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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
How Cowboys do Housewor q.

A city woman who went out on q ranch
with her family to live found the cow
boys "keeping house" for themselves.
Among other peculiar ways of theirs was
the habit of sitting down to "do the
Dishes" II women would only follow the
example of these big, strong men, who
decided that 1t was "easier to do them
that way" and do part of the dusting,
rubbing, cleaning, and preparing food
time and strength for their other work
but women have gotten into the habit OF
standing to do these things, and habits
are hard to break up.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
In Pawtucket Churches.

Trinity Church-Senior, Claudius B.
Farnsworth junior warden, j. Ernest
Clarner; clerk, Horace w. Davenport;
treasurer, James Nisbet ;vestrymen. Henry
n. Wilkinson, Eastwood Eastwood, Alvin
c. Cash, James Nisbet, George c. Gates.
Joseph Maxim. Claude j. Farnswortb.
William IA. Barclay. Horace w. Daven,
port, Henry l.. Dana and William q. Gra-
ham: del, gates to the diocesan convention.
Claudius Is. Farnsworth, George G. Gates.
Henry l.. Dana and Joseph Maxim; alter,
mates, Louis G.. X. Clarner, William /.
Small, Claude j. Farnsworth and William
q. Graham; delegates to the district con-
vention, James Nisbet, Claude j. Farms
worth, Henry n. Wilkinson aud Eastwood
Eastwood; alternates. Henry l.. Dana. j.
Ernest Clarner, William ii. Barclay and
Joseph Maxim.
Sc. Paups Church: wardens, Charles
w. Alien, William w. Blodgett vertry-
men, Thomas X. Dix, Sanford n. Pierce.
George T. Bamford, George A. Mumford'
Frederick A. Barker, Job l. Spencer. j.
Sewell Read. James Harvey, Frederick X.
Mason, Charles II. French, NJ. d., George
y. Walker, Edward w. Blodgett CLERK
and treasurer, Eaton Cliff delegates to
diocesan convention, w. w. Blodgett.
G. w. Allen, q. Il. Bamford, q. A. Mum.
ford, j. :. Read; substitutes, II. n.
Mason, II. A. kice, g. II. French, n. D.,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
THE DAUGHTERS OF GOD.
The Rev. Robert Collyer Speaks on the
Condition of Women.

The Rev. Robert Collyer Speaks on the
Condition Of Women.
A regular meeting Of the Unitarian Club
was held last evening in Tillinghast's
assembly rooms. 1t was "ladies' night f"
and the attendance was very large.
A supper was served and Vice President
Joseph G. Ely presided. 1t was an
nounced that reception was being held
at the Vendome, Boston, in honor of
Edward Everett Hale. 1t was voted to
send the following telegram:
"The Unitarian Club OF Providence
sends fraternal greetings and congratula-
tions to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale. T"
The Rev; Robert CoiIysr was the first
Of God and Sons of Men" He said
All great nations. and as they draw
toward their best have always had to look
to the woman for what Is noblest in life,
and she has proven herself worthy their
high reverence as daughter of God. And
as It has 10 been ,i,s with all great nations 50
daughters of God where they had them
and maintain them in all reverence and
love in the temples of our faith and in our
homes, or there is no help for us and no
hope we shall be that people whose God
is the Lord. The woman must be in any
noblest and best in our life. ana the
greater and nobler, and better il we
would make our homes first of all what
they should be.
1t is the mans lot to take the world as
he finds it and to make the best of il or
the worst, but ii is the woman's glory. as
a daughter of God TO stand by him and
hold him to the noblest and best when the
temptations crowd on Us that shake the
very throne of God in the soul; so inter-
pret for him the truth he has missed in
the worlds vast din AMI dissonance or to
which he has grown dull of hearing. The
daughters of God have come forth to chal-
lenge and overmaster this drift and to
make good the nobler life in home and
temple, in the schools, in the marts, in
the republic, and In the world.
IL her speakers were the Hon. Horace
G. Wadlin, president of the Middlesex
Unitarian Club, Mrs. Fanny =. Palmer
of this city, the Rev. Pitt Dillingham; of
Uxbridge and the Rev. DIR. Woodbury. of
this city.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
t" The hoy Tramp

The boy Tramp" with Augustin New
vile in the role Of Jack Sharpe. was pre-
sented In the Westminster yesterday
afternoon aud evening to good audiences.
The play possesses all the powers of NOV
ing to the pathetic or the ludcrous, aud
the audience were thrilled at times by the
sadness OF the innoceut's fall when i'm the
clutches of the unconsionable, aud at
times made TO forget the pathos, to laugh
as a barrel. under n Covering of rags and y
senblance of harshness. Madame New
Vile rs Mildred Earlston and Jack, were
the most prominent, while the entire caste
acquitted themselves with great credit
Next week the biggest attraction OF the
season will be at this theatre Gus Hill
Company.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

There is a family in the South End tha,
Is blessed in phenomenal way. In the
amily is a recent arrivals little girl no,
yet week old, who was born with four
perfect teeth. AS papa remembers the
lively little musicales which attended the
.eething periods of his other children, hi
nurmurs: ave are indeed fortunate
3od moves in mysterious way" etc.
A well known physician said he knew
,f but one instance Of the kind before
md in that case the child had but tive
teeth.-Boston Herald.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

They Also Held Hall Last Evening Which
Was Success.
The members of Beaconsfield Lodge, No.
1s6, Sons of St. George, held an Easter
Monday ball last eveningin Slocum Light
Gnards' hall. Previous to the ball con-
cert program was rendered, consisting OF
the following numbers: Overture, orches-
ira; song, Social Quintette; banjo solo,
Miss Parish; song, Miss Eames, banjo
duet, Profs. Jennings and Porter; piano
solo. Prof f. Hemingway; song, Mrs.
Joyce: duet, Messrs. Gosdby ana Jerome;
comic song, X. Sourbuutts.
The foor was cleared for dancing at 10
O'Clock, and soon afterward the grand
march moved. The march was led by
Herbert Walker and Miss Jennie Ferrish,
followed by WV. Steinert and Mrs.Stew-
art, Q. j. Jerome and Mrs. Jerome, and
about seventy-five couples. The Alpine
orchestra furnished the music, and during
an intermission bountiful collation. was
served.
The following were the committees in
charge: Committee OF arrangements.
Harry Goode, w. ii. Bray. M: Gabriel,
w. Stewart, G. j. jerome, X: A. Clamp,
+. IL; Holden; general floor director, Her
bert T.. Walker: aids, w. Stewart, Z. d.
Jerome, L. w. Ball and II. w. Martin.
Among the invited guests present were
Briggs; past grand president, District or
Rhode Island. Halstead; grand secretary,
Thomas Parker; president of Peabody
Lodge, Osmond: grand vice president OF
District OF Rhode Island, Harry Gould,
and others
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

A foolish fox was caught in very ode
way in Glaston bury, Conn, recently. He
had a very long and bushy tail, and
maybe, was extremely vain Of it, for he
,wished it from side to side instead ot
trailing 1t along the ground. A pack ol
hounds chased him, and to elude them b.
tried to bolt through bsrbed wire fence
but somehow that tail curled itself aboui
a barb, and the fox was a. fast as IL the
Jaws of a steel trap held him. An hour
later the hunters dispatched him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
+. L. I. omcers Nominated.

The First Light Infantry officers re.
nominated the following officers, to be
presented at the annual meeting the 25th:
Colonel, William II. Thornton lieuten.
ant-colonel, Hiram Kendall major. A. v.
warheld adjutnnt. A. G. Higgins quar-
termaster. Hez Martin assistant, Rhodes
Arnold paymaster, John A. Carter as
sistant, Fred B. Burt commissary, (. S.
Delano: assistant, Victor T.. Hammered
surgeon, George A. Brug. NJ. D.; assist
ant, Fred 4. Rogers, NJ. d.; judge advo-
cate. passed inspector, George w. Cady I;
ordinance officer, William Ely treasurer.
John a. Carter secretary, Fred B. Burt
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

The pictures at the exhibition given by
Miss Caroline Bunker at 50 Angel street,
which will continue during this week, are
we'll worth going to see. None of them
are an large scale, but there are some
very choice bits OF landscape and the flow
ers are well extended. Some of the best
were painted bv Miss Bunker in France,
particularly at Etretat. "A Farm Yard ;,
"Wheat Stocks on the Cliff" and other
French landscapes are very interesting
and the flowers particularly the s.snow
-bafis' aud ''cbrysanthemums' are very
much like the reality.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
THE DEAD AND THE LIVING.

Do the dead think Of the living,
In the blue heaven overhead
All repenting. all forgiving-
As the living OF the deadf
Yes; but while we weep, surveying
Pathways long and lonely feet,
They In heaven smile softly, sayingt
"'Tis Tomorrow. sn ! we meet.~
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

flowers. Dancing was begun at o'clock,
march were led by Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Jacket. after which a program of twenty
numbers was reeled off to the music
furnished by the National Band Orches-
ira. The dancing was continued until
late hour.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
The Use OF Eurs.

An almost incalculsble number OF skin,
are used in countries where the rigors OF
the climate necessitate the wearing of fur
of some kind daily. Even the poorest
serf has his sheepskin, the frozen lap
lander his reindeer coat and fur moccasins,
while in the same regions the wealthy
classes wrap themselves In the costliest
furs and use rugs of enormous value.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

Mr.. Alex. Cameron, tenor, recently
joined the Eight Bells Company, taking
the place Of Roger Harding who was seen
here early in the season when Eight Bells
was FIRST produced. Mr.. Cameron is n
conscientious artist. and is highly praised
for his excellent voice.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

The Providence Evangelical Young
Women's Christian Association held it's
quarterly meeting at the sociel US rooms,
S31 Westminster street. last evening. Re-
ports were read showing steady growth in
the work of the departments. During the
past three months la strangers and 7s4
The work of the Bible classes has been
encouraging aud the outlook for the sum-
mer is bright.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
Co. F,s Rail-

Co + Second Regiment, r. I. NJ, held
On Easter Monday ball at their armory on
Westminster street last evening. A large
number were present and dancing was en-.
joyed until a late hour. Capt. 4. II. Don
ahue officiated as floor director, assisted by
Lieut.. j. j. Trainor and Lieut.. j. ].
Burke. The reception committee consist
cd Of Capt. T. II. Donahue, Lieuts. Train
or and Burke, Sergts. Lynch, Farrell and
Hughes; Corps. Cassidy. Smith, Rigney
and Sullivan.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

There will be two of the fine college
concerts which every body enjoys, at Music
Hall, Tuesday, May 8, and Thursday,
May 10. On the first date Tufts and
Brown will take part, and on the second
Wesleyan and Brown will be the musi-
clans. The tickets are Oh sale at Ira n.
Goff g. Co.'S.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

Hermione Assembly of the Pythian Sis
terhood held a social in Oriental Hall last
evening. The floor director was Jane IA
Blair, with James Wallace and Albert III.
Haywari, Jr., as aids. The committee of
arrangements consisted of Mrs. j. III. VIII
bur, Mrs. w. Scott, Mrs. l. T. Manches-
ter Mrs. j. Wallace. Mr.. j. H. Blair. Miss
I. / Nightingale, Mrs. l.. b. Joslin, Miss
i i. TAYLOR.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

A reception was given last evening by
the mem bers of the Y. M. c. A. gym
nasium of this city to the members of the
Y. M. @: A gymnasiums of Pawtucket
ing A supper was served by the ladies
of the Stewart Street Baptist Church.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
The Tnrnxerein RalI

The shooting section of the Providence
Iurnyerein held largely attended ball in
fully decorated aud about the platform
was fine display of potted plants and
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
Ex-President Robinson's Lecture.

Ex-President Robinson lectured in Man
ming Hall last night upon Modern
Science. He will deliver four more, COM
Ing next Wednesday and Friday nights
OF this week and Monday aud Wednesday
nights of next week.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
The Young women's Christian Associa-
tion.

The Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion cordially invite their friends and all
Interested In their work to be present at
the celebration of their twenty.iifth ami
versary at Grace Church chapel, Wednes-
day evening, April 20, at 8 o'clock.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
THE PROMENADE CONCERT.


Tho Twenty-First of the Series mt Music
Hall Last Ev, n.ng.
The twenty-frst Music Hall promenade
concert was as much of asuccess as former
ones, and the crowd that gathered to well
come back Reeves and his great band
were fully satisfied in the program that
was given them. The favorite soloists
were greeted with the same enthusiasm as
ever and the customary encores were
necessary in each case. The program was
as follows:
Organ recital, 730 to S........ .Pro7. c. l.. Kenyon
narcn, meuey .......s..'.
yNerture, SIanela ;'.'''''''''' lo.ou
Mr.. f.. A. Bosworth.
selection, Reilly and the 400 .Braham
Scena, I'll Travatore, Verdi
Messrs. Church and Hama.
Scotch Fantasie, "Robert Bruce. .Bonnisseau
After an intermission of ten minutes
the floor was cleared and about 300 invit-
ed guests enjoyed select program of
round dancing for an hour and half.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19

will hold an apron sale and rainbow tea
Wednesday evening in the parlors of the
church. A very pleasant musical enter
tainment has also been prepared by the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-19
Among
Our Own
People.

m. .rosgement is announced OF Will
ttsm r. Anthony ard Miss Cushman,
danrhter of the Rev. ii. l. Cushman. The
Young lady Is student at Smith College,
where she returned yesterday.
Robert l. Barker and w. S. Atwood
are among the arrivals at Genoa,
Arion concert this evening at Infantry
Hall.
Mrs r. L. Rhodes and Miss Rhodes, Of
Bristol, spent Easter Sunday with friends
In this city.
Fleming to Mr. Martin d. Tanning, and
OF Miss Arnold to Mr.. James NJ. Taylor,
Of Pawtucket.
The last of the series of dances given
under the direction OF Mr.. Tanning and
Mr.. burlington, occurred last evening in
the drill room OF Infantry hall. There
were about fifty couple present.
Brothers. Among those present were,
the Misses Liscomb. Miss Arnold,
Miss Barnaby, Miss Olney, Mrs. Sheldon,
Miss Sheldon, Miss Parsons, the Misses
Fleming Miss Tillinghast, Miss Lincoln.
Miss Carpenter. Miss Gamwell. Miss
Wells. Miss Sphinx, Miss Dennis, Mrs.
Anthony, Messrs. burlington, Tanning,
Mowry. Matteson, W-eden,. Lewis. An
thony. Wilkinson. Bowen, Taylor, Harry
Potter, Tom Potter and Jencks
Dancing from nine till half-past two.
One of the most enjoyable dances was the
Santiago waltz. which was given by re
quest The affair was a very brilliant
success. Supper was served about twelve.
Musicale at Auburn.
The Musicale given last evening at Au-
burn by Mrs. Fred Drew Cross, under the
auspices Of 1.-THE Kings Daughters
proved very enjoyable to those assem- bled
In the pretty rooms of Mrs. X. w. Is.
Knight. That the music was appreciated
was shown by the applause which greeted
the performers, each one being encored.
The playing by Miss Avis Bliven, was
remarkable in so young performer. al
though In these days OF musical prodigy
the public are not easily astonished.
Miss Carpenter and Miss Lewis rendered
their selections in very pleasing man
ner
The violin playing of Miss Rebecca
Thurston showed talent and artistic feel
ing, her tone was pure and her bowling
graceful and effective
1t was delight to listen to the reading
of Mrs. George l.. Shepley. Rarely is it
one hears reader SO free from the con-
ventional eleeutionary methods and man
nerisms; equally at home in both serious
and comia selections, she read naturally
and With true artistic feeling The
"King's Daughters" will no doubt add a
neat little sum to their treasury.
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five five we're young, we'll clothed, hand
some even il death. The other twenty were
mayhap young, mayhap old, but with vice
and crime written in every lineament. All
lie buried in Potter's field.
'These river dead are never used by u.s."
| said Prof. Irving Haynes, the medical uni
! versitv's demonstrators of anatomy. "We
hospitals. Under the law, you know, these
are divided up between the Physicians and
Surgeons college, the University, Bellevue
college, the Post Graduate, the Homoo-
pathic, the Woman's Medical college and
the Polyolinic. The division is according
to the number of students. I think that
the Physicians and Surgeons institute and
the University lead. 1t all goes bv turns
For instance, an unknown dies at Bellevue.
If the body is not claimed in the legal time,
twenty-four hours, or, at the discretion of
the warden, for a longer period, it goes to
the college that happens to be on turn
Oh, yes! The Woman's Medical college
gets its regular quota Of male as we'll as
female bodies. The bodies of children are
not taken into the dissecting ROOM"
DIR. Haynes assured me that there Wal q
method Of work in the disseotinR room.
The effort is always to secure bodies in
which tho parts are normal, and where dis
ease has not eaten into the system. The
idea is to give the student acourats ideas OF
the structure of the body. Of the muscles
and their attachments, of the arteries and
nerves and their distribution. In fact, the
bulk of the cases handled at the hospitals
are deaths from alcoholism, from gunshot
wounds, from pneumonia or of some dis
ease the influence of which leaves the parts
fairly intact. The great operating room in
the hospitals and in the colleges is an am
J phitheRter, with skylight where this is pos
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800 dead bodies at the morgue during April.
! This year there have not been SO many, and
it is all due to the c~lose-mouthed river.
which will tell its usual April story of woe
in May.
Yes said Morgue Keeper White, WE'VE
only had two warm days in April, and that's
/ the reason the river has been kind of mum.
But it'll come in May"
In 1891, from January to January, 204
bodies were picked up in the river, in the
parks and from the dark hooks and cor
ners OF the city, where the assassin can
ply his calling with at least a show of os-
Gaping detection, or whore the spirit OF
| self-destruction murders hope. Of these
2O4 ninety-seven were identified, but the
| 1O7 we're either placed under the scalpel of
the demonstration Of anatomy or else con-
signed to Potter's field. Only q numbered
board marks the place. But this by nc
means comprises the oity's mysterious
disappearance.
Over 500 reported missing and never
Two hundred and seven found in the
morgue.
Who can strike a balance sheet with life
and death the debtor and the creditor1
But the mysteries are not all in thu
morgue Every hospital, every public in.
stitution under the care of the board o.
%nually. There were I. 684 deaths of which thu
city took special cognizancs in 1891, and OF
these 3,210 were classed as from the out
door poor" This means that there were
3,2l0 outcasts, mon, women and children
| who died uncared for or unknown in dingy
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of special inquiry, where the cerebellum,
the spinal cord and the medulla of tho I'M
known woman who died in the insane pa
vilion ELECTS the most careful system of re-
ness, with ths career before going into the
hospital. is looked into, and then in the
light of the story of a life, as far as 1t
could be learned. the cause of death IS
made plain. DR.. LOOMS, who is the de-
monstrator in the department of histology
at the medical university. il regarded as
perhaps the most efficient and careful medi-
cal Investigator in the country. He was
averse to discussing the subject of his work
for public tion, rs it was all, hs remarked.
a matter of medical detail. which could
only interest the men, who, with a broad
basis of medical knowledge. cleaned new
information from it. Nevertheless, it must
be said that the doctors recent experiments
ave been of great value to the medical
world. They have all been, / am told. in
is another famous ADMINISTRATOR. in the
department Of histology. At the Woman,s
Nedical college a great deal of this work
was until recently done BY DR.. Mary Put
nam jacob, who is rs skillful with the sur
geon's knife as she il in the detection of
the demonstrating room is similar to that
in other Institutions, and the young lady
doctors take as deep an interest in this
work AZ do the rather sport-inclined male
students.
At the larger Institutions one body . day
is often the average for months. As a rule.
however, it il less. and some of the smaller
institutions arc satisfied with one body =
week. At the morRue the average is tween
ty-one a day, 80 the supply 10 constant, al
though really but q small percentage OF
these twenty-one 90 to the colleges. This
enormous average is made up in addition
to the deaths in the "ontdoor poor class,
from the deaths at Bellevue, at the Charity.
at the insane asylum, at RaddalPs. at
Hart's island, at she ~.lunaio'' pavilion. at
the psnitentiary and ut the workhouss.
During my round I was told the story
of q queer case Of identification OF one Of
the college disseoting tables which occurred
during April. A young woman died at one
of the better class of hospitals, and after
u day or two was turnsd over to one of ths
colleges. She had come here from 4 neigh
boring city, had taken . po.itioa az = clerk
in a Broadway store, and when seized with
4 serious ailment was sent by her employer
to q hospital. In . week she was dead.
The employer did not care to pay the ex-
penses of a burial, no one claimed the body
n 10 the dissecting table soon had her as
a victim to soullsss science. Hardly had
the cloth been removed when ene of the
students in the upper tier rushed below,
and with blanchod face remarked:
of mine. Her folks are we'll to do ard
some great mistake has certainly been
made here"
An investigation proved part of the story
true. The girl was in fact the person he
had named, but the father absolutely re.
fused TO have anything whatever to do with
the daughter in life or death, so she wal
brought back to the surReon's table.
DAVID WEoHsIRR.
sCopvr;uht -
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sible, and ths seats are arranged in high
tiers, 30 that the view from above ia as
clear AZ that from below. In the disssctor
six students are given the knives and begin
the work of cutting through the intepu-
msnt. Each part an ii il separated ia made
the subject OF special instruction by the
demonstration.
1t is in the department of histology, how
ever, where the great interest of the msdi-
cal student osntsrs. Here come the bodies
OF odd deaths" Here it ia where the
heart OF the apoplectio is made au occasion
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the late ferry guards see in the food of
light thrown ahead from the pilot house
the blanched face of some one who had un-
burdened himself of life.
It is a great, sad, sickeninR story-this of
New York's mysterious disappearance
and the river never gives up all its dead,
for the tide plays with the willess clay as
though it were a toy n drags many q
body from the muddy river into the great
blue sxpanse beyond. Last year there were