Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-01
THE FLEETING SHOW.

CONCERNING THE oBTRUsIvENEss OF WHITE HAIRS.
Verify If there be one thing more than another
obtrusive, boldly challenging public attention;
Hating obscurity; counting remark, invidious
malicious,-it minds not what, so it receives it,
1t is the f1lament capillacious primarily design
cd to be glory and a covering,
When it taketh upon itself flint argental, and
thereby is nplifted in 81 irt, as the nouveau richie
are, generally speaking.
Then it beareth itself erect, and undulates in
the breeze, and beckoneth unto all beholdegs:
Or it disposeth itself sleekly along a raven lock
like tiny fillet of silver,
Hypocritically quiescent,ye much the more
conspicuous, marked by its glistening wbiteness.
Should one, annoyed, pluck it out and cast it
away, behold its kinsfolk and friends will flock to
the funeral,
And alas! they come not in black, but in robes
Of snowy sheen, arrayed for feast of rejoic-
ing
Therefore must one endure, with serenity
meek, the encroachments of the stranger obnox-
ious,
Knowing that the finger of Time, once laid on
the head, shall be lifted no more,-but haply,
The silvery hairs shall a coronet weave for her
who can graciously wear it,
And age hath q charm of its own O beauty pa
thetic and sacred.
WOMEN 5 WORK AL The w WORLDS FAIR.
Among ths women in other countries
who have become interested in the Colum-
bian Exposition, and who will do all in
their power to secure valuable represen-
tative exhibit of articles made by women
of their country, are many ladies of rank
and influence, from whom Mrs. Palmer
met very cordial reception, as president
of the board of lady managers. Lady Alb
erdeen, who is aiding the peasants of Don
egal and other counties of Ireland to sell
their work in England, is much interested
and will endeavor to have full represent
alton of all the "cottage industries" and
Lady Wolver.on, who is at the head of the
Needlework Guild, the most powerful wo-
mans organization in England, is eagerly
appreciative of the good that might be
done in this way, and will see that the
Guild makes good showing.
In Austria the Princess Metternich and
others are ready to ask for the recognition
of committee of women as soon as the
Austrian government decides to accept the
invitation of the United States govern
ment, as they undoubtedly will do The
Princess Metternich is to have musical
exposition in Vienna in 1892, which will
! represent the history of music in all
European countries, and it will probably
| be transferred from Vienna to Chicago,
where it will form an interesting and at
| tractive feature.
In Paris Mrs. Palmer was met by forty
| two ladies, with a number of senator's and
| deputies, who represented the prominent
| charities and institutions of France, and a
provisional committee was formed which
| has since received the recognition of the
| government. The women of France seem
| to feel more interest in showing their
| benevolent institutions, by means of
models, etc., than their industrial work,
believing that that will be sufficiently dis
played by the manufacturers. In short
there is much enthusiasm shown and the
foreign exhibit in the line of women g
varied handicrafts. and charitable work is
likely to be very large, valuable and well
worth careful study.
WOMEN AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Amid the varied and important work
that the age seems to demand of intelli-
gent and far-seeing women is that of the
study of school-systems, textbooks, the
hygiene of class rooms, the structure OF
school buildings, and all those other
weighty questions pertaining to educa-
tional matters.
The commissioner of education at Wash
ington gives the total number of children
at school in the United States for 1887 and
1888 the last statistics given), as IL $685.
204. The greater number of the teachers
of these millions are women, and since the
training of these young lives, during the
most susceptible period, is intrusted fo,
many hours of the day to women, many Of
them young and inexperienced, why should
there not be, back of these, a multitude oi
other women, interested, practical, ener
getic, with the power to improve, correc
or sanction the methods of the instructors
A share of the responsibility and work
of supervising the public schools has al
ready been placed upon a small minority
of women as state commissioners of edu
cation, and as members of city schoo
boards, and since in London, Liverpool
| Birmingham, New York, Philadelphia
Boston, Chicago, Springfield, Providence
and many other cities in the west anc
east, they are acknowledged to have
brought about most excellent results, it il
probable that more and more such worl
| will be placed in their hands to do.
In Kansas this year there is decided
movement throughout the state to elec
Il women to membership on the schoo
boards, the argument being that since seven
elevenths of the teachers are women ani
more than half the pupils girls, common
sense demands that women as well as men
mothers as we'll as fathers, shall govern
! the schools.
8: Mr. Charles h. Ham of Chicago, II
writing on this subject, says: IF womel