Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-31
THE FLEETINE SHOW.
Some of Ets Facts and Fancies. Written for the JOURNAL AND COURIER1

SATISFACTORY.
 There is nothing more satisfactory than Q good definition, clear, succinct, ac- curate description, easily comprehended and remembered. It is an art to define well, without circumlocution, verbosity, or ambiguity; an art, we are apt to think, that is confined to the photographers, whom we respect and admire accordingly Indirectness may be allowed to poets; they may use hundred words and more to define one, but the scientific man must oo straight to the point and form g defni- t1on 50 lucid ond oonossa 4I.,, ,,fnnd- seizes it at once and holds it, ready for use at a moments warning.
 For instance, great writers and think CTS have been for ages endeavoring to describe a blush, but with doubtful results. They tell us that 1t IS of thoughts" "nature's alarm at the ap- proach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue;" "the ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame;" Ca subtitle, sudden flame by veering passion famed :" "opening roses in the lily's bed;" Ca sign that nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell;" with thousands of other attempts at explana- ton, equally satisfactory.
 Now comes scientist and settles the matter once for all This honor has been reserved from the beginning for Dr. T. 0. l Minor who defines blush as "a tempor- l ary CT ythema and calorifc effulgence of the physiogomy, aetiologized by the per | ceptiveness of the censOrium when ill predicament of unequilibrity from sense l of shame, anger or other cause, eventual ing paresis of the vasometer capillaries, whereby, being divested of their elasticity, l they are suffused with radiant aeroted, compound nutritive circulating liquid, emanating from an intimidated pracor- dia"
 | Let us store it up in the treasure house of memory, though not as children who study the multiplication table in much travil of spirit, wavering to and fro like | reeds in gale, and beating upon the outer defenses of the intimidated precordia, since one reading will be all that is neces- | sary-or advisable.
 Meanwhile, the thanks of grateful public are tendered to Dr. Minor, who doubtless, since the wise are always mod est, will receive them with temporary physiognomy.
 
 When nuts are dropping from the trees and corn | is gathered in,
 When purple grapes are on the vine and apples When far across the level fields is borne the
 crows harsh cal, -,
 flower of all
 Oh! bright and strong and undismayed, the
 bravest flower of all.
 For on the winters icy edge it rests it's banner
 bold, - With fragrance keen as nyrrh and spice, witt
 colors clean and cold:
 Its petals may be tipped with pink touched with palest hue
 Of yellow gold or snowy white-their beaut! And little recks it though the frost may chill thu It came to see the curtain drop this flower s debopair.
 MARGARET E. SANesTER WOMEN AT COLLEGE.
 Women's colleges are increasing in pop : ularity, so much so that within two year thus prophecies the N. Y. Sun-th girl who does not go to college will be con sidered greater anomaly than was tn first girl considered who de6ed the worl = to win her collegiate honors.
 Sixteen years ago Smith college opene
 with twelve students; this year it has se' n en hundred, and the trustees have vote d to build two more dormitories at cost C l. $50,O00.
 Wellesley enrolls more than seven hur
 dred students and has denied admlttanc .s to many more on account of limited a' 8 commodations. Bryn Mawr opens wit at it's full quota of students, and the ne
 Leland Stanford, jr., university has slxt
 youup women students among it's thrt a hundred and twenty accepted student
 Barnard college, the "adopted daughter III of Columbia, opens with fifty-one studen l. nineteen of whom are working for degree ,a Six of these are working for the doctor
 degree, two are graduate specials, ar others are specials in botany and chemi rk try. It will be remembered that it w " mainly through the persistent efforts
 Ms. Annie Nathan Myers, who was amor
 fine first to fake the examination course ar women at Columbia, that this college W ha founded.
 The proportion of women students co ao stantly increases in coeducatlonal lnstit ch tions of all grades. Two hundred ,s. working in the Harvard Annex, at Wt ,,t leyan university girls receive callers al ''0 scholarships with equal grace, Johns He so kins admits them to it's medical colles oh and the Pennsylvania university, after To oh opposition, has opened its doors to the
 Vassar is, as usual, crowded with earn oA and gifted girls, eager for the highest a Jus broadest culture. It was about thil
 years ago that Matthew Vassar wrote:
 occurred to me that woman, having to ceived from her Creator the same intelle by ual constitution as mar, has the same rit