Middletown transcript., 1895-09-21

k "A FN|M whom the wri-
ter met recently
in a German pension. Every letter
I get from my women correspondents
at home is full of lessons, lectures,
courses of reading and the like, as if
their schooldays were never to end !;
mornings with the poets, afternoons
with the essayists, and evenings with
the scientists. Here is the mother OF
one of my friends whom I went to
school with, should not like to say
how long ago, taking course on psy-
chology and hypnotism with this
daughter and this daughters daugh-
ter, And my sister.in-law, not con-
tent with grinding away at French
all winter, writes me that she is going
to summer school of languages along
with her children. 1t seems to me
that should rather be ignorant than
put myself on par with my children
in that way. How typical these sum
mer schools are, too, of the scramble,
attempting, as they do, to cover in
FIVE or six weeks what it takes years,
really, to acquire. Then the way oul
women flock over here, on culture
bent, as they announce Old and
young, married and single, rich and
poor but all alike intent on culture
by the shortest route. There must be
a terrible sense of deficiency and a ter.
rible unrest behind it all to keep them
going at the rate they 60"
There was much truth as well as
some injustice in these structures,
which were, morever, especially wor-
thy of attention as coming from. an
American woman who was not only
far enough from the fray herself to
judge of it dispassionately, but who
was also possessed to an unusual de-
gree of the culture thus contended for.
Spending most of her time abroad,
acquainted with every civilized peo-
pie, and acquainted as polygot to
whom language is a means, not an
end, in itself, she has become easily
and unconsciously what her less cos
mopolitan countrymen strive to do
consciously and with no little of the
clamor that is apt to accompany con-
cious effort. From such a point Of
view the struggle of the latter, for
struggle it is as yet, must seem
strained, and even at times ridicul-
GUS.
When Mrs. Kate Kane, of Chicago,
the first lawyer in skirts, was ad-
mitted to the Chicago bar, it wss sup
posed that she was welded to her pro-
fession. But Cupid came along in
the guise of Sig. Vincenzo Rossi, a
very wealthy and handsome Italian
of good family, who pleaded his suit
SO well that she rendered judgment
in his favor, and overruliing the de-
murrer of family friends, accompan-
led her handsome lover to Kenosha,
Wis, where record of marriage was
duly entered before qualified magis-
trate. Up to date no motion has been
made to reopen and review the pro-
ceedings.
~.
Burglars have reason to be discour-
aged over their recent experiences
with tho new woman. Mrs. Johnston
McKane, of near Washington, Pa,
found thief secreted in her cellar.
She secured her husbands revolver
and fired two Ineffective shots at him.
He ran out, but she jumped into the
road cart in which she had just re-
turned home, pursued the fugitive.
overlook him and then before her
leveled revolver marched him into
town, and turned him over to the
Sheriff. The burglar took off his hat
and said "Allow me to compliment
you, lady, on your nerve. Had you
been a man I'd have given you a
fight, but my motto is no roughness to
the ladies.
At Westport, on the shores of Lake
quiet little village where
some of the best people spend the
summer, there is kept a hotel, quite
the largest in the place, which is
owned and run by women and oper-
ated with female help entirely, there
being no man in the building of
higher rank than porter or bootblack.