The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-05-21
HARDWOOD SEMINARY.
ATHENEAN CLU MN.
Edited by Miss Mabel Cortelyou, Miss May Gober
and Miss Rosa Wing.

Thursday, May 2lst, will be Rose
day at the Seminary. Last year we
had a beautiful display, and We hope
this year it will be even more beau
tiful. Visitors are cordially invited.
The editors offer a prize to the
pupil of the Seminary sending us
the best original editorial on any
live subject. The contest to close
May Both. The editorial to consist
of not over one hundred words.
''Nil intentatum nostae liquere puellae."
We hope that the young lady who
il 90 busily engaged in compiling a
dictionary, viii soon complete the
valuable work and that it will reflect
great credit upon a pupil of such
marked genius.
One of the Seniors who has been
very much agitated about a subject
for her commencement essay, has at
last been cdvised to write on, "Wo-
man, her Sphere and Influence.
PROGRAM FOR MAY %.
Debate-Resolved, ''That the Joy
of success does not equal that which
ats nds the patient working"
Affirmative- Misses Mckinney,
Moore: McClatchey and Morris.
Negative Misses Nesbitt, SEES
sions and Ir.in.
Reading Lizzie FaR.
Recitation Matte Lou Bussey.
StoryAdelina Gibbes.
Essay add Freyer.
The Seniors are looking forward
with pleasure @ to the final exami-
nations.
The Algebra class has the name
of being the pet class, as Mr.. Man
get ''entertains" them SO often after
the others have gone home.
The spring weather is enervating,
and the school girls find difficulty in
keeping theirminds on their studies.
The Senior Latin class is reading
the cars Poetica' Of Horace.
Everyone is busy preparing Tor
commencement. Essayists, dcbaters,
speakers; all are hard at work. and
they will be glad when all is over,
and they can enjoy vacation.
On last Friday a resolution was
offered in the club, by Miss Wing,
expressing the sympathy of the
members with their much beloved
fellow pupil, Miss May Gober, in
the loss of that dearest of earthly
friends, her mother.
Rev. Y. Dewitt Talmage says in
the Ladies Home Journal "Socier
ty is to be reconstructed on the sub
ject of woman's toll. A vast major
ity of those who would have woman
industrious shut her up to a few
kinds of work. My Judgment in
this matter is that woman has a
right to do anything she can do
well. There should be no departure
of mel caDdise, mechanism, art or
science barred against her. If Miss
Hosmer has genius for sculpture
give her a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur
has a fondness for delineating ami.
mails, let her make the "Horse Fair"
If Miss Mitchell will study astrcno-
my, let her mount the starry Ladder
Ii Lydia will be a merchant let her
sell purple. Now, say, if there be
any preference in occupation, let
woman have it. God knows her tri-
ais are the seyerest. BY her acuter
sensitiveness to misfortune, by her
hour of anguish, l demand that no
one hedge up her pathway to live.
lihood. Oh, the meanness, the
despicability of men who begrudge
woman the right to work any
where, in any honorable calling!
A SUNSET SCENE.
After busy day at school, worn
out with study, l had "beaten a
retreat" to my favorite resort, the
hammock, and had just established
myself for an hours enjoyment of