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