the highest ral
 among the law graduates. She was grad ae ated when seventeen in science and belle es lettres at Bucharest, taking also the fiji ic prize as pianist. In 1884 she began | Ia study of law in Paris, and now at twent ~ three receives the degree of Doctor of Law c- The thesis she selected was sThe Status ,s, Mothers under French and Roman Law, h. .. she read before a large audience, the jude " congratulsting her on her choice of su Is ject and the admirable way la which 6 lot treated It. Mile. Bilcesco intends to ask g ha mission to the Bucharest bar in order th =. she may plead the cause of poor women W ," are unable to employ counsel, and to ests y. fish 6 precedent in favor of women who ha
 to earn livelihood.
 Margaret Afford, niece of that distinguis lh, ed Greek scholar, Dean Afford, also daughi ,ld of a thorough classicist, has ,as perhaps mig pa. have been expected from the careful teac -. ing she has received, won the first place s" the classical examinations at Cambrio ry- university But highest honors of all ale triumphant scholarship are being shower to upon Philippa Garrett Fawcett, who beca
 "Senior Wrangler" of Cambridge on J1 are 1, taking precedence of all competitors me the mathematical tripos by four hundl , a marks. Miss Fawcett is twenty-two, ser Inc ble, unassuming girl, as modest as she gifted. Her father, who, in spite of the 1 of sight, served ably in parliament and ks, postmaster general, believed thoroughly ry. complete educational equality, and it wal ;o,, his home, when Philippa was but year { ion 8 half old, that the first of the meetings
 held which have resulted in the founding