The record-union., 1891-05-17
CLEVER WOMEN OF AMERICA.
Barnard College and the Higher
Education of Women.
Mrs. Frank Leslie Makes Her Thirty
first Ocean yoyage-Rer Descrip-
ton of the Paris Morgue-Nrrs.
Lille d. Blake, Reformer.
Special Correspondence OF the SUNDAY
UNION. Copyright, 1S9ll

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New YORK, May Il, 1891.
The higher education of women in this
country can no longer be regarded as an
experiment The coming woman"
whatever she may lack, must be college
bred, or at least possess attachments that
will enable her to cope with the woman
a. b. and a NJ.
The cause of education has been won
derfully stimulated in this vicinity since
the opening of Barnard College, or rather
the Columbia annex for women. The
students at this college need have no fears
for the future, for they are sure of their
degree after they complete the four years
course.
The Columbia annex is way ahead the
Harvard annex, where the women on
graduating get nothing but an unsigned
certificate, which in plain language
should read like this: III Miss - or
Mrs. - had been man she would havo
received degree"
Barnard and Columbia have precisely
the same curriculum and tho same pro-
teSSors. Since that young woman in Eng
land graduated in mathematics over the
heads of the senior wranglerS, a certain
class of men have ceased their bumptious
claims 10 superiority.
The ltty-one women and girls enrolled
at Barnard do not appear to be killing
themselves with the study Of Greek, He
brew and pure mathematics Barnard
| College is so named, the report says: I'm
grateful recognition Of the faith and en-
ergy with which tho late President of CO.
lumbIa had advocated granting to women
iull opportunity for collegiate training"
IN The college Is on Madison avenue near
! torty-SecOnd street. The building is
one of those three-story brown stone
| houses which abound in that neighbor-
hood. The college has two laboratories,
chemical and botanical, completely
equipped for practical work.
One Of the most encouraging features
connected with the institution is the
deep interest which the leading clergy
men take in its welfare. The ten minutes
religious service i'll the morning is in the
keeping of five eminent divines who
offered to come on the days specified.
DR.. Marvin Il. Vincent, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, comes on Mondays;
Dr.. Terry, Of the South Reformed Church,
on Tuesdays; Dr. Greer, of st. Bartholo-
news, on Wednesdays; the Rev. Henry
Nj. Sanders, OF the Central Baptist
Church, on Thursdays; the Rev. Arthur
Brooks, Chairman Of the Board of TTus-
tees, on Fridays.
The future of the college is auspicious.
The probabilities are that larger quarters
viii be necessary in q year or two.
MRS. FRANK LEsLIE's OCEAN VOYAGES.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, who left on the
North German-Lloyd steamer on May
9Th, will, if she completes this trip, have
made altogether thirty-one ocean voyages.
These have not ali been on the Atlantic.
The lady has been to South America and
to the islands in the Pacific Ocean. Since
Mr. Leslie died, Mrs. Leslie has gone to
Europe every summer, bat when she
reaches the other side she does not do
much travelling. Her annual holiday is
spent vibrating between London and
Paris, or as she terms it, sin the heart of
civilization" Mrs. Leslie has no liking
for unciviGZed or semi-enlightened com
munities.
Il don't go to Egypt, she remarked,
! because | can't stand the heas, which [
am told abound IN that country. These
pests annoyed me very much while | was
[ in Rome. Since then | have kept away
from warm countries, and for that matter
| cold countries, for l have never been to
| Russia, Norway, Sweden or Denmark
! / have made several tours through Ger
many and Switzerland but for the past
! eight years l have spent my vacations in
| London and Paris, where l have more
friends than / have in New York.
although l have visited Paris a score
of times l never went to the MOrgue until
! last summer. The visit was revelation
to me. The ingenious French have even
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manner in which they exhibit the vic
tins in the famous dead-hOuSe
Instead Of lying stretched out on
stone slab, the Corpses are made to sit in
a chair that is a cross between dentists
chair and the invalid wheeling cOntriy-
anco we see on the streets.
"The place reminded me ever so much
OF the Eden MuSee, for the dead looked
like wax figures.
THE Paris Morgue is always open and
every day crowds visit 1t, women bring
ing children and babies in their arms to
see the sights.
81 enjoyed my tour through Spain
some years ago more than any travel
ever did"
Travelling in Spain must have been
pleasure for Mrs. Leslie, as she speaks
Spanish tiTently. Spanish peOpie-even
| the cultivated people of Spain-rarely
speak anything save their own language.
| The Spanish are as polite rs the French,
! but given to less aflectation: hence, are
more sincere. 1t is to hoped that Mrs.
Leslie will enjoy herself while she is over
on the other side and that she will keep
far away from that tlabby, perfumed, ec-
centric, pretentiouS creature, who calls
himself the Marquis de Leuyilie.
MRS. LILLE DEVEREUN BLAKE AND
HER DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
Mrs. Lille Deveroux Blake, the cham
pion agitatOr OF the WOman's Suffrage
Party ia this State, comes OF excellent
stock. The best blood of England,
france and Holland courses through her
veins. But for all that she is no stick
ler' for blood. Her heart ever seems to
DO with the lot of the common people.
Whenever occasion requires it, her
voice will be heard on their side. This
lack of "brag' about her ancestors is
probably due to her remarkable intelli-
gence and common sense. She knows,
as Thackeray so sarcastieally writes, that
if some OF these ancestors had received
their just deserts, they would have been
hanged"
Everybody believes i'll the blood OF
men as they do in the blood Of horses, but
the claims and protensions tc good
bloOd'' which many of our so-called first
families make borders on the idiotic.
History tells us that Shakespeare, Mil
ton, George Eliot, George Washington.
Abraham Lincoln, General Grant, and
hosts of other mighty giants of litera-
ture, statescraft and military tactics de-
scended from the common people,
EMMA TRAPPER.
Crusty Carlyle,