, 1890-08-05
A Girl Party Where No Chaperon Was
Needed.

A Girl Party Where No Chaperon Was
Needed.
1t was at the Twenty-third street sta
ton of one of the New York elevated
roads that they came on the train. Every
y was fixed on them, for they nearly
all wore white, and twenty-five pretty
girls coming into n car all at once dressed
in white will make ever the jaded, tired
New Yorker glance up from his evening
paper. Their sunburned faces showed
they had been down for a dip and a day
at the seashore. Some of them had
dainty baskets in which they had car
ried their lunch. The rest had regaled
themselves on bluetish, steamed clans
and other sea food. They looked like
the girls Of n graduating class at a school,
or they might have been young women
clerks in n of the great dry goods
stores. l could not quite make them
out, and /, who have interviewed sena-
tors and members of parliament and
high nosed, homely old women who
thought they were leaders in society,
and did it without any compunctions at
ALL did not dare ask these girls
who they were md where they had
been. Their sweet, girlish dignity
abashed ever me. They were as merry
rs the sunlight, and talked and laughed
together, and you could not detect from
any glance or word that they were mar
riageable girls. They We're just bright,
sensible and natural, seemingly utterly
unconscious that the men, young and
old, in the car were watching them.
l really think they wero thus uncon-
scious. The eternal thought of sex that
seems fill the minds of some girls was
apparently entirely absent from their
meditations, and greatly to their advan-
tage. There was not an older person of
either sex with them; nobody but them
selves. They need n chaperon? They
might nave been trusted to go around
the world alone.
While they are about it let the Pres
byterians revise the word ''obedient" out
of their marriage ceremony. Nothing
needs revision more than that. The
Methodists have already ordered that
''obey" be left out of their marriage ser
vice.
Philippa Garrett Fawcett won the
senior wranglership which years ago her
father tried for and failed, although he
won a wranPlership. Professor Fawcett
in studying for the prize became nervous
and lost his sleep, and so was left be-
hind. But not one night did Philippa
lose any rest. She kept her head on,
slept nine hours of the twenty-four went
to bed early and did not worry about the
prize she was contending for, so she
gained it. so all the prizes in life are
gained.
Mrs. L~ivermore's popularity as a lect-
urer does not diminish, but rather in
creases. She has been busy all this sum
NOR speaking for Chautauqua assem-
bhes. Her engagements last till Sep
.ember, and she finds this the busiest
summer of her life.
A woman who has travelled much alone
writes to The Homemaker that she al
ways pins her faith to a blue coat and
brass buttons when she desires informa-
lion or attendance. She has found rail
way and steamboat employees courteous
and kind and invariably to be depended
IN. This is a tribute to a class of hard
worked men that one is glad to read.
There are now two women on the
Chicago school board, Mrs. Ellen NJ.
Mitchell and Miss Mary L. Burt.
Mrs. D. w. Swan, a cultured, public
spirited woman of Scranton, Pa, has
been appointed a member of the board
of directors of public charities in that
place.
Every innovation that will help secure
honorable pecuniaTy independence for
women workers is u De welcomed. The
gallant Texans of the Houston cotton
exchange and board of trade have
elected two women members of their or
Ranization. These two ladies, Mrs. Cora
Bacon Foster and Mrs. Ella Hutchins
Stewart, are partners in a lourishing
real estate business they have built up
in Houston.
At last Oxford university, England,
has opened its doors a little way to
women. That is to say, the girls have
got their noses in. Hereafter women
will be admitted to the medical exam
nations of the university.