The evening times., 1896-01-08
SOCIETY'S new DIVERSION
Testing the Quality Of the Educa-
ton of New Womsn.
Swell Cotillion TOnight-Mrs. Stanley
Matthew'S Ent
World Gossip.

Washington is the proud possessor Of
many literary clubs. 1t has particularly
large number OF those organizations known
as reading Circles and wkich are car
ried on for the purpose of NATAL improve
mcnt and social edification.
one OF our most prosperous suburbs boasts
of a very active branch of this industry
and it held a meeting on Monday night.
The Augustan Age was under discussion,
and, Incidentally, the ladies We're pursuing a
mild course OF physics and the rudiments of
language.
/ Everything went smoothly and the MEM
bers were quite pleased with themselves
and the progress they We're ma king III self
culture, when one of them rudely dispclle5i
the Illusion. This particular lady has just
returned from a months visit TO Boston.
OF course. she had a delightful time-every-
one does who goes to Boston. What pleased
her most was the culture, the wisdom, the
kDow-it-allncsS OF the Hub.
why" she SAID. Il attended reading
circle at the Harvard annex for women,
and | nevSr met so many bright girls in
my life. one of them had prepared list or
Twenty-Five questions on subjects the circle
had read up. and, don't You krrsw, nearly
every one present could answer the qucs-
tons. | took list of them. SO that could
ask you Nutu L Ept pitShtht
OF the club said that any one who could not
answer most of the queries had little pre-
teutions to culture or education" The
traveller proceeded to explore the contents
of her purse, and after examining choice
assortment of clippings, receipts. etc, she
produced the following list:
First-Name the officers OF Washing
tons first Cabinet
Second-Name the conditions of the
treaty of Client.
Thrd-Name the conditions and signers
of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Fourth-Name the bones of the hand and
arm.
Fifth Name the bones and their princi-
pal functions of the trunk OF the body.
Sixth-Who was the author OF the Hus-
selman letters aud what We're their con-
tents?
Scvcnth-Rcpeat the seven wonders of
the ancient world.
Eighth-WhO We're the leaders of the
third crusade?
Ninth What were the conditions pro-
posed by the king of France to the leaders
of the Huguenot rebellion:
Tcnth-Who was the king of France, and
who were the Huguenot leaders?
Eleventh Give short history of the i'm
peachmcnt of Warren Hastings.
Twelfth-Where and what is the Ouhd?
Thirtcenth-What was fcudal law and
on what principle was it based?
Fourteenth-Give history of the order
of the Golden Fleece.
Fifteenth What are the Oldest speci-
mems of archa eology now in existence?
SiNtecnth-Give reasons as to whether
Marquette or De Soto was the discoverer
of the Mississippi.
Sevcntccnth-Whate existing nation has
the best claim for being the most civilized
of the world?
Eighteenth-What ancient nation can
most rightly claim that honor?
Ninetecnth-GiveR 2 history of the feud
between Marius and Sylla.
Twcntieth-Whati is the date of the Mus
sulman invasion of Europe?
Twcnty-firSt-Who was the last emperor
of the Western Roman empire?
Twcnty-second-What is the medical dis
tinction between the terms "conta gious''
and Infectious"
Observation-Disclosures the universal laws
OF nations on which all International law
is founded.
coverer of the roundness of the globe?
Twentyfifth-What is the latest astro-
noinical theory of the inhabitants of the
moon?
The fair Irquizzer read her questions slowly.
and after each one waited for the club to
reply in unison. There was a feeble at
tempt to name the officers of Washingtons
first Cabinet. and also to convey the con-
tents OF the two great treaties of Ghcnt
n nd the Hidalgo: bit to name the homes Of
the hands and arms struck terror into
every feminine bosom.
After filthy no one attempted to reply.
and when the list was finished one bright
young girl, graduate Of one of our best