Middletown transcript., 1897-02-20

skirts lest they have the appearance 0i
being "vulgar" and show too much oil
their feet. If these same sisters could
see the hosiery display they make as
they lift their skirts in their vain at
tempts to escape the mud and filth OF
street crossings. they would straight
way don costume that did not need
to be lifted, a skirt that lacked at least
six inches from touching the ground.
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OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
OF all the movements in which l
ever took part, except the anti-slavery
agitation says Col. T. W. Higginson,
the woman's rights movement seems
to me the most important. Nor have I
ever wavered in the opinion announced
by Wendell Phillips that it is "the
grandest reform yet launched upon the
century, as involving the freedom of
one-half the b pman race" All the Or
dinary objections to woman suffrage,
that women have not, in the phrase of
old Theophilus Parsons, "a sufficient ac-
quired discre on" or that they are
too impulsive, or that they cannot
fght-all these seem most trivial; but
it is necessary always to face the fact
that it is the only great reform in
which a minority, at least, of the very
persons to be benefited are working ac-
tivly on the other side. This to my
mind, only confirms its necessity, as
showing that as Mill points out, the
very nature Of woman has been to
some extent warped and epfeebled by
prolonged subjugation.
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Susan B. Anthony, the great apostle
of equal suffrage, passed her 10th
birthday on Monday, at her home at
Rochester, N. Y. where the event was
appropriately celebrated. Miss Anth-
ony is much gratified at the recent
growth of sentiment for woman suf-
frage. She is full of energy and zeal
and tireless in her work for woman.
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Queen Amelie of Portugal is a ply
sician in ssgood and regular standing"
having passed the examinations of the
Eschola Polytechnica, the leading col
lege of Lisbon and taken its degree.
Her services are given exclusively to
the poor among her subjects, and it is
said that she attends to her profession
al duties with as much zeal as physi- |
clan dependent upon his profession for |
support.
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The proposed statue to be erected to
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hart
ford, Conn.,, will be in bronze and re-
present the author as she appeared in
1850. The figure will be seated and
will hold in one hand pen and in the
other a manuscript. Beneath there
will be large figure Of Uncle Tom,
with hands upraised. showing the brok-
en- shackles on the wrists; while on
each side of the pedestal will be large
bronze plates, one showing the figure
of Topsy and the other Eva.
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Miss Flo Woodbury., of Danville, Ill.
was delegate to the National Assem-
bly, of the League of American Wheel
men which met in Albany last week.
She is the first woman to act in that
capacity.
THE COOKS NOTE BOOK.
In serving raw oysters let each rest
ON the deep half of its shell. Serve six
on plate which is first sprinkled with
finely cracked ice. Arrange the oys-
ters in a circle around quarter of
lemon, which should be decorated with
a few sprigs of parsley. With the oys-
tiers serve horseradish, black and red
pepper and thin slices Of buttered gra-
ham bread. Oysters are not good un-
less they close firmly on the knife when
being opened. If they can be opened
easily or hold themselves open in the
least they are not fit to use.
To test coffee put spoonful gently
on the top of glass OF water. If the
coffee is pure it will notsink for some
minutes, and will scarcely color the
water, but If chic ory is mixed with it
it will sink to the bottom at once, rap +
idly absorbing the water. and also Civ
ing the water dark reddish tinge.
I Here is q hint for kitchen aprons.
Make them with full ruffis the lower
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