Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1874, Page 10

THE WOMAN QUESTION. “By the Grace of the Male Sex.” Womau's Inferiority to Man in Physic- al' Power, and Why it Lxists More * Pros and Cons” as to the Re- lntions of the Sexes: Man's Disposition {o Protect, Sholtor, and Love—Woman's, to Do Protected, Sheltered, and Loved. ‘Pay vs. Potlicoats---A Plea for the Prac- tical Education of Women. The Wrongs of Working-Women. Is Fainting Worse than Getting Drunk ? « fiy the Grace of tho Male Sox.»? o the Rdilor of the Chicago I'ribune : Sin: A porson leisurely enjoying the dolight~ ful plonsures which & fantastio imagination, xonming through an Arcadinn Paradise of unal- loyed happiness of & yot undiscovarod droam- land, {8 able to bestow, may well be anpposed to foal n rather disagreonblo sensation nb being suddonly oallod upon to face the dull cares, op- prosaive sorrow, and Inborious strife, of which €ha common dutfes in this earthly valo of tears hiappon to be composed. A similar sensation Booms fo have soized your fale correspond- ent of last Bunday, who, while luxuriating 1n tho happy prospocts which ehe bolloyed would bo roslized by tho securs establishmont of equal righta of both soxes of maokind, was suddonly startled from borrovery by tha grating annouace- ment of the baral fact, * That, even if oqual rights should bo grantod to the female.hy the good-will of the tyrraniaal brats called man, thoy will, notwithatanding and nevevilioloss, only be Lield by and DUNING THE GRACE OF TRE MALE SEX,” A taotwhich destroys all fanciful hiopos that may bava beon ontertained Inrogard tothe pormanent and sacuro possossion of tho equal rights, even if soquired. Why ? Because, man having the actual power of roponling any rights which ho might have granted, 1t is reasonable to expect of him, ag of a boing endowod with the in- ! tolligonoo of taking care ‘of bis own intorosts, that ho would eoxerciso tho same by repenling those righta whonever ho may discover them to bo hurtful to his wolfare, « In viow of this stavt- Jing fact, lonving, as it doos, no othor founda- tion for tho rights of woman than the goad- will of thiomalo, #he remarks traly, **Thab it Is not really worth whiloto agitate longor.” Acknowi- edging this, sho soes the necossivy of ro-ostabe lishing o sure foundation on which the struc- turo of aqua) rights of thasoxes mey be arocted with somo degros of atability, and tries to sc- complish this result by doubting * tnat the fem- inino clement in organie lifo is anywhere else o gource of weaknoss ag compared with the maseu- * ling cloment.” With what result, she tells hor- self, at the ond of her laborious attempt at prov- ng the equal power of the fomala to the male E'gnymhe(yl‘u elan in tho coucession that *'1t is probubly true that woman now in adult life is weskor than man.” No, it strikes me that the last concession is a1l I need to estublisvh the correctnoss of my con- clusion, as I did uot _yet propose to discuss the rolations of power exiating hotwoen the femining and tho musculine eloment “anywhero a'se,” \ except within the 8 homo, Aud, the faot of tho inforiority in power of the human female being granted,—ax it is sven by the wost stronu- nus gdvecatos of the aqual ¥ights of the soxew,— it does AGTUATLY MAKE NO DIFFERENCE whether the cause of that fact is (ay I have snp- posed, in common with_overy thinkec on this question whoso viows 1 havo yvet studied) the especial fitting by Nature of the femalo for the production of offapring, or not. For, if this ig ot the causo of the gonoral pheuomenon ex- “hibited fu the inforiority in powor of the human fomale to tho malo, whatis thocause? The fuct boiug a general ono, Lho causo must necos- sarily bo a genoral one, If tho correspondent, then, wislios to deny tho above causo, which 1 muppose to bo the tiue ono, will she not Linve the kindness to riea and explain her views sbout tho truo causo of Lhat gonoral fact? And an the cause, whatevor it may be, has pro- duced that effoct during the untold bygono ages of the oxistonco of mankind, would it not bo woll to show why it should suddenly cense caus- ing that effect at this moment? Tor, as long as that offect exists in thoe inferlority in power of the femnlo to the maie, it is evident that its im- iodinto consequance, the dependenco, in fact, of tho female upon tho good will of the male, will afso remain, Dy conclusions, cousoquent- 1y, would be altogother the same even if I were disponed to grant that. doduotion which tho or- rospondont arrives at, that the dependence of the fominino olomont to the masculine in manknd is an_exceplion lo the general law of organic life. While, thorofore, the truth or uutruth of this deduction docs not in any way influence the question itself, ad it simply nocessitatea tho sub- stitution of another primery canse in pluca of the ona hitherto wupposad, .the urray of solated facts put forward by the fair correspondent does, Jn my opinion, not by any means WRrrant the au- Bumplion of & genoral law proclniming the pyuality in powo! the mule and female ele- monty of orgunic While it iy frecly conceded that,in the lower forma of animal lifo, where tho sexual differon- Siation makes ity fivst_appesrauce, there is no porceptiblo difference in power betwoen the male #ox and the femaie, {hat diffarence becomes dis- tinctiv pereentible, and incrossea by degrees, A8 WE ADVANCE INTO TUE HIGHER FOIMY, And, as wa raise in the scale of auimal Jite, we may obsorve that the difforontiation in povwer, aud tho consuguent dspondauce of the fomalo upon the mulo, iucreascs in_the same monsuro a8 the life of the offapring becomes more and moro dependent upon the porformance of the graduntiv-oxtending functions of maternity by the fomule, The lowest of the great divisions of the animal kingdom In which the sexual charucters are distributed to different indi- viduals doos not exhibit any functions of matornity at ull. The sexual functions of the malo and fomnlo of the fishos ars thor- pughly identicul, and oro confined to the nepara~ Yon of the gerwns of reproduction from tho “-parent body only, which germs, from the mo- ment of soparating, are altogether left to tuke zavoof theuselvos, sud theie further existonce #oen not, it any way, shape, or manner, eonnosk with or depend upon any action of oithor par- put, But, if we advauce from this division, Miraugh the reale of anital life, dnto its highost orms, wo find that, whilo the shiaro of the male 1 tho production of offspring scarcoly in- greases at all, the existonco of " tho olfapring, wnd consequontly tho contintnnce of 'tho rospective mpeciés, bocomes maro and more dopomdent ou the porformunce of materunl functions ontho purt of the femulo, until, in mankind, o single nct of reproduction abnorby the powors and energies of tho femule, an the porformance of the functions of watorni- ty, through such un oxtended poriod that it may gafely be alilrmed that s Lealthy fomulo, Hving in obadience to the laws of Nature, cuunot os- cape from boing almost continually ocouyiod by the parformanco of her muternal functions, in the production, protoction, and mupport of hor oftsapring during thut time in which the very life of tho latter, nud with it the oxistenco of inan- Kind, could not be maintnined oxeopt by the du- tiful porfortmance of thoso futictions. Now, it ia very reasonable to assume, orrathor it would bo ADSURD TO ATTENPT TO DENY, thnt the performanco of these functions con- gen & certain proportion—mnaller 1n the lowor wnimals, lueger in the highor forms—of the nat- ural power which, a¢ the beginning of the dif- Sorentintion of thoe sexes, wax netually evouly di- vided aong them, That power, Lelig absorbed in the fomalo by the exercise of the functions of maternity, natiratly loaves the mule i the pos- genmion of on excess of actual powar, squivilent to the umount of it wo absorbud. And, tho funotions of maternity gradually luorousin gs wo advanco {uto the higher forme of anfmal life, thut oxcess of vourse lucronsos, and the diffaronco in power booomen Iargor and Inrgor, uutll b last the malo ls left 8o much the auperior in powor that the tact of it gannot bo questionod or donled by any obsorvor of Na- turo, and that the vory iden of & comparativa onposition of tho actual powera of both soxes becomon an absurdity, ~In dlroct propor- tion to the extonsion _of tho t';mlunl functions of matornity, and: of tho absorption of nutural powor by the performancoof the snmo, in daveloped the dopendence on tha malo ; and wo may safely aftirm, without fear of contridies tion by any naturalist, that ovorywhoro whoro a | period of tnability on the part of the femnio to provido for horaolf and offapring fs concomitant with tho exoroiso of tho functions of maternity, ho male does, during the duration of that perlad tako upon himsolf tho duty of proteoting nnd Aupporting the family, and:that the fomals, dur- ing that Limo, Is depondent upon the inolination of the malo towstdd tho performance of that natural duty, Arriving at tho genus homo; wherd the por- farmanca of thouo functions nccurhw nemly tho whola vigorous lifa of the fomafo, that duty of aupport and protection of the Intter GREW INTO A PERMANENT ONE, gflvhm risa to the formation of permanent fam- Lies, oatablishing man as the protoctor and Aup= parter of tho family, and putting upon himthe function of gorrormlng all * the exterior dutien roquired for that purpose; whilo to tho femule fell tho shars of the intorior dutics, ehe being unablo—from her natural lnck of powar, prodicad by its absorption throngh the functions of maternity—to- sucess-. fully competo in the fleld of exterior dution,— that lu, in the noquisition of the moans of exit onco by tho fighting and: Iaboring. insoparably {ncidont to tha struggle for life, Our view, then, of the lawruling tho rolatlons of the soxes, is tho following; 'I'he devolopment of mitmnl hifo showa a cone tinned tondency to divida the Inbor of the rpocies iu its atruggle]for exlstence into tho twodiatinet functions of—1, maintaining, and 2, propagating its lifa; and, for this purposo, has: produced a gradually Intreasiug difforantiation botwoon tho Hoxen ; tho ono sex. (thie male) boing more aud more dovoted to_the duties of mmutaining the presont life of tha spocios; the other sex (tho fomnle) to tho dutics of propngating the futuro oxiatonoe of the samo ; and eithor sex bocoming gredually moro fitted to, and attaining & more sud more marked: auperiority in, the qualitios nocessary for the porformauce of ita own par- tionlar dutlos. As the progrosa of lifo hithorto has beon in the direotion of a continued Increase of the dif- foreutiation botweon tho sexes (or, indeed, of auy other differontiation, as the law is & genoral ono, and doos not spply only to woxual differ- oncaw), I am unable to understand. why Natura shoulid at onco not ouly stop her carser in thab direction, but TNDO THE WORR sho has mecomplislied during the milllons of yoars which she has devoted.ta tho purpose of producing and pertecting the differonces- of the soxes now provailing from' the once existing equality botwaan them (which, howover, at to time existed:in mankind, but only in_thoss pros ganitora of tha branoh of animal lifo from ‘which man is desconded, that livod during the Silurian aud Dovonian periotly; in' a shupe ro- sombling those of somo of the lower fihes of tho presont day). And I just as little bellove that the nbolish- ment of ‘the difforence botweon the sexes would bo an elemont of progressive porfection of man- kimnd a8 I am willing to- believe that the aboligh- ment of ‘the ' differontiation of the ex- tromities of the himan bm’lY into legs and arms,—cach fiftod particularly and bhaye ing suporior power for the porformance ot their own . functious,—and tho establish- mend of equality - batwesn those extromities, would be & bonetit to the human mdividual ; or o4 I boliove that the abolishment of tho difforon- tintion of the individudls of civilized society into A number of vaifous trades,—by fittin, 3 ovory in- dividual for s particular bustnoss, and devolop- ing superior powors for the same,—aud the establishment of a parfect equality, in winch evory judrvidunl would have to do evervthine, wonld ba beneticinl to the welfare and progress of society. » Instend of belisving that the roplacing of those difforcntishions by an oquality of tho diverae members.would result in an 1noresse in +capacity and powor,” I am F"’“""F sutiatied that a decreaso in thess quslities wonld be con- soquent upow it, as tha very differautintion, b fitting particular members of the whole wit ospocint and superior powers for cortain funce tions only, attains theroby those superior results WILOSE DENEFIT TR WIOLE ENJOYR, A gonoral incroase in capneity, howsvor, is only producod by the continued struggle for life, and he unromitting compotitive contest of the pow- orful ones agaimst the fmbecila ones, by which contest the lutter are crowded out and forced into extinetion, and the former, which aro those posncssed. of more ** cagacity aud power,” trang- mit them a8 heirlooms to~ thelr surviving de- Beondants, But tho very diversity in facultics and funo- tious existing botween the diffuront mombers of & wholo, making thom matually depondent up- on each othior, excludes a contest Lstween the individuals of the one class against the indi« vidusls of the other cluws,—the competitivo struggle boing always and exclusively waged amoug Individuals © of the same class, 8o far as tho spexes are concorned, it follows, and all experionce confirms the fact, that tho competition s ona of man ngainst wan, and woman agaiust woman; and there hus never yet been Lnown to exist a con- 1lict of men a8 males against women uy females, such as tho correspondont foar, Such a contast will nover be bmu;ln about, nuless the fomale- rights party should indeed succeed in what hith- orto slways has been imposaible, viz.: coun- teracting the eftects of natural incquality by some logislative body's * Be it enucted, That what. is unequal shull bo oqual,” &e. I'hen, and then only, wonld the fomale enter the arens of the struggle for lifo for the purpose of tighting the male, and that contest would un- doubtedly bring ubout the consequences, diroful and destructive to liorseif and to the oxiatonce of humsnlund, which the correspoudent antioi- pates, and whioh, until such time, she has no roason whotever to fenr,—it boing much more likely that tho malas will cut eacli othor's throats, even to tho extermination of themaelves, than that they will turn upon aund uttorly destroy and annibilate womankind." But, whethier my oxplanation of the cause, as givon Liere, bo correet or not, tho phenomenon 1tsolf—the inferiority in power of the fomale to the male—is AN ABMOLUTE AND UNDENTARLE FAGT. And it is not aloue, as our oppouents are in the habit of asswnivg, the inferiovity in physical strength, importaut as that iv ay being tho only Toundution upon which power rasts, which i tho ouly elemont of that inforiority. Tor there is a montal olomant eutering into the formation of “power,” in which the difforence botween tho roxes ig vastly greater than in mera muecular strength, Thot {8 the element of “ fighting cournge,” without the possession of \vhml.\']:hyuicn\ strength, however great It may bo, and by whatever amount of pure intelligance it may be gded, in 50 littls of a power as to bo hardly worthy of convideration. Al experienca shows the buman fomale to be almost. utterly deliciont in that element, #o that evon whatevor lvln’sxcnl atrenpth and intolligonce woman muy have can never resolve itself into a power of sufliciont momentum to be opposed to that of the malo, Dut it is asked, Why should it bo op- posed? Why? For thé vory.reason why the right of woman-suffrage is wekad for, That right is demanded only on- thoe ground that, tho minle fox taking care of {ts own interests only, the interosts of tho fomalo suffer, hocauso thoy aro neglected in fayor of and opposed by tho interests of the male, . Which amaunts to tho declaration (in_my opinion. uttorly -at varizace with the facts) thas thore is-a congliot beliceen tha interests of the male and the female, 1f such a coutlict adtually exiats, is anybody ablo to givo a rouson why man should not prefor hid own interests to thoeo of woman, and why hLe should not uss b natural facultics,—mnong which is the superior power hie is possensed of for the advancement of his own and the sap- presgion of nnf' hostilo intoreats? Unless such a reason is shown,” it is plain that intorcata uot supported by suy power ablo to carry throngh or even undertnke an actual contost, and hostilo to thowe of the malo sox us the in- terosts of the female are claimed to be by the valryhndvucnzuu of hor equal political rights, will ba [ SUPPRESSED BY THE POWER OF THE MALE,— the lutter, in doing ¥o, simply exoicising his “unturaf rights” of employing his fucultios for s own henofit, Yrom’ which it follows, that auy domand for the granting of oqml rights on tho basis that tho femalo in- toreals are opposed to the muale intorests, and consequontly disrogarded by tho mule, challonges tha very contest of power betweon the nezey in whioh tha female sox, buing uttorly owerless, are certain to be defeated. It fol- ru\m, thorefore, that, in order to ba succesuful, any cliint for equal rights munt avoid the avowal of a vontlict betwoon woman's interents and thoso of tho malo, and try to coax mon mto tho granting of the dexirad rights only on the ploa that the [uterosts of the muie sox ituclf wonld bo advanced by tho bostowalof equal righta cn tho fomnlg, Tt is abvlous that the lattor ples, by donying the existence of s contlict botwoen malo and fe- mala interouts, would at ouce ooncede that the intereaty of tho fomule are being takeu care of and promotoed by attonding to the intorests of tho walo. But the laslor gre naturally provided s THE CITICAGO DAILY "I‘RTBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY &5, 1874, . == . 1 for to-dny, as woll aa thoy can Bio, by tho male uox llgolf; and this faob would moomto wwar- rant tho conclusion, that (ho intercats of the fomalo, bolng (what I hold to bo ihe truil) in porfeat and harmonfons nccord with thoso of tho malo, aro alrondy taken cara of an woll an {hoy can e under the circumstancos provailing, In whort, the conclusion I arrivo ot 18, that ths granting of equal 1ights to the fomalo in oltlier opponoid to thy intorests of tho malo, or it ia not ; in which Intter cane it waull amouiit t othing elao than to an uttorly unuccessary and supor~ 1luous formality. Joitn II, DEOKER. Eros nnd Conne To the I'ditor of The Chicago T'ribune; Bin: Thore aro people in this world who aro nlways: on the off side,—who aro nover liappy unless they bolong to-the opposition party. I don't bolleve I am of that sort exadtly; but, In thio prosont easo, I rize to objoot. First—~To the sncoring, flippant manner in whicli some of our writers dvess thelr idons of | women, Second—To the professional coolness witlh which sho; and ail that portains to hor, montally, | morally, soolally, pliysonlly, mtellostually, or #plritunily, is discngsod. 1 could'think of vothing 8 I rond tho last tiro Sunday issucs of Tus Trinuxe, but tho dissect~ ing-room of Bollavue Hospital, whero tho long tables nre Iadon withy thoir ghastly burdens, over which bond indifforont M. D.’s'and curioua stne donts, who care loss for {lio intoreats of sclenco than for the novelty of the exporionce. Oxe would thinl woman was A NEWLY-DISCOVERED' BPEOIES of tho gonus liomo, about wlicl people of an inquiring turn of miud woro all awake with in~ terest, instend of bolug oo-oxistont with the lord of crention, and one with whont he hing nsso« clatod in‘overy ephoro of lifc, and whose hauds and licart lavo ministered to Lis wants, com- forts; and hiappinoss, from the hour when she wrapped his baby-form: in its first awaddling= olothos Lill, with touddr and rdvorent touoh, she folded the winding-sliest over the cold, whito, cofilned faco that gave back no anawering look of love to- tho tonrs that ralned hot and fast over it. I hato the word: * subjection’ as used in con- voction with'a human balbg, and especinlly one who i, at tho lonst, the oqual of man, and, in ail probability, in many rospects his superior, Naithor do I beliovo shie 4s subject to him in any aonso ; but, rather, Ifear, le in only TOO" MUK BUBJECT T0' WER, as critle, friend, brother, lover, or hnsband,— subject to hor whims and Gpinions, to hor polty tyranny, aud her pretly nirs naud gssump- tious, I doubt if "even MMl himself wae fres from thom; Indoed, I think quite likely that, like'cinldren who whistlo in the dark while they tromblo-with fenr, lie felt tho will of gome steong-minded Xantippe, and groaned with a senso of bitter'oppreskion wlile he wrote in her dofenno, I should like'te knowr when and whera ttio work of subjngation Began; or whether thero was 168lly suy subjugation in tho case. It does not follow, becanse their positions are different, that eithor tilo ons or the other {s in- ferior, fl\'munn, in being the' help-meot of man, in not noceusnrily his sinve. o be s wife, tho kesper of his home, the mother of hia cluldren, his companion, coniforter, friend, the sharor of evory joy and sorrow, is not degrading, That she infght be all that he la in the profeasions, and in many of the moochanienl orts, is frue; that she may euccessfully ocom- pete withh him In anything = whore muscular strongth is not absolutely required, is boyoud doubt; and that ho is not only willing that sho should do thin, BUT IN HOME BENS® REQUIRES IT, i algo well known, Yon may wonder or ques- tion, but L know it to bo o fact from my own porgounl experience. As a businoss-woman, be- gioning inexperienced and timid, untried and ?enrrul,lhnvn received the kindest words of sympathy and mosb unvarying courtesy from business-men. As a law-student, I have ro- coived onconragement from all, the very roveise of ophosition,—and valuable assistancs in the w‘:lw of books, offurs of the use of libraries, aud advico, > ‘What conld bo the object of man In reducing ‘to an inferfor plade or rank In lile onowith whom ho must asvocinte 8o intimately ; one whose in- fluenco upon Lis life is immousurable; whose m- tallectual attniuments niugt be the standard to which his sons and daughtors will rise; whoso morahey aud yunty must be the safoguard of his honor? Notwithstanding all the talk about schools, legislation, businoss-ndvantages, sud all that, the whola * 3US™ DI DONE IY WOMAN ALONE. Little or no lesivabie ohnuga can be wrought by ouside agencies. Suhools cannot ‘oducate if sha will not App!y hor mind to study ; legislatton can but forco ur.on hor burdens she has no strangch to baar, and dntis o Will nezlees, unless sho fit herself to dischucge them, 'Whiv, with il dus deterance to them, abont one in five thousnnd wonld do, and do wall; nine in ten could do it, Dbut would not,—same because it would be too much tioubla, move for tha most exccllont and sonsible renson that it wonld not pay in any sense ; that they wonld never have time to spare from thinga thab ware really of more lmportunce to themselves and fatnilies, Then, too, I think women take a most exous- able and sensible pride in_believing that thors are gome things which belong to men, and which oven the “ strong-minded " ouglit to rospect. My observations have been talten from the best society, and, thongh ecivcnmstances may have an influonce, all does not depeud upon thom ; and I believe man's natural disposition towards woman is more than all else, and that disposition ia to protact, shelter, and love ; hars, TO LE PROTEOTED, BNELTERED, AND LOVED. And if, withal, respect be not ousof the strongest ingredients of his regard, the fault mnst be hers, not his, since she can command the one as well ua the other, and both ura vol- untary offeringa, nover withdrawn unless rejoot- ed or forfeited. + By the grace of the male sex” she could be all that & true woman wauta to be, for I behieve men would be glad to have women far more than-they are now,~—stronger, more indepond- ant, more truthful,—in short, earnest, simpla, thonghtlul women, sweet and lovable,—an em~ bodiment of the graces of mind and body which aro more beautitul than physical perfection,— more attractiva thun dress, fashion, style, or the mont costly, showy outward adernments, « I wish the rolations of the two conld be MORE FULLY UNLERSTUOD, and the erruncous, mikclievous notions, cor- vectod, thut Adam nover forgave Iive for the gin in which ho shared; and that his sons in- herited the grudge, and perpetuated it botween themmelves uud hor daughtors down to tha pres- ont duy; that ench voneration has strengthened the feud, until, inatend of beiug **flesh of thy flosh aud bowe of thy bone,” she is but = suubbod, despised Lelng,—his only aim to keop bor bonenth his foot, & useful worvant, over whom ho domineors, abusing bor whoen he is suvage, enduring hor whou he is indiferently, pussivoly umiable, and, la his bost aud happlest moody, findiug hor but the toy that amuses au idle liour; that they have no confidence in_ ler goodners, uo belief In her intellectual ability, aud vo Inithin her powor to attaiu to, or lier a to fill, uny position bigher than that of favorite in a rioh mew's hurom or drudge in o poor man's kitelien. 1 wuant to wee our danghters have ovory ad- vantuge for education that our sous have, and to seo o professions—if ndeed they are not naw—thrown open to them; but I have no de- sive to see tho burriors raised by socioly DEEWEEN VIRTUE AND VICE broken down for hor ua thoy are for man; no de- sira to see tha world sinlle ‘upon her dogradution a3 It doew upon hiu; no desiro that its spprovul DLe hers when she shows it a life, and heart, and sonl, solled, and Dblotted, and polluted, "And, oven If unf)ni«& to her, Lecaunso of iudulgenco partially bestowed wpon him, I - had rather it bo unjust than tompt hor to pin with the preminm of favoritum, or render more ousy the swilt descent which she will be far more hkely than now to troud when sho stands upou tho platform of unreatrictad equality, Wiy not Do content In sheltorod placos, f{l quiet nooks, in guardod homes, whero Lor in- fluoncs, het'powar, her lovo, hiive welght? 1t will be the kaddent day since Eden's gntes cloved upon mortality wheu no distinctions aro made betmoen mun ahd woman, und we have abund- ant reason to pray that our eves mayv never be- hold (. CUARSET B, FREENAN, Puy Versus Cotticonts, To the Editor of The Chicavo Tribune: Birs Sociotoglesl quentions, Involving woman In hor new rolo of *the individual,” aro din- turbing the thought of the day, and attracting the atiention of the thoughtful. Promnent among thete ls tho ono which Intimately con- corn bier a4 bread-wlnnor,—the question of LAUON AND EMOLUMENTS a8 compared with the same for the legitimate broad-winnerd, Tho pras and cons of this ques- tiou are fawilin to all, Tle arguments on ejthor side huve been clowrly und sptly stated, Tho subjact scems exhanuted, aud utill the probe lomn remaiug fu unsatisfactory uou-wolution, It 18 likely ta romnin In inis stats until woman shall work it out by long, thorough tralning to toll, and w porsistont adhoroncs tolb through life, ‘Wormnon aro lifting up thoir volces, orying ** In- Justlca [ and thoro ard facts in the oxporis onco of workingwoman which exouso tho outery, Thoto are multitwdes of womon faithfully and skilifully parforming Inbor lon assigued to man, whoso ‘Work in pronouncad good ; but tho cumponsation doos not bonr tho #nmo relation. Thoso women chafe at tha In- nr}lln\lly of pay, and whh good roason, Thoy at- tribute’this *srrong " to n TREIUDICE AGAINST PETTICOATS and oftentimes thia scems to bo the only onnsn of tina half-pay rogulation, If labor and com- ponsation sre out of proportion, women claim a wide margin for grambling, Men aro not tho only over-concoltod anlmals n the world. Bomio woinon considor that the maohinery of sociuty, and even pohitics, need thelr upecial mtorven- tion that the plans of oteation eall for rocon. struction; aud frot bocause it in too Iata for giv- Ing advice, or tho satisfaction of saying, “I told you Yow wortion studs catofully tlio canaox of pt- ticont-subjection in this matter of pay. ‘Who; hidve not timo Lo rond the cnretul digost of the socjologist, and they nro too impntiont at the injuntico to ronson tho mattgr out thoughtfully and with common sense, TVaif, is nota wome- an'a watehword, Bhe world jump at physienl rosults as sho does at mentnl concfistons, ~ And yot the class of women who are loudest in theic elamor for equal piy have DHAINB AND CULTURE. They aro far romoved fom the legitimate labor~ Ing class, This Iatter has iucluded women in tho rankd of toil tine oub of mund, . Im fiald and factory, mirls and women have worked sido by sido witli boya aod men, toilod thair litatime through, aud diod, making no sign, Iudeed, they saw no cause for complaint. Il was & qies- tion of physical enduranca simply with them. If tho girla und women were strong euough to Xeep up with thelr brothers nud Lusbands, they recoived the sane compeusation, A given num- Dor of yards, if woven well by & woman, was puid for without prejudico in favor of pautaloons. Thid continues the samo in all the machenical workinanship perforined by mon and women alike, When Olive Logan said sho Tind mistakon her eallings, ond wonld lave been a wiser anda woulthior woman if she lind chionen tho profese #ion of dtessmuking inntend of dress.oxhibiting, slie mode & point that has more portinence than mont of her romarks may eluim. = Inju not the women who bava mnatered a trade that wo haar growling about inndequats, unequal pay, Tho growling coraes from anothor quarter altogethor {2 tholr sase, . Poverty has ONE COMPENSATING INFLUENCE OFTENTINfAA for young-womankind, 1t binds them fo werve an_appronticeship At some godd trade, from whicli thoy worx out a compotence and indopens dence. 1t will lake one or moro generatious of woll-to-do parents to learn that to give their danghtors such o source of indepondance is in- fimtely bettor fhan giving thom what they aro pleased to torm the “advantagos of an educns tion,"” which means anything but an education ¢ whicli means & false aud . faultly cramming of mera words, or tho most super(lcial smattoring of sich acquirements as can never be put, aro never p‘m, to any practieal ueo i the roal strug~ lo cf lifo. ¢ As itis not the legitimate laboring olasg— noither women with trades nor intrade—who are growling at unequal pay, will it nos bs well to look about for tha regn\nr gromblers? A large class of women are to-day thrown upon their own resources, 1n all gorts of unoxpected wags., Rich peoplo live recklessly, Improvi- dently. An hour oftentimed in America tuins a millionaire to & pauper. The middle classes, a4 they aro called, live up to their income annually in the struggle for appearances. 'Tho husbaud and father puccumbr to the strain 1n tho prime of hia yoars; his wifo and children are poor as beggara. Half the American population live on a ratlwiy tram, Aceidont insnrauco compauies do not cave for all the families whose paternal providers lose their lives by railway-acoident, In ono way and another, & coroless, ever-changing, ruxhing people suddenly leavo helploss wives and dusughters to shift for thomselves. Ten chances to one, = THEY ANE KNOW-SOTHINGH; that ig, thoy have no regource within thomselves to whioh they oan turn 1n self-celiant vonscious- nesy that they know eowne ono thiug well enough to male a living by it. The st twenty yonrs hava openad many av- enuos for this holpless winterhood. Bituations in stores, oflces, etc., are now tiled by a olnas of women who, twenty years 20, would have beld up borrifiod hands a¢ the **1dea of a woman clork or bookkeaver.” A a class, thess women have not recovered from sume of their original silly notions, ‘Chey have been spurred by ne- cosxity alono to seex employmeont, Toil ~still seems & stain-apot in the ideal woman-life. Tho employer fecls this in the methods of this claes. ‘Ha counts them unrolizble. By this s does not mean disbonest or unfaithful.” He feels dead cortain that thoy will laave thoir piaces to fill that of housekeeper as a wife to any man who will firat 1Lt them out of the toil that is & sortof lionorable indepsndence to that which is ofton- times & sort of beguarly depenidence. .Theno women hava not acqmired, by slow and steady processes, & gonuime love for work, and they oagerly and continually look forward to SOME LUCKY ESOALE. ‘When & womar marries, sha utuiqhtwuy gives up her placo; when a man marries, he straight- way doublea hin diligonce, that he may provida for two and possibilities, in pluce of ona, A whole chaptor might now come m of the gront ndvantags to wonwn In continning hor own Independent work ; of the grent underl:ing cause of infolicity in married life,—the beggatliness of the petticoat part of the domestiv mnachine, A few instances we bave known of the co-operation of husband and wife in Iabor that means mouoy foreuch; nnd the harmony of those fow homos offers umpld testimony to the truth of the ktate- ment that balf the infulicity of mariiod life ra- sults from the beggarly condition of the women, "Thers are wonien, Lowever, whom necessity has spurred to toil, who went ont into the world empty-handed, with no knowledgo of anything that would bring money, but bave faithfally, por- sistently given their untiring energy to that which their hunds tound to do. T'hoy stragglo uncom- plalningly against the injustice which nccords to them balf pay for equal labor, knowing tbat thora are real causes waich tend to these rosults, Thesa womsn REDEEM THE OLASH which kaops the pay of women down., Ontof a painful experience of ineficioncy and learning at the hardest, they have evolved this common- sonse theory's that every girl should be iaught to do eomething which Is a want in the world, They would not withhold from girls any rraceful accomplishments, nor deprive thom of any op- portunity of eultured society, travel, or what not that teuds to make happy and elegant women, They would hove thom cultlvate their esthetio tasces, but not at the expense of physical vigor. Hut, nbova all, they tsist that each’ girl, what- ever hor position in hfe may be, shall be taught one usoful soquirement thoroughly, and be Initiated into GENERAL TDTAS OF HUPINERS, To puch women will the world be indebted for nnew ordor of things for the women-workers, Buch women will be on the righc track for the wolution of the soclological prablem that now clalms the attention of the thonghtful. Womon must whrk ont their own salvacon in this mattor, by becoming willing as woll aa faithful workers, " Labor rightly rendered s nocurse, The cur-e contea with the censeless utrife to live 88 our neighbor does, not na we bant like to do oursolven.” * Lenrn fo labor nad to wait" Is n oapital niotto for bolugs In petticats to inseribo opon their bannor, The woman's millennium will mean, uot suffrage, not freodom slone, but the keuse of sntistuction, that not even ro- ligion oan nepart, which comes from & purse woll fliled with her own righttnl earnings, which sho can appropiiute according to her own good plensure, without giving falthful account of ‘' that othor dollar.” Beings in pantalooss will profoundly respeot tho liberty of a ludy's loose purse siring, ~ ‘They will noods bestir themsclvos to worthy deads to win ' my Indy's haud," ex sho will no longer ba forced to's marriage with mon- ey-bags, but can taka time to look about and noe what manner of man sha will choose for her co- worker and companion, By processos of diligence, and delight in dili- Rouce, woman will DISAIM THE PREJUDICE AGAINST PETTICOAT LA DOR, The relnhvlt; of pay and labor will alone bo considered, ‘W'ho inequality of pay tor men and women will remain ko long a4 tho inequalitios of thelr candition romain, When the gonerations have evolyed & youne-wonanhood impressod it enily childliood, v our boys aro now, that thoy mukt do womothing, must be something, sul trained to wkilled workmauship and promps buniness hablts, thon the disproportiouate puy will nover e heard of, Whon thore comes suclt a stute 0f ocioty thut mon will look with kindly 8y08 upon u young womnn who steps out iuto tho uctivitlos of “life wrmed with an artisan's conltl- eato of cumpatent workmauship, iuncead of tho duintlly-written diploma of wawoat givl-graduste, then yarious things which vex the womun of to- llur. sud causio them to stuna out from tho e0- called womnnly wayw in the uggressiva athindo fil ‘l;alormar-, will Lis done awsy. CGood buatueds bits WILL MARE DETTER WONEN, aa [t does botlor mon, Lot not conseryatism be aluraied lest young womanbood loose ity ohani of modesty {m the workaday world, A truer womnuhood will be the outgrowth of a truor ro- Iation with manhood, A true indepondence doos not moan impudenco, and woman shall bo ro- stored to purlty and high Intent by the power of ood pry. 1ler poverty is oftoner tho eauso of “ur falling from theaa than her lack of prinoiple. 8ho is the slave of hor negessitios, aud not hor passions, Romova tho ea:sn, tho cursg will shrink {nto nothirgness. Begin at the begin- nlllF of & girl's 1ifo § fit hor for the rudo contret of lifo, and not lot hier diift mmlessiy till acei- dont sag, storoly, * Iaup and doing.” Thon the world will acknowledge a parer standard of womanhoo than hins been posaible in the ages of her sweet subjoction, The Ory of n Waorkingwwomnne To the Editor of The Chieano Tribune : Bmt: In your fssite of June 24, ' The Woman Question” was handled with kindness, judg- mont, and & truo Christian apirit, God ble#s any one who will eayn kind word in favor of women, Iwish there could bo found men with a8 good mornl senae, a8 good intollactual freul- tles, a8 much powor of ‘didcorning right from wrong, a8 thore woro fu tho dayaof African slavory. In those doys, the malo sox ware not tho subjeot of the politician § but .the poor, do~ graded fomnlo, who wore subject to any kind of abuse from thoir masters, What is the posi- tion of tho workingwoman of the presont day ? 1If not in actual slavery to hor mnster,—becauso sho can loavo to find oo equally an sovore,— sho is nlmost in as bad & condition as onr public men and women ecried out against with regard fo tho poor colored woman. 1 am tho sorvant of masters who hire me for 85a wook, and expoct me to pay board and washing, and still dress well, while in their om- ploy. And last woek this was taken from mo, ond I was turned ont of my mituation, becanso o rolative would work as cheaply as 1 did, and thas rotativo o man, Any man who will deprive a fo- male of o situation is not a man, nor posseased of ono spark of manhood, Fooplo may call such things women's rights, All the righta I want 18 the privilege of earning o rospectable lving. Thoro should bo a Olub that will protect our rights, 3on have Protectiva Uniona 5 thoy have their wages regulated by such Unfons, and are fully pald for thoir work, My employers, gonorally wponking, have snid that I nccome plishod as much worlk as n man, but would never pny me the wnges thoy did & man, It 1 do the kame nmouut of labor, am I not ontitied to the #ame wages 2 1 would like to have women of good social }mfii(lon ongago in tho work of helpiug womon, ask it in tho nnme of my sisterhood ; in tho name of your danghters, whio some day mny have to stand in the samo position in which the poor gitl now stands, Don't let your monoy blind you to tho fact that tho working-women are God's oroaturos, with feolings and thoughts similar to yours, with minds and Learts willing to do right if rigntly diracted. 1 wish some of the wonlithy Indies of thin great oity could tako Limo to visit some of the slooping apartmonts of the working-women. They aloep in closo rooms and breathe vitinted atr. - Their food ia stale veretables and wunwholesome brend and meat. Thon wonder at tho palo, languid womon you meet in the streets, I onca heatd s lady (who appended M. D, to Ther namo) romark that ahe bad no sympathy for those who starved iu attics and basements, bo- caugo they conld find n situntion in some une's kitehen, Now, I will deny that, When 1 camo to Ohleago, I tought employment in evory de- artmeut whore wowan could work, from the Fiiction up, 1 wax willing to do anything honor- ablo to earn a livolihood. Bome told me I did not look strong enough to do kitchon-work or sweep. Others could not pay me cuongh to pay my board. I turned away sick at hieart, ready to take my own life. Tho idea of intolligences offices was mnot respectable to me, who knew nothing about them. Iiwaa spending my last dollar, and had not a friend in the work Iaro to. ‘These are common, plain facts, and tho his- tory of hundreds in your city who eory to inu for bLelp and sympathy, M. E. D, Fainting vs. Getting Drunk. WoopsTook, 1., July 1, 1874, To the Editor of T'he Chicago Tribune: Bm: To-day's issuc of Tux Tnipuse con- tained an editorial comment upon the Washing- ton tologram, that, of 325 dischnrged fomale enit ployes of the Bureau of Printing and Engrav- ing, fourteon fainted at tho annmouncoment of their discharge, ns follows: ‘‘The fainting scene, we suppose, will uot be happily rogarded by advocates of woman-suffrage, and those who contend for woman's ability to meot man on his own ground.” Bupposa for a moment that the fourteen, in- #toad of faiuting, had rotaad presence of mund suflicient to enable them to go forth and ges compreliensively drunk, “to drivo off tho blues,"—as, [ veuture to say, oue-third of the duscharged male omployes that day did,—wonld that have shown ability to meet man on his own groand” ? O.T. ' YET WILL | TRUST. The darkn s chasing this Sun’ laat gleam Down the golden gludes of the West 9| Tho frightened Day lialts one moment her flght On the hill-top's glimmering vrest,— Oue moment lingers, then lovingly sunds Ter wweet benediction of rest, Deserted the bowers ; forgolten the flowera ; The hiurp and the lide wre nustrung ; Unheard tho glad song of the matiu ours § “Tlg aweet Lymn of evoning unanng ; The Eurth sits {n gloom like a King untrowned,~ The scoptre, tha glory, huve fed,— And darknoss 'sinks dowh fn wience profound Likeu palt o'er tho quict duad, B0 perish the dreams of our youtl's sweet time; 80 clouds th 1ull uoou of our dsy ; Bo, unie b; 17axs, sllnt, forever awuy. Aloue, 0 my foul { in thy niyht enthratled, Luah weelui despulrlug teird ; Yor Surrow's gram hand liugs u threatening pall O'ur the patiiwuy of coming years, one, the dear hopes of oUr hearts Byt lo! on the wings of the new-born Day "Tljo durkuess of ulght {5 npborne ; Its bauntig whadowa Heo, crouching, before Tue fuct of the coming morn, Tira voices of Nature, a countless thrang, Hhout thanks for ie happy Earth; The Univorse jolus the grand choral' vong Of joy at the World’s now birth, The dafay looks up from ita roay cup, At Lutigha i the face of the day iie lily-beils chime, and with their Tove-rhyme “Lhe ficot-wingod breeze flios away, Tho Queen of the Howers, i fragranl bowers, Yiclds hier aweotw to the Wind's tirexs ; And these words whispor tie musleal Lours, 4 Live but to love aud to bless,” 0 Soul ! deapalr not o'er thy burdensd fate; Stay not thy fout the weary, leugtnened Patient, chido not the coming nor us late, A aaz0 liand guf For thes, o glor.ous, Houvenly Day alul A pencoful morn with healing o He ~Before theo, Joy wuprome and purcst ) Toyond the low coucelts of surthly Dear Savior, enter Thou within my heart ; There ny Tllf tender love find welcome rosm,— Thers mny Thy healing hund, with Geace Divine, Dinper=e the tight aud bid the morumy come, Frow the screny, unfuiliug ** Well of Lite, Duul, 0 my Soul, and nover, nover thirsts Then, thoughi the darknens full and storis be rife, Btitl canut tho Yot will 1 truat {7 ‘Waunesiza, Wi PSS, Archbishop Whately ia the Logic ] toom, Adalphusa 'rotlops tn the July Lippincott, The logio class is ussombled, Iho door by which the priseipal is to enter 1s oxactly apposita to the foot of the stair whioh dascends from hiw own apartment. It standd open, and presently n Kind of rushing sound s hoard on the scuirenso, 1n the next inktant Whately plunges headfore- most into the room, saying, while yet in thu door- wuy, *Explaln the nature of thethird oporation of the mind, lr.Johuson," Lut, a3 none of the oporutions of Mr, Johnson's mind are so rapid as thotie of the enorgetie principal, the luttor has liad time to fling binwelf luto a chair, erous the wmull of one log over the knoo of the other, bal- ance himself on the two hind legs of tho ohuir, and bogin to show signs of impntionce be- fore Mr, Johuson hes sufliciently gath- ored Dhis wits togother, While “chat process 18 being accomplished the prinoipal soothon his impatience by the administiation of a huge pincli—or Landful, rather—of anuff to lug noso, coprously sprinkling his walstcoat with the auporfluity thereof. Then ut last comos from Mr, Johneon a meagre auswer i the words of the text book, whioh 18 followed by a luminouy oxposition of tha rationale of tho whole of that part of the aubject, in giving which the locturor whoots far over the henda of tho majority of his lioarern, but 18 highly approciated by the nelout few who aro able to follow him. " Now, Mr, Juckson, examino this syllogism: Al mon are doge; all philosophers” are meny theratore all phl‘lnnnphurfl aro dogs,! Isthat a corroct con- clusion? ™ Paor Mr, Jackson lucontineutly talls into the trap, aud simperiugly opincs lhn{uuuh o concluslon is not nltogethior correct, * Ou the contrary, sir, the conclusion is drawn from the promises with pexfeot logioal correctuess, You fanoy that . the logio 18 bad Lo in fagh, When cause $he oconolusion iy false abAll T sitocaed In making you understand that Togle has nothlng to dd with the sccuracy or in- acouraoy, the trath or falseliood, of tho wutate- mont or facts containad in the promiscs ?—>Mr, Jones, explain what t.48 that loglo can do and what {t can't do.” Mr, Jonen piogsods to givo his ideay on the subject, and |a sharply polled up by bolng told to * put it into a ayllogism," ‘Ihis wan au favorite n phirnse with \Vhately that it was a ourrent ao'flot at on a wina marchant saking the principal hosw ho should sond home quantity of wine which the Doctor had bmlpgnt, tho lattor rapliod, as he had lott the ahop, **Ob, put it into » syllogism 1" Ag the lectura pro- coeds tho lecturer takes tho matter more sad moro into his own hands, and ends by giving a masterly elucidation of that part of the sub- Jeot which s ncunflyluz the class, And dur- ing the whole of the time the lecturs lnsts— somowhat more thau an hour, prob- ably—tho roverend locturer continuea to thirow himself about on his chinir into the stran- goat nititudos, vory frequontly batancing himuolt on ono of the hind lega of it. " X rememboer one ocension upon which the Principal of Alban Hail was dining with the Wardon of New Collsgo. Whilo tha fow minutos a'apsod during which the gnosty werae assomblad in the drawing-room be- fore golug futodinner, Whatoly was thus poising himsolf on ono log of his chair and nursing ons log thrown np ovar the thigh of tho ochier, when the Loo-norely tried lofl of tho chair suddeuly broke, and the learned and reverond Principal sprawled on the floor, Whately did not even - torrupt the convorsation he had been carryiug on at the timey but, picking himself up elavorly, bLe toanad the broken chuir into & cornar of the room without oue word of apology to nuybody, and, taking another, proceeded to aimilarly mis- uae it. Tha sobriquat of ** white bear,” by whict hio wos known in the Umveralsy, hiad raforencoe to sonothing olso bosidos the saudy color of his Liair, aud whiskors, and ayebrows, LTERARY NOTES. TERIODICALS RECEIVED, Tha Norfh American Review for July (Tnmes R. Osgood & Co., Boston) has contents ns follows: *Tho Hanlin Yusn,” by W. A, D, Martin; ¢ The Platform of tho Naw Party,” b Brooka Adams ; ** Darwinism and Lnu‘;uufi b W. D. Whitnoy; *Julian Schmidt’s Hiatory of Franch Litoraturo,” by 'T. 8. l’or:'!; by gm‘rouuy Dovato of 1873-'74," by O, I, Adams, T, ‘The National Quarterly Revicw for June (Ed- ward I. Soars, Now York) has tho follows ing articlos: ~ *Infldel Aspcots of Dhyaie cal Sclouc " Woman's Duties and Right ;" “Bulur Hent and Its Mode of Ac- tlon ;" ¢ Swirt, and His Alleged Troatment of Varina, Vanosen, and Stoila;” * Cotton-Grow-~ ing, Paat, Presont, and Future :" * Anothoer Ex. cuislon AmunE Benty of Learning, Gennine and Sputfons;” *Mr. Motloy's Jolin of Bornoveld." Tho International Review for July—Angust A, B. Baruos & Co., New York) has contonts as ollows : ** William Oulien Bryaut and His Writ- ings,” by Ray Patmer, D. D.; * Conl and Its Supply,” by Frof. E. . Androws, BtateGoologis of Ohio ; ** Thisteen Yoars of Freedom in Italy,” by Yrof. Angelo de Gubornatis, LL.D., Florencs, Tialy : “ The Catholic Reformation in Switzoer land " “The Now Revision of the English Bible,” by Prof, George P, Fisher, D, D., Yala Colloge ;" ** T'he Orthodox Cuuroh,” by Princess Doia d'Intria. z “I'ho Penn Monthly tor July (Philndolphln) has articlos, umong others, on *Johu Edgar Thotn- 8on ;" *'The Firat Anti-Slavory Protest,” by O, Beidensticlkor ; Anciont Groelk Musio,” by J. G. Brinckle ; “*Mnurice's Friondskip of Bool ;" “ Religion_and tue Biate;” and Reclprovity with Canada.” Great Western Monthly for July (Philadel- ph ai { ‘oice of Masonry for July (Bailoy & Brown, hicago). The Ilusirated Journal for June (American Puolishing Compuny, Chicago). Saturday Jowrnal for July (Wilmer & Rogera News Coupany, Now Yark). Awmerican Historical Record for Juno (John E. Potter & Co., Philadelphin). Northwestern Review for June (R, R, Doar den, Clicago). Chicago “Teacher for July (Belfleld & Kirk, Cliicago). &anilarian for July (A, N. Bell, Now York). Medical Investigalor for June (Chicago). MISCELLAXEQUS ITEMS, —The Golden Age (ThoodoraTllcon's paper) has Leou entarged, aud changed 1 form from eight to sixteen pagen. ‘The paper, it 18 announced, wilt be under the apecial suporvision of its for- mer asdociate edltor, W, T. Clarke, —h{rs, Mary J, Holmos 18 ou the way home from Europe, wilh & uow book for Carlaton to publish in the fail: *Dr. West."" —Thoy say that John Forster is engagod on & biograpliy of Dean Swift, —That’ voteran novel-writer, W. IIarrison Alneworth haw put out, In throe volumas : "o Good 01d Timou," which the Speelator pronouuces & veory correct but dull historical romance, —Sir Samuel Baler's now book, describing his adventures at the head of the military expedi- tion sout by the Khodive for tho supprossion of the slave-trade in the African iuterior, is at last completed. Its title js * Inmaihia.” —Orange Judd s wold the Zearth and Home to the Daily Graphio Company, who will lLere- alter publish it in placoof their Weekly Graphic. ‘Fhe illustrations, which wera dropped a forw months ugo, are to be rostored, —A short time before his death, Mr. Thorn- ton Hunt placed tho papers of his fathor, Leigh Hunt, in the hands of Mr, Pownshend Mayer, of Richmond, England., Thers {8 wueh in these paners which lins never buon published, nnd Ar, Mayer hiay decided to use soma of the lettors as ‘materials for a series of magazine articles, —The Freuch Academy has soleoted Living- stone as the subject for its poetical prize to be awarded in 1878, —It 18 enid that Honri Rochefort has recoived from England an offer of £3,000 to establish a Jjournal there. —A now novel by Georgo Sand, entitlod *a Seeur Jeanne," is maoling with considerable sug- ceas in Paris. —Victor }ngo will publish in a month or twoe, before the issuc of the sccond part of * Quatro- vingttroize," o colicction of miscellaneous poemd, Arcangoments arc maling for their tranaiation futo English vorse, to appear shortly after the publication of the Frouch text. Mr. Swinburne was at first to have supplied the English rendering; butit has boen since declded to entrust the translation to & number of hands, —Drot Harte iy_reputod to have recoived 3200 far his posm, ** For the King,” in the July Al- lantic,—n price vory rarely patd by magazincy. —1It {8 a noticeabls fact that Allibune’s Direo- tory of Authors, which eluims to be very com- L-nem, and to ba brongit down to a recont dato, a8 10 mention whatever of George Eliot (Ma- rinn Lvans Lowes), who 1 the very first writer of English flotion, ~—Thera isto be n grand convention of the American _Book Trade Union at Puc-in Day, Ohio, on Lake Erie, on tho 21nt of July, Iif objects are to tnke caro of the interests of boolisellers, consider tho practice ealled “audor- unllin[r'." &e. —Tho nuthor of *DIroverbinl Philosophy,” Alartin Farquar Tupper, contomplates coming to this conutry noxt mtumn with & view of mak- ing & reading tour_through both our Ropublic and Caunda—rending from hin own worlks, which includa pooms, tales, and pluya, as woll as tho work alrondy montioned. ~—A veryinteresting now book is "' La Princosso do Salm-Salm au Moxique on 1867,” edited by M. Vhilippe fde Toulzn, and printod by Vietor Palme, Paris, Madame la Drincesso de Salme Halm is tho dauchter of an American Colonel, and was married some 15 years ago to the inti- mate friond of the Lmperor Maximilian, Princo Balm-Salm. ~—Mennrs, Beribner & Co, have closed by cable a contract with o Britlsh publishing housa for Mr. King's forlheoming volume entitled # Tho Qrent South,” which he Is preparing on the basis of s articlos in Serbner's Monthiy. "The buok is to be published by subscription on both sides the Atluutic. —T'ho ofticial journal of Berlln aunounces that tho nomination of Thomus Carivle ns & Forolgn Kuight of the Ordor Pour le Morite by the Acad~ omy of Beience of that city huw beon confirmed by King William, Mr. Carlyle takes tho plnes in thie Chaptor of the Order which was vacatod by tho donth of Munuzont, At fhst Victor Hugo wus proposed as Manzoni's succossor, but rejoctod on account of hiy utrnn;zdlollucul unti-German feols g, and the namo of Carlyls uaturally unguestad it4olt nu next mow approptiste to the dorlin Acndemy, Mr, Carlyle Leing not only the hest, but nixo the most enthusiastio, historlan of Fred erivk the Grout, and having proved himuelf tho ateady defender uf the Germun cause 1u the late Franco-German war, —\Ve have good authorlty for an ennounce- ment which will gratity a much wider oirels than the roaders of the M We undorstand that lail, Henry W, Longfoilow has consented to under- talkie tho writing ot a hife of lus friond Charles Sumner, to bs publmhed by Lee & Bhepnrd, uniform with their complala edition of his works, Tho younger goneration has asimost for- {ZONM\ Lougtollow's proso, eclipsed av ic is by i work in lmmry, but older adwirors kKnow it for heantitul English, and & worhy life of tho voat Bountor msy be expevted,—New York ail. —Tho Now' York T'ribune, several duys ago, mblished n articls undor the title of hildren's Dobt," roferriyg to the utruitened vir- onmstanves of the grest Danish writer, laus Qhristiun Anderson ; and, in rauponse, subkerip- tlons are alrowdy beiug wmade for the bonolt of Mr, Andarsen, Turd & Foughton, Now York, print a eard {n which thoy aay : * Andorson hime solt, In tho couversation raportad lu tho Gologno Gazele, statea that the copyright which we pay him is !l that ho roooivos from any sonrco sava his Dauish publishors, and ho hng futimatod in Liw nutobtography that his fucomo Is not_inrga, Whilo, thew, we caunat say from onr own knowle odge that thin emment writer i in want, w should bo most bappy to act, ns his authorized publishers hero, as agonts for the recopidon and transminsion to him of acy testimonial which his Aworlean {rionds may spontancounly offor. —_—— THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS, Tha O11 World atill, with laughs and groans, Makes augels woep, ~Hor wisves ntill walp ‘Donouth the ahadow of her thrones ' Hor boggara couch at Dive' gate, The Old World folde her hands and prays Tlor dream of PeACO may yol €omo trijo,— Wonrtly telling o'er (e daynt lia OKL World—Nay, whtat of the Nows * 1l ma of her, the promiacd Ixna Whore peaco and plenty fill thie botra Whoss manhood, Ifka hor Nature, grand Beuda only to the leavenly Powers, "Tlie Now World—onco, not long ago, Buch things of her might have been. tola, Ero prids gave placo (o cmpty show s ‘Lo Now World now s fike tho OLd, Wit matter whero hor slaven ara found, Tisneaths the Throne or in tha Hall 2 Ths nolwe of chatlering goes arotnd, Waile Truth and Houor lower fall, There Dives lords it fn his state,~ Tiews Laln to glvo, the moro lio's ables Ifers Lazarun stands ot Dives' gate, And bogs the eruinbs kwept off Lis tablay TMare money takes the place af worth, A modest et tenmples down, ers'a pride of purke for pridu of birthym & tyrtut 1 & thusel crowa, Hers Justico turns her scale with bri And prinelples ara bouyht and sold, And Honesty s & mark for gibes : The New World puts to sbnme &1- ola, Tho oky i biack with ! unclean hraod Of kites aud vulturen on the winy ; Tlioy come, lured by no common food, Lu wwars, 0 quarry ou their King, Forshame! Aronso thos in thy might1 Olnp but thy wings, and thoy will iy In ferror back tto the night, ‘Where such na they should'live and dle} Then bs 1t ours—Gni will—to aos Swecl years of Lova and Truth unfold For thig world—whon the Ne= xha® oo, As erst, Lhe lodostar of tue Old, ) AR P S HuMoR, Gan. Butler makes a bonst of bolonging to the Cock eye slan race.—Graphic, ~—T'ho old-fashionod woman's crusade—A boy'a head and a fine-tooth comb, —Au accomplished optician suggests to tho oppononts of corporal punishment that the placa for “ pupila * is under the lnuh, * ~—\Vhion & woran bluahes and weops can sho ba st to raluo & bue and ory ? —Dr. Mary Walker denios that & young Tronae ury olork rocogulzo her as his long lost father, —The lnst excudo that young men offer to hoy mother fy, * Want ta take her ovor to the park sud Auow her tho comet, ma'am,"” —A Kentucky farmor ways that throe mood bull-dogs rorming the yard nights will do mora to k)ednp & man honest thau all the talkiug in the world. —A Novada papor says: *Thero was no regu- Iar trial i the caso of }:Tnlm Tlandors ynawrdfi‘;. Ho bad o interview fu the woods with fow friends, bowovor, and it is porfectly cortain thab John won't burgle any more.” —An Illinois boy rubbed arsenic on hila teoth,so that he could bite his father in the leg and dose Lim when tho old man hauled him over his kuoo, —The lntest dodge of & Sun Francisco chiropoe dist is to oxhibit n small boy and announce that hie bing poon succossfully removed from o corn. —In Columbus, if a man cheats atcroquot, the young ladies caress the flango of hus ear with & nuallet. —A Virgiola Bheriff asked a murderer If ho wantod to make a speoch on the gallows, and the man replied: * Guess not; it looks like rain, and Idon't waut to got wet: go on with the anging."” .—Tho fool seckoth to picka fly from a mule's hind-leg. The wise man fettoth out tho job to the lowast biddor. 5 —** Now is the time for ronsting-ears,” writed arural editor. He should carry & sun-umbralia, — Chsuge cars 1" 16 what a eity boosblack mid tos countryman, the other day, when Lo Dbad fimshed blaekiug one of his brogsna. —Thorouglly respectablo—* Well, I think you will suit me. What Is your name ?" * Shak- spearo, ma'am ; but no rélation to the play-notoy of that namo,"—Punch. —a dobuting elub is trying to decide which 1z tho worst, & mother-in-law in the housa or a pair of cats ou tho wood-shed. —A phih\mllrurlnl suggoats that it wouldlower the price of small cofMink tomuzzle the boys dur~ ing groen-apple sonson. —** When oue of our clty roughs wants a bite," 8ays & New York paper, * and caw't got anything olte, hie puts up with a nose. Tho human pro~ boscis eems to bo considered a groat delicacy amony thom.” —Some ona wrots to Mornce Greeloy nquir- ing if guano was good to put on potatoss. Ha suid it might do for thoss whose tastes hnd bo- como vitiated with tobacco and rum, but he pre- forred grasy and butler. —A farmer givos this bit of advice, which contains a good hint: **If you want tho boys to rtay on the’ farm, dou't hear on tuo bard wheu tho boy is turning the grind-stone,” ._— Davenport nowapaper sperks of a doctor in thot city *looking with n deep-mesning smile upon a large lot of green ocucumbers in the market.” On his way homo he was ob- served to whispor confidontinlly to saveral un- dortakers, —* My dear,” aaid & wifo, looking up from her nowapagior,” what i the' dilferanca betwean *collusion ' anl ‘gollision 7" +OL 1" resnond- od the husband, “'it is_simply the difference betwoon u andi’” “Ohl yow," relorted the wife; “and the aama difference oxixts in your enswer, whiols is moro iugenivus than ingenu- ouy,” —The editor of the Columbia (3. 0.) Mail with grateful eloquenco ncknowledgod {he receipt of a mille-punch in one column, nud iu the next ublishied o ** Lomparance Depnrtment,” Spmo- ody has complaied of his inconsistency, and Lo explaius thst the *editor of the Mail hos nothing to do with what goos into the temper- auce column of his papar, nor hava the gontle~ mon who conduct_that department anything to do with whut goes iuto the editor of the Mail." —A timid man wants to kuow * how to tell a mad dog." We don't Lnow what lie wants to tell him, but the safost way would be to com= muntcato with the dog in writing, Send the lat~ ter trom n gun in the shape of wadding, fol- lowed Ly small shot to nee it Lo gats it, —'“Haven't I got n bottor undarshirt than this? it's aplit cloar down the buck," 15 what o Tipton man snarlad at his wife Sunday morning. Aud whon the ludy looked in sud saw hor indige nant hushand standing with his arms run down the legy of his drawers, aud looking for some placo to put hin head through, sho shiisked aud ran ont of the raom to concon! hor emotion, —A youug muu lust night while ealling upon & Iady on the avenuo, bocume deeply interested in the study of aatronomy, Jusc as he had almost succeeded in showing her where the new lumi- nary wa, his arm accidently dropped acaund her waist, She disengrged it with more force than lie thonglit was vecessary, and sharply ohsarnd, “Yon oun't comel ovor tio in Lnal wny, sirl " Bingular us it may soom, that young man hag loet his futerest in tho”study of astronomy,— Chatlanooga Téane, —At Tomn Badgor's wodding, his most intimate triond, Juak Lumly, was culled upon for & toant. Jack conld not remomber that neat littls spesch i had bosn conning for & weok. Tho presonco of a Llooming damsel, who stured in his oyos, Irighitonod the elabovate toast out of his mom=~ ory, Iut he foll himsolf equal to the ucersion, aid, to the amnzoment of the puests, said: + Liadgor, your health! May this dav's euter- tainment’ bo often ropouted " Mrs. Badger futed. —A tondor-honrted littlo girl was dintrossod at soeing a wmotherly old hen about to fold her wings over & brood of chickens, and bogan to pound on_the window with her lttls (at fists, ur,vln;{; “Don't vou sit dawn on all those protty little birdies, you ugly old rooster!" And the little 8-yoar old,"when discovered in tho paniry systomntically smuashing egus, roplied to hor mother's usstonished Inquiries, that she waa *hraskin' 'em opan, 80's Lo lot thelitile ohiok'ng walk out 1" . A Quuor Proponsitys Athol, Mass., hnd 8 strunge case of depraved youthful propeuaity iu u 4-year-old ohilld, that, Trom its vary oradle,. bas “ovinced s consti desire to bito, or rathor gouw, his fngord hands, wotil an judulgence in tho appotite soomy o be ulmost his onlv source of gratiloas tion, If left alone ho would lie on his baok for s hour at a timo, chowing his tingors and teare iug out ploces uf tlosh aad bone wich tho voraoe fty of uwsuvago aninml, e has pursned this hiubit wich such fatal porsistoncy as to reduce all tho ugers of both hiands to raw and bleedin stumpy, while of the thumb of tho left hlnfi nothing whatoyer remwiuv, 1lls uarouts were Hiut quusing,