The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09

ter has rather more than it's share O.
| "needlework bric-a-brac.
One thing seems certain. If fancy
work goes out, the women's exchange:
and industrial unions will have to go
too, for they will have nothing left t
SELL If women were not doing fancy
work, they would be reading trash OIL
gossiping, or practicing scales on the
piano, or rocking themselves in rock
ing chairs. Why does not fancy work
make as good a sedative as any Of
these?
Women will never cease to amuse
themselves with trihes until they are
made to concern themselves with the
big things of life.
1t seems doubtful if, after all, DR.
Leopold Schenks discoveries as to the
determination Of sex are as important
as was at first supposed. At least, peo-
pie who have seen his book are inclined
to think that the dramatic manner n
which the theory was brought before
the public is the most striking thing
about it, One of the more recent Of Dr..
Schenk's detractors is The Book Buyer,
which thinks that Mother Goose knew
as much about it as DIR. Schenk and
even more, for the doctor accepts no
responsibility for girls while she did.
Except for the modern, scientific form,
why is not the following asks The
Book Buyer, & fair statement Of DR..
Schenk's great truth?
What are little boys made OFT
Snaps and snails and puppy-doss' tails;
That's what little boys are made Of
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice, and all that's nice;
That's what little girls are made Of"
At last the Boston Beacon has sue
combed to the inevitable, and follow
ing in the wake of the Boston Satur-
day Evening Gazette, has contracted
its newspaper amplitude into some
thing about the size of Harper's Week
ly. The influence of the monthly maya
zine is indeed patent, when 1t can work
so important a revolution in such pub
LEGATIONS as the Critic, the Independent,
the Outlook, the Beacon and the Ga
zette The Beacon, however, certainly
looks very smart and pretty in it's new
dress. With this change go others as
to price, the addition and enlargement
of departments, etc, and few will wish
the paper back in it's former state.
The tueb-rose has waited long time
for its turn, but it has come at last.
Some people involuntarily think of
funerals when they see or smell the
tube-rose, and, in fact, the tube-rose,
with it's stiff, neat contour and over
towering odor has chiefly been rele-
gated to funeral anchors and crosses.
Now it seems to be the coming floral
fad.
The University of Pennsylvania re-
ceives a gift of $4,000 for the strength
ening of the womens department, and
now, by the liberality of numerous
friends, Barnard College is freed from
the debt, the annual interest on
which amounted to $4,000. Hats off
to the higher educated woman!
If there is disappointment in the
thought that Mrs. Fiske will not bring
back 'Tess" to the Worcester Theatre,
there is compensation in the assurance
that the two pieces in which she win
appear are as exquisite things of their
kind as are to be found. They en-
chant New York. 'Tess," with all
it's passion and breathless intensity of
emotion is painful the mind revolts
from it as from the bitter and sad ex-
periences of life. The stage, fiction,
are not necessarily truer to life where
they harrow our feelings and tempo
rarily blight our happiness