The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-22

may be of service to some other teacher. She spoke very low, kept calm, and walked carefully, It was about this time that she began to teach winter schools, usually taught by men, as the boys of manly size and strength, who attended school only in the winter, were supposed to Joe beyond the control of women teachers, At this time, too, she developed that boldness of thought that is supposed to be characteristic of the advanced" woman of to-day. If she was considered competent to manage such a school. she reasoned, why should she not be paid the same salary that man would receive. She demanded 1t, therefore, and 1t was granted-fifteen dollars a month, and board.
 After her marriage in 1S42 most of her teaching was in the line of pen manship, pen drawing, and free hand drawing, these arts having been ac- Guired during or in the intervals of her school teaching. She had had twelve lessons in penmanship. and little in struction in drawing. Most of this teaching was in private schools, private classes; often composed of teachers, and in commercial colleges. Sometimes she taught three classes a day, and much of the time had evening classes. Many of her pupils became teachers of writing and drawing, During all these fifty years while engaged in teaching, she never lost a day on account of ill., ness, nor ever had headache. This, she says q attribute largely to dress ing so that the air could come in con- tact with my body, to regular bathing, to farinaceous, vegetable, and fruit diet mostly, with few condiments, and to earnest, active and constant employ ment and regular hours of sleep" There were nine children who were never rocked to sleep nor ever tasted patent medicine. Eight of them grew to manhood and womanhood. Their father and mother studied hygiene and in their united care of the children they applied it's principles. They were dress ed warmly in winter, and always loose ly, their rooms were well ventilated by night and day, and they were fed at regular times. Probably the details of home work were simplified as much as possible in order to give time for out side engagements, but there was no neglect of home duties. And by way of a hint to the girls of to-day there could be nothing more suggestive than the question with which Mrs. Hutchins closes her brief but remarkably inter- esting autobiography: "If," she asks, "a woman of ordinary abilities, with very limited opportunities, and under discouraging circumstances, could do something for the advancement of so- ciety outside of her family circle, what ought we not to expect of the rising generation of women, with free schools, free textbooks and supplies, and with all the light which modern science dis closes?
 A TRIFLING MISTAKE AND WHAT
 CAME OF TT.
 The poem entitled There is No Death is one that has been widely read and greatly admired. To many hearts it has brought a message of con solation as sweet and helpful as could have been put into words, by mortal man.
 There is no death! the stars go down
 To rise upon some other shore,
 And bright in Heavens jewelled crown
 They shine forever more"
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 And ever near us, though unseen.
 The dear, immortal spirits tread For all the boundless universe
 Is Life--there are no dead"
 So it begins and ends. Who has not read it?
 Strangely enough, it gave to a well known English author enhanced repu- tation as poet, having been credited to him for thirty years or more, he, mean while, having never seen nor heard of it. Whenever it's writer laid claim to it his words were received with in- credulity or derision, and at last he was openly charged with plagiarism.
 MT. Clifford Howard, a literary man of Washington, has collected the facts concerning this poem, and traced its history. Hereafter it is to be hoped that it's authorship will be no more a vexed question, but that John l.. McCreery HOW nol0lHg TeSpOHSlDie poSll1On III the attorney generals office at Wash ington, may be given all due honor for the poem he has vainly sought to claim as his.own. In his younger days, away back in 1863, when a newspaper man in Iowa, he wrote the verses and sent them to Arthurs Home Magazine. They appeared in the July number of the magazine, after which he reprinted them in his own paper, the Delaware