Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1874, Page 10

R PR N SRR, T o T e T T . TJIE, CHICAGO, DAILY. ‘TRIBYNE: SUND [ Y, AUGUS 10 WOMAN. A.Woman with Fighting Ca- pacity -=-"Women. and TUniversity Degrees. Tho Lost Art of Cookery---The Qaes- tion of Wages---Woman's Ficlde &t a Man-Hilliner's—Learned Women-—Keno Among the Ladies. An Unfortunate Girl---Woman's Courage ---Abyssinian Slaves. Miscellaneous Notes on Feminine Topics. A Woman with Fighting Capacity. o the Bdstor of The Chicago Tribune: Stz : Most of the lady-readers of Tue (Sun- doy) Trinose peruso with interest tho articles - on “The Woman 'Question,” especially gince the sim of a geatleman correspondent is to eatab- Zish tho fact that the teal power of all Govery- ments 18 coucentrated in thoea * WHAC ELVE THE ABTLITY TO TIGHT,— that i, those who are capablo uf bearing arms 2nd meeting the encmy face to face on the Lat- tle-ficld. * The pen is mightier than the sivord,” 38 n0 part of his faith, a8 ho belioves that the powers that be awe képt only by the eword, and tho pen is but a petty plastbing, sometimes amusing, Lat of no account whateyer in tho set- tlement of grave differences. A lady correspond- ent unconscionsly falls into the same &train, al- thongh actributing it to another cuuse, when she writes, I never sce a porter pick up a huge ~weight and toss it into placo liko a mero noth- ing,. without wighing I could do likewise, but slitway curse the Eystoms of eociety that Te- siric: womsn's muscular exertion.” For her benefit, and the beneiit of others who are kicking ap tho traces which bind them, aud -also for the “benefic of that gentleman-corre- spondent, I wonld Like to relate a circumstance which came nnder my notice some months since. 1 was then accorded the privilego of giving the history of a certain individuel to the public if I wished to do s0, but was bound in honor nct to Civalze tho name. As there Lus been no reason why I shonld make use of the privilege then ex- tended to mme, T bave refrained from doing 803 Lutihe amtation of “Tho Woman Question,” and more es;ecially the argament that the Gov- emment -is based npon its £ghting power,—that the fighting -element is 140 oly power in a na- tion, and that woge but those who fight have a right to the ballo-ox,—gives it a pecaliar sig- nuficance. © Agaid the gentleman-correspondent says to the cap of woman for war, L ean only re- peat, that, atier they Lieve done so (viz.: proved . iheir cqual bility by decds}, they will heve no iher need to plesd aud coax for their sights, s the lutter will be firmiy founded on THE BED-ROCK OF THEIR OWN POWER." e proLably wrote hera truer than he knew in vue sense, and, veb, in_another sense, be set truth at defisuce, s the illustration [am about ta give will cleatly show. 1t was my fortane to mect a gentleman whom I will call John Smith. e, m common with Stber men, woro & shirt, pautaloons, sest, -gnd coat, and had a e sty beard aud mustache. e was & interesting talker, and knew well how to entertain the ladies. e poss: d a cultivated mind, aud had some_literary proclivities, - Lo dea'served in tho United States army, and was proud of his record as a soldier. lie bad been i sevcral batties; had been oniy oucewounded; 3nd was honorabiy discharged at the eud of the War. Since his discharge he biad learned a trade, 1 which be was successful, snd was receiving rood pay for his servicss., All tbis Ilearned lrom a friend; so far there was nothing remark- lle. . His career was_that-of thousands of our brave soldiers, and’ fliere was nothirg in it to attract attention. DBut judge of my surprice - when it was made kmown 1o me that this'ex-sol- lJier was not a mzn at all, but WAS 1N REALITY A WOXM: % {s tbat beard and mustache 31" was the Sret quastion L asked. * He will tell you him- 1clf,” said my friend. * He will relate to you xis experience, on condition that you never let kis pame be known.” . My curiosity wes thoroughly aroused, and I ave the required promise. “ It matters not,” she commenced, ¢ what was _ my pame mor where 1 lived; but,like other young girls of my age, when the Wur commenced between the North aua South, 1 bad s lover. My lover was pauiotic, and, fired with the ex- sifement of the times, he eutered the army to do 1in best towards putting down the Rabellion. I Fan for a tme amost Leside myself, | wd ineisted on_sccompsuying him and slanwg ais-fate.” If he dicd on the battlo-field. 1 wanted to die with him, as T cared nothing for ifo without him to'share it. 1o told'mo it was auporsible for & woman to euter the army; if I sould raise & beard and pass myself off for a man, L might possibly do it; but, as that was bevond all precedent, it conld not bo accom- dlished. 1 then ealled to mind bow many times had hieard of;ladies who were afraid thore was the appcarauce of a mustache upon their -lips, 1nd who lad attempied to skave 1t off. and_in the attempt bad created what they endeavored to destroy, and were forever after ovliged to shave. *T cyperuncnied with the soap ud razor on my swooth chin, aud, atter several trials, had thio satisfuccon of seemg thut 1 was indeed cul- tivating a beard. - I conducted this thing #o cau- tiously that my paronts had no idea of my Intcu- tiops: aud, when I bad hair enongh on iny fuce to warrant me 1n - CALLING MYSELY A MAY, 1 ran away from home, enhisied iu the company in which my lover served. aud joined Lim. As long as he Lived 1 had casy times, as Lo nelded me trom all unnecessary” hurdships, and mado my -dulies 88 lieht 15 possible,* excusity his partiality to Lis comrades by saxing, * He is such 1 delicaie looking youth, we strouger men ought %0 gavo bim &l we can.’ * “*Oue day, when tho baltlo was raging feur- and T “as Xlly, -my -lover was killed, elt to bear tho separavion as best I could. 1-dare not give way to my fec nga to any great estont, for fear my sex khonld 6 discovered ; w0 I triod 1o be a8 calw ns possi- sle, and go.about.my dutics us usual. My com- sades 1ealized that Ihad ot e fricud, althouzh tiey did riot suspees how dear e way to me. To sheir eredit be it gaid; they still continued their ‘ormer kinduess, and tried ta save the delicate- ‘ooking youth from all, unnecessary bardships. {now feit in continual fear of discovery. My skin was 00 fair, wy haods were too small and dolicate, and my-feet were top diminutive,for oy position. To remedy this, I wore shoes too iarge; I exposed myself to the sun - bareheaded ; {iusistod on dowg my share of tho hard work: : sud I cometimes dug il day m ditches and sreaches, for no other purpose tiray to TIARDEN MY MUSCLES wnd render my hands brown and tongh. With ie beard on my face;I could now be a man with- Jut fear F suspicion, if Xcuuld strengthen my nuscles, and look au 1f I hiad been used to rough asege and hurd times; and, eince my lover biad died, Tvever intended to 1ot my sex be Luown. I one battlo I was wounded shhtlyin the arm; iz physician who dressed it had not the slights ¢ wuspicion that it belonged to one of the ofter ke, as Jong as 1 remained m the wmy. I performed wiiitary daty . just the samo 8 any other privato soldiar. “After I left tho crmy, I debated what T should 30. aud concluded to learn s trado, and, after I 22d served an apprenticeship with satistaction to wyseit and the boss, 1 wout 1o work with men s @ of them. and not a rusoicion ever resshed Tocare tlat T was other thau I soemed. I raed {ho samo us Ty fellow-laboren Fhen T found L eowld work at’ my trado £ 2 AT 28 otY i 7 Bormoroeltand chonghmaee e & Koo Forkine da, ving a gh besides to support me when “m_.: x‘\:rfi ‘:\rl‘:;;a m.}.l wheu 1contrasted STILL MURE DETEDAINED To Govemar, e !:x\d Erlll apjear befors the wul\’lnl M)I? b Somotimes, when I have beou aick and pergei atteution, T haso thou contded i pene cocy lady whoin T knew I conld trust, and 3 500 w3 fonnd tho decpest sympatly and the eoir: est Xindness from thoss of my. own Lo o] really wistiad to chauze my position, and apmea what I reslly am, L conld not now 4o oy know of 1o way of removing tins beard ' and ‘mustache from my face; but T do ot misly 1a work for the yiny & woman receivee, when I Lave Dbeen earning.a man’s whge 2 7 “You. must somctimes feel very much dis- eatiefied with your posicion,” I remarkcd. “Thero afe timek when I feclvery much dis- contented, and. think,if I could have my lifo over agaw, 1 would pursus s different cour: Lut, Whon T congider that I Lave to earn my i ing, and tho few cbanccs a wowan bes com- pared with a man, Tam gatigfied.” ) £ ‘This woman Las shown that she has acapacity for war ; and thorefore, according to. your gen- tleman correspondent, ber right - to tho ballot is firmly . founced .on_tho bed-rock of her own power. Of course, if £ho gocs o tho ballot-box in the dress which she bas 4o long worn, and an= der the name khe has 8o long aseumcd, she will , deposi. her vote withoul " a chal- | fenge; -but if sho should- go it’femalo at- tiro, and represeni herself as tho woman she reaily is, wo doubt very much if her vote would be accopted. We are inclined to thinlk that, not- withstundivg ‘her capacity for war,—ler equal ability proved by decds,—ber vote woild be re- jected simply and golely on_the ground that she was not entitled to tbe right of sulfrage LECAUSE SHE WAH A WOIAM and no amount of caparity for fizhiing, no num- ber of deeds of valor, would confer tho right uyon her. e "That tho right of suffrage is not sltogether de- peudent upou the fighting capacity of the voter, apparent to any one whi looks below tho s face. A wman_ who has reached the age of 4518 considered unfit for military dut,, but bie is not tien diwenfranchised. He deposits lus vote in Jaw of tho land eonsidered him a tit sulject for couscription in case of war, and he contiuucs to vote as Jong ay Lis aged, tottering limbs .will carry him 10 the piace of voting. After Lo be- ‘comes too feeble to walls, he can be taken thero in a carriage, aad still deposit Lis voto. _The pick. the manued, those with only one arm or Jo, or those witbout any limbs at ull, who uaver dream of protccting even themselves, much less others, shll cast therr votes at election ; and it may bo 8 erivplo, or an ex- tremely aged man, who s no tighting capacity, whogo vote shall turn the seale either one way or | the other, thut contryls the destiny of a_natiou. Tho rigt.of suffraze, therofore does not res: upou tbe fighting dapacity of the voters; if it did, then all oxcept thowo who aro physically Whole and sble to bonr arms would be disfruu- clised. , - ) 1 aw siot a strenuous advocate of Woman-Suf- frage, as L hold tho opinicn tiat we lisve now ALTOGETILI TOD MUCT SUFFRAQE, The corruption that infests ous public places is the outgrowth of evers mam, 1O matter wlut his qualifications may. be, possessing the right to voie. Yet, in al? the ar- guments put forth against woman-suilrage, I Tavo fuiled 10 find one that is valid, or oue “that will 1ot 2pply equally to mou. Is it urged that she is plgsically disqualified for war, We have cited ou examplo which proves thiat she is not so disqualitiod ; and that sbe can, if occasion re- quite, ke wnon heraclf another of mau's pre- _rogativea; rhe can ruise a beard and moustacbe. e would uot adviso auy romnotic yoang lady to try it, for tho Teasou thut, when slio wishes to divpose of it, kLo will tind to Ler sorrow she can- nov dot, B Tt has been urged by some that womanis moved more by eentiment than reagon : that argument is of 10 avail with Ler where hor feel- ings ore concerved. An ‘meute obrerver, who Las attended lazge gatherings of men addressed by some political demagoguc, canuot bave failed to notice the pitch of cuthusiasm to which the crowd has been carried by the specious sophis- fiies of the speaker, and the expressions of bighly-wrought feeling to which the Learers Lisve give utterance, 4 - QUINIVALING TAE LADIES in enthusiastic demonstiations. Every one Juows to what estreme Jengths political quarrels arcoften caried by men, uwnally ending in s Ire fight, were somcbody is sure to be wounded, it not kitled outright. It is to be hoped that, if!somen ever do have the right of sutirage cxtended to them, it will bo w1l corfain quautieations, in order that only the inteiligent—those who kuow what the ballot is, and bow much depends upon 1t—may voso; and that women may not bo at the merey of every demagogue who wants their voies, aud plays upon thir ignorauce to obtain them. Mazs. ML D. Wysgoor. «YTomen and University Degrees.?? Tn the Editor of The Chicago Triowne Sm: I bave po ides who wrote tho article copied by last Sandsy's TRIBUNE from the Lon- don Salurday Xeview ; but Lo or sho deserves the credit of huviug good common scuse, aud knowing how to tell it. Ihaveno ides whether the articlo was from the pen of o man or woman, but 1 belicve it WAS WRITTEN BY A LADY, —one of thoso sound, practical, sensible English misters of ours who can walk ten miles before breakfast, and think it fun; who wear dreeses suited to scason and cirenmstanco, and thick, stout, broad-soled walking-shoes, that keep tho feet warm and dry, and give the muscles, of which the foot .is mostly composed, room and & chance to act. 1t is too thoroughly real and true to have been written by & man; yet almost too entirely devoid of petty, epiteful envy of what is really u grand thing ju itself, though uscless to her,—a man's strength and pogition,—to havo been written by & woman. Undesirable as it is, and much as we would desire to avoid it,the discussion of woman's abulity to compete with man in the various pro- fessions has roused so decp fecling—much of it of a bitter, vindictive nature—that it wil be im- possible to avoid s trial of etrength, of which zhe result will, 1 fear, not be favorable to her. T think it is not her heart that is enlisted in thiis treasonsble attempt to overhtrow ber own throne and kingdom, but a restlesensss that Bprings from the workings of 5 morbid imagia- tion. that has been overwrought by misropre- sentations; A SPIRIT OF DIRCONTENT as vague o it is uurcasonable ; an ambition akin to that which possessed tho angels when they ;fibl lled and Jost forever tlicir Leaven aud their ome. REat, from whatcver source thus rivalry Las sprang, whether from a belief in Ler abillty to compote with men for, and share with Lim, the Lonon3 which eecmed (0 bo his own exclusive Posses sion, or from a dosire to correct tho (s0- culled) erroueous, but universal, impression that sbe Hat: o 8phere separate from, and it 50me Pos- sible o nee iferior to, his, to which custom bas unjustly consiygned her, it is not,'as sometites supposcd, coniined to **a petty seciion " of tho sux, but s o far epread us to rouse a Eeneo of fear znd horror in thiuking minds. ‘Discontent does not neceswarily drive evers Wowan w whose heart it bus found lodgument, to be an active worker or s leader in the crusado unwieely ivstitated against domestic life, but it breeds in it contempt for its narrow, home- vounded view, and embitters it against the simplo duties that seemed the native element of the troe woman, and in the discbarge of which a wife's and mcther's brains and fugers found swcetest znd mosL cloguent cxpression of love. “Thic wixliy monarci whose prayer was for wisdous, jom God gave it unmeasured, —from i 1t fell lika peutls, 10 bo gali: ered Ly caal geueration aud handed down through 'each that succeeded it, until it reached un,—guve to tho womeh of his and all days the Dijthest and most gratifying encomium in the words, “She fooketh well to the ways of her bouschold.” Ten Ler houschold was' HER WORLD; her busband's heart was bLer {hrone; dren crowned har glotiously, when they **rose up and culled her blesked ;" but now, ala Diplo- mus snd University-dogrees, professious aud Jevitions, buve rande such things ‘almost obso- letos if not quite that, at least old-Tashioned and rlow; neither of which the wowen of tho period can forigive haif so ensily as sho can actual crime. 2 ‘When this London writer etates that the physi- cal orgauization of woman, o much frailer und more delicato than that of man, is o natural ob- staclo in-tho way of her competition with him for certain positt nd -in all the trades and Profeesions requiring strength and grent powers of endurunce, she states o truth that women are 1eady euongrhy'to sccept and turn 1o their advan- tuzrs when 1t sorves their porpose, as it often does: ‘aud, if she alko Incks something of his mentsl encrgy, strength, aud force. 15 1T MORE OF A REPROACI to her thau the otler ? Yet, “ believing, as I do, that this is a fact es- tablished beyorid necessary or reazonable contro- ~ersy, thers nre other facts as’ well established, which can be set . down to Ler credit ou the bal- auce sheet, ‘While sho lacka inventivo geuius, she bas the exccutive faculty developed in a very great de- gree; and, while she lacks the poner of &pplica- tion, by which 8 man slowly and steedily works out a conclusion, she can wit. seaicely an elfort reach it lony; ero'he does. Witk but superticial calture, ehe vet, through ber keen intuition, &olves a problent that no scarcely, if eser, nnder~ stands, She will tell you n thing is 5o because it is, and, hating the trouble or lutor of reason- ing, will 'pervist in repeating that sbe is right though she can't tell you wiiy. Asa rule, you will tiud her correct. ler chil- change. Do you suppose X would be willing to I donot think that, in tho profeasions, women the bullot-box just the sume as ho did whon the | will be an entire sugcess;. but it wil 50 much upon the natural canscs ailuded to by cur London friend aa because Lhiare is po.ncces- ¥ity for it, aud, with all due defereico to tiem, . 1 must admit that ¥ s FEW OF THEX WILL PURSUE & eclt-inflicted cours6 of pationt. snd_govere study, or toil long_enough to accomplish any- thing really worth calling success. 1t 'will bo al- most entirely to this that she will owe ber fail- ure.. Men know that they must work ; that they must accumulato property.; thap they must have a profession by which they cau support a fawmily; “that there is no foundation upon which they can build with eafety but gola ; that a man wilhout money i§ a man without standing sud without in- fluence ; and that, with it, thougli hus sins_wero a8 écarlet, be will be a good fellow, hold offices, control corporations, hwad every enterprise, lead gociety, mako his own pet follies or vices the - fashion, and marry thie pretticst, tho purest, or the richiest womau in the world, if, bo choose. With a gitl, thisis all so_very differout.” She Las almost nothing to look back to, almost noth- ing to look forward to. A DLANK EXISTESCE Jias hung on ber handsa few dull, heavy, unmo- ‘mentous years; the future. strecches out more dull, moro heavy, moro monotonous and dreaty, because with each enceoeding year the freshuess sears away and ennui increases. There is but one event in her lifo upon which Ler thioughts fix themuelves, and that is mar- £ she docs not marry, sLe is worse than and, oven if that sfop promiso to en- tail-actual domestic-misery, it I8, she has been taught to belicvo, better than to remain single.. 1f .he marries,-and. marries well, there is no | necd for. her. to pursuc a piofession oF,.any 3Ort of busiuess, for which homo dutics leave littlo time or, inclination; .if sbemarries badly, her euthnsiasm will soon be chilled, her ambition paralyzed, and ber euergy exbaustod.- The great impediment in the way mau's opposition, 1 sm satistied of that, lmudred nameless aud indefinablo cauxes that lie either ‘in her nature, her education, or her circumsiances.. Ono graat difliculty will bo her 7 AYEESION TO MEMAINING SISGLE, Thor dread of being an old maid, her unrearonable Lorror of auiticisim. Anv one. knows how men devote 2 whole log lifeto a kingle brauch of science, ot_to a-profession.; and yét you wonler thiat_guls, who_only averagn 18 yeats of singlo lifo, accomplish nothing. They marry az an awe when boys have not yet beguu to think of a trade or ealling,—certainly beforo they have inade avy. progress in ~ it; and this i3 as it_e¢honld be, for ‘ouly as a lappy wife, the mother-of & Vrood of darling baby- Lirdy, and the supreme mistress of a liou upon which her refiued taste has left sweat im- .print, cau sho find the sphore in which ber heart 1l liave true snd safe test. In isolated cases, a diploma may betos woman what it is to 2 man,—the key to lus waiting fect, —=a wedge with which ho will split the rock whose heart its treasure hies garncred and hid- den ; but. asa rule, it will bea Lit of parch- meut for which sho sacritices bealth, strength love, Liopo, and all that her hears me.sb craves, — ** ouly this aud uothing more,” and, with other mementoes, of * tho days that -are no more," it will be Jaid away and_remembered a8 a piece of nonsensc, or wisely forgotten. - GarseT B. FREEMAN. A Few More.Thoughts on the ¢“Lost Art of Coolcery.” To the Editor of The Clicago Lrivune s Siz: Prodigal in number sro tho progressive and reformatory measures for the. benefit of mankind that are constaully springing into'lifo; and, as ono of the effects, tho grown of “the “times is certainly tavard cor with the promptings of tasto, simplicity, and common ecnko in the babits of life. Heroand there, we drop one idea and adopt a happier one,—regretfally confessing, bowever, that tho best part of our lives is spent in learn- ing bow to live. Among the arts of the past occasionally revived in our hifo of hot-bed growth few may be moro beartily welcored than the restoration of ““THE LOST ART OF COOKERY,” upon which subject an interesting article ap- peared in Tue Towuse of last Suuday's issu, and gavo rive to the following thoughts: Although an art of an essentially subservient churacter, one in the practice of which brain- culture is not mecessarily & requisite, yet it is universally conceded to have . great bearing on the physical and inteliectual health-of society, and to be worthy apy care, and tact bestowed on it The extent to which it bas become customary to patronize bakorics is wondertul ; &ud, taking into consideration all improvements by meens of the steam baking apporatus, etc., it is still sim- ply astonishing how, day after day, 80 many peo- Dlo can devend so largely on food which, in tho long run, is 8o much leas subetantial aud palata- bte thau the genuine “ home-made.” Wo mey expend much pity on the class of strangers to domestic bliss who daily scek nour- ishmeut at the tables of tho average bodrding- Douse or restaurant, whero ono_may bo suro to tind the stafl of life cut up into five or six pieces three or four inclies square, the thickuess of good blotting-paper, and frequently as nuiri- tious ns peasut-shucks, to say nothing of the bill of fare generaliy But wo bave intinitoly more veed of self.pity that iu our homes with plenty of meuns, and daughters to usoe the means, 5O LITTLE OF SIMPLE, HEALTHFUL FOOD. comes to our daily board. It does not scem I Iy thak tho oys, when tiey shzll bavo becomo men, will exclaim_from juveuile remembrauce, a6 wany of their fathers can now, What would I nat give for s piece of Aunt Iester’s incom- perable” gingerbread, or, one of Grandmother Smitl's old-fasbioned Indinn puddings ! Few of us, probably, cutertain—for any length of time at least—eo complote pu ides of life as |. to suppose that There sre 3 namber of us creep Tuto this world to eat and sleep, Aud Enow 1o reason why we're born Then merely to cousutaé tie corn, Devour the cattle, fowl, aud fish, ‘And Jeave behind'u eiapty dish. Manifestly tho end and aim of ifo is neither to eat, driuk, nor dresa; yet the preparation of food, drink, and dress, in such 2 imaurer as to ufford us thie highest possible beuefit, the hap- Diest flow of spivits, tho mreatost cucrgy of mind (Tu] body, is certainly lsudable,—is certainly a uty. A young married couplo, who Iived lately just back of us, and whose esperience may bo cited as that of & Jarge class similarly mitusted, inter~ csted us very much. Sbe was young and bright, and seemed desirous of A8 FEW INCDMBRANCES AS TOSSIBLE in the way of houschold duties. Theybad been boardiog; but he, growmng s:ck of it, had per- suaded lier to go to housckeening. She bad 2 model little kitchen, with all the necesxary parapherialia, and o littlo gom of cookiug stove, which, however, was put to a very limited uge. On leaviug for business, sometimes ho would say: “Get up sowmcthing nica for dinuer, Estelle.” **Why, 1 dou’t kuow Low to.” **But, my dear girl, you can learn. Get o cook-book aud go in forit. 1 will order up all the where- with,” eaid Afphonso. DBut such dialogues genorally ended up with, “I'm goiug down to motler's to spend tho day; be over thero to dinuer.” At noon it was often, * It too hot to fuss to-day, Fou. When you come Lomo to-night, just stop ‘at tlio Yory aud get something for. tea.” So with ery beautics " to form tho siaplo eatablos, which, she avows, are ** fit for notking,” addiug, 1 wish we lived a little nearer mother's,” the supper i8 disposed of ; and, with & murmured, “Better go to mother's and be done with it.” ho Dburries out, whilo sho pettisily wouders ihat mukes biln #0 unreasonatle. 1 ebouldu’t wouder if wany hours of conten- tion aud wrief wero in store for our Foung fricuds, if not tinul separation ; when tbey will mnocently wonder where the troublo began. 5 Now, men, a5 3 ‘gencral thing, are decidedly creatures of Zasic; audI believe nubappiness in ‘many homes hias been cansed, inditectly perhups, Dy poor cookiug, or luck of cooking altogethor; ew mides, there exists ou aflinity, wlich we do not always apprecisto, between ‘the stomach aud sereaity, DIGESTION AND AMIABILITY. Asbavs bLeen said, if navy young ladics in their fathers’ homes, whoso timo occasioually bangs heavy on their bauds, and wno ore as 1guorant of the cause of tleir wesk digestion a0d mental languor as they aro of the art of ‘making light, aelicions bread, aud broiling steak 10 ** o charm,” would don tue big_ apron and re- pair to the kitchen, they would find their occu~ pation both highly profitable aud enjoyable, They would bave also an excellant cuanco to study the beauty of economy; for it is obvious to any who Liavo given it o tuought, that, amony those, in_ affluent circumstauces, economy can bext be praciiced. , In Tespect to gettng provi- sions, they are able to avail themselves of any opriortucities tho variable stato of tho mariet may afford them, and can buy ac an advantage, woth s to quantity and ‘quality, whereas those of limited meaus are obliged to pay tho bighest prices for the small guantitics they purcaavo,—just as giving the trides for single copics of papers and magpzines, because tlioy cannot, a4 ouo time, sford the price of & t depend | year's subscription,—thua paying & much greater | amount. * The poor are OFTEN, ODLIGED TO BE EXTRAVAGANT. But to return. from this digrossion: I would eay thav.the arg of cooking .may bo reduced to 3 much simpler aud less vexatious process than it wow in. The troublo is, many of ws havo scquived. tastes ‘about. 88 simple. as -those of Oliver Wendell [Tolmes, when be says; Flain food is quite enough for me; - ThToo courses arg 28 good as tem, If Nature can subiist on three, * _ Thank Heaven for threo. - Amenl T always thought cold victuals nice: Aty chince would be vanilla ce. * It gcems go diflicult for many. of us to abandon the idea that.we caunot afford oux fricnds & cer- tain degreo of plecsure, or give to our estublish- menis that desirable recherche.air, without an array of fugsed-up, - whipped-up, indigescible, unpronounceable ¥Freuch disbes ; o iard for us, 0 Tealize that.we should reaily be brightor. hap- pier, moro restful, if thoy wero discardod alto- gether. % DUT A REFORMATION in this respect is growing ; onr halits are moro in accordance with sense and simplicity ; and we will gratefuily welcome and agsist, 88 Wwo cun, -any efforts to basten the timowhen, 1 tho homes. of all classes throughout the country, & general knowledge of plain, wholesome_coosery shall take the place of lamentablo ignorance, aud thiose who Teally bave at heart tho best iuterests of pociety, the progrees of sll useful ans aund uciences, ehall have menls prepared from which. we shall go forth to our labors with cloar heads and kiud hearts, soundness of judgment aud amiability of disposiiion,—secking at night onr couches to enjoy swect sleep and pleasant dreams. [:3 The Question of Wiazes. To the Editor of The Chicaqo Tribune : Sz . Ona of, your correspondents of last Sun~ day thoroughly perverts the meaniug of o pas- £ago in mny last articlo, by implving a priuciple that man should_recoivo moro than Wwoman for *“the eamo’ quantity and quality .of work ‘That implication is, to say tho least, rather ein- gular in.view of the fact that my articl states again and ngain that, generally speaking, | WOMAN DOEY NOT POSSESS the edrning and laboring capacity of man,” which jcertainly iraplies that she does not far- nish. “ the same quantity and quality of work.” That the eame quantity and quality of work is not only entitied to, but does actually receive, the Eamo pay, unless the vatural working of cominerca is tampered with by the enforcement of spocial priviloges in fsvor of monopolists, is 8o much a matter of courso that Iam unablo to perceive how a thinking man ¢an even question it. So farfrom denyiog thut fact, the passage quoted by tho correspondent, on the contrars, cupbotically afilrma at. & it 18 noither moro nor Jess than a protest againse tho complaint which tho fomale xights party is_contually regaling us with, aod the burden of which is a eral chargo of injustice against tio world in general, aud the employers of fomale labor in pusticulsr, that the lazter pay their female cmployes by o disforent standsrd of wages than Lheir malo ones, merely because the first are of the femalo sox_ aud the Intter. of the mulo sox. 'Those lusty criers about injuntic never once stop to consider whetlior.the reason of that dufcrence in uay is ot either the difeseuce iu the quulity and quan- tity of work furnished, as it i UNDOUBTEDLY I8 IS THE MAJORITY OF CASES, or the workiug of the law of cowpetition, which offers female lubor in certain apparentlv-genteel Lrunches of eiployment at & less price than ‘male luLor, beeauso *the workiug woman needs only to support her own self, while mau, if ho waits to sapply his_nataral wants, must _earn enough to support, himweli and a femalo,” and is, on that account, driven to demaud aud insist ol such wages a8 will enable bita_to suppiy tho wants of bis nature. Tlus will, 1 hope; sufiice to correct the aston- ishing stotément of your correspondent. The question of wages ho no direct Leating or cou- ncetion with tho subject proper of the discussion . (woman-suffrae), which latter is wercly a poltical question, . whilo, the proprieties of Woman's work and wages aro part ana parcel of tho wreat social question relating to tho general couditions ex:stiug between labor and capital. It ay, however, st the correspondent to thiuking wher I take the iberty of telling him that it is one of 1ho cardinal axioms or social economy, | that;whtle qompetion regulates prices, competi- tion itrelt 13 regulated by the “nccessities of man;" and that, cousequently, evea if it docs not appear at ull times on the snrfaco of things, it iu yone tho less indireetly truo, that *‘neces- aity i tho lo% of wages.” Jou 1I. BECKER. waoman's Fields Tothe Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Stm: In last Sunday's Trisoxe, under tbo head of “ Woman's Treasures,” oceurs the fol- lowing: “There are many poble, sad-lesrted women the world could. ill aford to lose, who know nothing of this crowuiug joy, maternity. I do not speak of them. Lut thoso to whom God has given chiliren havo no peed to seek fields in which to labor.” Tho great question involving 80 much las surely a firmer basis, 8 broader foundation, than personal néed. If the woman filling the' Hea- ven-allotted ministry of wife and mother Las her sure defense, and is happy in her security, then let Ler influenco bo nevertheless used 1IN BEHALF OF THE STRUGGLING ONES ‘whoare oo the ficld unprotected, and who are only the victims of cireumstances less favorable than her own. 2 We wounld not have her neglect the tender plant, nor delay tho preparation for the grest Liarvest for which Lo s _responsible; neither. as 2 wife, would wo bave her foisake ber cita- del of bonor. nor sdd ono tithe on tbo scalo of care; but we would ask Ler, a3 o woman true to womanhood, nok to ensconce hereelf in o put- &hell, leaving virtue, wealkmess, aud dopendouce, to struggle berowcally for the life-boat, without 0 much as throwiug o stras to tie roscuo ; NOT 'TO LOOK ON COMPLAGENTLY g ‘wavo buries humanity from 0 to be burne away by a stronger ‘Heretofora socicty has not declared that wom- an shall forego the duties of homo and all its wacred relatious, in order tostep with cautious tread and suppressed garments lest deflement come by contact with erriug woman.—thus plain- I waving to her : “The tido is against you ; stop where you are! There is no redemption for vou, The thicf on the cross waa pacdoned, but Do nevor sinned as you have doue, or, if Lo did, ho was not a fallen woman'! " ) 1t all this could be etfected while the domestic machinery moved on withott a singlo jar cansed by neglected duties, wiy should the same influ- olico in an opposite direction causo such 3 sacri- fice of time und, wide-spread homeo-desolation. We yield the problem unsolved. Farther, matriago and maternity aro not al- ways death-blows to womsu's necd of solf-sup- port, Thero aro_wives who lavo kmown tio Crowning joy who bear sad hearts, and sad faces, toa : not deprived of their natural.protectors, as far as tho teim goes; whoo marringe- bond is & pledge of bitterness,—facts must bo received a8 they exist,—who would gladly earn life's necessitics were unskilled labor obtainable without drinking to the dregs CUSTOM'S INDIGNATION. Then, whilo ** holdmg the key” to tbe brain and musclo of & coming goneration, while fond ones carefully protect and watch with patient eve lest sust ehould mar its beauty, let not thoso whose key our motiiers held fall weary by the waysido for tho renewed effort which eympathy end aid ever bring. ‘Then the encomiums, then which lahguage can’ bring 0o greater, shall be ours : * She hath done whatshe could.” Neputs NYaax, At o_Man-Millizer? Eoelyn Jerrold in_Lowdon . . Monsiear ‘Crow-Etoiles’ admirers and custom- érs (the terms dre byno means synonymous, “for admiration is cheap, and Monsicur Tréis- Eroiles’ dresses aro costly) base their reverent regard on loftier reasons than the mere fashion of the moment. Tiey belicve in Monsicur's ‘mission—n regenerative one—in’ the matter of trains and underskifts, and_ polonaises. They congider that s male reformer was Decessary, averring that women's minds aro too sbsorbed by tho study of details to be able to regulste tho general principles of costwme; ‘they cousider that Monsieur deserves his .celobrity, his irre- proochable horses, that Swiss vilia at Enghion, all the moral and material harvest Lo hag resped, by resl services rendered to tho' art of self- decoration. We, who judge these novices by their outward effect, are biased in our conclusions by a mean prospective of ‘other results—bills whoge totals invariably contain four figures. This is un- warthy of us, I have been assurod. MONSIEDE I8 AN ARTIST, and should bo judged from a purely artistic point of view. *Sce Lus atelier (who would dare call it & whop or work-room?), examino his studies in the rough, unprejudiced by any fear of . pay- for them ; and Monsicur will: have - obe ‘tra- dncer the losa. Such aro the theorics and rec- ‘ommendations of ho Coinfesse O Temipotaand Marochale O Mores. Would I, if converted, ‘make public renanciation of the pormal mascu- lino faith? Not’ march to Notre Dame in the Eimiple attire (it was but a sheot) of ancient apostates, but, according to that moré terrible modern practice, put my recantation into black aod white? I would.Monsiour did ot receive his customors' husbsnds, brothers, snd fathers as a ralo; but the Comtesse and Marechald are all-powerfal in tho ateliek; and 2o ‘exception was made in my favor. . e We'pass through'a double door ; we mount & padded ataircase, hung with ‘silk, heated liko & conservatory capsbleof raising pines, and smell- fog of poudre de viz. Evergrecus to richt and lott make & rf evenue of ‘thd staircase. Thero are flowers in hanging corbels—camelias and lilics ; there is an cternal ascending and de- sconding procession of pretty women 3-briefly, we mouat Jacol's ladder. - And the Jaddér leads to pleasunt places. On tho first floor thero is & Dbusy, noiseless coming and going, the futter and Frousfrou of femininity, and still’ that perfume ‘of tlo wers that neither sew nor spin, but simply deal ot Blonsicur- Troie-Etoiles’, and find that fupction arduous enough. - Ou either side fold- ing doors woro opened . wide, sud in snd out passed young guls, whose figurcs presented fan- tastic outlines, being clad in the costumes of six months hence—wlioso lieads wero bfrango and wonderful with nnpublished chiguons. “YMESE HORRIBLY PROGRESSIVE DAMSELS speeded the partig customers with polite assur- ances of quick delivery, welcomed the coming witn. nico_littlo reedy-made phraces of dolight and surprive.. fne _excessive, the hyperbolical was cultivated in _speech, as well as in manner and dress. Tho' blondes wero too blonde, and ‘made ono wink with their splendor ; the brunes were too vombre, aund depressed tho observer. Thero wes no medium between the milkmaid's Kirtlo and (ko duchess” train. Tho skirts had a superabundance of: plaits, or none at all. It was a panoraais of fashion plates of 1883. In the firat saloon sat the secrotary, perched on a small platform, and ticking down every Viritor that ou- tered, tho orders given, and the dates when mes- Gzmes must postively buve that fulbala or this cotition, - Here the Maestro is ccasionally to bs found bowiug w his elients liko a Prinze of the blood royal. 'To-day hieis absesit en consullation 1t is whispered. Wo traversed three or four Iarge saloons, fur- nisbed with a quiet taste that, to some minuds, 0id the great muin-milliner rather more credi tharmost of the gurments be has’ numed aod patented. Brosd ouk tables wero in tha contra of tho rooms, ang spresd out upon taem cat- tings of pnlk, groeo, yellow, sud black fabrics, interspersed 'with dclicate’ laces and exquisito specimens of the artiticial floriculturist’s art, in garlands, bouquety, and * trimmings.” Every- where the samo SUBDUED, DECIDEDLY GENTEEL AGITATION reignod. Ludies—foreiguers for tho most part, ana thoe noisiest persons present—wero choosing stuffs and patterns, served by serene, abstract- ed, and dignified . young geutlemen, who made discreet inquwries concerniug tho * next article,” like s0 mauy Dukes in reduced cirdumatanced. No bustle, uo verbosity or insistauce. At tunes myrmidons came and questioned the young noblemen in rigid frock-conts s to a shade, » moasurement, & combination of colors or sluflé, anovellyin trimming, a beresay ir slinpes ; and tho yonths dropped u brief, dizmi- fied, disinterested answer, with tue air of gplen- etic baras divorced from the ideal. And silent- lyto and fro passed the gracious young gitls with novel chiguons, dressed in black, and.trail- ing througlh tho saloons skirts that were veritable models, practical - cxamples of Monsieur's art. T surmised that a wise trade policy diotated their presenco. 'Thoy wera living temptations for tho clientes, plastic realizatious of what a pair of scissors_wonld make of these ocuttings on the tablo. Dy studying those auimated aud poram- bulating cauons of taste, tho dullest Touton, the mot primitive transstlantic possessor of newly- struck “ilo,” could chuose her pouff, hor ensl, witbout thereby exposing horvclf to the dorision of the boulévards. The choico might bo rendered quite porfoct and Pansian by a cousultation with a formidably dignitied lady be- tween two ages, 08 the French plunse politely dexcribea the predicament into which wo must all fall unless the gods love us, to woom I was told to bow as the genus ioci. Butsho was frigid. Mousicur's establisiment is uniformly iced to soveral degrees below zero—and sho would have been & mors than ordinarily bold Columbian who had dared solicit that Dacal dame's advics in the macter of stuils aud fucons. Sio is tho Premuwre, the chief forevoman ; A TERBIDLE AUTHORIFY, and a Jady whose lessons i deportment would male tho fortune of any young ladies' seminary. ‘o hundred richest wardrobes in Paris bave no secrets_that she does notshare. She knows when Laay A.s green silk was tarned ; she knowa every itom on tho glove budget of tho Princess B. A lady to propitiate. Monsicur was still iuvisible. Wo advanced in gearch of him into tho farthermostsaloon, where ou wonderfully life-like mankins are Lung the completo toiilettes, perfected a day or two ago, aud ready for delivery. Monsicur gives his pri- vate view no less than the contributors to tha Salon, and in 3 stadio that will quito bear com- parion with the comfortless burns of tho Luo dea Martyrs. The walls are ono vast sheet of looking-glass, and: retiect, bead, shoulders, sud unto the last inches of tho tinivs. From morn- ing to night grdups of well-bred enthasiasta col- Iect around the studies, and the fames of ‘most delicate Incenso rise into the illustrious Trois- Etoilles' nostrile, The more extravagant cos- tumes are geucrally labeled for Germauy, when not, it munt be said, for England. The simplo creatious—not quite Arcadian even these—re- maun in Paris. They are studied, srransed, worked up Like 8 five-nct drama, and cost rather 200 francs the stufl, 600 or SU0 francs tho -, as the Monsicus’s artiats say, the com- ‘h cestasics excited by theso regeu- position. erative conceptions aro ALOST DELIRIOUS : There are breathless fits of dmiration, mute rhupsodies beforo the decorated manikins ; everything elss has disappeared for the worsbip ers—waltzes, balls, husbauds, children, lovers the Autmous hunself—above all, the Aatinons would sbrink into_ ivsignificance beside those pendent ragd. And wo grope reverently in the phits to_dicover how’ the vaporous rcarf that Hoats Lebiud 18 attached under the sash, the primitive raison d'elre of the flounce, the secret of the mystic marriage of Epaulctto with Bodice. It is entbralling; and quité's¢ inteliectual s our duily drive round the Lac. “I'ne Premiere stands - before Lier msterpieces, and modestly receives the felicitstions of tho gpectators. The only drawback to the triumph is that the masterpicces in question cannot g0 into degent socioty in the cuaracter of their precent” poseesavts. La Premiero fecls this sorely; *-but then we can seo them ab tho Opers,” is the comforting reflection sug- gested to her. A moviog tempest of tulle, Chinese crape,Jand lvce'passes before us, borne aloft at arm’s length by damsels, who disappear in its cloudd. 'What is Madame O Tempora's dress, and tbo Comtesse disappedrs “to try it on behind foldwg doors, through the chinks of which 8 white vivid Jight is strcaming. We are Jeft during the trying-on procees in & genteel chaos of discrect young ‘ladies, clients, and clorks. Tho Maestro is still invisible, but bo is replaced by a young man, small, spare, ana. det- 1ve, who dances from point to point in tho midst of clerks, . customers, flcuristes, show-women, «cutters-out, elc., ¢joculating orders in dubious Frouch, like a well-Lred but epileptic clown. At [ast T am informed that the first stages of tho trying-ou process ara over, We pemctrato iuzo THE ILLUMINATED SANCTUARY. Tho sactuary, is raclier like conligses of o minor theatre. The windows are bricked up, enormons'glasses sre afixed to the walls. The coptre of the room is void; arouud it, on s species "of connter, on sofas, chairs, and otto- mans, are odds andends of sulfl, lowers, rib- 'boud, shreds of ‘tulie, spangles, beads : the cos- ‘tumier’s room_beforo a new baflet or burlesquo. A row of footlights fitted with movable shades serves in licu of chandelier, keeping the upper part;of -the room, in shadow, and 1lluminating tho ‘person ‘and toilette under examination as u;leiy ought. to bo, illuminated in cvery decent bali-room.” 'Hero 'is Madame O Tempors, re- coiving the shower of clectric light, bare necied, though it is tiot later than 2 p. m. without, with & complacent equanimity. thut says & good deal for tho strangth of her nervous system. A young woman is sneeling before Ler, pinuing up an iuvisible plait”in the bodice, festoouing anew “efféict” (smonght other ameliorations Mopsicar “bsg reformed the ~ dressmaker's ‘plitseology ; i8 now higlly artistic sud pictus- esqae) at the side. Under the raised arms liztle girls puss to and fro, handing strips of maslin, flowers, aud’ pip-boxes. A sbred -or flower is taken now snd thew, and_plastered, with tho decision of sudden inspiration; cn tho skirt. It is * A DRESY RENEARSAL. Threo times already the illustrious Troie-Etoiles bas been seat for. Three times, with the air of & veteran vistor at the decisive moment of & hot engagement, Lo Premiere Les hulf opaned an inner door to announce that tho Maestro is ubout tozppear. Ho is' near_st band, in the next room, bestowing a consaltation on s lady with ag oye-glass; apropos of a newly-made magnificent costume,. Which ho-considers his chef-d'cuvre. Ho isright. 1cast an indiscreet glance into the adjoining Toom when the door opens, and I mist aliow that the composition in question is & very poem, &. picco of tho wandrobo of Utopia. A dress of white fuge ornamented with'pointa de Veniso, 50 l.nknswlnpd and’ involved as'to mako the “masculine™ brain iddy ; ho corsago s cat squaro the whole is rich, snd witbal exmple. It would befit a sofa aud _novol ac home, and not. be out.of placa at the Orleans’ garden-parties at Chiautilly. The doors open wide, - © ° THE MAESTRO ATPEARS. y His versonis dieappowting, though undenia- bly Bataome. He isa pinkand white dapper man, with fat and shiny face ;- bis bair parted in tho ‘middle ; his mustache pendent, aud ighly oleaginous. -A thick white &mz inclosed by a fawa-colored ribbon, & tigbt-fitting frock-coat, & clironic-aiilo, a bow that does ot -jucline bis body ; these are tho descriptivo items remurlked Dy a cursory obsérver of ilie reat Trois-Ltoiles. 1is voicois gfrovgand lugh; his accent is bolaly iusular. Helooks round with an absent air, thon suddenly speaks. Lo -Las secn ata glance what is misstng in Madamo O Tempora's toitetts, - The traio Las been drawn. out careful- Iy toits full Iength before bis arrival. ** What are you thiuking of Esther? Madame's fizure must- have nothing Lut draperies. Tao low iu thoneck. An epaulette en biais. A sucon to the right at the hip. ‘Take half that bouguet st the breast sway. And do yougo to Trouville this year, madame?” His manuer is easy, assurcd, 2nd well bred. Ho has genius of a certain kind, undeniablo tact, and imperturbable sang-froid. And I think he belioves 1 his mixsion. ~Ho will not dress every ope. Ho would not bestow a glance on thoss clumsy Germans in tho first room. 1hear horefuses tomako for a certain opular actress, because sho does not share his {deas of the capabilitics of her figure, nud wants Der dresses too low. Ho convemses in English with old docile trusted customers like Madame 0 Mores, aud for her ha consents to give a little professional exhibition, A A mossenger is dispatched t6 ‘ramoto regions, and presently the folding-doors are tLrowa open, and &wo young ladies enter, preceding AN EXTURAORDINARY APP: ON. A slight damaol, whom tho masteh calls Jary, adark-eyed English girl, with that indescribhole air known as vispa 1n Itaiian, lista in Spanish, eapiegle or deliore in French, aud perhaps * wido- awake " in Euglish, advauces crect and haughy, dressed as arainbow. Like a queen of cumedy sho places hommcif 1 tho strong white light ~ of tho foot-lumps. Tho ° electric rays emite on multitudinous seates and spangles. She glitters from head to . foot lixo a pillar of goldcn ore, or like & stalactite. Tho exbibition has been noised through tae rooms, and visitors and employes gatber at tae doorway, and mount on_chairs to obtain o better view. Happily, Maryis not tunid. She turns, beuds, takes & fow steps, draggig that rainbow train after her, nover smuling, never heediug the spcctator2, simply fulfilling a mission. A noble Duchess is to wear thecostume at an Itulian faucy ball. The corsage 1s mado with basques, cut according to tho fushion of the Middle Ages ; it is covered with golden ecales, sud seems to cxplode under thio couverging lights. On tho tho chest there is a raunbow gariand ; the skurt is in tulle, very long, with iris colors on tho flounces.. Thé head-dress is high, with a firma- ment of stars st on a field of tho sawme pris- matic hues. The fan and shoos are to match, even the gloves, evon tho comb. The allegory is conscientiously studied in all its derails. Monsieur remains cool m the midst of wild enthusiasm. His is the composed demeanor .of a ruccessiul author. He has retired belind the counter, aud salutes, wituous bending, the company at thoe door.” 3livs Mary stoops sight- lIy. Four little girls advauce bearing s pile of lilac satin. Tie rainbow disappears, falls sud- devly ; and on the simple black costume left ap- parent. in & moment, a3 though by enchantment or Porie St. Maitin machinery, TIE DRESS OF AN INCROYADLE is elaborated. An Incroyable a la Wattesn, with a species of coat in lie satin, with long tails and euormous bresst-ilaps in pink saun. The skirt is in lilac tulle, stedded with small bou- quetz. Atall hatin gray felt, garnished with a big posy of roses nnd fosthers, towers on the hoad. A long iron-gray veil, dolicato pistacle, green gloves, and hifacsatin slippers With pink bows, complete the costume. And Mwss Alary takes o tall gol-headed cane irom the hand of an attendant, and poses be- fore us o perfect Thermidorieune. ~Wa are en- thusiastic; the ladies emit littlo shrieks; but the Maestro remains iced, and receives com- pliments with an indiuTereuce replote with adeep eternal melancholy. 3 This is what I beheld under the guidance of Mesdames O Tempora and O Mores. I dare not oxpresa my personal opinion after that expe- rience. I respect Monsiear.. His tender melan- choly impresses me. Dutiche an eminently moral and usesul institution ? Learned Ladies. From the New York Tribune. 1f women shoald grow irritable, it would bo 1o wonder, #o eternally are they discussed in the newspapers of these lattor days. Isn't it time defivitely to admit that a woman has a right to stndy that whick sho wishes to study, the honest wish being accepted as evidenco of the propriety of the pursuit? Yet is there no end of caesp dialectics upon this point. Here wo have, in fifty journals, complaints of the pevere course of study pursued at fho Packer Institate or at Rut- gera School, at Vassar or other college for girls —complaint of too much Latin and Greek, or of too much atteution to philosophy and the sci- ences. On tho other band, if a girl gives her golden youth to the delicacies and elegancics of nequisition—to music, drawing, ‘dancing, the modern Ianguages—sho is denounced as frivo- lous, or langhed at as light-headed. So she hes- itates whether to bo a Muse or 5 Grace, £nd fro- quently the doubt disastrously results in ber being ngither. Another trouble of the young ladics is {het they can never clothe themsalves to euit oll sorts of philosophers. If they neglect dress they are dowdy. "1f thes make an | elaborate and brilliant toilet, studied to conform to their own personal style, tuen they are too foud of "display ; 80 that Letween old-fashioued notious of what' becomes a youug woman and new-fashioned notions of what does not become hor, they sro left at a lovs whether to bo strong- minded of frivolons, forgetiing sometimes that they havo noed only to be carnest, and Lonest, znd natural. A good koowledge of the Greek and Latm literature may be yaluable to s woman 3ust as to man ; this we eay without stopping to ix its prociso value to eitber. Oue would think from the pother made abou: them that learned Indics wers absoluto novelties, whereas they Laso been commen emough over sinco tho rovival of leamning. Thero are o few stock students of the feminio kind, cele- brated as immensely classical in_their pursuits ; and are not these always paraded in the Com- mencement speeches at ladies’ colleges? The list, even in English bistory, is & long oue, from Queen Catbarine of Aragon to rs. Browning— from Margaret Roper, Sit Thomas More's dauzh- ter, down to tho sweet girl-graduates of the present season. Haven't wo been told often enough that poor Lady Jaue Grey was well versed in Latm, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Ara- Dic, Frencli, aad ltalian ? Indeed, theso English Jadies of classical acqmrements 'were very nu- ‘merons in the sixteenth century, even before Queen’ Elizabeth set’ the fashions which, per- haps, sbo did not 8o much set a5 follow. Dam- &els who wish to read Homer or Horace in the original need wot lack for a precedent, Only when a girl has gono resolutely to work, and has proved _the sbility of her sex to scquire Greek, it must be ratber discouraging to her toread in the mewspapers that ghe has wasted lier time and has been crammed to little purpose. Why do they not say these” things about pale- faced boys vwho have fed themselves upon Greek roots iuto a dyspepsia ® We are for all manuer of experiments. After such s pother, wo trust that &ll these problems are not to bo left uneolv- ed and uncertain. In the second place, while foolishly-extrav- agant dressing is to bo censured avd Satirized, irought to bo undeistood aud admitted tbat dress is of vastly moro importance o womaa thaa to man, wno likes to see Lis siater, his wife, or hia sweethoart arrayed likg nnto’ Solomon in all his glory. 1s it for nothing that, as r. Horbert ' Spencer observes, . “tho decorative clement bas contrrued to predominate in a_ greater degres . smong women than amobz men " Suppose that tais oes ariso from tho ‘“desire of approbation”—is' ap- probation then a thing to be contemned and | tion. If we caonot help, i # Lot us not binder her! 1 20 P o foyty Kcno Amonz ta From: 2rs. Burnhei’s Nno y’nrkc&.i‘:?;d:m > ALt ey 22, Loy A Iady in much distress of rming ag; it Bhe could raise s certain sum of mw:;w?h already tried to pawn some diamonds; .:nd“m that brokers were only advanciag, arey oo of security, insigoificant sums: renging o S teens. Wonldn't'T bo good ancmghng.j;n i pecuniary liability of my own ‘over befors huepand? ' Then she could get a lafze sug xhfl bini afterward, ostensibly £o loanme. - po TR @ very nico echeme for me, aud T asked whgy, o of dufliculty sho was in that sho eonldn’tl full confession to tho gentioman who g Tt tracted according to the Prayer-Book to gy bills. Well, sio bad got in_ debt, t o A2 andimnet yav hor. Then, " Laowing i, 7 was neitber milliner nor dressmes ) ofiicosivailon, with Borselrport bt sy tovable hotel—I asked if it fay i oy ed if it way Borzoweq “No. Lost! Lootat lottery” rs. —— has a fivo parlor 1t bcomns, and tha othes Iaiios o) 5o o fllftem.} or twenty. get togethor b play the gamo called * lottery,” times beiye s i as 321 This ‘é’;wp"ifi,;j:: ing, 80 with 3rs. —'s permussi pl‘;:; ‘;’:’"f?-- Permisgion I Wentupty Eight ladies sat around a mazh ; wiils & ninth bad & genttomans peayitly 1ap, in which wero_liinety Bumbers o it wooden buttons. Each lady had pat j cents'to the pot, and had threo cards belam 3 with pumbers fu square-. As Mps oo oo ke 26, 41, 10, 33, each littlo woman baogiiy srcs i bihor oviug 0 L glase SLip el antly or dejecte E lgi-mnmng 58 she Jay) E find the number called on her Fow gr Lo 1 “Loitery " o precions dears weregfll,?:x exaited o 0 ber ropg, s the simple gamo of keno, and getting and éoger over their 9§ putimo“u;fi itwers 3re. —— kindls dosired to teach but I thought 1'd bring it up o perfest T e in, 50 I shiowed 'om bow wlien gpe U5 ot ber row complete, sho should sy * Rors {iwhich was corzect), instond of * Full» g ey bitherto had done. Then I told them the should ** verify,” by the dealcrs siringing sy buttons in teus, trenties, and 80 0 in w0 tho table. Befors that .sho_ hud always dnery from one bat to another. Then I"fired it fhog the winner takos tho pof, and all the rost siogig como up again, and 50 ob until tho botons weps All eut, instead of begfhuing a nex gameat the end of ouocal, 33 thes hiad alwass todo. Tony you 8ee, 1 trie o these wretched gambiy il tho good I could. ebed gainbler nd a3 I wanted to help my little fr ; 1 dei bttt the B RHgrAived Lour. 1t was cortainly sufrrising how many big pots sho won, especially as I insiituted the buys Ing of cards 4t 50 centa apiece, dnd some greedy indivs got five to watch ‘at & hme sy conldn't” sce bLalf their numbers. As’ 'thay all had their hands fall with their own bsin 1 could tske a row on my friend’s card sad el ’em straigh off, to poor Em's sstonishmént, who would oxcitedly shriak ¥ Keno,” to my extreme terror, lest thé Captain of the precinct heard her, and instantly demenaed a percontags on g gome, o pulled us on the spot. Thanks to my magnificent way of drawing out of the old bat, Em' nealy ont of dedt, and 3Mns. ——'s room is in full blast il 12and 1at night (p0 limit), and it looks to me like s pros. perous onterprive. Having looked up the game bling law, I find it refers entirely to men, Women aro not amenable. ‘Twenty-fiva cents is pow deducted from cach pot for tho deater (which proves remuaerative), and Idon't know of any botier placo to_lose a. few dallars thg playiug ©Loto™ at tho strict chuhgang ', —— 8. Tp a Tree. From the Arcadian, From Trance, that land of romance, comes 8 new and parhetic story. A young man, inths bloom of health and vigor, was engaged tote married to a beanteous ma:d. This ingenuon youth had one oye fixed on the main chance, a:d arranged with his' future father-in-law that on the dny of his marriage certain real estate should be traiisferred to him. The memorable mom- ing arrived ; the air was' laden with the perfumo of flowers, thio birds sang, and the villagers held 8 festival similar to “those which we_see in Lal ian operas. The bridal party reached tho chapsl, wich lay ensconced amorg traditiouary elms. Through its churchyard meandered a stream- let whose silvery ipples glistened io the moro- ing ‘snn. Panctual to the time the curo rived end- took a prelimioary pinch of souff ag Lie surveyed the peorle belore him. Eversbody” settled into his or her allotted place, The cere- mony was about to be commenced, when it sud- dealy struck the brida that the bridegroom wad nouest. She clasped hor Lands to ber beart, and, with a piercing ehrick, fell renselees. Clear 25 o bell, over tho clamor that emsued, was heard the voica of tle father calling upon his fricnds and relutions to go in sesrch of the missisg ono. High and low they bunted, bk tho game could not be found. At last they dis- covered the objeci of thewr search comfortably enscorced among the epresding branclies of & lotey osk. On being requested to deacend, he inquired *if they saw auy grocn sbout him,” to which those below, who hud thoir eyes on Dis_surroundings, replied “ Plonty.” Ta ile widst of au interchange of violent epithets, bo gavo & characterisiic remark somewhat to the following effect—that **he be derned if be would till that there real estato was transferred.” ‘Whle the bride was thusbowed down in augnich and the bridegroom was boughed ap in tho teo, thie faiber-in-law toro bis hair, acd, nmid sobd and teass, urged tho unreasonablo nature of ths request, but tono effcct. Finally tho documsnt a8 brought fort, duly sigued, aod the reesl citrant bridegroom slid_down the tree. After the pecessary repairs had been mado in his pantaloons, with his rentessecured sad his rents sewn up, the bridegroom adjourned with tbs rest of Lo party to tuo chapel. The bride ro covered from her fawt, the cure took s fresh pinch of snuf, and tho knot was tied. An Unfortunate Young Ladye From the San Franciseo Alta California. Some threo months ginco, an item appeared i several of the Qaily papers in referenco to the sccidental shooting of a young lady at her home on Folsom sfreet, noar Second. The facts are that two young gentlemen called upon the young lady, whoso name is Nettie Hohmes, sod, hen about to depart, one of them mistook his Iriend's dvercoat for his own, and putit on. ' 18 the pocketof the overcoat” ho found pistoly which he drow in a playful mapner, and, while attempting Lo coek it, the bhammer slipped aud tho weapon was exploded. Tho ball entered the arm of Mixa Holmes, just above tho elbow. She fainted, and the noise of the explosion brought tlie whole family into the parlor. At first it #33 thought sbo_was kiled, but a physician WS called in, aud, under his care, she soon recov: crod. <Lho ball waa subsequently cxtracted, su tho young lady was goon after able to move around aa hively as ever. Tho young man wh carelessness caused the acaident called freque! Iy at tho houso to see how ho was goiting 31085 and in time bie cat Lis triend out, a8 the sssing i, and he becamo engagod to be married to ber. The wedding was to have taken placo in August, but tho chances are that it will naw, bo post- poned. Ou Friday evening last tho young mat tool: Misy lolmes out nding. Thoy siarted dovh the San Bruno road, but, while making on8 O the nnmerous turns, tho buggy was capsiz and the occupants thrown out. Miss olmed fell upon tho sido of the bank sad rolled dowd 80 closo o, tho waters edgo that her clothes wera saturated. Her eucort. who was 0ok jured badly. succoeded in carrsing her, 3p ank, and afterwvards to a house aboat balf 3 mile distant. ero it was ascortained that ber log was broken, aud that she had recived o‘,ng severo in 9. One of the men iu tho neig borhood lilzehiod up his horse, and rode. intd? Mission, whero the services of s physician #520 procured; and_ word sens tothe youngbdr home. Yestordav sho wa3 brought ivto 107 and it is probable that sne will bo coninedty ber room for eeversl months, Tho borse M tacbed to the buggy ran away at tho timo of i sccident, but was captured 2 miles dovn rosd. For severel reasons tho naae, of B roung man has been omitted, but certainly carefully avoided? fs a she-cynic ‘any more tolerable than a he-cynic ? If the love of art be a desirabla quality, i8 thero any reason why it should not be shown in a statuesquo arravgement of drapery or io & brilliant combinatio: of coior? We men like women 'Enmpmuunéy clothied, avd hy should wo pretend that we do not like thus harmless display —this show not merely harm- less ,bm sometimes positively usefuland instruc- tive? Upon the whole we are beginning to be half of the opinion that women have not much cccasion to be grateful for masculine advice. Opportuni- ts, liberty, encourazement, the chanco to be truo to her best intentions—these are what woman wants. and not endless advice and dormaticalin- terference. 'If there be petty restraiuts, away with them! " If there bo conventioual aad mis- taken dogmas, let them'be discarded! If thero bo tyranuical jaws, thé sooner wo repeal them the better! Wossan saust work out Lier own salya- ought not to gavo a wile if he rannok take beiter caro of Lier tfan Lie has of his fiancee. ave-Girls. . Abyssinian Fram Macmillan’s Magazine. - The Abyssinfan girls are remarkably prefty with largo eye and delicately-shaped featar®® Theso.gisls arof brought down from the Galls country by the ‘alave-dealers from Abysawis. ‘That beautifal cpuntry, which, bad we not wa2” tonly deserted it, might have become of importance, i3 now a prey to anarchy: Tll:h‘fl; posiog tribes ore only too happy tosellthes femalo prisoners to tho Arao mwaflhkh 4 These people bring down tho 5oung Gl ¢ gangs by various routes, but the princtk .O'Ik!.‘ i the Red Sca, about Massows. A gres:m is at Gallabat, the froutier town of Abngd" Thiére I'hive beed tliom crowded (ogothoriB By t s T g 1 s g b b i n w ® 3 e