Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-05
THE CHISEL.
November Issue OF WOman's College
Periodical Attractive and Bright.

Periodical Attractive and
OF interest to those who live in the
college world is the November issue-just
from the press-of the "Chisel." published
by the students of the Woman's College,
this city. This number is the first or the
session. and comes fresh and bright from
tho hands OF a new staff. This staff, pre-
senting quite an array Of editors, Is given
on page /, as follows: Editors-in-chier,
Misses Rosa Virginia Gary and Catnarihe
Pendleton Ouarles; associate editors
QocaD, Misses Annie Kate Barnes Lena
Griffin. and Edith Logwood Hatcher;
Exchange editor, Miss Maria Childress'
and business managers, Misses Mary
franklin and Hattie Rudd.
This little periodical, OF forty-two pages
is filled with bright, newsy reading mat
ter. The editors have shown q very OK
cellent taste In selecting from their con
tributions productions of q descriptive
and f~ctional order rather than those OF
the essayist or b~iographer. Scnooi-glrls
OF 1s are not expected by the reading
world to give analyses of great ~charaeter
whom the world knows by heart and mas
weighed for itself. Anything OF TINS
order. and, with rare exceptions, the
efforts of the school boy or girl at essay
orc ukelv TO be facts and details men
taIlv clipped from encyclopedias or his
tories and flashed" In avoiding TINS
mistake. the management has shoWeu hu
little wisdom.
THE initial article of the literary depart
ment Is ca~ptioned Around Boston, ahu
is an account Of q trip around the "hup'
which any n would read with pleasure
Fate Is a little poem by NJ. w. =,
in which she tells how blue eyes VII
not be met by brown" Following thl'
IS a storyette, also by M. w. Z.
The most pretentious contribution, now
ever. TO this department OF the Chisel Is
Natures own" by S. IL. a. 1t Is 9
curious tale. 1t would be scarcely fair tC
cav ~ was not true TO our nature, Du'
M least illustrations of 1t In life are ex'
ceedIngly rare. Violet Is introduced as 9
girl II. a simple. trusting. child, nur'
turned upon Natures bosom, or, as r.. L
ROE has it, one nearest to Nature
heart" Through these years OF her child
mood she has lived in a quiet village ma
den away from the hustle OF the world
and even deprived of companionshlp o
her own age and ~sympathies. she form'
a friendship with the sunshine, the tree
and flowers, and spends her time amon'
them. She tells them her thoughts ant
helieves that they hear and sympathize
To her they lake on life and are ever
as she is. A man, Algernon Stuart, turn
nm from the city. He is an artist ant
teaches her his art-of painting and o
loving. They are happy, she never SO q
when he is at her side. In painting sh'
becomes an adept-in owing both exec
| all others before them. The JOY does no
| last. She hears startling rumors apou
her lovers conduct in the city, she De
lieves them, at length, and they separate
At first she is heart-broken, and Nature
sunniest smiles are cold. But as the day
go nv. the wound heals, and slowly sh
returns to even greater depths of he
former nature love. A year passes an.
nnds her looking through nature, through
trees and flowers, to God. There Is borl
in her soul a longing to "startle the worl
with one single expression of her soul o.
canvas" whatever II is. to her 1t mus
mean her conception Of God made mani
fest" Another year brings Algernor
with proofs of his innocence. His suit j
vain. She Tilted Nature once, but, re
turning, was received into her bosom
She will do so no more. She forsakes a
companionship but that offered by tn
forest.
After the death Of her mother, he
lonely father, for her sake, sends her |
live with his sister. h lives the sam
life. making new friends only In he
changed nature world. Her whole exist
ence became filled with the purpose, I
nut her conception OF the manifesto
Deity on canvas. Each day she resolve
TO do II on the morrow until finally, wit
brushes and easel, she goes to the WOO
on her mission. Reaching her favorit
spot. she places the easel In readiness 10
the expression Of her soul. But she
wearied by her trudge. though 1t Is oni
n short distance. Dropping beside IN
wide-stretched canvas, that soul goes VI
ward to the God who give II.
The girl was not happy, though sh
loved God and felt her soul commun
with the Great Soul through His mani
f~estation In nature. She should nav
loved God for His own sake and IN
whole world, beside. man included. 10
Gods sake-and the mans. Perhaps IN
writer would teach this-that Violets III
was morbid, BECAUSE love OF man. sod
and natures best. was absent In tnat ii'
An editorial imprssses upon the lrieno
of the college the need or a good library
They have the nucleus. they would nav
something more. The trustees, facult!
students, and friends OF the Institute
ara urged to come to the rescue, ana IN
editors predict that II this Is done IN
imnerative need Of every college VIII val
ish from this one, because that need NJ
have been satisfied.
other departments Of the number al