The herald., 1896-03-22

is not often found acting as her hus-
bands cashier or head clerk, but she is
! at home experimenting the household,
mending, making sewing, economizing,
teaching her children, making one dol
lar do the work of two. More than
that, she is ambitious, and she is study
ing this or that, so that when fortune
comes she may be ready to take what
ever good the gods provide. She
knows that the woman who began
her married life in two-room shanty
has lived to queen it in palace.
She has seen women who did their own
washing and took i'll bosrders to help
along receive their reward in seeing
their husbands governors of states
or members of the supreme court, or
diplomats honored at European courts.
She knows that such honors may be in
store for her husband and she must
help him win them, n man who had
a weak or insignificant wife has ever
fought hil way up to the top, and that
so nany American men Ducceed ls un-
answerable proof that Am ercar women
are not, as rule, idle and extravagant.
They are often the humble and n
noticed little tug that conveys the
stately ship into the desired harbor.
If American women, with character
lstlc national optimism, are all fitting
themselves for good fortune, they bear
evil with equal bravery and hope in
something better turning up. The
European women, when she loses her
fortune, sinks under the blow into
hired companion. The American wo-
man braces herself up and looks about
for something to do. She starts a
fashionable boarding house, she turns
writer, painter, actress-what not She
may not have the slightest idea how to
do any of these things when she starts,
but she has grit and determination,
pluck and energy, and she will learn
before she is done. She will help her
husband get on his feet again if she
can, she will educate her sons and
marry her daughters to her boarders,
and the last estate OF that woman, nine
times cut of ten, is better than the
first
The woman, the wives of the early
settlers Of this country, took an equal
share in work and danger and privation
with their husbands in colonizing the
new states. They endured every hard
ship without murmur, they helped
their husbands conquer the wilderness
and raised their children to be honest
men and pure women. If today it is
no longer for the American woman to
toll with her own hands, if her husband
delights to adorn hei IN silken raiment
and ma her life soft and beautiful,
be sure the same womanhood under
lies it still, and still rings true metal
when tested. Wherever she is, she is
true wife and mother. Hard ships do
not daunt her, scandal does not touch
her, and if she is too honest to cajole
man, and too courageous to meekly
follow his lead, she is none the less
true and loving helpmeet to the man
who is her husband and her friend
New Orleans Picayune.
The New York Tribune prints the
last story about the uncomfortable
Carlyles:"
The tale is told by a feminine friend
of Mrs. Carlyle, who, calling one day in
Cheyne Row, met Carlyle on his own
doorstep, his head bent and perplexity
and annoyance wrinkling the philo-
sophie brow. Somewhat to her sur
prise-for she was an intimate of the
house-the sage only bowed, and went
on his way down the dismal little
street. The servant showed the visitor
into darkened room, where were to
be see the deb, is of tea and the pros
trate orm of Mrs. Carlyle on the sofa.
"Did you meet Thomas?' demanded
the wife, in a voice which showed un-
mlstakabIe traces of recent domestic
storm. "Yes. He was going out. I
met him on the doorstep, looking very
sad. What's the matter, my dear?"
"The matter!'' cried Mrs. Carlyle from
the sofa, with sparkling eyes: "rve
been two days on this sofa with sick
headache, and he's only this instant
come in and asked me what allied me |!
And-well, I've just thrown my teacup
at him!"
Charles Carleton Coffin, the war cor
respondent and author, died recently
in Brookline, Mass, at the age of 73.
Mr.. Coffin began to write for the press
in 1S45 and he was attached to the staff
of the Boston Journal in 1854. In 1861
| he was sent to the front as a special
correspondent of the Journal, serving
during the entire war and witnessing
nearly all of the great battles. His
,etters were regarded as among the
best that were sent north during that
period. At the close of the war the
Journal sent Mr. Coffin on a journey
around the world.
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Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Go. are
preparing for publication next autumn
an entirely new Riverside edit ion of
the writings of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe. 1t will comprise, probably, six
teen duodecimo volumes, very carefully
edited, with bibliographical introduce
tious, and whatever notes are needed.
1t will contain portraits of Mrs. Stowe
and engraved title pages, and in all de-
tails will be equal to the best previous
Riverside editions of great American
authors. A limited large paper edition
| will contain as special feature Mrs.