The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08

is disapproved of by Mrs. Stanley. She thinks
her manner is bad, her voice loud, and her |
dressing very Objectionable. She has spent all
her time looking for pretty women aud can't
find them. Evidently she is not as good an ex-
plorer as her husband. The insolence displayed I
by this Englshwoman is almost magnificent.
Wherever she has gone she has been well
treated, great courtesies have been shown her,
and in almost all instance they have emsnated
from women, and this is her "Thank YOU"
Will the American worm ever turn? Will it
ever discover that it is casting pearls before
swine when it goes in for extending kindly
greetings to people who, having violent attacks
of swollen heads, think that they doing
favors in accepting them?
Mrs. Astor, whom nobody ever believed to be
anything but gentlewoman, with the finest
feelings and the greatest consideration for rich
and poor alike, was asked to invite Mrs. Stanley
to her house. She did so, and among the crowd
of well-dressed American women, the English
one, who had so unkindly criticised them, wore
a crimson velvet gown so tawlry looking that
one could not but associate it with those affect
ed by the Queen of Denmark when "Hamlet' is
played on the Bowery. 1t is said that as ma
ton we are to sensitive. Well, l don't know
that we are, except where our women are con-
cerned; and we do object to having disagreeable
comments made on them, especially by the
Stranger within our gates, to whom they have
offered the bread and salt of hospitality, and
who have not known, or else forgotten, that
once you have broken the bread and tasted the
salt you respect the courtesy shown you, and
only say words of kindness.
THE ENGLISH MAID WHO WAITS.
We have nothing in this country that answers
to the type represented by Mrs. Stanley-the
maid who waits. She is very common in Eng
land, where husbands are by no means easy to
get, and where women wait on far beyond thirty,
waiting for man to take pity on them, and
grow to have an expectant look on their faces,
until you would not be surprised to hear them
cry, ANY man, Lord ~ That is why nothing
good is found in the American woman. She
can always marry; and when she don't she isn't
an expectant old maid, with the stamp of prunes
and prisms set about her mouth and on her
forehead in ill-tempered lines, but she is a
woman who doesn't care to marry, and chooses
to work out her life alone. For my own part,
say, "God bless her!" for she takes care of
many another woman, looks after many another
womsn's children, and does good in many a
household. After the criticism of Mrs Stan
ley, however, it is to be hoped that the Ameri-
can woman will close her doors to so-called
lions that are, after all, catfish in their actions
It's pity, in the interest of society at large,
that the wife of the explorer does not 90 to
darkest Africa and learn there of the sacredness
Of hospitality.
A NEW SCHOOL FOR WOMEN.
Talking about women, there is something
going to be done for them about which great
deal ought to be said. There are schools that
teach woman everything except how to be use
full, and this is something that Mr.. George w.
Childs is going to remedy. In the great Drexel
Institute for Women, which is now being built,
they will be taught how to cook, how to sew,
how to make bonnets, how to keep accounts,
how to write shorthand, how to be good type
writer's, designers, and to be perfect In every
one of the arts that are within the reach of a
womans hands. A certificate of the perfection
in any one branch will be enough to gain them
position in any shop or mandatory; and the
bonnet has to be as well made, the steak as well
cooked as the design is perfect or the account
properly posted. The woman who graduates
as a cook will understand her business, and the
one who receives her diploma as a dressmaker
will know exactly where pockets should be put,
how buttons should be placed, and just how
closely collar should fit to look well, and vet
be comfortable Isn't this the right sort of
school? And to show you how entirely Mr..
Childs intends to carry out this idea, he has
put himself in communication with all the good
artisan schools in the world, and intends to get
the best of everything from them, to find out
their mistakes and as far as possible to avoid
them. Only the other day, when a secretary
was needed, and Mr.. Childs was asked to recon-
mend a young man, he said, "No let II be a
woman; this is for women, and wherever women
can Ehonestly earn any of the money from il
they shall hold the positions" Now, that's
what l call a good speech; and the school
promises TO be that best of all thngs-a help to
women who want to make life better, truer, and
more absolutely houest, for the poor worker is
as dishonest as the thief.
NEW YORK FULL OF DOGS.
The dogs have come to town. They are aris
tocrats from the tips Of their tails to the endt
OF their cold noses. The big ones scorn the lit
tie ones, and the little ones nearly bark theil
outside coverings off in an effort to prove thai
theJ are not as insignificant as they look I'm
like the beggars none of them are in rags, and
their coats are glossy enough to be considered
as satin dinnergowns. That anybody who hal
a personal attachment for dog should put hin
in the show is a mystery to me. The big dogi
are cooped up in places not big enough fo
them, and they look downcast and unhappy
while the little ones are SO nervous that they
spend all their time barking, and when thu
show is over need months doctoring to ge
them in good condition again. However, with
out thinking about the poor dogs, the fashion
able crowd look and approve, and are interested
IN the puppies, whether they are on four Leg
or two.
"BAB's" WISE Fox-TERRIER.
Did put my dog in Would you put in