Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21


Cambridge, in England who won little 400
points above the best man in the class. The nat
ura inferiority of the feminine brain is gradually
disproving itself, and the adherents to the old
theory of specific weakness OF woman's central
organization are left without leg to stand on.
The Sun says Tennyson's "Princess," with all its
chatter about "sweet girl graduates with their
golden hair seems to be sadly out of date
In defense of the argument that Miss Fawcett
is entirely out of her sphere in carrying off the
greatest honors of the year, it has been cabled
from London that the friends who went to visit
Miss Fawcett the morning after her unprecedented
achievement found her placidly engaged in dust
ing the furniture. Important fact no doubt, but
it serves in measure to settle the seething minds
of those persons whose business in life it is to
regulate ''sphere."
The Sargent prize at Harvard of 500 for the
best metrcal version of the twenty ninth ode Of
the book of Horace, has also been awarded to
woman Miss H. L. Reed of the "Annex'' carried
off the honor This is the first time the Harvard
men have been cut out of their prize by any of
the fair sex.
But to return from this dissertation on feminine
victories to the things that come fairly within the
scope of New York letter.
The warm days of last week have called olt the
usual efforts on the part of large-heared persons
to alleviate the sufferings of the poor. One par
ticular branch of the Kings Daughters work has
called for fund to be called 1.-The Little Mothers
Excursion Day Fund. This is to benefit the
little elder sisters who begin so early in life the
work of caring for younger brothers and sisters,
while pfo M Of Nbo,,
kind of usefulness makes it impossible for these
weary little mites of womanhood to get away even
for day from their many and always increasing
cares-the discipline that begins with the COM
mencement of their little lives. The Kings
Daughters call for recruits to their ranks, for the
sufferings of the poor in this great city are far
more intense in the summer than in the winter
herded as they are in the foul tenements The
parks are perfect godsend to this class of people,
and OF all the numerous breathing places, no one
perhaps is more frequented by them than Bowling
Green, which is situated near the sea wall and at
the entrance to Castle Garden. The emigrants
now land at the barge office which adjoms, and
coming out as they do upon this beautiful spot
with Its vevety grass and waving shade trees,
their hearts must beat in realization of the far off
N~
greener than even their fancy painted Little they
dream what an oasis is that little spot in the great
desert OF stone to which they have come.
The elevated road makes its way down through
the narrow, busy streets between parapets of stone
which throw the intensity of summer heat into its
car windows until at last it enters very elysium
OF green and you look down on old Trinity church
yard with its old, old gravestones marking the
resting place of the quiet seepers who have long
slept undlsturbed by the hurrying, worrying
throngs OF men. Time there seems over and
eternity has set in. Best, beautiful, restful spot.
From the car windows of the elevated road as
u enters the suburbs, winds through Harlem on
level with the fifth stories of immense buildings
and moves on toward Washington Heights, are to
oe seen tne model farms of New York. They fur
nlSn vegetables Tor the city market, and as they
are lao out with regularity, they form par
dlelOgramS of Varioua ehodnc "a o,oa.