The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-08-26

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"Great spirit! Let me see my love again
| And comfort him one hour aud I were fam
70 pay 9 Thousand years of fire and pain !
Then said the pitying angel: '.Nay. repent
That Wild vow! Look, the dial fingers ben
Down TO the last hour Of thy punishment!'
But stlil she walled: Il pray thee. let M
cannot rise to peace and leave him 50.
- let me soothe him IN his utter woe!''
Tho braxen gates ground sullenly ajar
| And upward, Joyous, like rising STIR.
she rose and vanished In the ether air.
Mothers Distress.
The subject of the kind of food and it,
preparation which should be furnished
the young girls at our colleges is vita
one. If the truth of the matter could b,
| got at public sentiment alone would de
! mand 4 radical change in the cnlinar,
department of almost every college q
the kind in the country. But the troubI,
| is, the truth is the last thing one can get
| Not many months ago an article OF
the food given at one of our principa
| colleges for women Went the round OF
| every newspaper in the country, and t.
! those who knew how untrue it wa,
caused a smile, more Of the nature of de-
spair than of mirth, for they knew how
| almost useless any denial would be. Now
when the matter has Deen urged upol
! the attention of trustees and managers
and all to no avail, the dernier resort o.
the mothers must be the. public press
The least the mothers demand and thu
| most they would ask for their growing
| daughters is nourishing food, properly
cooked. .-. - -. - ,,'-r..~, -.
If some of the presidents of these col
leges would apply the science of domestic
| economy to the Kitchens. and hire cook.
who not only can but will be made t.
cook the food properly, then the students
with well-nourished brains might be thu
better able to. comprehend and use til,
sciences and philosophy with which the,
are supplied by the professors. In thei
| intense desire for all the advantages
which the EDUCATION of the colleges holds
out to them, they early apply their phil
osophy, even during the first term, o.
they could not and would not submit t.
the kind of food given to them.
AS it Island no one will deny this
| many break down in health, not from
overwork, as the public is allowed t.
food. properly prepared. In the large col
| leges where cows are kept ON the farm
the milk, and usually the butter, is really
good. but, as two young girls told thu
writer recently, one becomes rather tiret
of milk and crackers at every meal fol
months, but there was little else the,
could eat. ..-. 49,
Mothers have privately urged the atten
| ton of this subject upon those in author
from sense of delicacy and really no
wishing to hurt in the very least the rep
utation of any college. nave refrainet
from making public protest. Strong
souls, strong intellects, strong bodies, art
| what we want for our girls. They are
to be the future mothers of this our grea
land. They will want and will demand
stronger intellects and better bodies fol
their sons and daughters.
In this matter Of good food the college
man has an immense: advantage over the
college woman. He has his club, which
hires its own cook, and if the cook prove!
unsatisfactory he is discharged and an
other one is put in his place. If there
were clearing out of most of the cooks
and many of the college stewards in ou1
colleges for women, the better it would be
of brain work done. What are the moth
ers of the girls still in college going to dc
to help to this end of nourishing food
properly prepared? Still write their fu
tile letters to those in power? How much
good has it done? A little better bread
fewer canned vegetables, meats a trifie
better in quality and age for a month Of
two, then a falling back into the same Ole
rut. z.s s.5 .=5 III 5%5 $780,
Does that reach the root Of tile ma tier:
Not at all. In our desperation we will al
last turn to the fathers and mothers OF
the whole broad land through the press
Do You not think that will bring quick
response and a sure remedy: Believing
that by doing so the eyes of those ii
authority will be opened wide to this cry.
ing need of our young women, | am-Ons
Excessive Politene.s. III
Do we not all know the vulgarity OF
that strained and. excessive politeness
which is to intercourse what the straight
waistcoat, tight stays and pinching shoes
are to the body? All spontaneity is
checked, all freedom Of Speech thought
and action withers under this excessive
formality as a pot-bound plant withers
in its narrow holding. Even graceful PEG
pie are made to feel awkward and well.
bred people uncouth under this kind of ex
cess of formal courtesy, while the natural
and spontaneous simply shrivel up like
flowers in a simoon-stifle for want OF
fresh air and freedom, as erst those
wretched prisoners in the Black Hole OF
Calcutta. This exaggerated politeness
this stupendous amount Of formality-
is in reality vulgarity, and when the
tent with themselves then they are mos,
lamentably to blame-most striking1y de,
fcient in the true sense and understand.
ing Of politeness. They are vulgar, not
refined; affected, not well-bred: but they
plume themselves Oh having reached an
eminence beyond the power of the
groundlings to attain. - =. =
SC, l. r,I s orSkr~
be found as kind of cancer imbedded
in the very tissues of family life. A sis
ter asks her sister to dinner. The i'll
viter is poor; the invited is well off, In:
continently the poorer one makes a royal
feast for the richer, and puts the whole
household to Inconvenience, not to spea
of a weeks short commons, for the
sake Of that false politeness and real
vulgarity, receiving her sister with due
respect The best respect would have
been to give her just the simple family
fare of perhaps a Sunday or holiday
complexion-just a point or two, here
and there, to mark the difference be-
tween today and the ordinary working
not have suited our high-polite hostess,
who preferred jellies and creams and en-
trees, and savories of doubtful materials
and composite flavor, with sweets from
the local pastry cooks and wine from
the family grocer shaking the whole
thing tiasco by reason Of this preten-
tious formality, which was neither good
breeding nor hospitality.-Ph Philadelphia
Times. : Il I IN,
? A Life of Pleasure. S2 ~
How lucky you are to come now! I
am Just home from the X IS reception.
Come up into my boudoir and we will
have q nice little chat Why, what
makes you look SO sober? no trouble, [
hope, for you?' :*s 80 .t:5.. -
- want you to tell me just how you
pass Your time. Give me u sample day,
as it We're answered the caller, abrupt.
oh. you are after the drones, as ,,su-
sal, laughed the younger woman. well.
there have to be drones you know, iii
every hive, SO | can't see why you. need
quarrel with natures plans. However,
here is the way spend my days usually.
u am out late about every night, 50 81
course i cannot get up to Fred's early
breakfast. He has his about 8 o'clock.
for he must be down town by 8. 50 |.
don't see him till dinner. IS cannot hp