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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

have found a family where all the
members are devoting themselves to the
principles of ''repose through relaxa-
tion." Since their conversion to this
creed of physical culture they are a
complete entertainment in themselves.
To find this relaxation they flop about
in the most wonderful manner; the host
has forsaken his sitting room couch and
drops limp heap on the rug
near the open CRATE; his good spouse
allows her head to droop like a
wilted lily and amazes her breath
ing apparatus by peculiar gasps and
convulsive heaving. The daughters
throw back the shoulders by placing
their thoughts under their several chins,
and holding themselves up by imaginary
handles there implanted. l repeat the
words, the meaning of which do not
attempt to construe.
The art is Il tritie beyond me. After
we dined the other evening the entire
family even to Rob, the ten-year
hopeful, went through a drill to bring
about repose; when the prize was gained
the family looked quite as if hurricane
had whirled them about in mad glee
until all the bones in their bodies were
broken into inch sections and every sec
ton pulverized into powdery bits. One
of the main rules of this new system is
to rest mind and body by imagining that
the legs are heavy.-Cor. Roxbury News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
A Girls Brave Deed.

The daughter of the late w. J. Kinsey
performed an act of cool bravery in Den
yer the other night. She saved her pet,
the family horse, from burning to death.
The scene of the fire was the stable ad-
joining the costly residence at Eleventh
avenue and Pearl street, belonging to
the Kinsey estate, where live the son
and daughter with housekeeper and
coachnian. Miss Nettie Kinsey returned
from a few days visit to Manitou. She
was accompanied home by two young
friends, and at S:45, when they reached
the house, they found it locked. The
young ladies were afraid to attempt to
enter the house by window, and Miss
Kinsey concluded to wake the coach
man, Arthur George, whose sleeping
room was in the barn. When she ap-
preached the window she was apprised
by the smell of smoke and the heat that
the barn was ON fire.
Quickly the young lady recognized
the gravity of the situation. She thought
of the family horse-a valuable animal.
and one to which she was much attached
standing in his stall crazed with
fright, while the smoke and flames were
nearly enveloping him. Giving the
alarm to her friends, the brave little
lady broke the window with her um-
brella and climbed in regardless of
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
A Summer Experience,

A kind mistress who not only respects
girls rights, but to some degree her
tastes and feelings, is occasionally re-
warded in ways she did not dream of.
This fall girl who. had Lven promised
half pay for the months of July and
August to return, astonished the house
hold by declaring, as she dropped her
bundle in a kitchen chair, "she didn't
want cert, for she was only too glad
to get back where things looked like
home" 1t seemed she had been at sea-
side resort near the city, where she had
been asked to do the work for twelve,
and had then gone to house alive with
all kinds of bugs through negligence in
properly clearing out the closets and re-
frigerator on leaving. She had never
realized before how different these things
could be in other places. Brooklyn
Eagle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

Mrs. Lavina Fillmore, a resident Of
Clarence, N. Y, widow of Rev. Glezen
Fillmore and cousin of Millard Fill
more, was 1876 years old on Aug. 10.
Mrs. Fillmore was living when George
Washington was inaugurated president
of the United States. She was born in
Waterbury, Conn, in 1887, and moved
to New York when very young. She
was living with her husband in Buffalo
when that city was burned by the British
In lol2. Mrs. Fillmore has resided on
her farm at Clarence since her husbands
death in 1875.
She has never ridden on a railroad
tram, mas never seen the telegraph O,
telephone in operation, and has eyinced
no curiosity in regard to these fruits of
science, preferring to live her last day,
amid the peaceful surroundings of he,
quiet home. She is not ignorant, how
ever, of the improvements made in tb,
world, for she had been a constant
reader of the newspapers. Her Bible
has been read and reread until she
nearly knows it all by heart. So wei
preserved comparatively is she that he,
neighbors think she will live for man,
years.-C Chicago Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
Newspaper Men Like New York.

New York is just now filled with news.
paper correspondents from most of the
cities in the country. They come from
all states in the Union to watch the
national politicians. They have been
accustomed to the sights in Washing
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati,
st. Louis, New Orleans and San Fran
cisco. They were dazzled, though, by
the preparations in New York for the
Columbian festivities. The triumphal
arches on Fifth avenue, the miles of
bunting used to decorate the city hall,
the->subtreasury, the great banking
buildings, the fine mansions on Fifth
avenue, and the hotels, and the great
stands for the people erected all along
the route impressed them with the pos
sibilities of this town. They gathered
at the Lotus club the other night and
unanimously voted that when New York
got up on its hind legs and yawped over
a great event it was the most triumphant
cry and the most successful of any city
in the nation. New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
WOMAN'S WORLD.
COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITIES DECISION
TO NOT ADMIT WOMEN.

Life at vassar College-A Girls Brave
Deed-Matinee Girls ut the Food Show.
Broke the DeadIock-NIiss North's Ro-
mance-Timely Notes About Women.
The old discussion concerning the ad-
visibility of woman's acquiring the art
of Galen and Hippocrates, of Aspasia
and Bucca, has been reopened by the re-
cent decision of the Columbian univer-
sity at Washington to no longer admit
women to its medical department. An
offer, financially backed by Gardiner
Hubbard, to put up fine physiological
laboratory and give it to the college on
condition that the decision be withdrawn
has been fatty declined.
The argument advanced by the faculty
that the teaching of men and women
together in medical classes is demoraliz-
ing to both is rather weakened by the
fact that at all clinics women nurses are
present and assist at operations of every
kind, imparting an atmosphere of re-
hnement and seriousness quite percepti-
Dle Immediately on their appearance.
The other theory, that women do not
possess a quality of intelligence that
fits them for study with men, has been
refuted by the higher average of women
in examinations and the greater number
of honors secured by them, due to the
fact that they are exceptional women,
inspired by serious ambition and interest,
contending with the ordinary run of
men-at least, so claim the men.
oack upon the old excuse that the ad-
mission of women to the classes keeps
men away from the college, and that the
step was taken because it was not de-
sirable to turn that institution into a
"female seminary"
However, this defeat is one which can
be well endured, considering the great
advance of the educational movement for
women along all lines, and particularlyin
the study of medicine. New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Chi
cago have medical schools exclusively
for women; the medical department of
Johns Hopkins is open to them; nearly
all the western colleges admit them, and
two other Washington colleges receive
them on equal terms with men. Paris
offers every facility to women. Germany
admits them to her institutions, though
not allowing them to sign their own pre-
scriptions.
1t is an interesting and pertinent fact
that though men students now treat
women with fair degree of considera-
tion medical instructors the world over.
and particularly in Germany, are still
hostile to the so called invaders, pre-.
senting all subjects of delicate nature
in the coarse and revolving manner most
liable to embarrass and disgust the
women, who have accepted the treat
ment with a heroic dignity, ignoring
those things which they could neither
tolerate nor condone.-New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
The Grand Prix de Paris.

The grand prize of Paris is run at
Longchamps, in the Bois de Boulogne,
just outside the Notifications, about the
middle of June. 1t is now worth about
$40, 900 to the winner. Between 100, 900
and 100000 persons witness this interna-
tional contest, and on the field there is
space for about a couple of thousand We
hicles and 100000 visitors, who can gain
admittance by the payment of one franc,
or twenty cents. Including the present
year the grand prize of Paris has been
fought out twenty-nine times. Seven
teen years stand to the credit of French
horses, nine times has victory gone to
England and once each to the American,
Russian and Hungarian.-Ch Chicago Trib-
me
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
Life at Vassar College.

Social life at Vassar presents many in
teresting phases to the 1870 new students
who have this year entered its freshman
class and are being initiated in the vari-
GUS clubs and societies of the students.
Politics is paramount in interest at
present, and the students are arrayed in
opposing factions, supporting Demo-
cratic or Republican platforms. Mass
meetings are called, clubs organized,
committees appointed and constitutions
formulated, and party spirit runs high
in this little world of women. Contrary
to the time honored customs of hazing
and ''rushes," the students at Vassar
welcome all newcomers with most cor
dial hospitality, each girl cavalier invit-
ing and escorting one or more of the new
girls to the first reception given in their
honor not long after the opening of the
term. The three dramatic chapters at
the college gave on Saturday evening a
succession of farces, followed by sup
per, to the newcomers. To these his
trionic revels only members and invited
guests have admittance.
The new buildings on the campus are
now rapidly progressing toward COM
pletion. The laboratory appointments
have been increased by two large rooms,
one entirely free from iron for electrical
work, and by individual apparatus for
each student. A new scholarship Of
$4,000 has been founded by Mr.. Spring,
of Chicago, in memory of his daughter,
a former student.
The interest in athletic sports is at
tested by the enlargement of the skating
rink to three times its former size, by
new tennis courts, and by the increased
number of wheels and their enthusiastic
riders. Altogether this, the first of our
women's colleges, is in a most encour-
aging state of general activity, prophetic
of successful year.-Vassar Letter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

One of Cumberland's most busy thor
oughfares came near being the scene of
a tragedy yesterday evening of most
sensational and distressing character. A
young lady, radiant in all the loveliness
that usually attends sweet seventeen,
Travelled three entire blocks literally on
fire, and yet gave no sign nor did she
betray her distress to any one although
passersby who happened to be possessed
of keen olfactory organs may have de-
tected the odor of burning woolens and
fannels.
1t is related by those who know the
particulars that the young lady was en-
gagged in the mysteries of her toilet pre-
paratory to street promenade. A cor
set string refused to be cut bias or
something of that sort, and was sub
jected to the discipline of lighted
lamp in order to shorten it. Burning
the string in two pieces was a success
for the time, and the young lady com
pleted her make up and hastily started
down town. She was more than a
quarter of mile from home when the
horrible fact was discovered that her
underclothing was on fire in an inaces-
sible region. The material, however,
was all wool and there was a great deal
more smoke and offensive odor than fire.
Still, no young lady approves of being
on fire in the street or anywhere else,
and so she fastened as rapidly as pos
sible to the shelter of the house of a
friend, and reached harbor of safety
just before the flames broke out, but it
is said she was smoking like limeziln
when the friendly door closed behind
her. Strange to say, her person was not
even scorched, although she is now the
owner of very dilapidated outfit of
WOODEN underwear.-Cumberland News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

English papers are bubbling over with
praise of the graciousness of the czarina
in kissing hospital nurse who had been
in the midst of cholera infection-an
impulsive womanly way of showing her
admiration for the nurses bravery and
self sacrifice. How much greater the
bravery of Queen Margaret of Italy.
who during the plague walked herself
the wards of the hospitals, cheering
both nurses and patients with her pres
ence and earnest sympathy, while the
poor victims pressed their lips to the
hand she gave them, and died as conteu
as if in the presence of one of their be.
loved saints.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

of the broad leather sofas, asked the
salesman to show her certain kind of
shoe. 1--WE don't keep ladies' shoes
here," said the salesman, politely. The
woman's eyes snapped as she exclaimed:
Don't keep ladies' shoes? Why don't
you keep them?"
The salesman explained that the firm
only manufactured gentlemen's shoes,
and only sold that kind. ooh" said the
woman rising, Il think women are just
as good as men; but it is very evident
that you don't think so." With these in
dignant words the woman walked hur-
Yiedly out of the store. After catching
his breath the salesman had a good
laugh all to himself. Brooklyn Stand
ard-Union,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
OyerwOrked,

Up with the birds in the early morning
The dewdrop glows like precious gem:
Beautiful tints in the sky are dawning
But she's never moment to look at them.
The men are wanting their breakfast early;
She must not linger, she must not wait,
For words that are sharp and looks that are
surly
Are what the men give when meals are late.
Oh, glorious colors the clouds are turning,
If she would but look over hills and trees
But here are the dishes and there is the churn-
ing
Those things must always yield to these.
The world is filed with the wind of beauty,
If she would but pause and drink it in;
But pleasure, she says, must wait for duty
Neglected work is committed sin.
The day grows hot and her hands grow weary;
Oh, for an hour to cool her head
Out with the birds and the winds SO CHEEKY!
But she must get dinner and make her bread.
The busy men in the hay field working,
If they saw her sitting with idle hand,
Would think her lazy and call her Sinking,
And she never could make them understand
They do not know that the heart within her
Hungers for beauty and things sublime;
They only know that they want their dinner
Plenty of it and just ION time"
And after the sweeping and churning and bak-
ing,
And dinner dishes are all put by
She sits and sews though her head is aching,
Till time for supper and ''chores" draws nigh
Her boys at school must look like others,
She says, as she patches their frocks and hose
For the world is quick to censure mothers
For the least neglect of their children's
clothes.
Her husband comes from the field of labor:
He gives no praise to his weary wife;
She's done no more than has her neighbor;
"Tis the lot of an in country life.
But after the strife and weary tussle,
When life is done and she lies at rest,
The nations brain and heart and muscle
Her sons and daughters-shall call her blest.
And think the sweetest joy of heaven,
The rarest bliss of eternal life,
And the fairest crown of all will be given
Unto the wayworn farmers wife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

wounded and bleeding fingers. She
rushed through the binding smoke to
the door, which she unbarred. Then
stripping off her jacket, she blindfolded
the frightened horse and led him to the
open air. BY this time the screams of
the young ladies had brought crowd
to the scene, and some one had turned
in an alarm. The fire department
quickly responded, and the flames were
subdued before the building was wholly
destroyed. Denver Republican.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
Triplets Sixty-nine Years Old,

Monday evening, at the residence OF
Mr.. Alden T. Brown, Waltham. re-
ception was rendered to three of Mrs.
Browns aunts, who are triplets and
sixty-nine years of age, the anniversary
of their birth occurring on the Goth of
last June. Mr.. Browns mother, sister
of the triplets and herself twin, was
present These four ladies We're born "
Union, Me-, and are the survivors of !.
family of thirteen children, seven of
them being twins and triplets. The
triplets, when young girls, all worked in
the cotton mills with General N. P.
Banks when he was hobbin boy there
Boston Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
The Early Owl.

An owl once lived in hollow tree,
And he was as wise as wise could be.
The branch of learning he didn't know
Could scarce on the tree of knowledge grow.
He knew the tree from branch to root,
And an owl like that can afford to hoot.
And he hooted- until, alas! one day,
He chanced to hear, in casual way,
An insignificant little bird
Make use of a term he had never heard.
He was flying to bed in the dawning light
When he heard her singing with all her
might,
"Hurray! Murray for the early worm!"
"Dear me" said the owl, what singular
term
would look it up If it weren't so late.
! must rise at dusk to investigate.
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes an owl healthy and stealthy and wiser
So he slept like an honest owl all day,
And rose in the early twilight gray,
And went to work in the dusky light
To look for the early worm all night.
He searched the country for miles around,
But the early worm was not to be found;
So he went to bed in the dawning light
And looked for the worm" again next night
And again and again and again and again
He sought and he sought but all in vain,
TIL he must have looked for a year and a day
For the early worm In the twilight gray.
At last in despair he gave up the search,
And was heard to remark as he sat on his
perch
BY the side Of his nest in the hollow tree,
1.-The thing is as plain as night to me
Nothing can shake my conviction firm,
There's no such thing as the early worm"
Oliver Herford.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

As long ago as ITS certificate was
granted by President Ezra Stiles, of
Yale college, to u young woman who
had passed the examinations necessary
to enter the college, but was debarred
on account of her sex. Now after ia
years Yale is ready to offer post graduate
study to women. 1t is not, however,
ready for coeducation. 1t is as far from
it as IL o'clock is from 10 O'clock
Womans journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
GEMS In VERSE.


Strange is it that the sweetest thing
Forever is the shiest;
The sweeter song, the swifter wing,
Ere thou the singer spiest.
The more the fragrance in the rose,
The more it hides a-blushing;
And when with love maiden glows,
The more her face is flushing.
In depths of night, in gloomy mine,
In wildwood streams-in stories
or lowly lives, unsung-there shine
The worlds divinest glories.
AS low arbutus blossoms rest
In modesty unbdden,
SO man and nature hide their best,
And God himself is hidden.
C. ii. Crandall.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

While the organist of the Bremen
Qnd) German Lutheran church was
playing last Sunday he was startled at
seeing a snake crawl out of the pipe Or
gan. He motioned to man to come to
the organ, who, taking his handkerchief,
seized the reptile and threw it to the
floor. The snake was milk snake and
was about two feet in length. - Ex-
change.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
Regret.

When remember something which had,
But which is gone and must do without,
sometimes wonder how can be glad
Even in cowsip time, when hedges sprout.
1t makes me sigh to think on it, but yet
My days will not be better days should !
forget.
When remember something promised me,
But which never had nor can have now,
Because the promiser we no more see
In countries that accord with mortal vow;
When remember this l mourn, but yet
My happier days are not the days when
forget
jean Ingelow.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
American Women Abroad,

1t is estimated that 10000 Americans
have crossed the ocean since May, and
of these the great majority are women.
Estimating that half these women had
$1,000 to invest in bric-a-brac, gloves,
gowns and bonnets, and that a great
many had several times as much, it is
easy to understand why American wom-
en- are accounted the best customers of
the European shops.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

The inability of the average woman to
understand was again demonstrated in
Fulton street shoe store one day last
week. A rather nice appearing woman
came in, and after seating herself on one
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

One of the best known woman farm
ers in Great Britain, Miss Hope-John-
stone, of Marchbankwood, Dumfries-
shire, Scotland, died the other day. She
had large sheep farm in Eskdale,
which she superintended herself, and
she was an excellent authority on all
agricultural matters.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
The Unequal Artist-Tim c

Aho OheQuhl Art1St-1tme.
He softens off his browns to grays;
He makes his red trife fainter;
He gives his white yellow haze,
This restless, tasteless. tactless painter.
He touches here, he touches there,
And changes upon changes follow.
He gives the head thoughtless hair;
He makes the cheek a shade more hollow.
He seems to think 1t picturesque
To trace a complicated tangle
OF tiny scrollwork arabesque
Just at the eyelid's outer angle
Until at last he wrings from you,
AS faith in him begins to waver,
The cry: "Whati You painterl Pooh!
You're nothing but line engraver!"
And ere you get the world to see
How frightful Times contrived to make
you,
And how unskillful he must be,
That great ehiffonier, Death, will take you
Perhaps at Just your highest pitch
OF nartistic imperfection,
And with your face-and frame-enrieh
His vast but valueless collection.
H. ID. Trail.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

Princess Marie of Edinburgh, the re.
trothed of Prince Ferdinand of Rou-
mania, is a beautiful and clever wom-
an, and has already won warm place
in the heart of the queen of Roumapia
Carmen SYLVIA.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

In the Hotel Beatrice, the women's
dormitory at the Chicago university,
with accommodations for 100, nearly
every room Is engaged.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

The new Duchess of Sutherland, one
of the youngest women to wear the
ducal coronet in England, is member
of the Writers club, and contributor
to the literature of the day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
j udge Not.

Judge not; the working of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see:
What looks to thy dim eyes stain
In Gods pure light may only be
A scar brought from some well fought field.
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
The look, the air that frets thy sight
May be a token that below
The soul has closed in deadly fight
With some Internal fiery foe,
Whose glance would scorch thy smiling
grace
And cas-. thee shuddering on thy face.
Adelaide A. Proctor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17

At recent marriage feast the we'd
ding cake of the brides mother was
served 1t had been kept for that pur-
pose, wrapped in branded paper in a tin
box