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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1893)
HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN, Whnt tli Wtmltli ul ft I'.iiiiHylvnuIn Mil llnimlr. In llolng to Advance It. The oiwumg of the Drsxel institute in PhilacloipliiH mnrkt Knottier furw'd tp lu Hie enluiguil provision for the erinuHtion of women. The institution is mdi'iHi (leu;ued for the tmiinng of both yonng men and worrion, but itH advau tatces are wiaully uvuiluble to either sex, .and the botieflueut purjmie of the found er. u we happen to know, hi hiul espe cially in uiiuii, the enlargnmeut of the opportiinltieK for wonwn m the direc tion partiuulM'ly of manual and kindred training It wan a gnusiniui pal-pone, and what tMH nuen nobly planned haR been nobly tiilllt No etrncture for a kindred ue, ao complete and atately, exixte today in thin uouiitry A viwt expenditure of money hiw been attended with excellent taste ami marvelous tlionmghni'wof de tail. If elegant and cioHtly enrroundingii are theiimelvee an education and in one eenee undoubtedly tbey are then theme who are to be pupils within the walls of the Urexel institute will have a daily stimulus to do worthy work in a worthy way The range of teaching runs all the way from oookiug to bookkeeping and steuogruphy, and includes some elevou departments more or less kindred to these. Any oue who knows what Amer ican cooking at its average point is will invoke a blessing on this newumiter of "sweetness and light' and any busi ness man who has striven to master the intricacy of feminine accounts, as kept by the "girl of the period," will be glad to learu that the sex is to learn at I" ist that a clieukhuok full of blank checks does not mean an account with an in definite balance to the credit. But wheu this is said, it is well to reuognme that the education of women, in its highest sense, calls for something more than the enlargement of opportunities for teohni cal training. It is undoubtedly true that the de mand in this country is more and more for that kind of education which can be convened quickest to some wage earn ing purpose, and m the case of women this is especially the case, but what a people want la, after all, a very imper fect measure of what they need, and ad xuirable as IB every provision which be nehcenue may make for the trainuig of women In bread earning handicraft, it la not. and cannot be, her highest train ing Whother for better or worse, we have emancipated her from the old limita tions which so largely shot her away from direct contact with what, for want of a butter purine, 1 may call outdoor life. She has been bidden to stand upon her own feet, to earn her own bread, to live her own life, if no man asks ber to come and be the center of bis home and share his life with him. If already everywhere the ballot has not been put in ber hand, in mauy places it has been or soon will be She is in directories, on school boards, charitable commissions, in editorial chairs, inspects almshouses aud iusane asylums, aud, in a word, is or is likely to be bidden to a great many tasks in which it will not in the smallest degree help her that she can handle a telegraph key or play on a typewriter. For tasks nob as 1 have indicated, women want extra scientific knowledge of the highest character, a training in the habit of thinking accurately aud reasoning log ically, and a discipline of those noblest powers of the mind which, it cannot be denied, ages of domestic subordination have done little to awaken or develop. It may be urged, indeed, that a wom an's intuitions are usually bettor and sorer than a man's most labored conclu sions, and there is truth in such a plea. Jfcrt the subject of intuitions is. unless some other powers are developed, not unlikely to be also the subject of emo tions which, for the time being, dismiss mere intentions wholly out of the hori zon. If women are given the ballot we are told tbat they will use it quite as often as a weapon to express their un reasoning dislikes as they will to enforce their better convictions: und the charge is, or easily may be, true, until a woman has learned enough political and social economy to realize that her ballot is a weapon with which to guard both the sanctities of the state and the noarcn- stone, rather than a cowhide with which to chastise an unpopular candidate. Henry 0. Potter in Now Vork Post. Wraps aud guudrlut. The slonder. graceful effects in dress now considered most elegant require the rich, handsome materials which import ers of French goods have brought over, The new silks are not only brocades, but brocades scattered with nguros in shot effects, in the same way that the plain satins aud plain silks have been figured in color during the summer. Though these Pompadour silks are no longer dis tinctively new. yet the new patterns ui- far so greatly by being brought out on a brocaded ground that they promise to save a new lease of popularity. The regular Jacqnard brocade in the new and the Jacquurd brocades figured with overshot ttguros in color, will be popular for house drosses to be worn at parties and on high dinner occasions. The prin cess effect is given to all t linse gowns, which are made up with a ,-nmbination and trimming of black tni- rr dark vel vet, though as a rnlevelv-t is not so amen used in combination with silk this season as it is with cloth. A new overdress similar to the straight Directotre poAiauw of years ago is made np to wear with bell skirts, and in such itbia straight oversktrt is or airrer material from the underskirt. Prin- drum, made np with spreading bias back senilis below the waist line, to as to give the effect of a bell skirt at the back, are much more desirable for wom en who are of medium height than the bell skirt with a second overdress. The use of two skirts in the present style of dress requires considerable height and elegance of carriage, and smaller women are advised to adhere to the simplest style, Helena Kowe in Good House keeping. Frorlu from Charity Entertainments. There was a time in the history of Iharity entertainments when the charity rnd of them did not get much, but time and cqmrience have taught the good women how to oouduct these affairs so as to make them pay handsomely. A facetious critic says. "The ladies who manage church fairs usually manage to buy low and sell high. Now the ladies do a great deal better than this, for they don't buy at all; they simply ask for ev erything they want for their fair or en tertainment, and nine times out of ton they get the things they ask for. No wonder the charitable institutions bere- aliout are in such a flourishing condi tiou. Last spring the lady managers of the Consumptives home paid the $3,000 mortgage with the money they made at the series of entertainments in the Pouch mansiou. The "Venetian'1 ball, recently held in the Academy of Music for the benefit of the Homeopathic hospital. netted the snug sum of $7,001). The "Evuuing of Mnsic" in the Hotel St, George, a few nights ago, cleared over ITSJV for the Working Girls' home, for whose benefit the musicale was held. By all means, let the good work go on. Brooklyu Standard-Union. A RnaceNSful Womau Hculptor. Alice Hideout, a young San Francisco girl of eighteen, has received the first prize lu the contest of woman sculptors for designing the statuary that is to or nament the Woman's bnildiug at the World's fair When, three months ago. the women sculptors were informed that they might prepare designs for theoou- teat, nearly a dozen responded, and vari ous specimens of designs were sent in, but none satisfied the committee of ex pert except those of the slight, pretty Califoruian, who ouirht to be very prond of bersetf, because when Mrs. Palmer in sisted that tins work should be sub mitted to wouieu, every one smiled at the suggestion. The pnze is not an empty honor, for Miss Hideout gets the contract for ex ecuting the full sized models, and will be paid about ifN.UOU. The groups when finished will be ten feet high, some of them forty feet long, and they will dec orate the attic cornice. Woman is the theme of each design. The Woman' building designed by Sophia G. Uadeu. of Boston, is nearer completion than any other on the lair grounds, and was under root lung before any of the others were commenced. Chicago Letter. Two lutereattng Pluouslilons. Upon the table presided over by the pretty 'university girls at the woman suffrage bazaar in Horticultural ball are two pincushions which every woman will want to see and examine, and one of which, a little square of dark brown velvet trimmed with black lace, she will touch very tenderly, for the little old cushion was Margaret Fuller's, and used by her until she went abroad to become the Countess d'Ussoli aud to meet ber unhappy fate. Miss Anne Whitney gave the long time cherished little cushion to the fair. The other cushion is a carious example of the old fashioned "cross stitch one aide, with a time tiuted satin cover on the other. It was bought forty-six years ago at the great fair which the women held to raise the funds to com plete the Buuker Hill monument, all but the top, which was danced on by Fanny Elssler. It is tiled with pins not re moved since that fair. Boston Herald. A Reaction Agaluit the Tall Girl. A Twenty-third street dealer in wom en's shoes has felt the influence of the tall girl "We have customers now whom we cater with low heels," he said. "The tall girl differs from a man in not being proud of her height She knows a little girl is more likely to be esteemed affoctiouate and loving by the men than is a tall gut So she tries to get down to the loviug level. Then, again, they know that the httle girls have more chance of securing beaux, for the tall girl must restrict her hopes to the aver age sized or tall men. Short men do not like to go out with girls several Inches taller, and so fall back on the petite. So, where men are having their heels made extra high, girls and women are having theirs lowered. What is true of all girl's shoes is equally true in regard to their hats. They are lowering them, too, and the flat hat is as sure to come in again as it is that the tall girl is here today, "New York Sun, $h0 speaker's Mister. Comparatively few are aware that Mrs. Ada Crop Marsh, the recording secretary of the Woman's Press club and the wife of a well known theatrical mau, is a sister of Speaker Charles C Crisp. Her friends have been keeping her busy lately receiving their congratu lations since the result of the contest at Washington. She Is a bright little woman, full of good nature and devoted the welfare of the Woman s Press club She does considerable wntuig for the Sunday newspapers, but is exceed- igly modest about her work and anom- inates sensationalism. She does not care much for society, and in that respect re sembles Speaker Crisp's wife. Mrs. Marsh iB usually present, however, at the meetings of the Goethe society, the Nineteenth Century club and in other intellectual gatherings. She lives in ex cellent style on Lexington avenue New Vork Advertiser. Why Will Not Women Reb.1T The miseries of the sweeping skirts have never hoen more fully demonstrated than dnnng the last fortnight of crowd ed and dusty thoroughfares. The amount of pavement dirt every woman wno wears them takes borne with her daily very perceptible. Women with maids tnrn their tflothing over to them and get speedily into fresh garments. Stockings and underwear are so loaded with duBt that they are unlit to wear a second time without renovating. The women without maids spend an hour brushing and shaking to restore a degree of clean liness. The bell skirts act like sweepers to gather but not hold the dirt It is common to see women stop in vestibules and vigorously shake their skirts, leav ing a cloud of dust in their woke, it is ixpensive, untidy, unwholesome and lots of other disagreeable things, but we all do it Her Point of View in New York Times. No Danger in Good Paoe Soap. A curious prejudice that some people have against soup as an application for the face; this is a great fallacy. Good soap is a great beautitier, and a great preventive of the uncomely looking blackheads which are such a disfig urement and are so hard to get rid of. The real cause of these unpleasant little specks is not as a rule anything more serious than this: Some people have much larger skin pores than others, and the dust collects, settles and hnally forms a hard, black little substance which probably would never have had a chance of developing if the skin was thoroughly washed with soap twice a day and rubbed vigorously with a coarse towel. Do uot be afraid of a red nose; the redness will soon fade quickly away and leave no trace. New l ork Tribune. Berolmn of Indian Women Con.lcU. A signal act of woman's heroism is re corded in connection with the loss of the Indian government marine steamer Enterprise during the terrihe cyclone that recently swept over the Indian seas the neighborhood of the Adaman islands. There is a penal settlement for India on these islands, and a band of women convicts, opposite whose prison the wreck occurred, rushed of their own accord into the storm tossed water, formed a chain by joining hands and tried to assist the shipwrecked crew, numbering eighty-three persons. Six lives were thus saved by these heroic Indian women, but the other seventy- seven mem tiers of the crew were drowned. Loudon Tit-Bits. Bishop Potior to the Utlca OlrU. Bishop Potter, in bis address to the Girls' Friendly club of Utica, said: "1 realize how different the present condi tions are from those that prevailed when 1 was a boy, Then there were only two kinds of employment for girls besides housework teaching and sewing. Prob ably there are in this city a hundred kinds of work for women, ibey are doing the things men used to do aud do ing them better. But tbey need not in consequence have the manners of men. talk as men talk, use slang and ciga rettes or dress after the fashion of men." A Womau Anioug Les? Kate Marsden, writing from Irkutsk, in Siberia, says that she has ridden 2.000 miles on horseback beyond Yakootsk among the poor outcast lepers, who are hunted iu the depths of the forest She has supplied them with food and warm clothing for winter, and is raising funds to build them a hospital. She intends visiting other leper regions in Bokhara, then crossing the Caucasus mountains to Moscow and St Petersburg to plead the cause of the lepers and prisoners be fore the empress. Married aud Cuuiari'ied. According to Miss CoLlett, while we find 98 per cent, of the women of White- chapel under forty-five are married, we find that only 88 per cent, or women at the same age are married in Hampstead. There are in Whitechapel only thirty fire unmarried women to every hundred unmarried men. In Kensington there are 878 unmarried women to every hun dred unmarried men. Loudon Tit-Bits. A Sareeu That May Be Popular. Housewives will hail a recent inven tion in rurmshing which is intended to take the place of cumbersome window screens. This invention is a window screen which rolls up and down like an ordinary window shade, and, it is said, offers complete protection from flies and mosquitoes, as it screens the whole window. Jfixchange. HELPMATES. Ssys the Land: "O nlator Sea. Haflflt thou not borne tho voyaueffl to rae. Vain wore their visions grand, And I. e'en now, perchance, a stranger iano. So thine the glorj bo!" Bays tho Sea: "Nay, flrothor Land: Madnt thou not outward Btretched tho saving hand. My bosom now had kept Tho secret whero the souls heroic slept. Tl in thy strength tbey standi" John B. Tabb in Youth's Companion. Do Horses Ever CryT Did you ever see a horse cry? Many peo ple believe that horses do not weep, but those who have had much to do with these faithful creatures know that on several oc casions they will shed tears, as well as ex press sorrow in the most heartbreaking manner. In the west, where the hardiness of the ponies oausea the riders to almost overlook the necessity of providing fortheir needs, it is quite common when the weather is extremely cold to leave an nnblanketed pony tied up for two or three hours when the temneruture Is nearly zero and while its owner is transacting business. In this case the suffering is evidenced by the cries, which are almost like sobs, and unmistak able tears freeze onto the cheeks like icicles. When a horse falls in the street and gets injured, the shock generally numbs its senses so much that it does not either cry or groan, but under some conditions an in jured horse will solicit sympathy in the most distinct manner. I remember a favor ite horse of my own which trod on a nail long enough to pierce its foot. The poor thine hobbled up to me on three legs and cried as nearly like a child in trouble as anything I can describe. The sight was a very touching one, as was also the crippled animal's gratitude when the nail waspullcd out and tue wound dressed. &t. Irfmls Globe-Democrat. Wherela Men and Women Differ. Some cynic has said that a man talks to show how much he knows, but a woman delights in telling what she doesn t know. However that may be, there is certainly a different character to the personal confi dence of men and women. The outward current of a woman's life will often flow as Bmoothly over dead and buried hopes as a river ripples over a drowned body. She will volubly relate her small trials and triumphs, but the deep ex periences of her heart are seldom bruited abroad. But let a man meet a disappoint ment in love, for instance, and he becomes first moody and morose, then he takes to inflicting his woes upon his friends, who often find it difficult to know how to con sole him, not to mention a brutal lack of interest in griefs of any but of the briefest narration. On the whole, perhaps the woman's way is more agreeable, since her hearers are not put to such severe tests of friendship. Philadelphia Times. Dangers of Compulsory Arbitration. Competition may be killed by compulsory arbitration or it may be carried to the most harmless extent and through the honest efforts of a jury to decide what skilled ex perts are not able to decide. The objectors to compulsory arbitration have sometimes said that it would result in slavery for the workingman. The advocates make light of this. But really and seriously, is it not slavery wheu a man who wants 82 per day for his labor can be compelled at the point of the bayonet to work for $1.80 per day? There would be no fear it seems to me of capital going out of the state or out of the country under the regime of compulsory arbitration m industrial affairs, for it would gladly seize upon the results of such a regime to compel a rise in prices to se cure a combination which the law insisted upon. Carroll D. Wright iu Forum. The Diamond Market of the Future. 'Chicago," says a diamond expert, -'is soon to be the greatest diamond market in the world, because Chicago is today the larKcst retail market, and wholesale deal ers must follow the set of the current. Nearly 1,000,000 worth of diamonds were sold iu that city last year. It. is a saying In Europe that a lady without a title does not wear them, but here everybody wears them. They do not indicate great wealt h merely taste for t hat kind of jewelry. Before the Prussian siege Paris was the center of the trade. J ust now London is. The best dia monds sold are from broken sets in Europe, from Brazil aud a few selected stones from Africa." Philadelphia Ledger. Kccentrle File. "There is at the executive mansion a ho called 'eccentric file,' ou which all letters from palpable cranks are put. Most of these contain threats aud warnings. This file has beeu kept ever since the episode of Guiteait, who wrote mauy such notes be fore he shot President tiarneld. An en tirely sane oihee seeker the other day sent a lock of his own nery red hair with nts ap plication for the place, saying that he un derstood tbat character could 1 divined by a person's capillary traits." Boston 'Iran script. A Uewark For Denver People, The following will be appreciated by Den ver people who are familiar with the white conical shaped ash receptacles the city law compels them to have: Five-year-old Henry brought home from Sunday scdool the les son paper, on which was depicted Job of fering up a sacrifice. His mother asked him what the picture was. un, notmng," was the prompt reply, "but Job standiug by his ash pit." .New lorit Tribune. A Natural Query. Freddie Ma, didn't the missionary Bay that the savages didn't wear any clothes? Mother Yes, my boy. "Then why did pa put a button in the missionary box?" Life, A Well Known Artist. Stranger (addressing an old bricklayer) Uncle, who's building this house? "Mr. Hirschbug he build de house, but Queen Anne she drawed de plan." Re formed Messenger. It Scattered Them. Cholly Fweddy, we can't get through this crowd. Fweddy Wait a minute, Cholly. 'Here comes a lady with a parasol. We will fol low her. -Truth. A Striking Resemblance. He was the son of a worthy citizen and had just returned from college. His father was a brusquB, matter of fact man, who had no liking for anything pronounced, and he noticed with sorrow that his Bon re turned with the latest thing in collars and various other Insignia of dudedom. The old gentleman surveyed him critically when he appeared m his otuce and then hiurteu out, "Young man, you look like an idiot." Just at that moment, and before the young man had time to make a fitting re ply, a friend walked in. "Why, hello, liliiy, have you returneur he asked, "Dear me, how much you re semble your father!" So ho has been telling me," repnea Billy. And from that day to this the old gentle man has had no fault to find with his son. Brooklyn Life. And They Parted, He If the devotion of a lifetime ? SheSav 110 more. I kin never be yourn. I am a simple Duffy, an you are a De-Ho-venden. The world is censorious-an would say married above my station. Gol I kin respeck you as a brother; that is all! Life. His Wants Were Few. Tramp Please, mum, would ye be so kind as to let me have a needle and thread? Mrs. Suburb Well, y-e-s, I can let you r have that. "Thankee, mum. Now, you'd obliKe me very much if you'll let me have a bit of cloth for a patch-" "Well, here is some." "Thankee, mum, but it's a different color from my travelin suit. Perhaps, mum, you could spare me some of yourhusband's -old clothes that this patch will match." I "Well, I declare! I'll give you an old suit, however. Here it is." "Thankee, mum. I see it's a little large, mum, but if you'll kindly furnish me with a square meal mebbe I can All it out." New York Weekly. The Lfut Straw. "Orville." asked Mrs. Ardup, "are times so very tight?" "Awful, Rachel! Awful!" replied Mr. Ardup. "There's absolutely no money to ae had." "Then we'll economize," rejoined his lit tle wife cheerily. "You were about to go to the barber's. You needn't go. I'll cut your hair myself." And the wretched man went out and made an assignment. Chicago Tribuue. No Harm Done. "Mary Ann," said Mr. Quattle, "if you're determined to let Josie marry that long legged squirt of a Pete Lock well that comet here three or four times a week, by gum, I wash my hands of the whole business." "It won't hurt your hands any, George," was Mrs. Quattle's hearty rejoinder. Amusing Journal. A Stumper. "Yen." said Cawkerto his youngest, "the teacher was quite right in saying that heat expands and cold contracts. That's what makes the days so much longer in summer than winter." "Then, papa," was the next query, "what makes the nighto iu winter so long?" Truth. He Was Color Blind. Gush iugtou Did you give her tha poem yon wrote about herF Chum Yes, and she has never been at home to me since. "How was that?" "1 made a mistake iu the color of her eyes." Texas Sif tings. A Mean Han. "I hate hunting with Dawson, he's so parsimonious." "How so?" "He never shoots at a second bird until he has extracted all the Bhot from the first to use over again." Harper's Bazar. A Veaet. Wee MLss We couldn't eat all the cake you gave me for my garden party. Mother You said you had invited 10, Wee Miss Yes, but eight of sem were dolls. Good News. How He Uecame a Freemaaon. The goat, the oa,t, the bearded goat, Tho horned, the hoofed, the hairy goat; As I'm a slnnnr of some not e, Thia night J rode the Masonic goat He was a beast of wondrous Biee, With lengthened limbs and glassy eyes, , And beard that swept the carpet clear, And horns that touched the chandelier. Ye gods! If there's a time we feel Misgivings through our noddle steal, Tig when we through the mysteries float Upon the dark Freemasons' goat. Three times was I compelled to ride The beast around the temple wide, And when I tried the fearful mount My heart's pulsations all could count Twice did I make the circuit ffttr, With hold on horns, on tail and hair. Till on the third attempt and last When I presumed all danger past, lie pitched me clear oft horns and head And left me far below for dead. But when I rose with courage frail The goat had vanished, head and tail. And I was styled by one and all The liveliest Mason In the haU. Concha County Beraut waving anu osqer.jpxiuiebriuMuuaj
