The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 17, 1890, Page 2

A FAIR PHILANTHROPIST. Who Worked in tories Beatrice Potter is at present one of the most famous and talked-of women in England. She is superbly handsome, tall and vigorous, of a decided Spanish type, with brilliant olive skin, big brown eyes, blue-black bair, and wonderful fearlet lips that give color to the patior of her cha g face. Mis ter is of aristocratic connection owns a large fortune in ber own right, hut itis neither her beauty, birth, nor wealth that entitles her to the distinc- tion she enjoys just now. For several years past she has been a devoted pupil and disciple of the great sociologist, Uerbert Spencer. Studying his methods, imbibing his doctrines, and striving to put into pract some of the theories preached. she soon found herself cut adrift from conventionalities and pre- pared to go ont in the world to serv her fellow-creatures. Then did she un- dertake her recent startling feat, the success of which has put her name in very one’s mouth. Having read and all manner of grewsome stories horrors endured by women in 4’ shops, she dressed herself in of the sweate: j ages varying from ten totwelve. ~ CHILD-WIVES IN INDIA. — A Native Reformer's Able Attacks on the Land’s Great Evil. The name of Bi Mala ser to be kne resp nd as that of a native Indian who is doing g work in social reforma- fe is one of the ablest and at the ate assailants of of a pamp ites English women ran the meaning of ag “baby wife,” “girl mothe ‘virgin widow.” explained p other day, if a Lecomes a dow,” even while she is still an infant, a | widow she must remain all Ler days. The wives are most itl-fated of child- of course, tho tnese wives Lo nerely of twelve and thirteen,” w Malabari, “have to bear the burde ¢ ac and he adds tha of martyrs suc- camb to the shock This f birth.” practice hideous explains rty and the this most, if not al the po the odious rags won by that class, misery—the physical and moral deg- vent down into the city, found | radation—to be seen in hundreds of work, and for two months lived tousands of native Indian families and labore side ? by side with | one of the worst forms of girl-marriage those miserable white slaves of the! i, :nown as “marrying the girls to the needle. Few knew her secret, and so | ‘ ; cleverly were her plans carried out that neither employers noremployesever sus- | pected her identity. When Miss Potter iad thoroughly informed herself on all | minutiw relating to the criminal tyranny | exercised by the sweaters, and on the | hideous lives led by their female vic- | tims, she threw off her disguise, re-| turned to the West End of town, gave | exhaustive newspaper interviews, and | appealed for legislative interference. | So strong and unanswerable were her | arguments, seconded by her own experi- ence, that Parliament is at present dis- cussing ways and means for righting this great wrong. Miss Potter is as un- compromising a Socialist as is compati- ble with her broad intellect and warm j sympathies. Although not of them by birth or condition, her heart is with the people. She has been deeply touched by the manifold miseries of the London poor, and is ready to devote her ardent young life, with all its possibilities of selfish pleasure, to alleviating the wretchedness of the pauper population. {n allof these signs of the times onc! seems to see the slow but sure prepara- tion women are making to fit themselves for self-government. Every day chron- icles the story of some woman who, find- ing her life untrammeled by the more secred duties of home, has slipped be- | yond the bounds of narrow conservatism to lend a hand in raising the falien or strengthening feeble knees. Illustrated | American. ENGLAND'S ROYAL WOMEN. Their Kepatation for Good Looks Is Said to He Undeserved. What a ficgion it is to talk about the beauty of any member of the English | royal family. There could not be more commonplace lot of women. The Princess of Wales is slender almost to emaciation; her eyes would be dull, but for the make-up which surrounds them; her cheeks are rouged and a wig always | covers her head, which, [ ain given to understand, is completely bald. She! has little if any bust, she limps as she walks, and she is almost stone deaf; so, one way and another, it is ra‘her sick- ening to read the mass of gush that is to be read daily in the British news- papers about this beauty, ete., of Eng- land's future Queen. She is, no doubt, an accomplished, amiable, solutely commonplace and altogether | uninteresting person. All three of the Princesses of Wales have indifferent teeth and complexions and wretched figures. Noboay would look at them twice but for their exaited position. The daughters of the Princess Christian are equally plain looking, and | there is no promise of beauty in the young daughters of the Duchess of j knee; Virtuous ' struggle to escape. woman, but in appearance she is an ab-! self up with a sensuous pur gods, which practicaily means slavery j of body and soul to priests, great num- bers of whom live upon the immorali- of their gi This dreadful custom of child-marr : is one which the Legislature that had the courage to jabolish suttee has been afraid to med- dle with. It was universal. To uproot it would have seemed like uprooting native society. Sut the custom is doomed, neverthe- And its extinction will come about in a way not the least flattering to the rule of the English demnation of child marriage is coming from the people themselves. Its dis- appearance will not be the work of a day, but when it does come it will be a splendid tribute to the benign civilizing influence of England inthe Bast. Mr. Malabari's owncountrymen, the Parsees of Bombay. have for years been labor- less. ing in the good cause with a zeal and intelligence which it would be difficult to overpraise. We have already described how the native barbers of Bombay have pronounced jagainst the cruel custom. The edu- cated and intelligent natives of Madras are petitioning for fixing the minimum age of girl marriages at fourteen years. Mr. Malabari’s own proposals as tolimit of ago, right to remarry,etc., are detailed in the pamphlet to which we had re- ferred. Nor should it be forgotten that some of the native chiefs are not only theoretically in favor of reform, but have introduced it of their own free will and without any recommendation from the supreme government The | intervention of thesupreme government has been chiefly confined to collecting evidence on the question throughout the length and breadth of India and to the distribution of papers to the local j administrations. —London News FELINE FLIRTATION. Cats Like to be Petted Even If They Act uw Little Shy We seé acat come stealthily rubbing up against a chair leg. the head in- clined coquettishly over one shoulder, regarding us with a furtively, coaxing smile. With a flirt like that, whether maid or matron, there is no occasion for ceremony. You snatch her up on your she pretends to be offended and to But begin tickling the fur that lies just be hind the car, and thenceforth it is | | plain = saili It is very = dif- ferent with a corpulent and sturdy ‘I who, though he may have luxuriated in comfortable quarters all his life, has, nevertheless, bad his sad experiences and seen some- thing of the worst side of human nature. Mischievous boys have heaved Edinburgh. As for Princess May, of | ‘Teck, who has so often been described | as a beauty, all she can claim to possess is a passable figure and good eyes. | face, however, is spoiled by the way in | which her upper lip protrudes, and by a | nose which suggests an Hebraic strain ! somewhere or other in the family. j Of the many vaunted beauties of Lon- | don society only the Duchess of Leinster | would perhaps pass as a lovely woman | all over the earth. Lady Londonderry also comes under that head, and so does | Miss Wolseley, the young daughter of | tieneral Wolseley, who made her debut this year. Lady Dudley is now com-! ‘pletely passee and is as much made up | as an opera bouffe prima donna. All the Duchesses are plain-looking women; | even the two American Duchesses, Marlborough and Manchester, are too! far behind their youth to claim affilia- tion with Venus. | Tho Duchess of Portland looks like a well-fed dairy maid, and the Duchess of | Newcastle bears a marked resemblance toa younger edition of Mrs. Cleveland. ‘The Dowager Duchess of Montrose is a sight for the gods, witn her flaxen wig and canary-colored garments, not to mention her enormous proportions She vertainly would not be permitted to enter a fashionable New York hotel until her rank bad been explained. The Duchesses of Rutland, Leeds, Cleveland and Richmond are old women, while the Duchesses of Abercorn, Ham- ilton, Argyil and Westminster are abso- lutely plain and undistinguished. — Phil- adelphia Times. Madn't Any of the Symptoms, Fair Entertainer (to young operator) —What side of the market—is that the way to put it?-are you on this week, Mr. Brokaw? Young Operator (at the other end of the sofa)—I am what they call a ‘bear, Miss Kajones. Fair Entertainer—Indeed! You don’t act the least bitin the world a bear, Mr. Brokaw.—Chicago you ke Tourist (in Oklahoma)—“Do you ta hard matter to make collections Collector—“‘Nope! You see, knows I can hit the bull's- hots out o° ten.”’—Puck. Her | j, half bricks at him, ill-bred and un- hetic servants have manners, expeling y from the lower regions and sometimes punching head. Even his master, who is the reverse of a puss- owania may never have appreciated him aceording to his merits. No won- der that a cat of that stamp should be slightly misanthropic and suspicious. Naturally he mistrusts a stranger's ad- vances, but, nevertheless, there is some- thing in your voice which sends a quiv- er through his ears and mzekes him visibly relax the rigidity of his tail. You and he might pass for a couple of Free Masons meeting in a foreign country and exchanging the first of the mystical signs. The chances him with his are he may sidle up toward you when | you show an unmistakable desire to con- verse; but possibly he may stand on his | dignity, being a self-respecting animal, and force you to dive after him under the tables. ing you, or he would have made a bolt of it to some impracticable vantage ground long before; and, once in your hands, he resigns himself voluptu- ously to caressing, sheathing the formi- dable claws that might strike terror into a bull-dog. It may be said that there is nothing surprising ina petted and decently-educated cat behaving civilly to any | roof, though civility is one thing and familiarity at first sightis another.— | Saturday Review. —"Bridget,” asked my wife, some days after her advent, “do you know how to stone cherries?” The cook re- luctantly confessed herself a ‘‘metag- nostic,” which, according to the new coinage of the Brooklyn Ethical Asso- ciation, signifies one who has encount- ered something beyond her knowledge. “It is very simple,” said my wife. “Press the cherry so. and out comes the stone. My wife thoughtlessly put the cherry into her mouth and left the kitchen. When Bridget’s work was in-| crowds. spected a dish of stones was all that re- mained of the luscious fruit, our treas- ure having faithfully followed the ex- , ample set her and industriously eaten | out the originator of all the cherries. The con- | resented his | He has no thought of elud- | SCHOOL AND CHURCH. —Universities are the natural tellectual en- movements. —Car has won the cngian phia Roma, Italian language —Over 4,000 children were refused ad? mission ublic schools of Phila- the lack of aceom- ober of Congregational in En- is 4.585, which provide ission = stations giand and Wa | over 1,600,000 s > Christ Diseip n3 anda mem- bership of ' of the denc | 050. —The h strongly advocat Un ceive them £ women is ia. The ersity of Melbourne not only re- female students, but to the same leges admits as the males, among whici he > schol- arships Nise The debt of e Britiso Baptist | Missionary Socic which a short time | ago amounted has been re- duced to £2¢ suggested that the approaching centenary of the society should be celebrated by raising £100,000 to be emp!oyed in foreign mission work. | —There > children in the |municipal or a 1001s of Paris; 61,294 in schools directed by religious orders; and 55,000 in tree lay schools where relizious instruction is given. It is also stated that attendance at municipal schools has increased by cnly about 700 in the t three years. The j annual expenditures for the municipal schools is 26,500,000 francs. —The dean of Christ Chureh, Oxford, lately talked very bluntly to some of the young aristocrats who are among the students and have been going a fast pace. The following is a specimen of jhis remarks: “You consider that be- cause you are the sons of nobility you are entitled to extravagant liberty, to be distended to vulgar license. You are laboring under a delusion from which you may have avery rude awakening. This college is not intended for such well-Lorn dunces as you.” —The statistical exhibit, justissued,of the Evangelical Association (a German Methodistic church)shows that there are now 2,043 churches valued at $5, 047,853; 148,505 members, and 1,2 itinerant preachers. As an indication of the ef- fect of the troubles the denomination has been afflicted with the past year, there is a decrease of nearly 4,000 in the number returned as newly converted, and of 1,861 in the number returned as newly received. There is also a de- crease of nearly 55,000 in the collection for the Missionary Society and a small falling off in the other collections. —Zeal alone is not enough to equipa minister for either the home or foreign field. Some have hesitated about theo- logic: education les: the zeal should jnot survive the school term. ‘Time has shown that our best and most zealous men come from the schools. A call to preach in almost all cases means a call to prepare to preach. A call to mission- ary work should be interpreted in the same way. Some very successful mis- sionaries came out of our theological jSeminaries, and it ought to be undar- stood that all future recruits should be joutfitted intellectually as well as spirit- | ually. —Northweste Adyo- rate. { tn Christian she curls her- | hen you | HIS HONOR'S EDICT. it Denounces a Hawthorn Grove of Be- j witching Crops and People. | Rural and even suburban mayors in ntly responsible for able edicts. A local | France are freque jthe issue of remark jmagnate in a commune of the Depart- ; ment of the Seine et Oise, however, has distanced the admin-strative feats of a | serio-comic order which have been ac- |complished by any of his colleagues of =e years. It appears that a wealthy Parisian has a splendid grove, in which red haw- |thorn predominates. on his property in |the district ruled over by the mayor in { question. | ‘For a long time the shrub has been | {famous in all the country round, and jits owner was excessively proud of it. } Lately, however, he received a long jletter from the worthy official of the locality setting forth that the lovely jhawthorn exercised a baleful effect on jthe crops of all the farmers within ten jmiles of it. Nothing bas prospered in |its vicinity, and the mayor also feared jthat the peopl | were bewitched | soms. Accordingly he and his municipal council, in full meeting assembled, had determined to call upon the owners of ithe hawthorn to pull it up, root and branch, otherwise the local custodian of public order, or rural Dogberry, would be turned loose, and the baleful grove \would disappear promptly. 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