Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-23

onstrates that with q little trouble,
an inherited skill in needlework
can be diverted into new direction to
produce cunning works Of art; and cot
tage industry of economical Importance
for the benefit of struggling agricultural
community may be expected to obtain
better footing than has been the case for
years past" That 30 much has been done
within little more than fve years to
develop this industry, to provide market
and regulate the production and supply of
the goods, is directly due to the Irish Ia
dustries association, which is non-sec-
tartan, non-political, and which while
turning the industry of the poor to the
best account, regards its work, not as q
charity, but as practical business enter
prise.
THE PROPER STUDY OF woMANKIND Is
WOMAN.
The University of Kansas is to have an
alcove in its library set apart for the best
books by the best women writer's and the
best books written about women in all
languages.
In this university, too, for the first time
in educational history, the condition of
women is to have q place in q university
curriculum. The course will open with q
review of the condition of women in all
countries at different periods, and will close
with an examination of the legal, political,
industrial, educational and professional
status of women in America.
TO REVIVE LOST ART.
The present has been called ''The Age of
Clubs" such organizations abounding the
country over and with almost every con-
ceivable pretext for their existence. Very
unsocial must that man or woman be who
does not belong to two or three of them,
more or less useful, and it would seem
difficult matter to invent any new depart
ure in this line.
However, the founders of the club or
ganized at the house of Moncure D. Con-
way. in Brooklyn, recently, claim that 1t
ject is to encourage conversation, which it
is feared will soon be numbered among the
lost arts, unless great pains is taken to re-
vive it.
Nearly fifty ladies and gentlemen, many
of them prominent is literature and art,
are now members of the Canine Lynch
Botta Conversation Club" 30 named in
honor of the first woman in New York to
institute literary receptions at her
home. A gifted, genial and gracious
woman, che made her house a
social rallying- point for authors, artists,
travellers, scholars and statesmen, a place
where every guest showed his best and
brightest side, was happy, and at ease.
The club is to meet once in two weeks.
A director will be elected at each meeting.
This officer selects the topic of converse
tion, but does not announce it until the
society has assembled, thus precluding all
possibility of preparation and securing
the charm of spontaneity. The director
is allowed ten minutes, and other mem
bers five minutes, in which to state their
views upon the given subject.
This plan may be an excellent one for
people who are well posted on the general
and special questions of the day, and are
in the habit of expressing themselves in
telligently, if not fuently, but those who
need to acquire the conversational art
would require little time in which to put
their ideas into definite shape, or correctly
constructed sentences. We cannot listen
to advantage if we must at the same time
be thinking over what we are intending to
say, and how we shall say it. The method
is an interesting one, however, and is rec
ommended to founders of educational clubs
as being both novel and beneficial.
HILARY