Sftr'tiMJßUttt IttWWflfttlCM, PUBLISHED EVERY ‘WEDNESDAY BY n. G. BSI ITU & CO A. J. Steiwman y. o. smitit Dollars por annnm, payable lu all oosoa In ntlvauoe. Tna Laxcaster daily Inteij.ioenokr Is published every evening, Sunday oxcepted, at 85 per Annum In advance. OFFICE-HOUTHWKST 00RISER OK CENTRE 3-10 AUK. fortvy. UK UAMK TOO I-A’ir, lIV I)AItII A. UOf-S. Ho cull:It t rio Into! Lilli Loufal had di h d Uoloi'u thu h id 100 lonj;: The calif s were Hcorched up'm the «Mi- Ami every tiling was wrong ! Mho scorned lo wall all night for one Who lingered on bln wuy, Anil Not.hu took her luauloue, AiutelvnruJ Hi*: Hi nyi nv/uy ! He cmmi ton tale ! nt, once he 1.-lt The Klinper hour w.ik o’er ; imllllei'eiu f) In her culm Minle dw< It, lihu oloiic’d tiio pautry duur; The table-cloth had passed awaj No iIIkIm-n couM ; She met. him, and tier words w< re g-iy - Kliu never NpuJti: ot ttot ! Hu fame 100 Into ! the ku ht <■<lt nl-i • uf pattonee v.vif nnh'-inid ; Not. hv ofl'miee o; .s- oin n wmM--, Hul hy th*- Slli:lii s tlu-l wound. She knew lie would nay m.llnng now Timl (Miilcl :*to repay : Sill) hade hif : g- 1 Mill ill lie t In. I-IM., And mldly tin n- 'l a way • He came too 1 iln ! the trm/ ijin l.l, l fi am The lei’ d Wif’coM ;i**n!oiio; And wh<*n with word ..i.d mui.’*', hr 1.-:< •! His hungry state. n> prove, she nerved her heart, wl Hi wm.,an''* pr.de A let iirvu' del,:iiiai t u moVu ! TilK. SOROSIS "TEA.’' II itiv .'alUlug none l>y Women. We clip from the New Voile World llie following account ol a "Sorosis Tea” at DelinoiiiooG on .Saturday eve* ning, April 2-ltli. We will publish for the benefit of ourTcailers, the wry gay ami witty speeches of the ladies by in stallments-: The "Sorosis,” which hail previous ly breakfasted at the expense of sev eral gentlemen of the press in this city who shot speeches ut it after dessert to which no member of tiie sisterhood was then permitted to respond, took its re venge last night in a sweet and hospi table way. It gave a tea party to its -former hosts at beltnonico’a, where all together quailed the cup that cheers hut not unebrmLos with right good will, and where the sisters of the "Sorosis,” ris ing one hy one from their seats when the company had completed the repast, spoke gravely and gaily to their hearts’ content. Delmonico’s resort on Four teenth ulreet hits seldom been the scene of a more serene reunion or a better modest meal. The parlors and the large suppor-roum on the second floor were surrendered entirely to the " So risis" and its guests—about a hundred in number. There were present, not "the Pieallillies, the i’ieennninnies, the .loblillieH, and the great Panjan drum himself,” for ibis was not in any sense a stilted or miscellaneous party. Among the invited IV. w were Mr. An drew JI. (ireen, Mr. Win, Orton, Mr. .lames W. Simonton, Mr. Whitelaw Held, Mr. James J'arton, Mr. S. It, Wells, Mr. Oliver Johnson, (!01. Thos. H. Knox, Mr. Wm. P. Clinch, Hon. Dumas Harries, and several other dis tinguished citizens. A preliminary talk and promenade, between H and 7:30 o’clock, enhanced the general interest and appetite, only the grosser part of which lalLer was satiated up to the time of the remarks of the President of the Sorosis, greeting its guests. So large and singular an asremlduge of men and women (which terms are more than equivalent, in tin* just estimation of the "Sorosis,” to "ladies and gentlemen”) is unusual in this or any other country. There, tranquilly last eventin', under the chandeliers where many dinner and dancing panic’, have assembled lor the mere rX'lu-ive diversion of males or lor the Hivolotts follies of the ball, sat men like Andrew Jaekson Davis ami James Barton ami William P. Hurleigh, while their wives, "tak ing (he floor" ami politely soliciting tho ears of the assemblage, dis coursed in vaiious strains upon "Tho Coming Woman” of tho c.oun- ) try, "The Man of the Period,” and | " The Newspaper Mail from a Domestic Point of View.’ Mrs. Davis, who is somewhat accustomed to public speak ing, hetnii’ed the lino quality of herna tul’o by a certain embarrassment which •preceded her earnestness before this au dience. Mrs. Hurleigh delivered her remarks on tiie journalist in the bosom , of his family in a self-possessed and How- ! ing declamatory tone that was pleasing i lo many, and must have been particu larly cheering to Hurleigh. Of the gra cious orators of the night, Miss Clara Nicolsoti, who spoke in reference to "Man and his Huttons,” furnished, perhaps, the best evidence of the self conlidenee, w it and humor, and adher sion to the privilege which she honestly claims for her sex, which some women nowadays find it natural to uuite with unquestionaldeself respect,perfect mod esty of manner, and a musical tune of voice. The demeanor of Mrs. Hurleigh . would have delighted an Instructor in I elocution; and Mis. Wilhuiir, a tall and attractive woman clad in raiment . which could ir.'t fail to he re-, garded, talked hi a most eonvin- . eiug lone. Then; were women, too, ; whose look.*, as well as speeches were: specially commendable. Mrs.Dltarson i was one of these. This ladl f presented the dark complexion ami ejes and hair ■ which art* called "brunette,” and read J a sprightly original poem oil " Hlondes and Drunutls,” delighting tiie company 1 thereby. Mrs. Agues Noble read a forci ble paper concerning "The Commiltee womau” extremely well. Likewise did Miss Josephene Pollard read her verses concerning maiden indies and their pro clivities —Miss Pollard’s being a lofty, dark, ami interesting presence, which lent an eflecl. of its own to her delivery. The interpretation by Mrs. Mary Kyle Dallas of a Haby’s Protest against its treatment won lmtrh and due applause; ami in response to Miss Kate Hillard's remarks in behalf of "The (lentleumn,” Mrs Dr, Dinsiuort’s address defin ing ami dffi-mlir.g "The Profes sional Lady,” and Madame Demur est’s overhauling of the male monopo lists of human rights in general, every body gave in his ami Iter admission of tiie sense of what was said. Tiie intel lectual and oratorical entertainment was unique, various,- ami interesting throughout. That the " Sorosis ” suc ceeded iu making mu-Ii an entertain ment not only interesting, but. from first Lo last agreeable, is the strongest proof women have yetufi'onledoflheirabllity to cuter in common as well as individu ally to the delight of those who are always willing to be delighted by them. That they did everything—even the set speech-making, which women are gen erally unaccustomed to—so gracefully, and without at all diminishing but rather adding to the deference which men habitually pay to women in their homes and iu their usual walks of life, is just what every guest of theirs ex pected and is glad of.’ Delmouico has got up gr*. at dinners ; but Inst night he achieved for the first time a " tea.” There was yo wine. When the company hud eat & its food and drunk its tea, the President of tho " Sorosis,” Mrs. Croly, arose and 9aid : MBS. JENNIE JUNE CKOLV’S JtKMAUUS. Gentlemen and Ladies : As presiding ofiieer, I am thankful I have not much to say, aim therefore sutler less from the trembling of the knees which I know has assailed my weak-minded constituency. I must remark, how ever, that lu releasing gentlemen from the time-honored obligation of doing all the talking, we have not been actu ated by any boastful or presumingspirit, butsimply desired to respond as well as our feebler and less experienced powers would allow to their own thoughtful kindness of last year: If we break down, we give you permission to laugh, our principal desire being to entertain you, we shall be consoled, if not satis fied, by whatever achieves that object. It is, to be sure, rather a dangerous ex periment, after what good old Putnam has said about “ noisy” Woroais women ; but tlieu, in the same breath with the assertion that Borosiahas accomplished nothing, he admits that it has worked asocial revolution, brought men and women together on an equal footiug; in short, done what ages of sermons or even the acquisition of the franchise could not have accomplished—for every one knows that though the negro can vote, he is not yet freely admitted to the equality of the white man's table. I assert, however, that Sorosis has done something more; it has given woman a name. There is a good deal in a name. Heretofore, wo men have had no name, no chance of founding a family name, and therefore little opportunity for distinction or achievement. The Adamses,’the Han- VOLUME 70 cocks, the Beechers, and others, find a name and inheritance; yet the cloverest member of the Beecher family is a wo man, ami who can tell how or when, whether or no, some of the others were not galvanized into life by some woman whom no one ever tyears of. It is of no use to tellf.ua that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; we, of So rosis. don’t believe it. I thank you, gentlemen, on behalf of Sorosis for your presence here to-night, and will con clude my remarks by proposing, as the first toast: "Tho Man of tho Period,” which was responded to by Mrs. Fanny Fern Par ton. FANNY l'l’RN'S HEM ARKS. The man of the pu’tod, Who is he? Where is his Jair? Ia it that thing with LigliL boots, [and :cream-colored kids, and clinging trousers, and padded coal, nnd fancy cane, and perfumed handkerchief, that sits flattening its noso against the dub-window, ogling the ladies’ boots? Or, is It the man-ma chine, to whom tlie word business rep resents all of life; whose only literature is the fillip or stock-news ; who is more a stranger to his own children than you or J, wiio sometimes stop to kiss or look after them iu the street; and whose wife hits long since ceased to watdi the clock for the hour of his return. Or, is it he who, with a wife and six children, ! goes ahouiseekingsoine "gentlemanly” I means for gutting their bread and butter, with.cigars at fifteen or twenty cents | apiece constantly between his lips, and a comforting drink wilh a comrade at every corner, to help him through his hourly disappointments ? Or, is the man of the period the parlor-hero of a thous and battles; whose courage and light ing were nil done for him by the bravo privates who now sleep peacefully uih tier headstones on which is inscribed "Unknown! I'nknown!” Or, is tho | man of the period a man of periods ami j commas and semi-colons? in other: words, a literary man ; mighty in hooks l and magazine articles, hut paralyzed at sight of a chicken to carve, who. after yours of notil communing with his wife, keeps on hul]ting her to tho gravy which she hates, and refusing her tho "stufling” which she adores —who, when at a strange hotel, leads her down into the kitchen instead of tlm ladies’ parlor and into the smoking-room in place of thodining-hall; and, forgetting iiis appointment with her un a street corner, leaves her waitingthcr.), a spec tacle to gods and policemen. Who is the man of tin* period ? Per haps it is the editor, whose position, if he (.those lo make it so, is higher than the President of the United Slates. The editor, the recipient of big pumpkins ami i pistol-shots, ami mammoili' w pi:urs, and bahy-junipers, ami patent ice-cream freezers, and big bonnets, and a library free gratis ; who is often at thuoflier; all night, and asleep all day, and is other wise a comforlalde person to have in the house. Or, perhaps, the man of tin* period is the fashionable clergyman, who points his moral—hunker-guns—straight oi’tr the heads of Ids audience, ami then rustles placidly away, in his clerical millinery, with his fat salary in ids pocket. Or, perhaps it is tho lurge iirained, large-soulcd man, whom ail warm-hearted, earnest women are glad to look up to ; who does not fear that tt woman's brain will paralyze her heart; or that if she writes, it will be at the sacrifice of womanly grace; or who sees in " Sorosis” an anti-shirt-hutton dragon, involving two hitch-keys and a burnt beefsteak for breakfast. Or, who pays his wife tiie poor compliment to bottle up Ids whulom for the public, ami tulk to her only of the price of butter ; or is willing that themotherof his chil dren should be ei tlier a doll ora drudge. Or, is it the politician, whose definition of patriotism is talk and oflice, and who never in his life looked thedevil square in Hie face and said manfully, no! Or, perhaps the man of the period is the " Coming Man.” Who knows? Jf so, my sisters, let us he on tiptoe for him, Dut by all means ltd us hold on to those we now have, till he arrives. The {'resident then called upon Miss (dura Nicholson to respond to tho toast, " Men and their Buttons.” <' I. A It A Nlrul.SoN’s REMARKS. Mrs. j'rcsidcnt , GentU men (tndLadic* - Gail Hamilton says it litis always been a matter of surprise to her that Ihuonly gentleman in tho House of Representa tives who is never allowed to say any thing should be called Mr. Speaker. I suppose it was for a similar reason that I, who never made a speech in my life, have been selected lo respond to the toast, "Man and his Huttons,” a very singular subject for a maiden efl'ort, aud one of whi-eh I would naturally know nothing. Whetr I was a little girl I was very partial t o a game called “Hut ton, button, wiio’s got the button?” and during the war I sufibred from an at tack of "button on tho brain,” that threatened at become chron ic. After the war I found myself one of that unfortunate 750,000 majority, and since that time men and their buttons have troubled me very little. That un fortunate majority having placed my sex in tiie same position as the very large family where only part of the children got the measles, because there wasn’t enough measles to go around. I never gave litis subject much consider ation until recently, not in fact until after 1 had tiie pleasure of meeting the gentlemen of the Press Club, and since then my ignorance of ,the button ques tion lias seemed to me most deplorable, Hut T won’t button-hole.you any longer, j I merely wish to say in conclusion, in 1 behalf of the uumarried members of j Sorosis (those who are not in the riny), \ that in future "bachelor’s buttons” will j he our favorite llowers, and although ! we have no one’s buttons to look after, l it really is not because we have "souls j above buttons.” '•I US. DAVIS’S RE-MARKS. Mrs. Mary F. Davis responded to the third toasti ,l The Coming Woman." Mrs. President! Ladies and Gentlemen: This very theme, though often used in tvpic phrase, denotes the progressive tendency of the world. If woman liad reached theclimax (n*perfection ; if they were the angels pictured in the dreams of poets; if the clear-eyed searchers of this age could discover among its mul titude of women the ideal woman, we should not be summoned this eveuing probably to make this pathetic lunge into the unknown future in order to gain a glimpse of the shadow of that corning event. (Applause.) A great Gerruau poet said, “Our wishes are presentments of the faculties that ■will lead us, and the prophecies of that we shall be in a condition to perform.” Mrs. President, in view of this we are smitten with the old discontent, we feel that our lives are poor and -we are— not that we are quite willing yet to acknowledge ourselves to be dismal, dawdling idiots, but we do confess that we see above the highest good that society lias yet manifested a still belter, and possibly a still better towering above, and to this better we ardently aspire. (Applause.) To be sure, all along the road of life we seethe names and deeds of noble and heroic women Hashing out on the page of history,'a brilliant galaxy of good and noble women, who had scanned the darkness of the world, and who, though completing our fair ideal, causes us still to ask for more. (Applause.) Adelaide Proctor sings of “ Incompleteness,” and Elizabeth Browning utters the rallying cry of “Aurora Leigh.” RVo speak of such names with reverence. The wo man, the poet, the wife and mother breathed outlier innocent life in noble utterances for the good of humnuiLy, showing us a noble type of good, heroic womanhood. (Applause.) In Margaret Fuller, who sits down in the storm rocked cabin and sothes her babe to sleep upon her breast and tlieu goes down to deatli with husband and child, rather than accept life without them! Then Florence Nightingale forsakes all to undo the bloody work of war; Mrs. Patton and Mrs. McGuire bring home from distant seas the perilled ships of stricken companions. Then Grace Dar ling and Ida Lewis perilled their lives to save the crews of ships from ocean graves 5 and so what these women have done in rare moments of high Inspira tion w T e would have all women capa ble of, aud more.* (Applause.) We would see the lives of women so round ed out, so harmonious, their souls so pure and full of blessedness, their minds so clear with the light of thought, their hearts so warmed with the light of love, that they may bb the guardian angels of society, and the inspirers of the world. (Applause.) We would fain see women crowned with the intellect of a Madame De Stael; the beauty, grace, and social friendliness of Madame Beamier; the tender, holy, home af fections of good Queen Victoria; the philanthropic and religious devotion of our own saintly Lucretla Mott. (Great applause.) Mrs. President, ladles and gentleman—Where lies the path to this harmony and perfection of character? The first step is freedom; "unhand” me is the cry from tho heart of every woman who is BtruggliDg toward the dawninglight. (Applause.) Take from us, O human society! tho fetters that have bound us, give U 3 recognition and respect, give us culture, us rights, and give us the duties aud re sponsibilities of freedom—(applause) — give us discipline, give us education. (Great applause.) Throw open the doors of your colleges and universities to young women as well as young men; let the teachers In our schools, the fe male clerks in Washington, and the workingwomen everywhere, receive a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work. (Great applause.) Bind us, we beseech you, to the highest interests of our growing republic by the electric chain of American citizenship, and redeem and sanctify our homeshy making them the centres of universal activity and beneficence. (Great applause.) Thus Mrs. President, thus, and thus only, can the " Coming Woman ” —the glorious ideal of the past and tho hope, of the present—appear upon the horizon of the future. (Applause.) Then shall tho reign of mind commc-neo on carta, And Htartiug fresh, ns from a second hirili— Mhu, lu LUebUUShlueoflhe world's new spring, .Shall walk triumphant, like some holy thiug,’ (Great Applause.) MISS JOSEPHINE POLLARD'S POEM. 'Twas my Intention strictly to renrMrr A fallout member In the house to-night; For when I made a speech a mouth ago, I nearly died with fright. A mental protest I at once drew up. And with Immense deliberation signed, And thought to seal my lips to silence : bin, You see, I’ve changed my mind ! Cali it a woman’s weakness, if you will: Hue's “ tickle, false, inconstant," so they say, And thinks It nothing to reverse her mind A dozen times a day. Hut ere you sweep this bosom ef reproach Across the pathway of poor womankind, {•how mo one niHU—amoug a score of men— Who uever changed his mind, 'J h«! thought which has its prominence to-dav, Tho wisdom of to morrow may displace; And every contemplated Issue may Require a change of base. I’ve ofu n said I’d never chango my name To ’• maiden meditation ” I’m lucllueii: Hut would you think ino very much to blame If I should chaugo my mind ? REMARKS OF MRS. DENSMOHK. Tho President called upon Mrs. Dr. Deuatnore to respond to the toust, " The Professional Woman.” Mrs. Densmore, she said, had achieved success, and could therefore speak of what she did know. Mrs. President, Gnitlnncn and Ladies —’Tis hardly fair to cull upon a profes sional woman to respond to this toast, for, were she to treat the matter fairly, she would undoubtedly state many facts and give expression to many sentiments, that would not be iu good taste for her to present on an occasion like this, oc cupying, as she does, the position of an interested party. Properly, a recapitu lation of the liberal measure of success that has crowned the efforts of women, financially as well as professionally, in those fields of labor once considered the province of man alone to fill, together with an enumeration of the superior advantages and enlarged opportunities which will ultimately accrue to woman as a whole, through the successful ef forts of a few energetic members of tho sisterhood, to become worthy re presentatives of the difi’ereut profes sions to which women are adapted, should be heard from a conscience stricken, repentant scion of the genus homo, who, having formerly been guil ty of doing his little best to their hindrances In the way of women’s pro gress, with the view of rendering it dilficult or impossible for her to become qualified to undertake moro compre hensive, more dignified, aud more re munerative labor, is now anxious to make, the fullest possible reparation for past injustice, and thus redeem himself and his numerous coadjutors from the odium that ever attaches to defeat. But as there are only present here to-night those gentlemen who have always stretched out a helping hand to women and bade her God speed in every hon orable undertaking, whether her suc cess would be likely to conflict with their interests or the reverse, we must fain forego tho respouse to which we would gladly have listened, from such a party. If I had been asked to eulo gize tiie "domestic woman” how ap propriate and how easy would have been the task, for she has universal popularity in her favor, and her posi tion has never been (as it should not be) disputed. Her praises are sung all over the world, aud her virtues ideal ized in tho heart of every bachelor! What a delightful resume is constantly Hitting through her brain ! Thus al ways athome, always busy, never tired, never out of humor. Meals always on the table, in apple-pie order, whenever he chooses to drop into the dining-room! Dressing gown always put into his hand, slippers warmed, newspapers placed besido him at the table, and the cigar-holder aud ash-receiver within easy reach! Altogether a model wife, a perfect mother (except when the baby cries) and well skilled in small econo mies ! Tlie speaker referred to a printer’s letter recently published, whose dis quisition on practical economy revealed the fact, she said, that his good lady had found it possible to feed a family of live persons on a dollar a day, and, be sides entertaining an occasional guest, had been able to save from this seem ingly dtminutive sum a surplus fund large enough to purchase for the head of the family a neatly-fitting dressing gown at Christmas time! He also favored us with the information that they were in the habit of making seven ty-two cups of strong coffee from a single pound of the raw material! Now, if a woman has the talent, the executive ability, nay, the genius to accomplish such hitherto unheard of results in the domestic line, may we not reasonably expect that the same order of talent, coupled with the same executive ability will Insure success for women in other departments of life to which they may aspire, whether it be literature, medi cine, art, or indeed any pursuit to which she is by nature and education adapted. But just contemplate for a single mo ment if you please, the variety of agen cies held in abeyance byjMrs. Horace in the single branch of coffee-making! You will readily see, that in order to produce seventy-two cups of strong cof fee, from one pound of the roasted berry, mathematics must have played a bril liant part, or such an intricate problem could never have been solved in a way to effect this desirable and almost in credible result. Chemistry too must have been busily employed, and have literally compelled each ultimate atom of caffeine to deliver up its fullest quota of aroma ! the correlated forces in their entirely, could never have been brought to bear more effectually upon the ac complishment of any desired result, in any department, than there must have been in the production of the aforesaid strong beverage. Now, when we come to add to the capacity which compelled all these agents into effective service, the standard virtues with which this intensely domestic woman must haye been endowed; as patience, persever ance, faith, hope and charity (1 include the latter grace charity because I have not theslightestdoubtbutwbatshecon* trlbutes her might to many small chari ties), and also, to regard the harmonious and thoroughly developed character which must result from the embodiment of so many sterling qualities in one in dividual. We must 1 think admit, that any person, be it man or woman, in whom such a culmination of all the ele ments of success are combined, will be able to overcome all obstacles to their advancement in any pursuit to which they may incline, beitscientific, artistic, comprehensively domestic, or simply culinary ! If your verdict be in favor of the assumption on our part, that Mrs. Horace’s acquirements have demon strated the existence in woman those qualities which are a guarantee of suc cess in whomsoever found, and in what soever work engaged, then shall we consider the vexed question, “shall we have professional women” compara tively settled, and feel inclined to ten der a vote of thanks to Horace’s printer, for the elevated status of woman which he unconsciously inaugurated, when he sat' down to pen a few words of advice to his brother printers, in reference to mending their extravagant ways. (Great applause.) The fifth toast, “ The newspaper man from a domestic point of view,” was responded to by Mrs. Burleigh. JIBS, bukleigh’s bejiarks. Mrs. President , Ladies , and Gentle men: On the newspaper man in his public capacity I might grow eloquent— I undoubtedly should; but what can I say of him from a domestic point of view? This Is reversing the lens; our LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 5 1869 giant becomes a pigmy; the royal we, plain Smith or Brown. Cinderella was not more despoiled of her magnificence by the striking of that ill-omened clock, than the newspaper man is of his, by Ills transfer from the editorial desk to his easy chair in the home-circle. The newspnper man in the bosom of his family is not a brilliant creature. I doubt if his wife considers his utterance oracular; I have never heard that either pearls or diamonds dropped from his i lips —but that may be because he rarely opens them at home. The more the columns of his paper scintillate with faucy imaginations and poetic feeling, the less of these qualities he has for home consumption. The more eloquent his dissertationsupon the artof making home happy the more probable itis that family sociability flies out of the window as his shadow crosses the threshold. — The newspaper mau, considered from a domestic point of view, is a creature of wants. He wants many things—every thingjconductive to his physical com fort, and with the least possible trouble to himself. He wants his linen with the full quota of buttons; his stockings in a perieet state of repair; his meals promptly and well-served, of course, to be disposed of between paragraphs of the daily paper; and above all, he wants quiet. "Don’t disturb me,” is written all over the newspaperman at home ; his back hints it; the newspaper behind which he has entrenched him self announces it; his squared elbows dare you to do it. The newspaper mau considered from a domestic point of view, is an absent creature. Materially, he may be so near, that lie is in everybody’s way; mentally, he is always a long way off. If his wife asks a question —which she sometimes ventures to do —it is with littleexpectation ofreceiviugan answer. Persistence may wring from him the beginning of a sentence, but it general ly lapses away.inlo vacuity and silence. He must be reached, if at all, by a sort of telegraph. A telegraph with uncer tain wires, shaky posts, and insufficient electricity, it would seem to bo, for re sponses are tardy, infrequent, and un satisfactory. I once asked a newspaper mau the name of his only child, a little girl some three or four years oh’ He looked at me in a helpless way, p -.ed his whiskers reflectively, and finally answered, " Really I don’t remember.” People have no interest for him unless they are available for his "Personal ” column. Incidents of the most touching character are of no account unless they can be condensed into a paragraph ; and as for sociability, the witticisms of his frieud at dinner are gravely noted down with an eye to business and appear duly in next morning’s issue. In short, the newspaper man, from a domestic point of view, is a more of less amiable ana • eonda. lie is perpetually gorging him self, and perpetually under thenecessity of not being disturbed. He alternately absorbs and eliminates newspapers— newspapers verge from his pockets, drop out of his hat, strew the iloor on each side of him, on cumber the table at which he sits. Should he ho picked up on a plank at sea it would be with a wet newspaper in his hand. For " all the ills that flesh is heir Lo ” the newspaper is his panacea. It is more quieting than soothing syrup —more stimulating than plantation bitters. Buried in its columns pecuniary embarrassmentsareforgotten; domestic difficulties disappear, and even moving day ruay bo borne with equanimity. Douglas Jerrold tells usof who was changed to money, who a ally became an animated bundle of green backs, or what was almost as good, Hank of Fngland notes. A melancholy change for him no doubt, but not with out its compensating aspects to his family. He at least paid as he went, and if at times—as our author tells us— he was intensely disagreeable—as even men are capable of being—there was always tiie comforting reflection, that, being money, it could not in the very nature of tilings last forever. Hut no such cheering assurance suggests itself in relation to the man who has become a bifurcated newspaper —who is haunted by no tender memories of the past—no blissful anticipationsof the future ; who responds to no sentiment but "more copy,” whoso familiar is a grinning and grimy " devil,” and whose veinsare un questionably filled with ink. Whose parchment-like condition threatens a limitless longevity, and suggests the terrible misgiving that lie may at any moment become the proof-sheets of a most embarrassing immortality. Mrs. Charlotte B. Wilbour responded to the sixth toast, "Heroic Women.” MRS. WIRBOrR’S REMARKS. The popular notion of heroism that it consists mainly in breaking heads and presenting heads to be broken, is not only faulty in principle, but practically narrows the category of heroic persous to a few hard heads that could well be spared for that operation without sub jecting many hearts to the same fate. The woman who listens with a resig nation more eloquent than words to the alarming profanity of her liege lord over the inevitable lost shirt button, aud keeps an unrullled serenity as he rises to his climax over the unfortunate rutiles, when he blesses the very wife of his bosom in a left-handed speech for not seeing it well starched, evinces a heroism that could worry out a score of old knights with their stove-pipe boots, and with heads eucased in iron-pots. What an act of heroism is the very gift of herself, tender, slender, sensitive thing, to a broad shouldered athlete, whom she somehow has come to love ; ami then, when his face has grown to be a sort of necessity, how heroically she sets her gaze on thegray wall of the morning paper, and nibbles her dry toast, in a sort of vague wonder if there is anybody behind tiiat impenetrable barrier that could smile a little relish into the morning meal? Aud what can be a more heroic sight thau to see her lead the charge of live babies, or seven, or nine, on the dreadful array of baby killers; teethiDg, the mumps on both sides, chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, and all the ills that little llesh is heir to; and very justly may she exhibit some p-ride when she brings them off without a scar. Society, too, has a Held for her heroism, and with what a martyr spirit she conforms to the demands of fashion; think what courage it requires to hold up a head inwardly bristling with a hundred and forty forked wires, and bearing a strange structure of eigh teen ounces of unrelated hair, with heaven knows what reminiscences in hering in it to plague Us new possessor! Young man, if, on your velocipede, you pause to doubt my lady’s valor, try the experiment; that necktie to which you give all your mind, those pedal case ments on which you exhaust the morn ing sweetness and waste the midnight oil, are but modest trials compared with the attempt to work, and think, and have a Christian sort of being under the panoply of a full dressed head. And then think of the devotion she exhibits in joining the church for herself and her busy lord, who, given to clubs and poli tics and worldly ways, is a little in dan ger if not brought at least under a milder reprobation, by' the believing wife, who really has little chance to clear him by imputed righteousness. But the crowning glory of the angel, the bright particular star of the martyr, the deathless laurel of the hero ine, are displayed and earned in that supreme moment, when a woman joins an association of women and works serenely with them. She has endured in heroic silence the burstiug of the storm when the shirt button failed ; she has cheerfully led Dick, and Nancy, and little Bobby, and irrepres sible Susie, through the liery furnace of baby ailments. She has dutifully watched out the pen ultimate “ Seven teenthly,” and the “Finally Brethren,” of the lteverend Aminidab Jones, for the honor of the family and the good of its unregenerate head. And she might reasonably say that the good fight was ended, and the crown well earned. But the bravest woman has never quite assured her heroic standing, till she has gone through one campaign with her consociate-sisters. If, then, her chignon towers unlowered in the calm heavens of successful fellowship, let the laurel descend upon its august dome, and the oil of anointing be as the dews of Hermon on its beautiful crest. The President—The twelfth toast, “ The Committee Women,” will be re sponded to by Mrs. Agnes Noble, our Executive Chairman, whose committee work, like herself, is nobly planned to warn, to comfort or command. MRS. NOBLE’S REMARKS. Mrs. President —What is a committee woman? That is the question! Hoping to be able to define my position at the outset, I hunted through all the dic tionaries, not omitting that famous botanical one in which you, Mrs. Presi- dent found the word Sorosis, but have not discovered anything about the "committee woman.” The "lords of creation” seem to have appropriated the word "committee.” In point of fact, up to this present moment, the nature, compound qualities, the very head and gender of this thing called "committee woman” seems to beundetermined, and lexicographers don't know whether tho creature is a chairman or a chairwoman. I suppose the fact that I occupy this nondescript position in Sorosis, without really knowing whether I belong to the masculine or femininegender, accounts for my being ordered to respond to the sentiment, and will also account for the little light I shall reflect upon the sub ject. Men have always—if we credit the journals of legislative bodies, eagerly sought place on what they term good : committees; butinasmuch aswomeu are 1 not quite yet members of the aforesaid . [ bodies, they are excluded from the aforesaid good places. Thus "the com mittee woman ” must labor and wait a little while, and but a little while longer, in her outside organizations and volun- , tary associations, until her representa tive capacity and her coequal humanity shall be acknowledged. In developing I this humanity woman has committed lo i her a most sacred trust, and the efforts which Sorosis is now making in her calm and unpretending way have im pressed the age. (Applause.) In June ISfiS, thegentlemenof thepress, through • their committee, tendered a breakfast j "to the ladies of Sorosis,” who accepted, and on .the 13th of that month enjoyed, in this - very hall, a bountiful repast. On that occasion the meD made speeches to the women, and Sorosis was able to stand the Tress, in silence. March 2u, ISG9, progress was reported. The com mittee men and commi.ttee women of the press projected a dinner, in which j men and women participated on terms ! of social and mental equality. The men j made speeches, the women made [ speeches, and such a happy and , profitable commingling of the sexes, I upon the same elevated platform, was j never before witnessed. (Applause.) . About the time of this refiued exhibi tion, another committeeof the Williams College Alumni made arrangements for an alumni dinner, and in their circular invitation is lo be found the following passage: "Gentlemen attending tho, dinner will be allowed to introduce j ladies into tho dining-hall at s P. M., j in time to listen to the addresses; ami j arrangements will be made for the oc-1 cupation by the ladies of one of the par- i lors, until the.time for their admission ; into the dining-hall.” It is needless to i say that, after the experiences I have | enjoyed at Delmonico’s, I declined to, to ait, like Lazarus, and partake of the ; crumbs which might fall from such a table; but I heard from my better half, whose respect for his Alma Matter en forced his presence, that, after the mas culines had "impleted their , thoracic cavities,”a party of feminines, who had for two mortal hours been caged iu an other apartment, were turned loose Iu thodining-room of the Astor House, and pacified with Ice creams from the wai ters. aud other screamsfromthelem .ml graduates after this style. (Great ap plause and laughter.) 11 “()a Knowledge I wok bent, sir, And lor learning I did pant; So to college I was sent, sb, To seo tne elephant. I.’hohi's—With a hokc:-, dinkey, ]>eiby nun And a boliee, dinkey, day. ” The animal is some, Mr, I've scrutinized him through From iruuk to tip of tall, Mr, Amt 1 rather think I’ll do. Chorus— With a hokew, ouikcy, Darby, Ac. Womau, dear woman, of course, was toasted—hist. Response being made by one of the venerable Alumni, a mem ber, by-the-bye, of the religious press, whose last aud best words declared " That as the ladies present could not speak for themselves, he wished they had but one mouth, aud he would be only too happy to become their mouth piece.” (Applause.) Gentlemen and ladies look on that picture and now on this. Cast your eyes around these fes tive boards. The last degree of progress is now reported by the committee wo man who moves the adoption of her report. First. The press breakfast Sorosis. Struck dumb Sorosis has not a word to say. Second. The press and those of Sorosis connected with the press dine together; all have words to say, and ’twas. a common talk. Lastly. The members of Sorosis teas the members of tiie press—and the press lias not a word to say. O ternpora ! O mores— a capital T whatever may be said of the toast. (Great applause.) REMARKS OF .MISS 111 1. t.A KI >. Ladies of Sorosis:— We are assured by Mr. Curtis that the last thing the gentlemen do before leaving the festive board is to have the editor of tho week ly Flapdoodle propose "The Ladies: Heaven’s Last, llest Gift to Man !” As the representative, upon this occasion, of that illustrious organ, I am called upon to propose to you, "Tiie Gentle men : Heaven’s first, Best Gift to Wo man!” (Applause.) And here I become embarrassed by two considerations; in the first place, by having to make my maiden speech upon a subject so dear Lo every woman’s heart; in the secoud place, by not having the faintest idea what tiie editor of the weekly Flap doodle. would be likely to say next. But this, gentlemen, 1 am assuredly safe in asserting that the conduct of the Sorosis from the very beginning has been one long testimony to our estima tion of you, aud your very exclusion from our meetings has been a delicate compliment to your power. Business is impossible in the presence of pleas ure. Itis not that we love Rome less, but Ctesar a great deal more. How can we help it, when we know that to you we owe what is said to be the greatest pleasure of our lives —the plea sure of heariDg ourselves praised ? ISuch being the case, we can only exclaim, in the words of the immortal Pillieoddy, " What would life be to us without the gentlemen.” [Applause.] Nothing.— What would the gentlemen be to us without life? Nothiug? Noikingerstill. Therefore, let our cry be, Tiie gentle men or death!” [applause] with a de cided preference l'or the gentlemen.”— Ail we ask in return is, that you will never forgot, while immersed in your labors, that in " woman’s looks are your best books,” and that Shakespeare says: “ Learning is but au juljunct to ourself, Aud where we arc, our learning likewise 1.-:; Then when ourselves we see iu ladies’ eyes. Do we not likewise see cur learning 1 heie For when would you, my liego. or you, or you, lu leaden contemplation have found out Such liery numbers as tho prompting eyr-s Of beauty’s tutors have enriched you with ? t Applause.) But without your approbation we are sensible that weare naught, we remem ber that "unpraised by your breath, our beauty itself wants proving,” aud we feel above all things “ Happy in this, wc aro not yet so <Md But we may learn : happier than this, We are Dot bred so dull bat we can learn. Happiest of all In that our gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from our lord, our governor, our king. (Applause.) In conclusion, my dear sisters, I shall not attempt to express for you the tithe of the respect, the esteem, the admira tion, the love, which I know you have for the fathers, the husbands, brothers, cousins, and —as “ the line of demarca tion between the cousin and lover is proverbially faint”—may I say the lovers of Sorosis? (Laughter.) Such an attempt would require not only the heart of a woman, but the tongue of an angel; therefore, as some old minister has assured us that “ the brethren are supposed toembrace the sisters.” I shall content myself with proposing—Our brothers in arms, the Gentlemen ! Long may they wave!- (Ardent applause.) The toast, “ Man, the Monopolizer,” was responded to by Mrs. Demorest. MADAME DEMOREST’S REMARKS. Mrs. President, Ladies and Gentle men: We begin with the charge that man has monopolized the right to de claim, lecture, preach, or speak in all forms known as public speaking, to such an extent that we who have accepted the subjects alloted each for discussion to-night, have literally done so with “ fear and trembling; ” this is no figure of speech, to' be taken with allowance by those who are accustomed to the sound of their own voices and the pres ence of an audience; else, what means the silence of numbers here who have made their names great by the strength, beauty, and purity of their thought, ex pressed by the pen, and are unequal to the new order of expression, for woman, which we hope will, become common. It is experience, contact with the world, that educates us to the admirable self possession we envy in our brothers on occasions like the present, but of which we’ havo been deprived by custom and education so inwrought that, notw'ith standing the best judgment approves : this removal of old restrictions as ad ! vautageous to both sexes, it is quite probable that many are silent to-night who are fully capableof sustaining this innovation. Their answer is: "No.no! wc cannot speak in meeting;” which suggests that possibly we are indebted to tho good old Quakers and Methodists for their greater liberality In consenting to the equal privilege—" if the Spirit moved of the sisters speaking before the brethren and tho world. This may have given us all the strong-hearted, or strong-minded, if you chose, of modern times. - The moderate relaxation thus allowed in the customary retirement, where we were bade to remain, has opened the way to broader, higher fields of thought aud labor for woman. I Our grandmothers repressed the trou blesome though natural enterprising inquiries enterprisiug childhood by teaching that " children should be seeu but not heard.” The fathers, husbauds and brothers enforced upon the women of those days the spirit of the same rc -1 pressing regimen—not to be heard out side the homes provided by these guard- I ians and law-makers. A daughter not | unfreqiiently inherits the qualities that have made her father widely kuown aud honored in the world ; she loves his pursuits—but it is unwomanly, worse than folly to spend time and money for the education requisite to success. The j father holds the purse and does not I yield to the strongly indicated prefer ence, she manifests for solid, healthful nutriment, of which her mind is capa ble and which—with wholesome re straint—he would give a son. The mother has no means, if she will, to alter his decision, because one day when she was younger aud freer than now, he put a ring on her finger and money in | the clergyman’s hand, and she believed : bis promise, together with the false I words of ceremony that endowed her I with his woildly goods, and made them I one! She finds that, instead of being j endowed, she is deprived, of worldly j goods, and has no longer the control of | her own property, her own person, her own name. A few days since a young girl came home from one of our inatitu tionsof public education, wherea teacher had rebuked her for directing a letter to a married lady by that lady’s given ! name, and instructed her to hereafter I address all married ladies by their kus j bauds’ given names. The origin of this j weak woman’s idea may be traced to the I subtle leaching inculcated by masculine preceptors, at a time when it was not thought needful for women to liavo an education equal to that bestowed upon men—when lady teachers were few, and the Instruction they received was im parted almost solely by the selfrconsti tuted lords and law makers of creation —for the law recognizes this utter sub mersion of woman’s individuality in that of her husband—one flesh means literally one, single, self-constituted arbiter of all questions—the man, who quietly falls into possession of his wife’s property, or if accumulated since their union, it is his only, aud if he so pleases, lie may keep her absolutely unprovided for, or at best, but so far comfortable a 9 suits her fickle faucy. Most women are kept in entire iguorauce of their hus band’s business relations and condition financially; they have no responsibility laid upon them, except the endless ex hortation to economise, which they soon learn applies only to themselves, or the money that passes through their hands, and is not considered in the amount their husbauds expend, because mau has claimed the monopoly of all mqney, personal property, Ac., that marriage professedly makes of joint ownership. No matter how well the wife performs her part, according to standard regula tions for home duties, including the rearing of children and the traditional buttons, she still finds herself subject to his caprice, aud her services, though in the very nature of the case as exacting as his, are not recognized except 09 a duty she owes, and at best compensated by a gift! Why wonder that she learns to smile at suggestions of extravagance in dress, and adds another yard to her train, or a more expensive set of lace for the next party, aud sprinkles gold dust over her glossy hair? She is none the poorer for the outlay, for ordi narily a wife owns only her own ward robe. ‘ MIS:-) VAUGHAN'S REMARK'S. I suppose there is no one at the Soro sis tea-party who will want to be con vinced that women have a right to de votet hemselves to literature; to exert fully and freely such talent as they may possess in the noblest, most elevating, and most inlluential profession and art (literature i 3 sometimes an art) that there is; and none I hope so behind the age as to advocate the vulgar notion (Isay vulgar, because the best minds and highly cultivated minds seldom entertain it) that literary worneu, be cause absorbed in intellectual pursuits, are prone to neglect their household duties; that they are cold in their affec tions, and cease to be attractive and agreeable as women. There is nothing truer than the common saying that the more one has to do the more he can do. Those who neglect their duties are, usu ally, those who have nothing to do but neglect them; in other words those who, from the want of some earnest oc cupation, have never learned to be faith ful to any duty, and who, consequently, have learned to be idle and frivolous. A woman who has the mental disci pline that the conscientious pursuit of auy profession or art requires, who has trained herself to be faithful to the severe demands of the ideal, would be the last woman in the world toslightor >overTook minor duties. As to the other points, we may safely assume that a woman will be loving, sympathetic and attractive in direct proportion to her genius. Genius is not born of the in tellect alone, but from the union of a true and clear intellect with a true and warm heart, a fine and rich organization, keen sensibilities, subtle sympathies, nobility of character, lofty aspirations— all the qualities that make man or wo man attractiveandbeloved. (Applause.) i Yet even in these nations power and : genius, when manifested by women, were always acknowledged and rever enced. This was during all periods of antiquity, and in the middle ages. The great queens and conquerors of the East, the powerful diplomats, rulers, intrigu ants of the middle ages, women great, sometimes for good and quite as often for ! evil, were respected, reverenced, feared, I obeyed, precisely iu proportion to the 1 power they exerted, just as men were. The theory had not yet been promulgat i ed that mediocrity was man’s high- j eat ideal; that to be noble, and true, and great, was to be unwomanly. (Ap- | plause.) The popular uprising among ! women of this country has been the ; natural and inevitable reaction agaiust , this pernicious, this most fatal theory. . What the success of the movement has been we all know. In fifty orahun- 1 dred years it has sown a new hemis phere with immortal stars; women! have gained distinction in every de j partmentof literature, in every art, in J science, in professional life, in political ; life; they have snatched freedom from ; the hands of power, and have proved their right to be regarded 09 the equals of men, by proving their equality to : him. (Applause.) Literary women have never occupied a more important position than they have now assumed. What would men be, wbat would our : present civilization be, if there had been no Shakespeare, Bacon, Schiller, Hum boldt, Washington ? It is impossible even to conceive. What should we wo men of the present day and hour be if, duriug the last fifty years, Elizabeth Barret, George Sand, Currerßell, Geo Ell iottt,Harriet Martin eau, Lucy Stone, had not given expression to their indi vidual greatness, in defiance of the modern ideal of womanhood ? How far down should we have gravitated in the road of folly, stupidity, ignorance? The great mass of men and women will al ways be persons of average ability ; the mission of the few great men and women who apearin every age is to draw literary women who do not now, for the first time, claim attention. In fact we are all too apt to forget that women occupied posi tions of trust and power, to which we are only beginning to aspire, ages and ages ago, before the first dawn ofmodern civilization had begun to glimmer through the mysterious darkness of the future. It is interesting also to note that the influence of women in litera ture has depended, in a great measure, upon the spirituality, the moral and religious character, of the nation to which she belonged. We must still go to the Oid Testament, for'the high est flights of poetry, and among the bards and prophets of Israel, the pro phetesses are nobly represented, Miram, Hulda. Anna, Deborah, these l are familiar names. I will refer, spe . daily, only to the greatest of them all. i Deborah was a prophetess, sho was also , the judge of Israel, she was tho com i mander of the armies of Israel, and she ( was a poet; after subduing the enemies of her people, she celebrated her own j victories in songs of praise chanted bo -1 fore the Lord., She stands on equal I grouud with Israel’s greatest king.— ; David, likewise, was a ruler, military i commander, and poet; although he did , not share Deborah's gift of prophecy. J The Teutonic races who swept away the 1 decaying wreck of the Roman civiiiza- j tlon, had strong moral and religious | tendencies and their prophets and poets f were exclusively women. It is true I that the literature in which they were [ represented was oral, but it was none I i the less literature, in the only form in j i which is existed, and those grand old i ] prophetesses, who inspired and con- ! trolled their half barbarous tribes, ! f were the literary women of that period, i 1 If women did not exert au equal influ- I ! ence in Greece and Rome it was because j ! the civilization of the Greeks and Ro- ' j mans was almost wholly intellectual j and material, to the exclusion of the spiritual element. Upward rose this I great lnunau ocean beueath them, as | the moon draws the ocean, so as to pre -1 vent them from sinking into an abysm of materialism and sensuality.' Hence the subtle, fatal, all-pervadinginfluence of the religion of mediocrity upon which women have been fed. That doctrine does not affect the average woman di rectly (it aflectsherofcourseindirectly), but it destroys the woman of force aud genius, and in destroying her, it con- • demns the whole sex to inevitable de- 1 terioration. (Applause.) Tho women : of this age, and above all, the literary women—since the weapons they fight ' with are thoughts—hold the ‘ future iu ] their bauds; for it is their feminine , influence too loDg denied,- repressed, and perverted, that ia needed to give * new life, spirituality, and purity to this ( generation. (Warm applause.) " i .SHIRLEY DARE’S LETTER. c New York. April 23. Dear Mrs. President : It’s no use try ing to come to tea. I’m that miserable I don’t consider myself worth killing, or as the Western people I'd change myself for a gum tree and then cut the tree down. How do you expect me to say anything about the Girl of the Period? I can’t abuse her, for she is one of my nearest friends, and be sides, is altogether too popular to be meddled with. Why|dldn’t you ask the Saturelay Dr dew to* tea, first providing plenty of pickled olives? I might make a poem on tiie subject, but I can’taelect anything original on the topic, either in Duyckinck’s Kncyclopiodia or Per cy’s Reliques, aud my imagination flows only in "spondulicks and dac tyls,” as Somebody else says. Besides, the poetic capacity iu me is wanting, for somebody asked me to-day if I knew what blank verse was, and I had to tell him I didn’t know. Most of the verse now-a-days seems blank enough. (Ap plause.) You want to know what I think of the Girl, of the Period. Should like to ask what the Period would he without its (iirl? [Great Applause.] She ia a different production here from what she is on the other side of thu water. Whether Us republican in stitutiona, or the dryness of the atmos phere, or the Nicholson pavement, I can’t say, but the Girl or the Period here has most of the winuing airs and modes and manners of the insular maiden, without being at heartso thor oughly worthless and selfish. She curls her hair on a slate pencil, and uses lily white, and dotes on new bonnets, but she has both wit, capacity, and energy. She is slangy and free in her manners, perhaps, but not corrupt, and after all what is slang is but figurative language —the short cut in words to an idea. True, she puts on cynic airs, repeats such maxims as " Manners for her, morals for those that like them,” or " One man is as good as another, pro vided he has as much money ;” but the event of her life shows that her satiric philosophy is only on the surface. True, there are whole ranks of exceptions, and, if they prove rules, the rule of her character must be pretty well proved. It can’t be said of the Girls of the Pe riod, as it was in the old theological rhyme of Youdb Obadlas, ami Josias— All were pious (laughter) but I remember finding In an old black-letter ballad that “Men are Imperfect," an uncourteous statement I should not think of believing, except on such venerable authority. (Laughter.) Who wa9 it five years ago scraped lint, and made skirts and started sanitary fairs for the soldiers? Who but the Girl of the Period, in her flounces and puffs. Who attends charity balls and mission bazaars, and keeps up oratorios and the Philharmonic concerts? The Girl of the Period. Who writes dramatic criti cisms, and reads spicy lectures, aud heads lively magazine papers? The Girl of the Period, in the shape of “ Gay girl journalists with Ibelr goliicn hair,’' or any other color. She has done much, aDd means to do more. When a girl can make a fortune and keep a yacht, tiie good time for the sex has come. Won’t women be lovely? Theiewon’t be an ill-tempered or homely girl in the country, all alongof wealtli and culture that shall bo theirs. But the Girl of the Period, for married women are regain ing their influence in society, which was complained of as wanting twenty years ago. (Applause.) The girl of the period with all her frivolites ami auda cities is not unique to-day. She has been heard of in all ages. Cleopatra was a pretty good specimen, and I shouldn’t wonder if she set the fashion of red hair. No doubt she dyed her own way as truly as any womau eating chicken salad in this room to-night. (Applause.) Mary Stuart, the lovely reprobate, was another, and all the vices of modern times, from false hair down, seem to have had a pretty good expon ent in her. It is no new thing for wo men to study medicine even, for in Queen Elizabeth’s time i: is mentioned among the accomplishments of the court that they were skillful iu surgery, and an old Irish ballad chants of a king’s daughter who. “In fashion has no peer." that she " was a leech full fine.” As fot* .Sorosis, that is nothing new under the sun. The Puritan dames of New Eng land had their weekly meetings we are informed, when they met for conversa tion and information; once a quarter, other exercises were suspended, aud the afternoon was occupied in repeating the "New England Primer.” Such delec table lines as Xerxes the Gren did die And so must you aud I." (Great laughter.) I thiuk our Sorosis improves on that programme. In song I can’t be with you to hear how the Girl of the Period will say her pretty, witty tilings around your table. I shall console myself by thinking about the plan of my yacht that I fchull have in the good time when the equality of the sexes is recognized, and a woman has the right to sail around the world, or go to Booth’s Theatre all alone. Y’ours fraternally, Shirley Dari: (Enthusiastic applause.) MRS JOSIE OTT ARSON* ’S REM A UKS BRUNETTES A.vi) BLONDES. 'TIg a dreadful thing to bo a brunette; Dark ami wicked ami no one's pel; A bas-relief In a framn of jet Pale and cold, like a statuette A thing of the past—a mem pianchelle Quite ont of fashion In all the sel ; Not a dozen iu Broadway now arc met ; ’Tta enough to make an angel iret. And I’m not an angel—not quite yet So, poet., have done ! With a rijlimel Enter Blonde—:-xlt Brunette. Gold Is up, they Bay ; take cnYe! It has all gone up lino yellow hair— for Instance—but I do not dm As rejurtlt To speak her name— twould be lmnlly fair— And names are apt to lead to a snare; And besides, I haven't a rhyme to spare. That mine on her head embluz ms the air, And seems to say ’Beware! hewsire The fire of genius is radiant there, With brain-born Jewels without compare; Even Brown and Spnuldlngwould wildly stare To Bee such wonders high up there, Beyond the reach of their prices rate; So, gentlemen. Just have a care Before yon rush to claim a share Thick aK well of the eyes of blue. The color that always rhymes with true Think of the face with lily and ro«e, so soft and sweet In Its calm repose: ot those pearly teeth, so dazzling while, ’Twoold beunpoetlc to say ihey’d bite; Think of the heart that known do change, Fearless and free In Its lofty rang*; Think of yourselves, and your thirst for gold, Keep on thinking, and don't be sold. The coal miners of Hyde Park, at Scran ton, have voted to join a movement for a general strike in the anthracite regions. Mr. Kichotte, of Marseilles, w»£h six French laborers, has gone to plant an olive grove in Louisiana. He carries the seed, and also cuttings, hermetrically sealed in metalic cans. The experiment was once tried in Alabama under the countenance of Congress, but without success. NUMBER 18 XtMVS 111-Ill* TiiO Prl'ico Tinpt*ri.il ha prapby. Baltimore* N to havo a fl-'>,ooo ru«*o courso. “Nod Buntlmo” keeps it faro bank at White Pino. Barbara Frlotchio’a hnuFo In Frederick, Md., has been sold for $-00. Daring the last six months 35.0,000 bush els of peanuts wuro shipped from Norfolk, Vft. A West Texas millionaire farmer hns fenced in a pasture of 130,000 acres, Tho head waiter ofa Dayton, 0,, hotel lifts eloped with a white girl. Wisconsin is trying to make a Saratoga out of a couple of mineral springs. The Charleston Courier says Iho negroes are crowding into the towns from the plan tutlons. The commissions issued to the appointees of the new administration are called in* Dent-ures. Official returns from the Connecticut election whittle Jewell's lumoritv down to 111. It costa New York >T,uvH) to try to smell out some fraud in Hodman's election, and not a scent was found. The Springfield Republican says (Jen. -Butler carries a knife m his heart tor the Pres idem. Where does ho keep his spoons? A number of disappointed ('dice seekers have left Wa-hingtou for Madrid to offer ! themselves for the .Spanish Throne. Piuchbcck, the only Federal appointed in Louisiana who Lius a* “visible ad ad \tni c," declines to serve. Within a distance of two miles ou the James river, in Virginia, there Is unimprov ed water power enough to carry luo facto ries with twenty sets of Machinery each. j It is rumored that the Prince Borgheso, j of Rome, the owner of the dnest gallery of paintings after that of the Vatican, is about [ to sell his art treasures to Uussia lor the : sum of 1ie,000,000 franco. J. Adler and A. S. Bigelow, tho latter of r New York, have been arrested atSavailnali on theebargo ofwhiskey frauds, and “start ling developments” arc predicted in “tins i connection.” The report of Special Treasury Agent Purdy, ou revenue frauds iu CullonilA dis closes tho usual violations of the revenue law, particularly In regard to whiskey and smuggling. Tho great aquarium iu Berlin will soon be completed. Might thousand living vanelhs of fish, lobsters, crabs, stardsh, and other forms of marine life, have been collected, and are awaiting removal to the crystal pal ace which has been built lor them, Advices from Hong Kong and Yoko hama have been received nt San Francisco, Great excitement had been caused among opium dealers in China by a rumor that tho Government hud prohibited the culti vation of the poppy. Tho Viceroy of Oin ton lmd issued u proclamation lorbidding custom house cruisers to search vessels nt sea. Preparations were made at Hong Kong to resist an apprehended mas sacre by the Choice troops. Hatred to foreigners appeared to bo gaining ground in the Empire. New coal fields had born discovered. In Japan, tin* news ol rebel successes have been confirmed, and more leading Haimios havojoined tin* insurgents. The ram Stonewall had been transferred to the Government. The great lhiiinios, Sat suiim, Bhiosln, Jlison and Tosa, it was re ported, would resign theirarmies and ilcets to tho Mikado. The right to export copper under an ait valorem duty of ii vu per cent, had been granted by tho Japanese Govern ment, Stalo Item*. Christopher Bradford was required to hand over &!’> as tho cost of a little disor derly conduct in Pittsburg on Friday last. Omnibuses are about to be ro-introduced on ono of the principal thoroughfares—tho Hand street bridge—between Pittsburg and Allegheny city. A negro named Baker was found on the side-walk in Williamsport, on last Friday night, with a dangerous gunshot wound in the groin, which he said was indicted by a brother darkey. At the late meeting of ciLi/.ons interested in the construction of a railroad from Lew isburg to .Spruce (-reek, it was announced that llie property holders along ibo route would contribute tho grading of the road. Michael Beard, K<q., oneof tho represen tatives from Sehnylkill county iu the legis lature, was the recipient of a serenade and welcome homo tendered by bis constituents and neighbors of Tamnqua, on the ”7th inst. A brutal prize light took place at Tliotnp sonville, Schuylkill county, on last Mon day morning, for sg.'» a side, lasting over two hours, and witnessed by two or three hundred spectators. The l.oitff (Miami Hal I road Slaughter. Thu recent lull in railroad accidents was, unhappily, not destined to bo continued, for again comes thu startling record, ol slill another appalling calamity, one.o more rousing the community to a sense of danger, yet once more spreading grief and desola tion in many a home. Iwas probably the most fearful catastrophe that has ever oc curred on the Long Island Uailroad, cer tainly the most harrowing in its details, of which the following are lull particulars;— The Northport morning train, which left Hunter’s Point at half past ten o’clock, and which was due ul half-past twelve, consist ed of an engine and tender, a baggage and two passenger cars. It reached Jamaica L. 1., five minutes behind time. Proceeding on its way to Northport, at the rate nfahout twenty miles tin hour, everything appeared to run smoothly for about a mile and. a halt' beyond Jamaica, when at a place known us the 'Willow Station the last cur passed over a broken rail, the foremost truck was loosem-d, became imbeded in the ground und completely tore away the entire bottom of the car, causing the instantaneous death of six persons und most ser.ous inju ries to many others. '1 ho scene which ensued was frightful, sickeningaud henrtrendiug.tr ncons«-ious|of the direful event, tho driver proceeded fully three hundred feet after the the broken rail had been passed, the truck all the while tearing out the bottom planka of tho earn. For an instant—for some only an inslunt— human beings struggle in every posture. Put the yawning abyss w;w opened, ami before some could even think, they were launched into eternity bj' the most tortuous means. <>:\e was ground to death, another had her head severed from her body, while others were mangled, gored ami deeply cut. The struggle f< r lile was terrible, and the moans and shrieks which rang forth are described as being harrowing in tho extreme. Prior to the dreadful occurrence, the ill fated'cur contained about thirty pussencrors, very few of whom escaped without sustain ing some injury, for as tho car moved over the truck the aperture increased rnpidlv, giving but little chance for «elf-preserva tion. When about a hundred yards beyond the broken rail, the engine emile to a stop, uml then tho awful sight disclosed itself in all its horrors. The forms of human beings were'writhing in torture, one being com pletely rolled up like a hull, ami others in most agonizing postures. It was discovered that no less than six persons had been in stantly killed, while others presented the appearance of approaching dissolution.-- Nrw York Jfcr'tl'l, April 11 Wo 4 MKIUMIO I'NTATE OK N. 11. <Jfl.l,£M ptu aud wife, of Col.-rain twp , Lan .raster county. —N. H. Gillespie and wife, of Coboaln twp., having by deed ol voluntary hmsli'dment. dated A Fill I.’JZd, D'D. assigned sud transpi red all their estate and effects to the undersigned, without delay, and those hnvtug claims to pro- Ben t them to CROMWELL BLACKBURN, Amlgneo, npr *s igw 1 .) Col<-: u i n p. 0., La near, i <-r co Assigned estate of aurasia.u j. Ito-s and wife, of Drumo o townsnh.. Lancaster county. Abraham J. Muss, of lira mure township, having bv iu-cI of vuliintaiy assignment, dated Match -5, Rai, assigned amt iranafoi red aJ l their est-itoand effecLs to the undersigned, for thu bcnefli of the creditors of Llie said Abraham J. Hess, ne therefore gives notlc e to all parsons Indebted to said a-signer, to make payment to the tltjdei signed without delay, and t hose having churns to present them to DANIEL JL hit 'K M A N, Assignee, Qiurry vlHe, Laucast*. r Co., Un . mar 31 13 diw. Estate of joiin hei.spkh, i.vrs ot Lancaster city, doc'd.— Letter* of Ad ministration on sunt is ate hav.ng been granted to Urn undersigned, ail persons In debted thereto are riquested to make umneili ale pa\ meat, 'did those having claims o-do nmnds HgMlnst the same wlli present them tor settlemenl to tho undersigned, residing ;:i muh city. KLIZARLTii IlfcLhl’KK. apr I! Kl* Ml) Administratrix. ASMUNKO t HTA I F, 08' .10*1 \ It. OISII . and wilt-, of West iJoapyal tu-p-. 1 anuaxter comity. John !t. and win-, of W’wV, Uun ptfid iwji., having liy «|< ed nl vnluiit'iry assign, jo*' l au<! trHtislerred mi their estate and c-tlVcts to the utniersi"iie.|, for the tji-nef!’ ot me creditors o! the sard Joiiu 11. i.isti, l.e therefore irlvr.-. notice m till persons indented tosaid to tn.ute payment tj the mi drrs'uned ult'n'ut delay, and Iho-.o claims to present them. I'i 11Ll i J OLL> WKILEK, Assignee. a2l-Clw ESTATE OF JOHN KOTII. Ni:„ tATV oi Warwick Ikj»., deceased Letter* or Admlulxtratlon on k-U estate havlna been granted to the undersigned, all pe;w»n Indebt ed thereto Hr. i reque-led to rnnko Immediate) payment, and Lho.se having <*nilrns or demands against the same will present them for settle ment to the undersigned, residing in Llllz. REBECCA KOl'H, Administratrix. Or to JOUV H. EKB, Agent, upr 21 j Lltl/.. Lancaster county, Pa. i SHUiSF.Ii . STATE OF ALBERT BET- A tig and Wife, of West Cocalico township, Lancaster connty.—Albert Rettlgr, of West Co* callca township, having by deed-iof voluntary assignment, aligned and transferred all their estate and effects to the undersigned, for the benefit of the creditors of the said Albert Ret tlg and Wife, ho therefore gives notice to all persons indebted to said assignor, to make payment to the undersigned without delay, and those having claims to present them to JOHN K. RETTIG, I . CYRUS REAM, ) Assignees. aU-titlaw Residing lu East Cocallco twp. tfSTE BcaiKtaa ASYfUIYXU](KI«-ro, %U ft TOttT-per qoftr«'Af tADlniwj'lS per peer, jtor each &• dltlonal aqtlAre.. . Heal Eetat* ADYEBTifliwo. lOeentsa ttn*» mi the Aral, and SoeniaXor each subsequent In sertion. Ucwkrad ADVJtKTifIiKo 7 renu a line fnr iho Amt, and 4 caul* far each enb-oquept insor lion, Special NOTICES Inserted Id Ix»ca) Column 15 ceuta per line. Special Notices preceding marriages nnil death*, 10 cenLa per line for flrat insertion awl ooonta for every subsequent Inaortlonil Legal and oth k r notices— Executors’ notices .... Administrators’ notices, .. 2.50 Assignees’ 2.50 Auditors’ notices, 2.00 Other "Notices,''ten lines, or loss, Z three times,.. ..... | .50 Jtusurautf GCompault*. hurtled 1 fit' nUI ALUKi; I.NNCUANt'K COM-.PAS Y OF PENNA « INCORPORATED 18AS. C H AHTKU P KItPE T U A L ASSETS LIABLE FOB LOSSES $778,578.82 11. IvKABKII, President. D. HTRICK.LKK, Secretary and Treasurer, lutsiiro parjioluully, or for ouo, thruo, or live The only Mutual Company In Peuusylvaula that has never mmlo an assessment in 15yoais of heavy huslncas. No purl of Its premiums KOei Into tho pockets of [stockholders, honco it savo3 to Us memborr 2L)to3oper cont. of stock mte Insurance. All losses promptly paid. HERR A RIFE, AgcutH, f I’MawiUtl'w COJLUMKMA INSUKANCK IXIMPANI JANUARY Ist, 1888. CAPITAL AND ASSETS, 1670 882 78. J Tins Company oontlnnes to insure Build* Merchandise, and other properly, against loss and damage by Are, on tne mutual plan either lor u cash premium or premium nolo EIGHTH ANNUAL K E Tf. CAPITAL ANI) INCOME. Ani'l of premiam notes. sBt£i,fi7s IXI Lcusnniouul oxplred 218,881) 20 Bfii7,V:«l 78 Cash receipts, less commissions In 'i>7 ihijim l:i Loaus 1< ,ikO IM Due irom agents nnd others 4,1iil l'l Ksllmaled not assessment No. 7 211,000 00 Lonsea ami oxponflM paid In 1897 |«I7‘J2 18 notJae I»',' txi );< Balance of Capita! *aml Akh«u, Jan 1. IKK' 17.V4.1i.il IB A.H (JKUUN, l J renldfUl« Ukouok Yoono, Jr., Heoroiary, Uichaki.h hhdman.Tronaurer. DiUKCTUKHi William ration, K. T. Hyc.n John KoiMrloh, W. U. Mlu cd, (Joo. Young, Jr. K. l.berlelD, Nlcholrw MuDonald A.moi K. (Jruou, John LI lluelmmu," Hiram WllHon, Knhort Cr»uo,| MlflhHbl H. HUumftU,, T-f* For Inminumo and ollior partlculuiHiipplyjlo H kKII A KIKE, lion! EhUI.O, Collection A iuuurunco Audits. No. 3 North Duke Hired, Lancaster, l‘« tlll«*\V nov*i M AT ' " " A * LIFE INHURANCK COMPANY UNITED STATION 1)1'’ A M Kllll'A , CnARTKnun iiy HritoiAi. Act cut CoNonF«n, APPUUVKI) JULY -J.'.nr, imN. CASH OAPfTAL PAID IN !• LJLU BRANCH OFFICE FJItHT NATIONAL HANK IIfIiLDJNG, PHILADELPHIA, Whore the general business of tho Company Is transacted uud to which nlljgencral corres pondence should bo addressed. urriCKKNi CLARENCE H. CLARK, Prosldonl. JAY.COOKE, Chairman Fiuauco and Exeou* tlvp Committee. HENRY I>. COOKE, Vice Presldeut. EMERSON W. I’EET, .Secretary and Actuary, This Company oilers tlio following AD VANTAGES IT IS A NATION ALCOMPAN Y, Cf IARTEK ) ED BY SPECIAL ACT OF CONGRESS, 1868. IT HAH A PAID-UP CAPITAL OF JI.UW.fKK IT OFFERS LOW RATES OF PREMIUMS IT FURNIHHEH LARGER THAN OTHER COMPANIEH FOR THE SAME MONEY. IT IH DEFINITE AND CERTAIN IN ITH TERMH. IT 1H A HOME I.X)MI'AN Y IN EVERY LO CALITY. ITS POLICIES ARK EXEMPT FROM AT TACHMENT. THERE ARK NO UNNECESSARY RE STRICTIONS IN THE POLICIES. EVERY POLICY 18 NON-FORFEITABLE POLICIES MAY BK TAKEN WHICH PAY TO THE INSURED THEIR FULL AMOUNT, AND RETURN ALL THE PREMIUMS. BO THAT THE INSURANCE COSTS ONLY THE INTEREST ON THE ANNUAL PAYMENTS. PULICIEH MAY BETAKEN THAT WILL PAY TO THE INSURED, AFTER A CER TAIN NUMBER OF YEARS, DURING LIFE. AN ANNUAL INCOME OF ONE-TENTH THE AMOUNT NAMED IN THE POLICY. NO .EXTRA RATE IS CHARGED FOR RISKS UPON THE LIVES OF FEMALES. IT INSURES, NOT TO PAY DIVIDENDS TO POLICY HOLDERS, BUT AT HO LOW A COST THAT DIVIDENDS WILL BE IMPOS SIBLE. CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS AND FULL PARTICULARS GIVEN ON APPLICATION TO THE BRANCH OFFICE OF THE COM PANY, OR TO H. W. CLARK dt CO.,‘Philadelphia, General Agents for Pennsylvania and Boulbj ern New Jersey, KREADY A HERR, Agents lor Lancaster County, No. 21 East King street, 2nd floor, over Bkllos' ‘New rttoro. LANCASTER. B C. Kready. C. O. Herr. mar 24 tsiudaw WA NT ED.—-0,000 CORIIN OF BLACK OAK HARK, lor which tho hltfhcHt ca*h Brice will be paid by tliu nabHcrlbt-rn, at Ibelr ark Mill, E»iht of.rujck Yuri», In Lancaster, K. H. BKUBAKKK <fi (JO. mar ;il->tfw WANT n-2,,100 roRDM BLACK OAK BARK ; also, CHESTNUT audBPANiSH OAK HaKK. Delivered ul ILr-Mn-Hund or New Holland, for which tho highest cash price will bo paid. Address H. RHIRK A 880 , Enterprise P. 0., Ulrd-ln-Haud HtHlou. apr i 1 2nifflo] Lancaster couuly, Pn, Bari.ow'.s indigo iilei: in the cnmipost and be»t article m Iho market tor BLUEING ULoTIiE-*. It does not contain anv acid. It will not Injure tli** tiu*-s’ fabric. It N put up at WILTBERGER’B DRUG HTOUK, No. Hitt North mEcoNI) Hlreet. PHIL- A DKLPH I A, and for tale by most of the duo* CKHA and DRUOOfMTH. The genuine has both Barlow's and Wji.t iiekoiih'h uiunes on the label; all othuis aro (IoUNTKKirrJT. BARLOW'S 11LUE will color moro walor than four times the same weight of Indigo, apr *#, l.sCu, ly w-J7. RKKtU.rTIOS OF TUB I.ANCA.NTKK COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. absolved, That when an assessment la made to puy tor looses to tho Company, uny raemhor neglecting or refusing to pay his assessment after UO days public notice, may be dl-mlsscd by the Board of Directors, but will be held lUlde lor his assessment. Parsed at an aunual meeting of tbo Compa ny, January Utb, I&18. In accordance with tho toregolng resolution, dtHiwpxerU members to tho said Company are hereby dismtiud withlu Hu days from the Hist of April, IS(SU. By order of tbo Board of Directors. NATHANIEL E. BLAYMAKER, ap HI Htw 101 Secretary. TO AMERICANA VISITING EUROPE. The Banking House of NORTON A CO., oi Paris and Loifdon, having entered upon their new premises, are prepared to show every at tention to American Travellers. To obviate the difficulties and exponse attendant upon the purchase of letters of Credit to Europe, Messrs. NORTON A CO. have arranged to re ceive American currency, United States and Railway Bonds or American Gold at the value In Paris, placing the amount at once to tho credit of depositors. Parties before leaving for Europe should have their .correspondence plainly addressed to care of NORTON A CO., 4 Broad SL, N. Y., ti Rue Scribe (Grand Hotel) Paris, marlTJmw or 5 Lothhury, London, gNu. t North DiiktiKtrc«l, Ijxnciister. Prf. 87SI.JW W CONTRA. Jnhu W.HUnioy $1,000,000
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