The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-12-11

rights has not as yet disturbed the bra ms
of the majority of our women. They are
still dreaming. AS Frances Willard says
of many women's minds, they are filled
with IAN insipid brain-soup, where a few
Jumps of thought swim in a watery grave
of Dreams Many of them sit patiently
and listen to lectures (by men) in regard
to their duties, tteir privileges, their re-
sponsibilities as home-keepers, and partic-
ularly their duties as wives; but they do
not have an opportunity to listen to lee
lures (by men) on the husbands duties,
responsibilities, and privileges as husbands.
This is all wrong, and will never be cor
rected until enough of our good, brave.
broad minded men unite their efforts and
say: 1--WE want our wives to be equal
partners with US from the altar to the
grave."-A. S. B. in Friends htelligeneer
and Journal.
The following selection is from a letter
from DR.. James Martiueau read at the con-
ference Of tbs Northumberland and Dur
ham Unitarian Association at New Castle,
Eugland.-"I Am not bound to use all my
permissible liberty; | am bound to forego
any portion which may be hur.ful to
others. Gambling deals principally with
cases not of competitive skill, but of meal
culable contingency where the composition
of determining agencies defies all foresight.
To fasten ones interest and curiosity apon
this order of events is to school ones self
in all that is weak and contemplate in
character and to live by guess W ork -
Irteligencer and Journal.
From the address of Lady Henry Somer-
set at the Boston Convention on Y. even
ing, we quote the following: at would
be impossible to guage the influence of any
life. There IS an atmosphere around each
individual that affects for eternity. proba-
bly,, the souls that come in contact with it.
You have it in your power to make and to
mar lives other than your own. Oh,guard
hat influence, keep that delicate perfume,
that holy, gently, charmed spell which
alone you can find in contact with the
great heart of Christ, so that your influence
may lead the world Alright. OAK and 10y
Leaf.
DoEs IT PAY.
John Hapleigh was a graduate of an
Eastern college, and had studied with spec
ial reference to the teaching of rhetoric
and e~locution. He had brilliant powers,
and armed with excellent credentials, he
applied for a position in a Western uniyer-
sity. Pending the action of the university
Board of Trustees upon his application,
the young teacher spent a social evening
with one of the professors. Several invit-
ed guests were present, among them the
president of the university. During the
evening, as the guests were talking to-
gether, the president overheard the follow
ing little dialogue between the young ap-
plicaIt for the chair of elocution aud the
son of the hostess:
DO you play tennis?" asked the young
fellow.
You bet l CO." replied the candidate
for a professorship.
tits a fine game, don't you think so?"
Bang up"
'Did you play base ball in college?"
"Well, | should smile, | was way out
of sight in it,
That was all the president heard; and It
was all said by the professor in a tone OF
fun, with an evident desire to be free and
easy with the lad, and not to appear for
NAL. Bnt the president reflected that q
man who would use such phrases was not
the man the university wanted and he took
action accordingly. When the young
mans application was refused he was
much surprised, as he had fully expected
to secure the position. He is to-day filling
an inferior place, in spite of his ability,
because of that little conversation
Youths Companion.
1t was a very important moment of my
early life when | once suddenly resolved,
on hearing that Whittier was in the same
room, to ssek his acquaintance. Ii was at
a modest restaurant in Boston. Some one
said, There is Whittier" and looking
across the room | saw a slender man with
rich brunette complexion, penetrating
eyes, black hair, and straight, black eye
brows; these last indicating as | was told,
the "Batchelder blood" which he shared
with Daniel Webster, Colonel William B.
Green and Frank B. Sanborn, all men of
noticeable personal appearance. Whittier
wore the dark Quaker attire, which had
even then superseded the original drab;
and as lie arose from his seat he showed
the rather abrupt and angular movement
SO Common among the men of a religious
society which doth the human feelings
school, asCharles Lamb said. l accosted
hln, saying something about wishing to
take the hand of the author of "Massa-
to Virginia" and he answered
18th even greater sbyness, that he was
glad to see me.
Some years later, going to reside at
New buryport, Mass, | was within a few
miles of Whittier and was often a guest at
his peaceful and happy home at Ames-
bury, He and his mother and sister we're
a group who should have lived in some
gray old gambrel-roofed New England
house, or beneath some long slopipg roof,
at the well-sweep; such an old-time
peace-a much greater peace, indeed, than
old-time Quaker household could have
long enjoy ed-seemed to hang about them.
They belonged to the Society Of Friends
il the most literal sense of that fine title;
aud the strength Of that quality was not
impaired by their living in a little white
cottage in a factory village. The three
members Of the family formed a perfect
ombination of wholly varying tempera-
ments. Mrs. Whittier was placid, strong, |
sensible, an exquisite housekeeper and
''provider;" it seems to ms that have
seen no whiteness to be compared to the
OF her tablecloths and napkins. But
her soul was of the same hue and all her
worldly conditions and all the lame OF her
children-for Elizabeth Whittier then
shared the fame-were to her wholly sub
ordinate things, to be taken as the Lord
gave. Elizabeth Whittier