The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-04
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

is not interested in that subject ?-to- day is the anniversary of the great June snow storm of 1816-thet year that had no Summer. Canada, the Maritime Provinces, Maine, Vermont Massachusetts and parts of New 1ork' Pennsylvania and Connecticut were covered by a mantle of snow several inches deep. In parts of Canada ana Vermont the snow fell to depth or nearly a foot.
 Nor was that June fourth blizzard the last of that memorable year. On the seventeenth another snow storm came, and it is reported that several people were nearly frozen to death
 July brought little relief from the cold On the Fourth of July ice quarter of an inch thick formed In New England. Canada, and some sec tions of New York and Pennsylvania. August was even worse. In many places that month ice reached g. thick ness of half an inch. The first two weeks of September brought some thing resembling Summer weather, but 1t did not last long. The last two weeks of September and nearly all of October were wintry and cold, but the year was brought to a close by re- markedly mild December weather.
 That the earth or the sun were cool ing off were the favorfte explanations to account for that Summarizes year. This theory was all the more firmly held because the phenomenon seemed to be general, and extended to Europe as well as America. Snow fell near London in August, and in France all the crops, except potatoes. were de- stroyed by the cold. Tn America the crops were also very scant, and fam inc was escaped by only narrow margin.
 Bernard College, the feminine an nex of Columbia University, will hold it's commencement exercises to-day, as the first of the great American in stitutions for the higher education of girls to turn out its 1913 crop of sweet girl graduates. Bryn Mawr will be the next to hold graduating exercises. and, before the close of June, some 1,5OO young women will have received degrees from the various colleges, in- cluding, besides Barnard and Bryn Mawr. Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Rad c1iffe, Mount Holyolxe and the Balti- more Women's College.
 Whether it is better for girls to be educated in institutions such as these, rather than at co-educational colleges and universities, has long been a sub ject of earnest and at times heated discussion. Certainly the young la dies of these colleges have developed into weIl-de1ned type, differing somewhat from each other, but widely from the coed type. As a general rule it may be said that the student of the college for women is more sen timenta1 than the practical co-ed, whose competition with men develops a spirit of good-natured tolerance. The boasted intellectual superiority Of the male cannot long be maintained in open competition with the female mind. '+Co-education is a failure" Is a headline that often greets the eye and it is quite that, from a masculine viewpoint. The mere male may thank his lucky stars that there are still col Ieges for young women, before whose students he may swagger and strut and keep up his empty pretense of su- perior mentality.
 The first '-family'' or s-temperance'' hotel in London, the forerunner of tens of thousands of such hoste1ries in all parts of the world, was opened in Covent Garden 139 years ago to- day. An inn for the more or less permanent accomm odation of families and minus bar, was an undreamed d of thing, and other hotel-keepers laughed the project to scorn. Des- pite their derision, the scheme was successful. and made a snug fortune for it's founder, David Low. Lon- don now has hundreds of family and temperance hotels. The edihce in which Low started his hotel is still standing, and is now used for the box ing matches of the famous National Sporting Club. The Building was erected early in the seventeenth cen tury, and was originally the home of Sir Kenelm Digby. Cromwell's coun- ci1 held sessions in the building, it is said, and it was the scene of many other noteworthy before 1t was con- verted into a hoste1ry.