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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-10-13
Our Special Contributors===ISo4.
STUDENT MOTHERS.
BY MARY LOWE DICKINSON
GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE KINGS DAUGHTERS

at the brazen doors of prejudice that
shut us out of college, clamoring for
our right to the knowledge that was
denied, know how rightly to estimate,
rightly to encourage, rightly to rejoice
that our coming mothers may enter
freely as they will.
But the worlds childhood should
not wait for that next generation to
rear its children by the help of its
better knowledge of books. The liv
ing book is open to the mother of
today. The child is here, its young
life asking for bread upon which it
can grow bravely up to the full stat
ure of the perfect man. 1t asks for
fish caught in our widespread nets of
experience, for fish in whose mouth
shall be found the coin which thew
will need for the tax that life makes
on every soul. How much of the
hardness of heart, think you, in the
manhood of today, how much of the
Shiny dishonor of our political life,
how much of the wriggling inconsist-
ency of character that marks men in
high places, how much of the hiss
and sting that awaits the highest en-
deaVor and the noblest aspiration are
due to to the fact of a persistent diet
of serpents and of stonesl What then
would we have9 First, that women,
mothers especially, who are becoming
students of everything else under the
sun, become students of childhood
and students of every system, scheme
plan, and practice for the develop.
ment of the body, mind, and character
of the child.
1t is the one thing of universal in
terest to the present, of universal i'm
portance to the future of the indi-
vidual, of the nation, of the race, that
the women of our day accept as their
divine responsibility the childhood of
today. If it were not that the world
is stated with societies, one might
plead for the advantage in every Will
age of the land of organized effort
and study, not only of everything
that pertains to the outward but that
which affects the inward welfare of
children. There is already psychol-
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IT only requires that the women
of this day entering upon that
broader, deeper motherhood which
makes of its heart bulwark against
whatever evils threaten the young
enter upon the study of childhood
with half the energy and half the
time that she has in years past devoted
to fancy work, for the problem of how
to hold and help the young, to find
the first step in its solution, which
first step, logically followed, will open
all the rest. For it is woman alone
through whom this help to youth, as
we'll as all changes requiring exercise
of peculiar instinct and peculiar pow
er, must come But in her efforts to
bring about any noble end, she
counts too much upon outside aid,
and too little upon her innate ability.
In most of her undertakings she in
stinctively guards against trespassing
upon purely masculine fields, and
shrinks from the opposition and dis
approval of men. In this field of the
study of childhood she has undis-
puted sway. By and by, as his life
moves toward manhood, the father
may claim his boy, but over all forma-
tive processes, that make that young
manhood worth the fathers desire,
the mother has undisputed control.
To know her child's real inward life,
his inherited tendencies, tastes, hab-
its, temperament, temptations, aspira-
tions, as she knows the outward facts
of his existence, is not only her sacred
privilege, but her high obligation.
To know herself in order that she
may know her child, to learn the pro-
cesses and methods of instruction
that his educators offer, and to Judge
for herself whether they are suited to
her own child, is far better worth
while than to know the latest style
for fashioning the garments it shall
wear.
We are all eager to make provision
that the next generation of mothers
shall be a generation that has a
knowledge of books; and only those
of us who knew what it was to knock
and then to plead and then to batter
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NEW YORK CITY.

OF Harvard's famous class of 1929,
but four members survive Their chief,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, has Just passed
away.
Considerable comment has been
made in England on the Lord Mayor of
Liverpool's calling on Unitarian min
lister to say grace at the banquet given
to the Duke and Duchess of York, when
Bishop of the Established church was
present. The Lord Mayor is Unitarian
and claims that his own private chaplain
was the person who officially should
perform the ceremony.
"A celibate order of laymen, called
the Community Of the Brothers of the
Church." has been instituted by Bishop
Potter, at the Protestant Episcopal
church of st. Chrysostom, New York.
The founder of the order and first men,
ber is Russell Whitcomb, who will hence
forth be known as Brother Hugh. The
main object in view is to look after the
interests of young men and boys until
they become settled down in business.
The London Times announces that
a project, which has been under discuss
sion for thirty years, has practically ma
tured to build Roman Catholic cathe-
dral in London on a site in Westminster
purchased by the late Cardinal Manning
for e55,000. The total cost of the edifce
it is estimated, will be e250,000. Nearly
half of that amount has already been
subscribed. The whole OF Catholic
Christendom will be invited to subscribe.
-Protestants, Roman Catholics, He
brews. and other men and women have
banded together to face, study, and meet
the needs of workingmen's families in
the crowded East Side tenements, near
Fourteenth street in New York. A be-
nevolent committee has undertaken to
care for the temporal needs of every
family wishing aid, and a sanitary com
mittee has been appointed to enforce
sanitary laws and tenement house re-
form.
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over the last week in July the remain
der of the family fell into wretched
sickness arising from drinking impure
well water. There was time when
we thought that any place would be
better than Karuizawa. No doubt
we were mistaken. We think now
we were. With good courage and
tolerable health we return to the work
before us. | wish / could give as
good an account Of Mr.. Rice. In an
entirely different but not less tedious
way he has been a sufferer during
the whole summer and even now is
unable to take up his work. He has
kept himself in darkness for more
than two months and has been for
hidden all reading on account of his
eyes. He has before him the pros
pect of several more weeks of bond
age, and the doctor hints strongly of
a trip 20 the United States. But l
hope that this last will not be neces-
sary, but that he may quickly recover
and give us the help of his strong and
earnest labors.
But in spite of our adversities we
are not cast down. We propose to
make this mission continued sue
cess, and we can do it even against
great odds, if we have the support
and sympathy of our friends in the
home land.
KARUIzAwA. JAPAN, Sept. 10.
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ogical movement in this direction
which must necessarily be limited in
it's scope. We need something
broader, more general.
Any number of women united with
the purpose to know themselves what
ever things are being taught to their
own children, beginning with the
kindergarten and the multiplication
Table, would not only find their own
minds quickened and alert, till they
would be able to judge discriminat-
ingly of the value of instruction and
its adaptation to need, but moving on
step by step with the young, would
get "a goodly measure of the college
education denied to so many of us in
our youth.
Not least among the advantages of
such study is the fact that the wide
separation which the college life and
the student life makes between the
heart of mother and son need not
arise. The lad no longer leaves his
mother behind-having entered fields
of knowledge where she may never
hope to go-becauseh he is now among
the stars, and she from the threshold
of her home can only hope to catch
glimmer of him in the multitudinous
sparkle of the sky.
l am not unmindful of the objec-
tions that arise to the minds already
accustomed to the idea of letting
their sons grow up and out and away
into life the morther can but share
through her affections and her pray
ers. There is no time to keep along
side by side with them, we say, but
there is time for the Shakespeare
and Browning Club, and the Social
World, and the Missionary Society,
and the Daughters of the Revolution,
and the Household, and the Father
of the children, yet how the flavor of
all turns to ashes on the lips when
the boy, our boy, belongs to the world,
or to the wine, or to the life that is
not life but death, and is no more our
own. In the bitterness of such hours
mothers speak the truth, if the an
guish is not SO deep that they cannot
speak at all: "No one knew him as T
knew him, he ought to have had my
influence and my guidance and that
help all along the way"
And that utterance is the every truth
of God concerning the motherhood
and childhood of today. No one
knows them as we know them, and
no one should, and no one can, and
knowing through our hearts what
they are and what they need, it is for
us to so strengthen the life of knowl-
edge and of thought that we shall
"walk beside them all the way" and
so strengthening all influences that
may avail for their good, that the true
education may result in such citizens
and patriots, such men and women
as we shall be proud to call our
daughters and our sons.
We plead therefore for such educa-
ton for children as shall be in accord
ance with their real nature and needs,
and such education to the mother as
may enable her to give this individual
teaching to the child, who shall ulti-
mately be the best interpreter and
the highest expression of her possibil
tiles and her powers.
NEW YORK CITY.
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CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. OCT. 1s. 1894
A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY.

CHICAGO, SATURDAY. OCT. 13. 1894
Page One.
Vacation in Japan
Poem: The Angel of the Tower.
Student Mothers.
Page Two.
Convention Address: The Universaiist
Denomination.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
General Convention Receipts.
Page Four.
Editorial:
David Swing.
Elements of Spiritual Life
Meaning Of Great Word.
Y. P, G. U.
Personal, -
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page. Farm, Garden and Dairy.
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
News of the Week.
Church Notices and in Memoriam.
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Ye heavenly visitors. who, your way
From worlds of glory and unfading day,
Have paused while to rest upon this tower
While Ginning bells proclaim the passing hour
Weave with your outstretched a of grace;
Stanl guard forever DER this sacred place.
And ye gaze upon these dials bright
That count the hours and days in rapid flight
Pray that through coming years they ROLL
Peace here may rest on many troubled SOUL
That here, from every struggle for the right,
Truth may return victorious from the fight.
Pray that the promised age may onward haste,
When love shall bloom in every desert waste;
When love to God and man shall fill the world
And every battle-fag at last be fured
Pray that these bells, when they shall sadly toll,
May comfort speak to every mourning SOUL
That they glad tidngs loud and long may ring
And of the Saviour's love triumphant sing.
And when all beneath the sol shall sleep,
May you Angels fair still vigil keep
Watch till we wake from shadows of the night,
And with the breaking day behold the light
HENRY n DoDc
N, N. j., 1894.
copyrighted, 1894 by Henry N. Dodge.l
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"A violent discussion is going on in
France over the co education of the sexes
and French public sentiment is much
opposed to the attempt to introduce
it.
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
VACATION IN JAPAN.

BY REV. I. WALLACE CATE.
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The StOwaway.

- A very small boy stole a ride on train
running out of Jersey City the other
day. When two men took their seats
they heard slight snifle beneath them,
and one of them, looking around, found
a boy hardly bigger than pound of tea
lying on the floor, shielded from sight by
the reversed backs of two seats, which
formed tent over him. Of course, the
men did not inform the trainmen that
they were carrying stowaway.
Indeed, one man was inclined to slip
twenty-five cents down to the little
rogue. Men always seem to like young
scamps. The child was still beneath
the seats when the two men got off
the train. He was still shifting, too;
perhaps from a prickling conscience;
perhaps from fear Of the vigorous shak-
ing which he knew would be forthcom-
ing when he was discovered. New
York Tribune.
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Ancient American Cloths.

The Me1icans spun and wove cotton,
and the Peruvians both cotton and wool
into fabrics which the Spaniards found
in every way equal to anything they
had known at home. The Peruvians
in particular, were adopts in the art
When Pizarro made the conquest OF
their country in 1898, he found in the
empire Of the Incas four species of an
inals little different from each other
which he called the sheep Of the country
(carneros de Ia terra), because of their
general resemblance to the Spanish
sheep, and the similar utilization of its
fiber.
Two of the species, the llama and
alpaca, had been in state of domestica-
ton from time immemorial, the remain
ing varieties, the vicuna and the guam
AGA, living in wild state in the fast
nesses of the Andes. From variety of
sources we are able to obtain minute de-
tails Of the Importance which the gov
eminent attached to these animals. and
the large part which they played in
the domestic economy of the country
S. n. D. North in Popular Science
MONTHLY
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The SuHaay SIN
Is the greatest SUNDAY Newspaper in the
World.
Trinity College

The character ana public worth of higher
institution OF learning is known by what il is
ana does. During the past TO ~ years rinity
College has rendered unStinted public services,
having been sustained by private COmtribu-
tiOns and given her ell Tts to the pubic wei
fare. 1t stands for progressive ideas and is
the representative OF advanced thought in
public life. The leaVen of her efforts has
quickened every other educational institution
within the range OF her influence.
For 1893 the following depart nents are
open for instruction after August 81:
|. Philosophical and Literary tor a. B. can
didates)
2. History, Political and Social Science for
Pm. Is. Candidates).
3. Scientific der b. S. candidatce).
4. archaeological for b +. candidates.
8. Law School lSun4mcr term opens July ~.
8. Theological dor ministerial candidates..
Z. Commercial Course preparatory Tor bust
ness pursuits.
Besides these there are three special schools
with courses o. more practical professional
1. TlIp Normal school for Teachers-Ten
courses of professional instruction for one
year.
z. School of JOurnalism- Prof. John L.
Weber, director. Courses of instruction IN
English, Civics, Political Science, History,
Sociology and daily practical newspaper WORK
). School of Finance, Economics and Ad-
ministration- Two years courses IN Inc
higher studies related TO public interests
The College is provided with ample iaciiltles
IN the Laboratories. Libraries and Electric
Plant for giving the best instruction in courses
offered.
The buildings are the finest and best adapted
in the state.
The Staff of Instructors is chosen for It's
merit In and devotion to the work of eduCat-
ing students. The participation OF studchn
in their own government in college will begin
with the opening OF the year, August 81.
Rooms may be secured and interesting lnlor-
nation given free by application by mali or III
person to JOHN +. GROW ELL, PTesd L.
Durham. n. c.
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The Romance of Washing.

It is wonderful how every little duty
and necessity of every day life is sur
rounded with halo of charm and legend
airy lore. Some things seem so simple
and practical that we imagine that moth
ing of weird description can possibly
be associated with them. yet in many in
stances the simpler the operation the
greater the affinity it appears to have
for things supernatural.
Ofhand, we should say that washing
cannot be invested with any romance,
but old wives will tell Us otherwise.
Woe betide the person that dares to wash
his or her hands in the same basin Of
water that has been or will be used by
another individual! They will be sure
to quarrel. Or, again, if you wipe your
hands upon the same towel and at the
same time with another person, you and
that person will at some period of your
lifetime go begging together.
The late Cuthbert Bede, however, tells
US that he was informed in Rutland
shire that these dreadful things would not
happen provided you first made the sign
of the cross over the water. Another
curious thing, too, in connection with
this is that the quarrel only supervened
when basin Of water was used. You
might wash together in running stream
as often as you pleased and no i'll effect
would come ofit.-Chambers' Journal.
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Poison of the Centipede.

The centipede is popularity supposed to
carry sting on each foot, but l have
several times handled them-after their
heads were removed-without the claws
producing any result. 1t is the first pair
of claws only that are venomous, being
hollow and provided with poison bags
like snakes fang. The largest l ever
saw was eleven inches in length, grew
some creature. A bite from one of this
size would most likely have been fatal
to a man in weak health. The tarantula,
though his powers of offense are nothing
like those of the scorpion or centipede,
is, somehow, more unpopular charac-
ter than either. The horror of these
large spiders entertained by many peo-
pie is curious and unaccountable. | have
seen Austrian bushmen, who in every
day life scarcely seemed to understand
danger, turn white as sheet at the
sight Of a small "triantelope," as they
called it.-Chambers' Journal
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Revenge After Death.

The wife of a wealthy but careful
American gentleman objected to ask for
the housekeeping money as it was re-
quired, in small sums, on the ground
that it was a waste of time and deroga-
tory to her. She demanded a banking
account, and finally, by her persistence,
obtained one. But her husband had his
revenge. At his death he left her all he
possessed on this condition:
The amount, over million dollars, was
to be handed to her, personally, at his
lawyers Office, at the rate of 500 an hour
during twelve hours of each day. Thus
was she, in the event of failure to set
the condition aside, condemned to spend
over 10000 hours at or near the abode of
the man of law, or nearly two years and
quarter, reckoning twelve hours to the
day.-London Tit-Bits.
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Big Cables on the BROOKLYN Bridpe.

The four cables Of the Brooklyn bridge
are sixteen inches in diameter each and
consist of about 10000 single wires. One
difficulty with which the engineers OF
the Brooklyn bridge had to contend was
the fact that the outside or exposed wires
were expanded by the heat of the sun,
while the inner and protected ones were
not so affected. The pressure of the
wind, too, being Of varying velocity, re-
quired such adjustment OF the wires as
to prevent displacement, even in hurri-
cane. 1t took fifteen months continual
work to string the wires of the bridge
New York Sun.
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CONNECTIONS.

At Belfield with Atlantic Coast Line for
Richmond, Petersburg. GoldsDOro. Whining
ton, etc.
At Jefress with Richmond ard Danville
RailrOan for Chase City, oxford, Henderson,
Durham, Raleigh, etc.
AT Portsmouth with the n. Y. P and y.
Railway, Cape Charles ROuteD and Bay Line
Steamers Tor Old Point, Baltimore and north
ern cities: with superb new iron steamers of
Washington and Norfolk line for Alexandria,
Washington and points north; with Old Do
mini II Steamship cOmpany's steamers and
steamships for Old Point, Hampton, Newport
News, Snitt field, cities on the Carolina sound,
New ork direct and northern points with VI.
and NJ. T. company's steamsh ps for Boston
and Providence direct and interior New Eng
land points with N. a. and a. railroad for the
elegant hotels of Virginia Beach with Ocean
View railroad for ocean View resort. Close
connection with railroad and steamship lines
for all points north. west and south.
The A s. D. Railway Ompany's steamer City
OF Chester effects prompt transfer of PAS
sengers and baggage Detr cen Portsmouth and
Norfolk.
". Fl. TAYLOR, @. P. A.
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! S94.
1891.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE
RATED.

HARPERS MAGAZIHR for 1884 will MAINTAIN
the character that has made it the fayorhe
illustrated periodical for the home. Among
the results of enterprises undertaken BY tne
publishers, there will appear during the year
superbly illustrated Lapers on India BY hd"'"
lord Weeks, on the japanese Seasons ~ Al
fred Parsons, on Germany by Poultney bige-
low. on Paris by Richard Harding Davis anu
on Mexico by Frederic Remington.
Among the other notable features OF Inc
year will be novels by George du Maurler anu
Charles Dudley Warner, the personal rem
niscences of w. ID. Howell, and eight shoi'
stories Of Western ronticr lie by owen
Wistcr. Short stories will also be cOntTbuIe'
by Brander Matthews, Richard Harding DAVIS
Mary f. wilkins, Ruth McEnery stuart ME-
Laurence Alma Tadema. George A. h.bDd'U'
Qucsnay de Beaurepaire, Thomas Nelson Fate'
md others. Articles on topics Of current IL,
terest will be contributed by di.tingulsh'u
specialists.
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Queen victoria's Special Edition.

Aroyal edition of The Daily Telegraph
is prepared and issued daily for the
queens special sight. This has been the
case ever since the death of the prince
consort, on which occasion The Tele-
graph obituary notice so pleased the
queen that she ordered a copy of the
paper to be sent to each of her palaces
daily. Since then twenty-five copies of
the newspaper have been issued on the
best of paper in truly royal style; so that
if her majesty should take a fancy to
glance down the columns of this widely
circulated daily she has the privilege
of knowing that she reads an edition
expressly prepared for self.-Irish
Times
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The Towers of Silence.

In Persia stand two towers called by
the Parsee the Towers of Silence" Ac-
cording to the religion they never bury
their dead, but have the body exposed
on the top of one of these towers until
the sun and the rain and the fowls of the
air have cleaned the bones of all flesh.
The bones are then collected and placed
in the other tower. These Parsees, who
are followers of Zoroaster, and very
devout, have almost disappeared as a
people, there being only about 5000 of
them at the present time.-Detroit Free
Press
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