Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1874, Page 10

10 g THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 18i4. THE WOMAN QUESTION. Females as Self-Supporiers and Self- Protectors. The Pros and Cons of Girls’ Education. Woman's “Excessive and Abnormal” Love of Approbation. Physical Forco and the “Subjec- tion of Women.” 4 Ry the Grace of the NMale Sex.”? &o the Rditor of The Chicago Tribune: Sir: In a recent coutribution to THE CHICAGO TrinoxE npon the question of Womau-Sufirage, there occors THIS REWAREABLE PABAGRAPI: As long 18 she [that is, woman] remsine » female,— that in, & teing Cectally qualifica by ture for the udtion of offspring,—the qulitics given ber for e performance of that function will continue to keep her the fuferior (n power) of man, and will conse- quently leave Ler dependent upan his good-will. And, even f the good-will of the malo sex should be so far ‘won by the coaxing and pleading whick are now being carried on, s to result in the granting of equal political and otber rights to tho female s2x, those rglhts will, notwithstanding and nevertheless, only bo held by snd Qaring the grace of the male sex,—tho latier huving the Power (de fucto). at any time, 1o declare null and Foid whatever may have been granted, and the female sex Deing utterly powerless to prevent avy repeal of its Fights. Aund so the question is settled. Bensiblo ‘omen will abandon all efforts to obtain the bal- Jot,—remembering that, if they sbould succeed in obtaining 1t to-day, and this generation of women ehould vote, sometime in the near or dis- tant future, when men shall choose, they, being physically stronger, can order evers mother's daughter of us to stay at home o election-day, and, by force of muscle, COMPEL OBEDIENCE. Truly, in view of such s contmngency, it is not really worth while to “agitate™ longer. For, think of the horrors of s contest between men and women, from which the weaker sex would {boleftin who ehall say what state of helplesa : subjugation. The condition of the male spider ! in vome of these familics of -which naturalisis * tell us, in which the fomale.—a much larger and stronger creature than the male,—when tired of the carceses of her lover, sometimes eata him ap, would be nothing to it. Why, men, if they so choose, can utterly de- stroy—anmwhilate—the whole of womankind, and ‘not leavo even 8o much as one Xantippe toscold & dreamy. philosophic busband into common gcnso in his housekeeping; and one Heloise tolove unselfisnly sn unworthy Abelard; one Sappho to charm with poesy and song ; or one Cornela o be the pmnf mother of fature heroes. Let ‘women think of this, and tremble lest they incur auy danger of losiug ** the good-will of man.” But upon what facts does the writer base his statement that the production of offspring, or rather such share in it as_weman has, in com- mon with all the mammaslian clasg, is, and must forever be, the source of inferiority and weak- noes, rendering ber at all times less capable_of self-support and self-protection than man. For 4L i5 not,yel proven that the feminine element, in organized life, is anynbers else au element’ of ‘weakuess as compared with the masculine ele- ment. In fact,all the evidence, as fast as it ac- cumulstes, I3 IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Close students of vegotable life disagree as yet upon this subject ; many facts at_first sup- sed to point one way are now clearly seen to Bgin: anotber. One student of maize,—our indisn corn—during the summer of 1873, gave, as tho' result of his investigations, the 1sct that more male bloseoms were found upon shat plant in its young and immature coundition than female ones. Any tyro in vegotable gar- doning knows that the first blossoms of many ~vines, 8s the squash or pumpkin, are what are opularly known as *false blossoms,” while ter on, in the fuller and bardier life of the plant, como the true blossoms, containing the germ, or female reproductive element, which corregponds to the ova of animal hife, and, when fertilized by potlen from the male blossom, de- velops into the frmt (tho squash or pumpkin) rontaining the sced of the new plaot. Some time 2go, the writer, Laving a heliotrops ‘Wiich had passed through the winter ins win- dovw-garden, noticed, among the wavy sterile branches,—eome of them 10 or 12 inches in length,—a small fresh ehoot, not more than 2 inches high, which seemed to push up with spe- ciel vigor, 28 if filled with some purpose other then mere eelf-existeuce. Pointing it out toa friend, Isaid, ** That eboot will probably blos- eom, it secms 0 full of superabundaut force.” The fiiend, a strong believer in the theory that masculinity is strength—was greatly eurprised, some weeks later, at the fulfillment of the {mphecy. when I showed that same shoot grown ) & full yard in height, with zcarcely a _curve in i1s majestic stalk, uniil near the summit it was crowned with 8 magnificent wealth. of Iragrant bloesoms. OF course, this case of the heliotrope eimply indicates that REPRODUCTIVE ENERGY AND GREAT VIGOR WERE COLSCIDERT. And this seems to be the ouly law yet fully dis- covered in plant and vegetable reproduction. Turning uow to the lower forms of animal life In which the sexes are distinct, wo find that in many, indeed among most insects, the female is actually larger and stronger than the male, and, when this is not the casc, it iv thought by pasu- Talists that the males have acquired their greater strevgth, not for self-support, but by fighting with each other. Ina large majority of fishes the samo thing is true. The queen-bee is larger than the workers (undeveloped females), or than the mules. Many mdependent investigators, practically engaged in silk-culture, are regarding Bex in the silk-worm as simply the result of an increase of vigor, from increase of nutrition at a certam stage of development of the creature. The grubs of certnin other moths, butterfiies, etc., it in claimed by experimenters, bave been developed at will into 1wale or female, by the food given them et a certain stage of their frapeition. It scems to bo well authenticated hat when, by any accident, the qucen-bee of » hive is killed or logt, a cell containing the em- bryo of & common working-beo is -enlarged by tearing awey the adjscent celis; the delicato larva at the bottein of ‘it is fed, and treated in a special mwanner by the whole hive, and, by these mosus developed into a queen-bee,—a creature mach larger than tho others; o that, in inscet, as well as in picot life, the fominine reproduc- tive element seeas to be the result of fuller witality in the earlier stages of the development of the orguuization, and the concomitant of GLEATER RATHER THAX LESS POWER in the indiviGual possessing it. Among the higher anmals, I believe there is 0o instunce anywhere of a species of reptile, fish, bird, or beast, in which the females are not elf-supporting ; they generally protect. them- Zelves 1u the vicissitudes of their lives, sa well their males ; and, in many instances, also rotect their young, not only from those general Vicissitudes, but from the hostile rage or seltish greed of the male sex,—an effort gometimes re- quiring unceasmg vigilance, much adroitness, and s far greater amount of power than mere pelf-support could do; as, for instance, in the rase of the catand domestic fowl. Of course. no arguments drawp from the habits of the domestic auimals csn have con- lusive weight, because of the modifying effects f tho protection of mau, It seoms, bowever, that there ars no fami- Yies of mammals below man, unless it be some of the monkey tnbes, in which the female is rided and protected by the male, either in ef- lorts for her own support, or in rearing her joung. Consequently, IT CANNOT DE SAID Ihat she owes her rights to tho *‘gracs of the male sex.” . Dr. Livingetone mentions an attsck upon & ;!m_wr by a lion aud = lioness in company ; but it is evident from the circumstances that it ru not a case of protection of the female by be male. Dr. Hayes savs that the{cmale walrus, rhulest play with her yonng, is often joined by ‘he male: but, if danger comes, he wiil leave Aer todefend herself and them,—he being much more excitable and less adroit in time of danger than eho. Thamale elephant xbares none of the Jparental care’ ~ud pleasures of the female, Ma'e h)x\gol\,::ml disport iu streams wich the Temales and their young, but do not feed or de- JFond enher. > The male tiger, wild bear, and wild bozr, roam their nstive wilds in sexrch of P16y, in lordlv freedom from family caras: sad as Wwe do not bear that hunters and animals dread the attacks of the tigress, tao she-bear, or the lioness, less than those of the males of those species, it is fair to conclude that those creatures do not hold their equal rights of self-support and sclf-pro- Section by * grace of tho male sex.” I8 undenabie that the process of reproduce tion is physiologically identical in all the specios of the grest ciass Mammalis, of which man is the head. And, if the feminme element is, in and of itself, and neceasarily, such an element of weakness in woman as to render her, when the race shall have attained its highest develop- ment, a weaker creatnre, incapable of self-sup- yport and eelf-protection, and so"fqre\'sr subject fo tho * grace of the male sex,” in & seuss in which man is not subject to her grace and favor, e A EXCEPTION TO THE GENEEAL LAW of the great class to which the human family be- longs. But, as all tho probuilities are greatly agangt such an exception, it would eeem to be well to examine the conditions and circum- atances of woman's life,—many of them, in the present development of the race, not necessanly ‘councoted with matcrnity,—and sca if among them may not be found other esplavations of the facts. I: is probably truo that woman now in adult life i weaker than map. It is possibly truo that in many races she is inferior to man in most of the elements of personal power. For this reason, it would probably be cruel to her and ruinons to humanity to suddenly throw upon ber an equal share of all the general bur- dena of hife, whila bearing her special onea. Dut it seems cortain that the great need of humanity is not £o much incrosse in numbers a8 INCREASE IN¥ THE CAPACITY AND POWER of its individuals. And, ss sll men are born of women, and from them inherit natures modified by their weakness and inferiority, it wnu.ld‘ueem to bo thopart of wiso manhcod to eay, “ "Tis true, and pity 'tis 'tia true, that our mothcrs were Icss thon our kires, and our wives aro fn- ferior to onrselves. Is there nothing we can do that our sons' sona may be better born 2" Believiog that the admiseion of women to the suffrage, and an intercst in the geperal work of Jegislution, together with sbsolute freedom of indiviaual choice in occupation, would tend to check the narrowness, iucapacity, and irresponsi- bility, which many couditions of thetr lives now unfortunatelv develop, intelligent woman-suf- fragists ask the ballot for woman, not only as a womaw's right, but as & right of bumanity itself. Aud for this they must ever toil and hgreL 5 Pros nnd Cons of Girls? Education. Tothe Editor of The Chicago Tridune: Sir: Said a bright girl, who, turning over the books in a library, chauced on Prof. Blackie's little volume,—a vade-mecum for students m universities,—* Self-Culture, Intellectual, Dhysical, Moral”: “I wish somebody would writs & book for school-girls, and tell in a few words s WHAT WE OTGHT TO DO TO CULTIVATE OURSELVES. It is 8o tiresome to wade throagh eo many dis- oussions, aud then, after all, ons doesn’s kuow what to do!"” The remark, delivered 2s it was with » sigh, and followed by the maiden’s choice of the last novel in preference to the students’ vade-mecum, or to any of the numerous books on education and sex at hand beside it, suggested some thoughts on the mental attitude of the girl of to-dsy, and the corresponding duties and difficulties of her direotora and educators. This smiling, sighing, aspiring, groveling, this earnest, hopeful, idealizivg, this disheart- enod, simless, reckless girl of the period,—the frauk, generous, confiding school-girl, with her grammars, and geometrics, and mystic-albums, her white muslin graduating-dresces, *‘Dia- mond-Dust" essays, and blue-ribboned diplo- mas; the society-spoiled, fashion-fettered, world-wearied bells of the season,—such as ghe is, such a8 society makes her, will remake so- ciety, and what she has recelved will give back a thousand-fold. It wonld seem, therefore, not unimportant— if correct theory be essevtiul to correct prac- tice—to formulate & creed, or at least to join alliance on some . DROAD BASIS OF FRINCIPLES suited $o'tho nineteenth century, concerning the girl's duty and destiny. ‘The probloms are not sach 28 to be shirked or dodged from assembly to synod, from synod to church, from church to individual, and again thrown back by individual on chureb, societs, fashion. Nor are they,to be mettled either by dogmatic ipsissima verba, Scriptures sacred or profane, or by alawless, defiant contempt for aud breaking away from the cumulative wisdom of the centuries 1n regard to the dittinctive functions and diverse duties of man and woman. The coraving of the girl's heart for ths knowl- edge of lawa which regulate and condition ber physical, intellectual, and moral well-being de- serves something "other than trite plautades on the domestic virtues; something other than the lippant. fliny snd sarcastic sneer at the *feminine miuvd;” something other, too, than the intemperate tirades and crude theories of reckless crusades aud woman's-right hobbyist. Every moderate- minded man and woman owes it to society to ome to & careful and candid consideration of the pros and cons of the question of WOMAN'S HIGUE® EDCCATION, and to set at work less to coustruct a thecry which may fit his or her preconceived notions, or advance personal, party, or sectarian inter- ests,—less tosearch for arguments to make brill- iaut his own victory in the war of opivions, and inglorious his opponent's defeats,—than 1o find some grpund of arbitrament, some basis on which fila combatants may unite in bebalf of the “party” whose interests are wt stake. The “jump” of the girl's logic to & conclusicn practically in favor of the novel-reading type of existence, though by no means a legitimats deduction from tho premises, in not to bo wondered o in view of {he chaptomi ¢chiefly clincal,” aud the hermaphroditic and other monstrosities, of Dr. Olarke's book illus- trative of the effects of study and eculiure, sup- plemented and emphasized as they are by her own observatious on the outre manners and ec- centricities of many learned women, and tho dread verdict of society against these eccentrici- ties whon unatoned for by the divine spark of genis. Especially is her timoroueness to try now waya excusable when the warninge to cau- tion, the perils of unadvised action, and the dis- couraging inferiorities and disabilities of her sex are urged and enforced by STCH NAMES AND SUCH AUTHORITY o8 the following : Colicge Courant: * Too much hes been done eiready in forcing girls throngh courses of hard ewudy, and any further steps in thac direction will necessitato hospitals and asylums alongeide <f colleges.” Dr. Maudsley, in the Popular Science Monthly for Juno: ‘1t will have to be considered whether women can Bcorn delights aud live Isborious days of lutellectual exercise and pro- duction, witliout injury to their functions as the conceivers, mothers, and nursas of children. It would be an ill thing if it shonid bappen that we got the advantages of s quantity of femsle intellectual work at the price of a puny, en- feobled, and sickly race.” ¥ The Rev. J. M. Cupes, in *“ The Liberal Education of Women ”: * Women start with cortain _ deficiencies which sre inherent, with few exceplions, in their nacuro, TMheir too greas defects are a want of imagination, s=od & disinclisation to extend their observation over & large rauge of facts before forming general conclusions. Women Lave always been studying works of art, aud music, and poetry, with xil the devotion of thoir natures ; but no great female artist, com- poser, or poet, has ever oxisted. The creative power ig feeble within them. They are com- pelled to turn to men for the excitement of their emotions.” _Herbert Spencer: ¢ Men care comparatively little for erudition in women, but very mnch for vhysical besuty. goodnature, and sound sensa. How many conquests does the blua-stocking make through her extcnsive knowledge of his- tory 2 What man ever fell in love with & woman becausa she understood Italian 2" YET, OX THE OTHER HAND, the momentary pang, the sigh intruding on the emiles, tho ideal vision of the yade mecum ard the university-culture bresking in on the' actual of the novel, the circulating-library, the crochet- ing, sud the shopping, canuot but come to the girl whom good or il-fortune has thrawn in the way of such siatements as the following : Fortnightly Review: *+ Abundant statistics prove tuet hard study is the discipline and tonic most girls need to subplant the too great senti- mentality and nscless day-dreams fostered by fashionaole idleness, and provocative of ner- vous melancholy and inanition ; and show, as far a8 statistics can, that the women-graduates of the colleges make as healthy and fianw wives and mothers as though theyv had never solved a muthematical problem nor trauslated Aristotle.” “President Fairchild, of Oberlin: A breaking down in health does pot appear to bs more fie- quent with the young women than among the voung meu. We Liave not observed s more fre- Qquent interruption of study on this account, nor do our statistics show a greater draft upon the vital forees in _the case of those who have com- pieted the full coiloge course. Of the male i;.'l'g\utes 1in12 hasdied; of the women, 1 in President Raymond, of Vassar College: “Hardly » field of scientific inquiry can be named, of historical resoareh, of speculative Pphilosophy, of linguistio sequisition and criti- ' wonderful persopal [ cinm, of iiterary production, which has not been illustrated by the uccess of at least one femalo cultivator, onough to demounstrate, with all the nigor of & true induction, that whatever incapac- ity there mey bo is not inberont in the sox.” ‘Roport of President White, of Comnell: “Tha best Greek scholar among tho 1,900 students of the University of Mickigan, a few years since ; the best mathematical scholar io one of the larg- est classes of that institution to-dey, and several among the highest in patural scicuce and in the general courses of study, are young women. The mos concise and vigorous rendericg of Tacitus was given by a young lady, and no better, work Wae iimmd anywhero than that of the women of Antioch College.” 3 4 President Fairchild on thogirl-graduate’s mar- riago-prospects : **To show that our system does not bewilder woman with vaiu_ambition, or tend to turn ber aside from the work which Gud bas impressed upon ber cotire constitution, I may stato that, of tho 84 ladies that Lave taken tho college-oourse, 27 only are unmarried. Ofthese, 4 died early : 28 have been out rix years.” Mrs. Edns Dean Cheney on Marringe : * If & girl has been taught that woman's sphere is mar- Tiage, and marnage alone ; that only by that moans can ghe hops for & life of Lappiuess, uso- fuiness, and respect,—sha wili prooably become & miserable, helpless, lonoly, irritable woman,— porbaps seeking marriage at any price to s cape from the condition she dreads ; or, fail- ing that, finding life_without purposo, occupa- tion, or delight. It is possible to remain unmasricd from low motives, shrinking from the duties and responsibilitior of the reiation, or from s worldly awbition for higher #tauion than love caun offer. Buch sin brings its own ternbie punishmeut. But far more often it is from 3 high 1deal of marriage, from true uobiity of character, or from a devotion to some other rels- tion which seemed paramount, that & womaun re- maius singlo.” Mary Somervill “Which prejudice exists aganst high intellect culture for our sex, from the mistaken idea it would render a wowman un- fit_for the dutics of a wife aud mother, Ican only say, from expericnce, that the higher Linnches of mathematical science, s weil a8 natural bistory, bave boen to me 2u inestunsble blus'ung throughout the whole course of wy life.”" When to thess conflicting and appareutly ir- recoucilable differcuces of opinicn regarding hor sbility to endare study, we add the disputed question of the kind of oulture suited to bher nature, embracing the PROS AND CONS OF CO-EDTCATION, wo shall sympathize with, if we do not share, the girl'a perplexity. * We all agree " saya the Rov. Dr, Todd of the sexes, ** that, in childhood, in the nursery, so long a8 they are under the mother'’s eye, thoy should be educated together; but the question is, when the days of tlirtation have arrived, when the thoughts of the young muturally and strong- Iy flow towards oue point, when the passions are strong and the will weak, and the judgment - experieuced, is 1t wise to bring the two »sexes together in college 7" ames Freeman Clarke says, speaking of Har- vard College : ** We have at piesout more than thousand young men studeuts in the different departments of the Umversity. If wo bada thonsand young women there too, they would in- crease the means of the Usiversity and its power of usefulness. All the serious objections to its workings are urged by those wio have had no personal experience of its working. For young mon and young women to sassuciste together openly in study and social life is likely to be bepeficial to both.” The Nation, on the contrary, has the follow- fog: “The boy poes from Lome, passes four yeurs in the comparative freedom of college-life, &nd lcaves the college-walls a man, Are wo pro- gured to have our girls do the same? Many s oy i8 wrecked in bis course, many & One stum- bles and recovers himeel! ; but a girl cannot re- trace a false step as her brother can. For her, once to full is ruin.” D. B, Hagar, s member of the Board of Edu- cation in Massachusotts, says: * During many ears in which I examined and watched, I never eard the firss complaint made of auy evil or injury arieing from the fact that grown-up and mairiageable young men and women were study- ing together at Bridgewater and Westfield." S‘nung. in Miss Brackett's book on the Educa~ tion of American Girls, that she rogretted Lav- ing Do testimony from the Northwostern Ui~ vernity of 1llinois, I paid a visit to the Dean of the Womau's College, Miss Frances Willard, to obtain the resuls of Ler experience in co-educa- tion at Evanston, Here, perbaps, 88 favorably 88 anywhere, 0 far as epecial provision for the gitla is comcerned, the experimeut ia Leing tried,—the TUniversity acting on thy theory advanced by the Premdent: **If & university would furnish to young women the esame advantages it offers to young men, 1t must provide for them both courses of study and weavy of accomplishments. It must place women amony the iustructors, to sympathiza with and couunsel the young women. It must also provide a convenient and economical home, where therr morals, health, aud monners will be coustautly under the special care of women." Misa Willard's testimony was IN FAYOR OF THE EXTERIMENT. Still she admitted tbere were the occasional “dirtations” which Dr, Todd fears, and also positive engagements of marringe. * But,” added she,—and the addition is signiticant as indicsling the seoret 'of her own ower and influence,— “the girls tell me all sbout it, and,1f their studies were interrupted, I sbould interpose with 1y advice. But which is the better place to form an attachment for life, and whers will young people know each other best,—at szhool, where they moet a dozen times a day, or in the excitement and glamour of fashionable party, or from waltziug a half-dozen times with each other?” 1T find also the same idea advanced by James Freeman Clarke: * Engagements might be formed. This is probable. But which are the most favorablo times for such engagements, —when young men and young women meet for geyoty, or when they meet for study?” Thus we have in volumes of controversy the pros and cous of the girl’s education, while she sighs for o vade-mecum. Is there, thérefore, no basis on which the dispntants might agree; no middle ground between the positions of the special pleaders,—the doctor, on the one hand, viewing his profession invaded by hosts of the oncoming woman ; and the teacher, hus college- gates crowded and his colloge-coffers swollen by the **long race of fnture daughters yet nnborn ;" no alternative between impugning Creative Wis~ dom in the proposition that the normal state of woman i8 sickness, and insulting the common sense of the community with tho proposition that, in her enfeebled condition, she is still the equal and superior of the male student i all contents of intellectual attainments ? Must we eithor relegate woman to the rank of Anna Dickinson’s trio, ** IDIOTS, PAUPERS, AND WOMA: or mounther oo a pedestal above principalities and powers, not to sty men and angels ? M ust we condemn ber to the “tincture of knowl- edga,” and * narrowing nunnery walls,” or thrust ber, - all undofended, into the semi-barbaric bordes that are the terror of university-towns? 1a 1t necessary, in short, to commit ourseives to a definite, and fixed, and cast-iron creed con- cerning ‘puintn which only experiment can set- tle, and for tho settlement of which the right couditions are not yet allowed, so much as to inquire what are the prime causca that interfers with the possibility of such experimeut ? First among the foes to claim united onset, and league offensive and defensive, X tako to be WOMAN'S DRESS, Not an onset of invective, but an earnest, con- scientious, scientific research into the delicate problem of a modest, healthful, yet tasteful and sttractive dress for women. For, untl Dr. Clarke gots his girl-patient, and Prestdent Fair- child bis girl-student, into & dress which shall neither bear down nor compress the organs of the body, until they protect the girl's snkles from contact with drabbled skirts everyrainy day, and her neck snd arms from expoeure to the night-air at every fashionable party and re- cepiion, they cannot give her a fair chance, or claim that their clinical and statistical citations furnish any adequate test of her ability to en- dure s liberal education. A gencration of well- dreseed, well-fed, well-exercised girls might fur- msh matorial for satiafactory experiment and well-grounded conclusions regarding tho phys- ical effects of study, Anotherfoe alika to girl and boy,and one against which co-educationist and anti-co-educatiomist might concentrate their batteries,—a foo whose destruction might possibly make those batteries needless for fu:fher fighting of one another,— is what I may designate . THE BARRACK AND BOARDING-HOUSE SESTEM in colleges and schools, whether for boys or girls. The herding together, as is customary, of great pumbers of young men or young women, either under a syetem of espionage and detec- tive-policy government, or in a lawless and un- restruined irresponmbility, or the no less per- nicious practice of parceling them-out to the greed of avaricious boarding-house harpies, 18 destructive and demoralizing to the last degree. Thoe effects of 1t among boyr, eve: resident of s collegetown has witnossed, if not in outbreaks ard revolts, dissipation and debanchory, at least n Ishmaelitich Eabils_, and boorish maupers, and minor immoralities ; while, of the growth of prurient pruderies on the one band, or of conniving intrnigue on the other, every large boarding-school for girls furnishes ample evidence. - It is & serious question how far the ld_'lnhffll f any large boarding-school or college’ fustify tHe risks and hazards so reck- jessly taken in committing unguarded or over- guarded youth to thelr exposures, If the Na- tion's tostimony concerning the perils of the bov 210 10 be credited, it would seem that, before Propoting to put the girl on the gsme busls of privilege, “some modification be in 8 s:geum which is at best of doubtful advantase. Although so eminent & thinker sa T. W. Higginson haa sdvanced the ern theory that a college has no concern with tho student, except to furnish him with inits curricufixm, the doctrine iz NOT TO BE RECEIVED WITHOUT QUESTION. What'manhood or womanhood the boy or girl who goés in an unformed youth is to bring out st bis or her maturity, the collogeought to have, in its regulatious and conditions,, Bome reason- able grounds of expectation, some data of aver- age calculation, in which the balance of probability should be in favor of the college-trainings. This I think it can never bave while the barracks and dormitory system prevails, whether in male or femals institutions. Dis- tribute the yonth of the echools and collages into groups, not excoeding fifteen or twenty in number,—each living in some approach to the amenities of a well-ordered home, and under the supervision of a properly-qualified guide, men- tor, xad friend, staading in loco parentis, and the rioks of colloge-education will be diminisked, and, at the enme time, safe conditions afforded for the trial of co-cducation. In short, after sottling tho girl's dress, we may provide her with euitable home-influences as prime requisites of the vada-mecum, and then proceed withour clinical and statistical lists to Bctile some of the still dieputed pros and cons of the gurl's higher education. X. “God Xs Thy Law, Thou Nine.”? To the Edutor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: The public attention of to-day seems bent upon the analysis of woman's nature as never before. *What think yo of women?" as well s ** What think ye of Christ?” becomes & test-question, whose answer is a nucleus for ad- Lerence or a centre for divergence. We yet wait for the philosopher who shall approach the question devoid of the prejndice of position. The physician deals with discased individuals, and prescribes as if tho class were invalids. A crowd of disputants srise with counter-facts and counter-theories. We must 2ccept their facts; wo may protest againat their inferences. Doubtless Sociology is not a perfected sciencs, but one yet to be evolved from tha varied evi- dence of thoso who emphaszo unduly from special poiuts of view ; yet, while the audience is convoked and bearing evidence, let each ono bear testimony as to what seemeth fo bim true. Beientists tell us that, in & world where physical force has ruled, women have been under o disadvautage. Powerless for defense against rude strength, their success has been exactly proportianate to THE POWER OF PLEASISG. The most pleasing bave been the fought-for, defended, chosen; have Lecome the mothers, and, in accordance with the law of inberitance by sex, tracemitted to their daughters thoso ac- cumulated experiences which wrought * survival of the fitted.” Whatever the cause may be, we Lelieve tha love of approbation among women has become excessive and sbnormal, leading to moral timidity and delinquency, to concealments aud exaggeratious, to einuosities and deflections in diametrical opposition to straightforwardness sud uprightness ; that it'is often the strongest motive where nobler ones should determine a course of action; that it warps conscience and blinds judgment, perverts the will and corrupta the heart, puts mau's favor befora God, and is all the more subtle in harmfulpess because so closely allied to that which is highest and best,— tho power of eelt-sacrifice for another's pleas- ure ; ‘for it is true that purest benevolence will seek another’s good and pleasure perhaps in the eamo way as love of approbation; but the latter is always seelung recognition, not of the good done, but of the doer of the good ; Ioves always to hear its own name ; finds it hard to acknowledge superiority in otbers ; will take praise which is not due ; lives under the stimu- lus of rivalry and emulation. To be the heroina of a soene, is a temptation haurdly to beresisted; to play the same role without sudieuce or spec- tator, becomes a ** jeu qui ne vand pas la cYEzn— delie.” The constant referring in one’s mind to another's opinion of one’s condact BELITTLES THE NATURE. How shall such a oue act a8 seetng the invisi- ble, as regarding remoto 1suues, 88 valuing char- acter above all accidental gocd? We have known one willing that ruspicion of grave crime should 1est upon 2 whole retinue of domestics, rather than avow carelessness ; willing that an- other should stand condemned for faleehood, rather than acknowledge the justice of » sovers criticiam; willug fo _enter upon a cowse of deception which entailed life- long coucealment and anxiety, rather than open- lf; to confess an error which would place her in the light of a forgiven penitent ; wilfing, always and forever, to be shielded from all blame—yea, from all slightest withdrawal of the sucshine of spproval,—at no matter what cost to another’s repatation; sod yet this moral turptiude was only exceseive love of praise, unscrupulous in uso of means. All matter is a revelation of spirit, external conditions of internal states ; so ‘WOMAN'S DRESS betrays a restlessuess of desire to attract by ita novelty, complexity, mystery, illusion. We'ean~ not apply the law pereonally; all women are not mechaniciang or artists, to create their own costumes; nevertheless, the costumes of an epoch are an indicator of its social condition. Ezamine in evidence the court-costumes of France in the seventeenth century, or of En- glaud at the time of the ' Restorstion. S any a woman _sccepts, 88 under protest, that Which custom indorses,—believing it unhealth- ful, unartistic, extravagant; wearw it, because it is approved, sud because she cannot endure to bo ono whit the less approved, though she die of languor in the wearivg. Dresg-reform would come quistly and natural- Iy by each sdapting her sttire to her own special convenience and neoessities ; but the asy of its Milleonium is far nwnflrwhen the shop-girl, who must walk miles through filihy strests to stand behind counters sll day, must follow in fimsy materials, ss closely as she may, the flowing outlines of drapery of the lady who steps from marble pavements to cushioned car- riage for adrive on bonlevards washed by arti- ficial rains ; must do 1t, perbaps, in the struggle for existence, lest the one who_follows closer outrun her ; but the more favored, who need not, smother in emulation and rivalry all regard for fitness and {deals. Not elone in the department of dressdo we see the disustrous results of overmuch regard for outside opinion. Consider © OUR HOMES. Usually they represent woman's taste and ambition’; the domestic srrangements are usu- aliy of her planning. Think what lessening of fiiction would ensue if each household were in- dividual in its appointments, adapted to the re- sources, tastes, aud needs of its ocoupants rather than another's ; if the manner of daily living were reduced to that which could bo maintained without s struggle ; if the one maid- of-all-work wero not required, on company-days, to render elegant servico in all the departments which two or thres are required to fill comfort- ably. What a relief it would be to be honest; to ropresent no more than the facts; to be born into our social positions, as in older couutries, with an assured rank for life, unless grossly outraging conventional usage. Tliuk of the wocial reformation if each woman should do X HAT 8HE “COULD DO BEST,— whether it were to cook, to wash, to sew, to nurse, to heal, to adminlster sffairs, or plan with fertile brain the work for many hands. Should we not have better sarvice in every de- partment ? e are told every day that asking RTeater Bcope for woman is dealing with dead ig sues ; that her way is open to 2l honors; yet all_the powers of cloquence, poatry, chivalrs, aud theology, etill ~unite enhance tho besuty of woman's position as a dependent ina sholtored homs ; all women are counseled to occupy themselves in the do- mestic sphere, though all women are not do- mestic,—though many a sad-bearted one has no Liome left to chieer, no clingiog baby-bands to clasp. Yet, to step ontside this charmed circls is a step to be explaiued, excused, epologized {or, pitied, blamed. \Woman hasaccepted the doc- trine ; bas believed it was better tobe the served than the servitor; and the favor, better to her than life, has been the reward of her faith; she hias believed it though for eighteen centuriea the Gospel has been in the world : ** Whosoever of you will be the chicfeat ehall be the servant of 8IL" Accepting this Cospel, we long to see all women using their abilities up to the point of h1§hes_r. service, belisving no longer in any gos- pel of idleness, however eweetly sung. Let all service rendered but set free for further service. Each soul must i . . WORK OUT ITS OWN SALVATION. It is hardly noble that anoher should speak onr thought for us, say our prayers; sing our praises; thongh men counsel not self-relance, in their over-fondness for protectorship and. subjects ; and self-reliance in women, we kuow, does often run riot in ugly salf-assertion and dogmatism, Is it mnot sweeter that woman ehould chooso her lover as soul recognizing kindred sonl, seeking companionship and com- leteness, rather than recognizing in her help- Fennuu need ¢f hizstrength? We thiok so. Thero it ‘is, the world holdsits prizes, its baubles, its_crowns, for those who rapest its time-honored formulas, who fawn upon it, and seek approval by all manner of concessions ; but better good there is, higher prizes, higher worlds, for those who will rise to higher planes, who will Inok into their own consciences for ap- proval, rather than the eyes next them. Some- woat less of courtesy life would wear under such & regime; bat ~what remained would Yo prompted by kindness, snd not sclf-seeking. ‘We should have more unwelcome truths; but tho spirit in which they were uttered would be mors trune than former flatteries, and could bard!y bart. s Enow that this mental subsarviency is the greatest sonrce of wompa's weakness, and to rite abova it is her present first moral duty; for Low can she fulfill the first commandment of tue law while the approbation of her fellow-men ishergod? . E. P. The Woman Questions To the Editor of The Chicaco Tribune: Sir: In your last Sunday's issue there are several replies to my communication on the above question. **Q.” graciously condescends to inform the public that * we propose to dis- cuss the guestion from no other platform " than the one GEANTING ALL THE DISPUTED PREMISES. This is & very effective way of securing the victory in any discussion, which is well worthy to be patented. It may be considered a8 & * fair aud just " specimen of the liberty of discussion which we may hope to enjoy s soon 83 woman shall be enfranchised. But it ‘will in Do way prevent me from speaking my convictions of truth. '¢C. IL James " statos that 1Lill, not being a fool, held that some difference botween the sexes must have precoded the subjection of the fomale fo the male. 3r. Mill may thank Mr, James for stamping him es such & fool 88 to suppose that, while ‘=ome difference” was a sufiicient cause to produce tho effect called * subjection,” the vastly-increased difference existing at present should operate so litcle a8 & natural eause as to be offset by the euactment of a law. My impression is, that Mr, Mull, not being a fool, felt this as the weak point of his argament, and, being unabla to givo an explanation of it contirming the views he de- eized ta establish, chose to not express himself very clearly about this point. 3 +E. L."will obligo me by furnishing the proof that governments to-day rest any less on power than they did onginally ; power, In_my opinion, being not above paysical forco, which is never has been as long a8 men existed in society, but PEYSICAL FOLCE GUIDED BY MORE OR LESH IN- TELLECTUAL FORCE. As to “R.,” as soon a8 that gentleman will trans- late his grandiloquent =nd transcendental hases—euch as, ** Muscular force is displaced Ey the power of the omuipotent intellect’— imto plain, intelligible lavguage, I shall b sble "o disouss the —quostion with him, I am at present utterly unacquainted with the article * omuipotent intellect;” and, as to the displacement of muscular force, 1 am not awaro that any such thing hasoccured. Mus- cular force does both the laboring and fighting 28 much to-day as it ever did. It is indeed guided by a hittlo more intellect than it has been in former times, Neither one of the correspondents feels bim- gelf callod upon to explain why the usme natural cause (being % lack of the elements of power in the female) should rot pro- dnce the same consequences (dependence of the female on the good-will of the male) as much to-day as in former times, ‘* Omnipotent intellects™ should find it an easy job to give a satisfactorily decisivo answer to that question. Jous H. im.u:n, IN A LITTLE BOAT. In a little boat, On a pathless deep, We will softly float While the surges alsep. 1In a little boat, 0On a billowy tide, We will bravely doat, ‘Though the §torm be wide. In o little boat, 0On a boundless wave, We will calmly float Past the silent grava, 1Ina little boat, On a shoreless ses, We will float, and fidat, Through eternity. it 0. CAnrESTER, e o Domestic Conservatism in Holland. The Dutch at homs are very couservative. +People there,” writes s correspondent of the London Daily News, *bave fires till May 1, but on that day stoves are taken down, fire-places are dismantled, and s determination to En_v court to genial spring, however coy she may be, is at onco leal and calorio. This practice has no reference to the stata of the weather, for pnnm’n geem to feel that May, 1f not warm, ought to be. Ought they to keop fires and be comfortable in order to flatter her caprices? Iasked the wor- thy gentloman who b:ought my coffes this morsing If it was true that stoves were always taken down on May 1, and_that, too, without re- gard to_the weathor at tho time. *Crtainly, sir!* “But would it not be botter to be govern- ed, not by a fixed date, but by tha temperature, and retain heating facilities 80 long as they might be necessary?' His oyes iighted up mth that peculiar look of intelligence tuat follows the discovory of & new truth, which is at the same time 80 obvious that one wonders it was not before perceived. * Thg readiness of perception of the Dutch, contrary to common ‘Yrujudice, is snown by that incident, and indeed by others. Take, for - stance, tho strect pavements. It is the fashion here for the owner of & house to build a little iron fence acroes the pavemeunt, at the limits of his lot, go that the promenader is, at each of these boundaries, obliged to step down iuto the roadway and around the barrier upon the pave- nent of the noxt fropt. Tha practice has its iuconvenience, and I' demanded an explauation. *Ob, but you seo the property in each case ex- tends to the curb, and the owners fence it in that they may enjoy the use of it more to them— selves.’ *Ahl I sce, Ground is scarce, and they need every inch.” ‘Exactly.” *Well, then, why don't they build their houses clear out to the curbstone? Again that flash of intelligence and & new revelation. The man caught my mesning readily enough and seemed grateful for the information I bad given him; but there i8 not much hope for & speedy reform, if & case which came under my notice at the telograph office is a test case. Irushed into tho office late one evening, wrote & despatch hastily, and look- ed about foreand or blotter. Neither were at hand. The clerk took the dripping sheet, blew on it, heid it before the light, swung it about 1n the air, cud finally laid it down to dry while he entered into conversation about the weatler,eto. 1 was in agony, and could hardly wait till be had Jeft the office before saying to my companion, +See, here, why does that offico not have a Little #and or blotting paper#* ¢Ah, sir (a shrug of his shoulders), you know we Dutch are 80 slow to introduce improvements.” Slow! Bless me. I'll eav nothing about sand, because, though read in the Bible about a honse built upon saund, which would show It to be very old, the best au- thorities differ about the exact timo at which it became known. But about blotting paper there is no doubt at all. Blolflni paper was invented in the yoar 357 of the Christianers, anditis now 1874 ; so that Holland is just 1,517 years behiud the march of civilization. Do you think she will have blotters at the end of this oycle?™ & ¥ —_——— The Glory of the Southern Skies. From Dr. Benjamin A . Gould’s Addrass, in oston, on His Return from South America. The glory of the Southern sky in the region near the cross is ivdescribable. There, where the thick stream of bright stars which skirts the Milky-Way croeses this river of light, ita brillian- cy 18 wondrously increased, and it exhibitsa magnificence unequaled in any other portion of the heavens. ere glitter’ a wmnltitade of ‘bright stars, more thickly scattered than in any region within our Northern view, while the back- ground is gorgeons in ita splendor. Oftea on some clear night when it has snddenly been brought tomy view in passing some edifice or turmng some street-corner, I have stood amazed at.the flood of light which it diffused ; and often, 200, alter leaving the observatory in the early morning bours, after a night of wearying labor, 1 have felt relnctant to abandon tie magnificent :}:ecucle toseek tha much-needed repose. In loss proximity are the rich conntel'ations of the Centanr, the Leel and gails of the ship Argo, and the Wolf, and tho glory reaches throagh the Altar even to the soutbern portion of the Bcor- pion. There are large large tracts which rival the Pleiades in the profusion of their stars, gleaming upon a background of nebula. Else- where the SBouthern heavens are not so brilliant an the Northern, nor do they contain as many stars as bright as the faintest” which we can dis- cern ; but there is' nothing between ths two poles to compara in besuty with tract to ‘which I zeler. CHICAGO NUISAMCES. The Stenches [of the Rende g.?s. tablishments and the River. A Concert Accompanied by a Chorus of Steam-Whistles, 1ll-Behavior in the Theatre. The citizens of Chicago who, whether for busi- ness or pleasure, has left home for weeks or months, vaturally turns to it with eyes of long- ing, and thinks even the fastest lightning-oxprees but a slow coach compared with his impatiens desires. He is coming from the East, perhaps— has been inbaling sea-breczes on “the Atlantic Coast, or gathering renewed health from the fresh air of tho White Hilla; but what is all that worttn compared with THE DELICIOUS ODORS of his own town ? The express-train, that seems 28 it soail-drawn, is at least appioaching the city. He opens the ‘window; he leans outto it, and looking up into his Sicls do before now. - 1% 89 She kag HORRISLY IMFRO and she scon brought Mr. Jones to clasping ber bands, with their bisek o mits, together, and extending her elboy hait looked 23bast a moment ; but memory corry, I carly babi sasoried el and heTonrh arm i ers, and saoved he i i ugo style. e along in trus oy Thoy want to & concert, ? of Chienga's amtear sluba, o 1ok ) 10 need 1o be ssnamed of fhe musica] o 4 caltare shown 10 bis town. Unforianeie® 24 music-hall was near that lovely lh’eimly' the the craft of Chicago seem cantinually i Theny less state—nover Iying at mnchor, but soperth plring to and fro. under the escort of tay oy have as many notes to their whatleg 3 ro, vy oc'ffi:'a pllrlo:l-gnnd. o seres. 'he glee-club are doing thair o thrills the a. lience. Each hgl:.hg}.:;lmm pride, especiully that of the traveler, wpe, "4 ‘1007, T00T, TOOT," | 2 goes s tug a half-note higher than thy pitched, The singers koep time ang up goos each Youco to the steam-iyg’ continues to whistle all through & :l[\:he :efiond c‘l:imm‘eucas, and 0. 2 has made its appearan whistlo pitched a fall nute low’f&uon it the eingary in spite of themselyey Jroibd key-note; and, no matter hog gt JOKs s conductor may wave hiy sistently ho may Lft it —yq up his arms to their utmog; ey bis densesy gl § o, oy nate, ; realize the fact that he is nearing homoj; and, 88 he does, & pertume filis his nos- “trils that at once conviuces him of his ramd approach to the goal of his hopes. He sniffs it cagerly. Home sgain to the morning nauses and the midnight gasping! It is here in all ita perfection,—the well-known odor of the render- ing-establishments. He has traveled far and wide, perhaps}; but in no other city has ha found guch an all-pervading perfume. A wretched bar- barian from somo Eastern city where they send their refuse off to distant sea-girt ialands, to be recomposed into gluten or phosphate, niffs, and retches, and implores to have the window closed. Ladies who have come Westward in search of health or novelty look for their sal-volatile or aromatic vinegar. One dreadful man doclares that he has been in Cologne, and inbaled all its bouquet of 40,000 unpleasant and indescrivable odors; in Constantinople, Bentari, Cawro; but never had he smelt anything to compare with this peculiar QUISTEBSENCE OF PUTRESOESCE before. But still the Chicagoan inbales this pecuhiar home-odor. He hasa keen sceut, like that of o well-trained hound; and, in a few minutes more, with a feeling of supreme exalta- tion, he sniffs the breeze, while a bright gleam of joy illumines his face. It is home indeed. But what have they been doing to get back that other odor which Chicegoans knew so woll for 80 many years, and which they hed spent millions to get rid of 2 Had they found tlhiat tuey could not live without it ? ~It bad been & well-known fact that this eame odor had had power to revive from an almost fatal suspension of his senses one of hLer sons when far away from home; that, when all other remedies had been tried to bring him back to cousciousness, one person, more thought~ ful than the rest,—a trae worshiper of his ocity #0d ber strength,—had carried away some of tha concentrated essence of ous phaso of ita pecu- liar power,—s phial filled with water from that gll.cxd stream whish bears the city’s name. 'his had raised that wanderer wheu tremoling on ihat shadowy space intervening between time and eternity; the well-known perfume had brought him back to life, and made bim loug" for home, Regardless of thess potent medical effects, there were those who declared that pe- ouiiar scent to be a nmsance, and who never ceased from grumbling and appealing until en- deavors wesre made to removeit. Here, how- ever, it was ALL BACK AGATY. * Yes, this is homs,—home indesd,” gasps the returiied voyuger, as his less appreciative tellow- travelers hold thew noses, or inbale their salta. Happy man! he come in on the West Side, and ho lives'over far to the Sonth, in that favored quarter which real-estate agentd advertise as eas: of State ssrect. He will have the benefit of all the bome-delights. He takes s car, and, a8 he nears the bridge, he has more chance to inhals the bouquet which is presented o him. The bridge is open, of course,—another liok in the home-chain, One, two, three ves- sels, pass through. Time is up, but he doesn't mind; he is inhrling the delicious odor of the river; heis wondering why all citles ars not 5o favored 2a his own ; where they have to rosort to ‘Wide barbors aud long piers, whero all the shio- ping is congregated on the outside of the city, while hbere, through this delicious river, it is strung out for mules. Looking from any point, you ses buildings and tall masts in ‘auch immediate succession that it seems a8 if soma tidal-wave maat have swept the entire summer lake-fidat, and, carry- ing it over the tops of the houses far inward, Dave landed 1t high and dry in the very beart of the city, But this is only a stranger's fancy. The resident knows better. He kmows by the smell, and the usual delay at the bridge, thut he has neared the Chicsgo River. The bridge has closed for an instant while Lo is waitiag ; but there are two cars, soveral trucks and a stzgs shead of bim, and, belore the oar he s in can reach it, the bell bas again sounded its warning, and he s AC.IX COMPELLED TO WAIT. “ He doesn't mind ; he is in no hurry. Wite and children are watting to greet tha wandeier, butr what of thet? He i3 realizing tho de- lights of haviog lus foot upon his native ‘‘perara” once more. That siran- ger in the hack does not take things 50 coolly. He has been summoned bither on s, matter of life and death. He throws open the back-door, catches the pecoliar bouquet, turns palo, gaups out, ** What an infernal steuch!” and then wunts to know what the matter is; makes some tropical renarks, in unison with the weath- ar: conaigns the bridge to the torrid zone of the universe; and, loarning at last that thereis a tunnel, votes energeticaliy to be taken under the river, as there ia no hops 6f getting over it, and his rich uncle may die at thar South Side hotel before ha getstliers, to suggest by hia presence 4 mention in the aforesaid uncle's will. Our resident, however, likes this thing. It is &0 peculiarly Chicagoan. At lasit he is over, and bas resched the BSouth Side’bus. No coacn for him; he wishes to realize the fact that he has returved, aud, as he las been to New York, Chicago kack-buses would not present the fact to his mind so forcibly as they would bad he only visited other cities. Ah! he was right. The energetic 'bus-driver does his bect, and the vehicle sways wildly sbont, but al:rddenl: comes to an abrupt halt. Only two or 08 % FREIGHT-TRAINS CROSSING THE AVENUE. Just another quarter of an hour's delay. At last the door-step is reached ; heis beneath his own roof ; and, with every fresh breeze from the west, he gots that delicious odor from the rendering-establishments, madestill more homeo- like by the addition, not of mulle-tleurs, not even of =a simple flower, but of the stagnant, patrescent Chicago River. Our returned voyager lives below Twenty-gizth street. snd thither no peripatetic scavenger comes and rings his bell at the matin or mid- mgat bour. It isa densely-populated neighbor- hood, and there i added to the regular bouquet the ecent of burning garbage. He has forgotten the peculiar civic condition under which he lives, and for a moment starta back in dread, and looka abont him, conuting to seo 1 all his olive-branches are present. No! one ia missing: Tommy,—dear little four-year old Tommy. it possible ? The parent knows the city, and how readily it grasps at new ideas, advancing with every new thought of the age, clinging only to that one special worship of smells. Hasit found & new way of adding to the bouquet? Has it really reached the olimax, and, knowing the possibilities which cremstion contrins, author- 12ed each individual head of a family to reduce its dead to ushes within the family stove? CAN IT BE TOMMY ? e But no! hers comes the irrepressible, fresh from = ditch, whence helias issued drippiog. It is not Tommy; it is ouly the remains of the day's “breakfast and dinuer being sacrificed on the altas of health and emells; sacrificad in the vortable stove or range, which, not being built into the chimney-place, with proper ventilation, and wall bricked up, but standing out with chat freedom of discomfort which 80 many of us wot of gends far and mde ’lhrongh the house the odor of all things that may be consigned to it, whether of the moeals in their preparatory stage, or after the best has boen and the refuse left to be pari- fled by fire. Hapoy Chicagoan! BShonld he not be proud of bis advantsges? He goes forth the next evening with Matilda Janefor s walk He nearly forgot himself, and was about to fall into that obsolete fashion common t0 antiquated cities,— aities of the past, hike New York and Boston,— of offering her his arm ; of letting her lean upon it if she was tired, or at least supporting her weaker steps. ElLe was not to be thus imposed upou. She did not propore to place any suchin- delicate example before her growing girls. The Dext thing, they would be taking some young man's &m, perhaps, clasping their hauds over = . tug wins. A celebrated punjg;, a chaming prelude, snd noy oo whole cliorus of steam-whistles, Ty ;2 3 are closed, and the odor of the Norty prooi™s abat out, and thero is & partial desgspes el i sound of tha shriokiug fugs. Only pank L ever. Tho men begin to ook Like alomly'deree oping cascades, while, one after another y_; Iadies are borne out partlally asplyzisted. "Tpe pianist docs his bost ; but be, too, fesly the density of the atmosphere, and &t ust s carieg off in a _tnhnl!ob:lfing condition, i escapes wil is wife. A stranger voot suggeat thas cho logs s Tl coucert was spoilec them. ‘The citizeg mediately 7 i, KNOCER IIX DOWY, - How could he dure to hint that thera was g thlug objectionablo in them? Such A wanly taste, to be sura! The next night he and Matilds Jane go to the: theatre. They are late, of comse. Itisno e propar thiug to be on tuge. All through {yy tirst sctit ia decirable to be among themay who drift in, and who are apito Wesr rqueay boots if men, or rustling skirts and Chicagy bells i women, and thus provent thase shohase come early from Learing what the actors sy, The firsv ot over, the men commance ta dify ous. This is not poculiar to Chicago, except thay ladies are more frequently left slone bere dar. ing the entre’acts than in other cities. Hehay Leard tne eame gramoling in other places abogy this thirty crowd,—the same objsction to thy odor of tabacco-smoke and beer, ar somethi stronger, which is apt to hang abont them cg their xeturn. It is only that there1srather morg of it here. But when the second sct then he knows he is home sgain. Everyons is ntent upon MAKING SOME ESPECIAL KOISE. His next neigubor 18 telling his compani about the play, which he bad seen before; and altogether a plessant little dialogne 13 kops up. The person behind him keeps his fost on hiy chair, and jars it continually. ‘The woman 1 front' wears Chicago bells, which jingle erery time she turns her head, and she turos it eoa- tinually. The lady next him fans herself with the programme; and, altogether, one word oat of ten is about all he cstcues, while frying to listen to that eompany from whom, waen he heard it in New York, every word bsd_ roshed his ears. Yea, he had certainly rescned homo, “Pliere was po quiet aitention hate,—30 ragard for the possible facs that soma ons might wisa {0 hear what was gomng on. Everybody did whatever seemed to lumself good, quite ignarv ing the fact of courtesy to his neighbor. Yes, ¥ was, in trath, Chicago. Returning home that night, he was gresed \ with the LAST ADDITIONAL PROOF needed. Those sacred guardians of the pubit health, who are supposed to bs engawed i nightly mystio ceremonies, eecret a3 those Elensinia,—mysteries that should be kopt fron all eyes save those of the high priests, the in. censo of which should not rise to heavena greot buman olfactories,—forgetful of the secresy which they should hold inviolate, mads themsetves visible facts to hun. Yes! at boms in Chicago! No dount of thst. Berenein self gatisfaction, he inhales bisbouques of odors, is glad that Western flowsrs ure cantless cannot detract from this delight. gl T A e OH! LET US LOVE ALL LOVELY THINGS Oh! Tot us love all lovely things, The beautiful and grand, “That thrill along the heari's soft stringte The deathless soul exvand. This mortal life is but a syan,— "Tis transiens at the best; The yeurs gone by, they swiftly ran,= Wo soon uball La'at rest. On ! koep the soul refreshed and halem “Twill plumotself for fighty And, when Death's shadoss shall prevall, Soar on to realms of light Dut the wronged soul, deinaed and dark, nshrived vy all things fair, ‘When Death shall quench the mortsl spardy ‘Seeks darknoss fcr ita Lair, We tread tha gently-rising way o £afe and pleasant ground ; Or down the tempting path we stry, TUI night has gathered round : W tune our souls to perfect siralng, Or dincords, »a we sill ; Immortal caskets, with this graing Of gold, or dross, we ll. Then let us love ail lovely things,— Sweet cLildhood's joyous play ; The hope that in youtl’s bosom springat Kind hesrts ‘neath locks of gray The wealth of flowers on wild and lawa The verdure-laden trees ; The rising glories of the dawn; The utream ; tho gentle broeza; The canvas from the master’s hand, Whereon his soul he wrought : The sculptor’s art, at whose command The stong standa fa.(h 8 thought Thie organ’s peal; 1k that singej Tie sea; and yon olar-land : OB ! let us love all lovely things, The beautifal and grand. Provisions of Civil Rights Fram the Fayelterille (Ga.) Express, A sspient-looking darkey. ascznn ng betwena 20 aud 35 summers, ovortook an ol nggnm: the dtreet the ocher day. and, wedging him i3 X fence-corner, proceeded ta soquaiut him mthm the gorgeous provisions of tho Cinil Lights bl Young Atrica imparted ;a ?ld Afnes s fund Yalnsble information, thusly : “W¥iell, Uncle Billy, Sumoer’s Swivel Bighit bill hus passed do Scnate ob da United Sluis widout 8 murmur.” ¢ g dat so, Josiar?” B « Joss 80, Uncle Billy. And say, Uncie 3] we colored pussons is gwine to see whoefl alons is in de pot. We are guwipe to be alot 1o ride frea on de raflrozds, smoie in the ] car, snd put our feoton de percusaicus o seats wheneber we dam ploase.” 4 Ig das 8o, Josar 2" | iy “Jesy ko, Unclo Billy, And esy, UncleB( we'sgwine to be allowad to utop st do hoiele, o) eat at de hend ob de tablo, aud hab be pi3d slices of da chickens, and lay around in dwflufl snd spit on de carpets, and mako de imll_um‘ bustlo themselves and wait on us a3 grumblin’, aud whonever do boss of d!W“\‘, ghoves a bill at us, we'll hab him sent to WS ington and obscured in the plenipotentisrye *¢ 1 dat so, Josiar 2"’ i, “ Jess 80, Uncle Bille, And esy, m‘d'fli’-‘ we's gwine to bo allowed to go todé¥Lil gchools and set up on the flatform e toscher and Jearn gehography, triggermend 4 25y, gobiominy, Latin, Datch, French, Chocis algebray, rheumatics, and de rule nhdmfl‘- . ood Gosh! 1 dst so, Josiar 7" me (%] +Jess 6o, Uncle Billy. ‘And say, Uncl we's gwine to bo allowed to be Luried in cotllns wid looking-glasses on top obdem, dey will hab to carry ns in = hearso to de yard and bary us on top ob de wite ol when de day of resarrection am arrived ! Angel Gabriel come tootin’ aloug, k) troo his trumpet:_* All you colored gmmfl:' ) fust!’ And-say, Uncle Billy, de pervisio dat bill—" pervisissh “What's dat you eay ‘boub l.aIwnl;wino_ole"‘h' Joaiar 2" E i . *Well, Uscle Bill, a8 T 6 pervisions o ill— 4 Fitop ruht dar, Jomsh. You say dac's peTF sions in das bill " s ot +Jesa 8o, Uncle; de_pervisions 'ub Pfl‘,w ¢ Btop right dar, Josiar. Ef dars gotflw fn dat bill, { want 3 su:k of our dis berry DI nit. Dam do smolin in da Indien car 25 eho; hy, and Latin, sn flos ‘gwlnnslx:gervisinna. osiar. Dey’s all darisin & ill wuff Gam cent!” o ——————— % —+ [ would marrv you, Jacob,” sald IM; tmporcanate lover, ‘¢ were it not for Teasona Ok, tll n;ni" ho said m':ghfll‘l’h wnat they are, thai I may remo! b ros s said she. +F don't love ¥ the recond is, I don't want to love you; 3% B third ia, I coulda't ove you if § L A H H i | £ g Gl