Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-05

tie Mem; 'tLord Fauntleroy," and dozen
other books, Indispensable In every lib
| rary. "White Wings"; 'sThe Lady OF the
Tiger" (papsr fgures); 1.-THE Mill on the
Floss"; "The Tent on the Beach,; may be
arranged with the exercise of a little in
genuity, If fact, with good catalogue of
books and two or three quick-witted as
sistants. very fine library may be got
ten together at trIhipg expense, and an
evenings recreation will be abundantly
assured.
BLUE aKNTIANs.
Within the low and narrow room
The sultry hours go past;
The worker at her broidery loom
And there she weaves with fingers deft
The rich and rare design,
Until upon the silken weft
The sweet blue gentians shine.
From yonder street comes up the sound,
In grinding monotone
OF wheels that whir in ceaseless round,
Like human toll and moan.
But to the workers dizzy brain,
Far other scenes unfold
The wheelof life rolls back again,
And brings the days or old.
The city noises pass her by,
The jarriDg sounds are still,
She hears the throstles melody
Across the breezy hill;
She hears the laughing children pass,
With dimpled arms a-twine;
She sees among the dewy grass
The sweet blue gentians shine.
Fade vision bright! the dream is o'er,
The mirky light across the foos
Dies with the dying day.
And peace with hfe's decline
Aud there within the silent room
The sweet blue gentians shine.
MARsToN MOORE.
ALL SORTS.
The late Professor Blschoff, the distin-
guished Psychologist of Munich, insisted
strenuously and continually upon the in
feriority of women, and especially upon
their mental inferiority. This he at
tfibuted to the difference in weight be-
tween the brains of woman and of man.
The average weight of mans brain, he.
was wont to observe, is 1850 grammes,
that of woman, only 1850 grammes.
What further argument is necessary to
prove the fact so humiliating to woman, so
pleasing to mani
But in due time the Professor ceased to
experiment, and he msdeuo more dogmatio
statements, for Death put a stop to his ia
vestisations. He WAS then experimental
upon, for some other savant weighed the
brain Of the learned Bisehoff and discover
ed, probably to his amszement, that 1t
"o1Sueu ohiy 1bSfo StaIumcb. Ahuo, ao-
cording to his own estimate, he was very
much inferior to the average man, and
worse still, a little inferior to the majority
of those inferior beings, women. Thus are
women avenged, but the pity of 1t is that
the mistaken psychologist may never know
what light-wsight brain was his, or be
shown the fallacy of his conclusions.
Would that his brain could have been
weighed while he was conscious and capa-
BILE Of reasoning. He might have discov-
cred that weight slone is not the standard,
and that it is quality, not quantity, that
gives superiority.
Just st this time, when, In America at
least, there is a sensible fashion of calling
people by the full beptisimsl name rather
rhau by nickname; when we have de-
cided that there Is no sex in genius and
that poet Ia q poet, and sculptor
is sculptor, whether he or she;
when we have grown very particular as to
the use Of the word ''lady," especially
when compounded with other words, 1t is
rather startling and very amusing to have
a widely circulated English weekly gravely
that "Miss Hattie Hosmer Is per-
haps the best known lady sculptress
in the world" 1t is only surprising that
the brilliant writer did not further state
that "she is woman and female" The
gifted woman, who has devoted the greater
part of her life of si1ty-three years to her
chosen art, will doubtless be somewhat
surprised to find herself alluded to as
"Hatty," and to find that her sex ia four
times announced in one sentence of thir-
teen words. "Rsportorial English" "as
she Is wrote" In America could never equal
this in Its labored solemnity of ignorance
or bad taste.
Here is another astonishing piece of in
formation, also from an English newspa-
per. in advising it's readers as to certain
points of etiquette 1t asserts that "when a
lady and gentleman are walking In the
street, the lady should walk inside of the
gentleman" 1t does not, however, ex-
| plain the method by which this remark
able physical feat may be accomplished,
and until it does it is doubtful if the re-
| quirement will be complied with to any
| great extent.
| Another journal from ''over the way"
| states that at a recsnt trial in America the
| jury returned the following verdict:
''Guilty, with come little doubt as to
whether ho Is the man." The flavor of
Erin about this is too prominent not to be
readily distinguished. 1t may be that this
verdict was rendered in one of our courts,
! but IL so, then the twelve good men and
| true who agreed upon 1t were all ex-sub
| j@cts CT the queen, transplanted citizent
from the land of the shamrock and the
| "bull"