THE SCItAXTON TRIBUNE SATUKDAY- .M0KN1NO, ATOHi -20, .1896.
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t.Wany times since the question of wo
man's' miffrajfe togan to pttaln Its
present .impcirtanaej it has been ald
by lnjudlolous avocates of the Idea
that the women of brains' wore nearly
all to be found upon that side of the
discussion ?he ' Philadelphia Inquirer
thinks,-however, that the argument be
fore the senate judiciary committee', at
Albany, recently afforded the pub
lic an excellent opportunity to learn
how little 4ruth there was In the con
tentions A hearing vms then granted
to 'a! committee of women from New
York city who desired to argue against
extending the franchise.: Mrs. Fran
cis ftl. Scott, wife of the corporation
counsel of 'New York,, made the open
ing and in fact the principal speech
Tiealhst, and If there was anything in
her argument to Indicate that-her In
telligence was not of very high order,
it Is' not j found- In the published re
ports of what she said. Mrs. Scott's ar
guments, were that a majority of wo
men did not want to vote'; that It would
cripple-their Influence In- philanthropic
work of all kinds to divert that in
fluence to other fields; that It would de
crease still more the numbers of homes
Which Is not now any too large. AVhat
ahe demanded, speaking, she said, for
her "silent sisters," was every proper
educational advantage.,"Slnce the first
development of sex," she said, "has
specialization of the, male and female
tyues gone. on. Men have grown more
manly, women more womanly. Are
we alone, of all nature, to forcibly de
Rlrdy the work, of untold ages, and,
thrusting' men and women together,
Remand that the. work that each Is be
ginning to be- perfect In shall be indif
ferently done by both?" The great point
Rallied by the -appearance of these wo
men, however, was the emphasis It
gu've to the fact that the women who
are taking no part In the controversy
are In the main opposed to suffrage,
tike Mrs. Scott they exclaim: "Bulkl
up the wall of the law about us, seek
ing and accepting our counsel: mean
while protect the homes, which we
women alone can make for you; open
to us every door for our education
and advancement, but do not put
upon the shoulders of women the mus
kets they are too weak to carry, nor
the burden of the government which
was constituted to protect them; do
not force them to undertake an undue
Bhare of the world's work." ' j .
.In the opinion of Rev. Dr. Par.:hurst,
the "greatest thing a woman can do Is
todo the thing that Bhe was specifically
endowed and ordained to do, and that Is
to bear children and train them for the
uses and service of the world they are
born Into, and only such women as are
.orally or Intellectually Incompetent
.o appreciate-the full denotement of
.Ihls, or "ho have greater ambition for
aggressivent3s or conspicuity than they
have for fulfilling their mission, will be
Inclined to resent this statement of the
case as an Indignity. I have yet to be
convinced that any very considerable
number of ithe sex are disposed to re-
rt?it -&rttnrf- fntontonTr-fm- ftarn,- but
me actuating lmoulse of those who rtn
. i. doubtless a passion for some sort
, of celebrity, and an Impatience at the
seclusion and the restraints which fem
ininity, so construed, imposes upon
them. They are not content to be
known only in their children, and that
lsi nine great reason why their children
are so little known. If Jochebed had
had herl head full of theories about an
enlarged sphere for women, and had
gone about Egypt stumping for female
enfranchisement, the little hero of the
bulrusjie's would probably 'have Bhared
the fate of the other mnle children of
the period, And the law-giver of. Israel
ljeyer.-have been heard of. So if Han
itjah, Instead of devoting herself to the
ttle Incipient prophet, had been- plot-lngr.'-t
make a great world for Hannah,
Samuel,' It fs -natural to suppose, (would
never have heard the voice of the Lord,
or have initiated the prophetic period
of Israel, What- the world admires in
the ; princess of women, the Virgin
(Mary, la simply that she made possible
the Infant of Bethlehem and the man of
Galilee. Any woman who calls It in
trusive limitation to be held to the
paths of these three mothers in Isral,
lacks the true genius of her sex and Is
a feminine mistake. Woman's mis
sion, as thus defined, gives opportunity
for everything In thershape of personal
discipline and genius that she Is In con
dition to bring to it. There is no oc
casion for her seeking a 'wider sphere
on any such grounds as that the sphere
of maternity does not afford scope for
all the equipment Bhe has at her com
mand. "What her sons and daughters
will become need be limited only by her
own-personal being and development.
t. It -,4a .her character and discipline of
.'mind, and heart that will set the-key
tn which, ilmost , certainly,-the musla
of.thejr Uvea '-wiir.be played." '. .
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'A-physician thus writes to the New
York Tribune concerning the-Spitting
'bipedal hog: ."Expectoration of 'to
bacco juice on the floors of cars and
upon the sidewalks Is quite as offen
sive and not less unsanitary than
smoking, and should be aa actively op
posed and crushed." To put an end to
the nuisance, it- is not necessary to
furnish spittoons. -The habit of chew
: iijg . without expectoration can be-: ac
"quIraiUby most men, "while the front
plaA Jn. is at the service of those who
maVspit. Let the board of health de
mand floors free from tobacco Juice of
every car company, and the latter can
find means to compel the abatement of
this nuisance. The board has pro
hibited cushions, in cars, arid requires
straw to be'dally removed and filth to
be dally cleaned out.. Put during the
entire -day jnen are permitted to pour
streams of a saliva to the floor. , Can
there be any more unsanitary article
than a skirt dragged through accumu
lations of the expectorations of men of
all grades of health or lack of health?
Hut far more effective than prohibitory
enactments and penalties would be the
development of a correct sentiment on
the subject. Did every man appreciate
the dangerous and disgusting nature
of the practice, not only our cars would
be clean and inviting, but our side
walks would- be dry. Such a work of
education can be done with perfect
propriety by our 'new women' in their
struggles for reform, and by no' others
r'BUCcessfully.'f .
'.According to . the most . reliable esHi
mates the world today cpntalns 280,000.
000 grown women. Among civilized na
tion. .theUnited States have, actually
-i;oe' iarRwi wur?, meir leminine popu-i-latlbn
being 30,554,370. Russia comes
with nn anlt fM.I-lA ,.1.. J .. .. -
t 23,200,000. Then a long way after
ome the German empire with 10,930,000, 1
Information,
Grave,
and Partly Gay.
Austria 'with 9,680,000, Great Britain
with 8,786,000, France With 8,586,000 and
Italy with 0,850,000. Spain comes next
oh. the list with 4,130,000 of the fair sex,
and she Is .followed by Belgium with
1,310,000, Houmanla with 1,260,000,' Swe
den with 1,170,000, Portugal with 1,080,
000, and Holland with . 1,070,000. The
countries whose adult feminine popula
tion does not reach 1,000,000 are Switzer
land, which has only 090,000; Norway,
which has 405,000, and Greece and Den
mark, which are tied at 490,090. In this
estimate it will be noted that the entire
female population of the-United States
Is given and only the number of grown
women, in the different countries of
Kurope. As. a matter of fact, In pro
portion to its population, this country
has fewer women than most of the
others mentioned. - Tho proportion of
women to men In the United States Is
greatest In New England, where the
women are In excess. It is least in the
far west, where the number of men
exceeds that of the women. Wyoming
has the smallest female population,
21,362; New York the largest, 3,020,960;
while it. Is said that one factory In New
England employs 12,000 women,
A MINIATURE:
A dainty maid of days of old, -Peurls
Inlaid lu a rim of gold.
In circlet ftilr this picture twine.
This miniature ot quaint design.
A blossom face, she "has, wherein
A dimple dents the pretty ohln,
A prim cap frilled crowns locks of brown,
Her tucker Is white and blue her gown.
A maid demure. In olden guise, -Who
smiles ut mo with tender eyes,
So girlish-sweet, so fair and pure,
From out this Ivory miniature.
Ellen B. reck,
GOOD ADVICE TO GIRLS:
The bicycle girl's ugaln awheel,
She flashes by on her steed ot steel,
In her nntty suit of blue;
Her cheeks are Hushed with a healthy
glow,
The veriest glance at her would show
That her heurt beats strong and true.
She may wear bloomers, she' may wear
skirts, f -Hut
every graceful move asserts
That she revels in perfect health;
She fills her lungs with the pure spring
air, .
Winning the whole of her rightful share;
, Of a woman's greatest wealth.
Ah, jtfrls, get bicycles. If you can.
And soon you'll find admiring man
Of your loveliness will talk;.
But If you can't ride in the early spring
On a bieyclo, do the next best thing.
Oet out In the air, and walk!
Somervlllo Journal.
SELECTED RECIPES:
Pulled Bread Put a loaf of light, flakey
bread baker's when convenient between
two pans, and let it heat through In a mod
erate oven. It will take about twenty-flve
minutes for this. Take from the oven and
with a fork tear the soft part into thin,
ragged pieces. Spread these In a pan and
put them In a hot oven to brown. It will
take about fifteen minutes to make them
brown and crisp. Serve at once on a nap
kin. Always serve cheese' with pulled
'branfli This dish l coimldered more ele
gant than crackers for the cheese course
in a dinner luncheon.
Bavarian Cream Dissolve half a box
of gelatine In enough water to cover.
Let a quart of rich milk or cream, If you
have It, come to a boll. Then stir In the
gelatine. Set on the back ot the stove and
add the yolks of six eggs, one coffee cup
of sugar and three teaspoons of vanilla.
Add tho well-beaten six whites last of all.
Pour into moulds.
Orange Cream Three-fourths of a pound
of coffee A sugar, eight eggs, the grated
rind of two oranges, the juice of eight or
anges and one ounce of cornstarch. Stir
constantly In a double kettle until it be
gins, to .thicken, remove "from the stove
and beat a few minutes. Pour Into cus
tard cups or sherbet glasses, place on the
Ice and serve With fancy cakes. ',
Milk Shake To' three and a half pounds
of granulated sugar udd two quants, of
boiling-. watr and let It simmur until It is
entirely dissolved.;- It Is not necessary to
boll. After cooling add threo .teaspopnful
of extracts, any flavor, and a. small lump
of citric'. acid .will Improve- the" syrup.
Citric acid ia-harmlesr, as it is used in the
manufacture 'of all lemon drops on the
market and may be put in In quantity to
suit the 'taste.
'Turkish Baba Art extremely delicate
and simple addition to the dessert , Is
baba, a Turklsn Invention. Rub a pound
of butter Into a pound of flour, strew Into
It a pound of finely sifted sugnr, half a
tcoapoonful of sut. Make a hollow In the
center end put Into It a tablespoopful of
yeast, eight eggs beaten to a foam; boll a
lram of saffron In a quarter of a pint of
water, strain it, add to the liquor a large
glass of sherry or whatover wine Is pre
ferred; then stir all In the paste. Beat
It for half an hour', cover, and leave It
for six hours; then beat It again for a
quarter of an hour, fill a buttered mould,
ami bake immediately for half an hour.
When. thoroughly dpne turn it out of the
;trtii.';J.9'n-;,,
.. Prune . Soup Spak . one-half cupful ot
sago for one hour In a cupful, of cold
water, then add one quart of wa'ter, and
cook In a double boiler until transparent.
In the meantime cook together one cupful
of prunes' and one-hulf cupful of ralslnB In
a-email quantity-of water untU soft; then
add the whole 4o the sago, when It Is
transparent, with the juice, of one lemon
and one tablespoonful of sugar, Strain
and serve hot with croutons.
Rhubarb Pudding Butter a baking dish
thickly. and .cover the bottom) with slices
of buttered bread. Cover with rhubarb
cut in short pieces. Sprinkle freely Vlth
sugar, and then pat on aaother layer of
bread and' butter and proceed' thus until
the dish is full. Cover closely and bake
an hour and a half. Romove and brown.
Serve with sweet sauce.
Cheesekins Take throe ounces of fine
bread crumbs, four ounces . of grated
cheese, two ounces of butter melted, a
leaspoonfMl each of flour and mustard, a
sdltspoon each of cayenne and white pep
per, and '.two eggs well beaten. Mix all
these Ingredients together and let thorn
stand an- hour.. Knead and roll out as
thin as possible:, cut the paste into tri
angles, or roll itvlnto thin Sticks about
three Inches long, and bake In a quick oven
sixteen or eighteen minutes. Serve hot.
Spanish Eggs Rub the Inside of the fry
ing pan with a slice-of, onion. Pare one
raw tomato and cut it Into bits. Put it
into the frying pan with a tablespoonful
of butter, and cook for five minutes. Bent
six eggs well, and at the end of five min
utes put them In the pah with a level tea-
spoonful of Bait and one-fourth of a tea
spoonful' of pepper."-Stir constantly until
the eggB begin to thicken;- Then Dour into
a hot pish and serve at once.: .-' .
Coconnut Biscuits Beat three eggs till
quite light, than mix Into them gradually
ten ounces of sifted sugar, and, lastly,
six ounces of grated cocoanut, stirring it
all lightly together;, lay some sheets .f
white paper (of course, . properly, this
should be the wafer paper 'confectioners
use), on a baking tin, and drop-the mixture
on thiB in spoonf uls, not too close together,
and bnke in a. coot oven tin tney ere of a
pale golden brownt They will take about
fifteen minutes. Remove the paper when
they ore cold with a damp cloth.
A Cream of Chocolate Take a pint of
milk and three ounces of chocolate. Boll
this with' Ave tablespoohfillsjof sugar un
til thoroughly hilxed, then remove Trom
the fire and add four eggs beaten light.
Pour; Into a. cold bowl to cool, and when
cl(l, add a pint of cream .boaton Btiff, and
a toaspoonful of vanillu,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS:
' If Ink is spattered on woodwork it may
be taken out by scouring with sand and
water and a little ammonia, then rinsing
with soda and water.
A few drops of camphor In the water
used to bathe the face will prevent the
shiny appearance 'which 'Sb 'fhany skins
have, especially in warm weather.
A carpet formed of layers ot paper, a
ply of felt, and an intermediate tilling of
cotton, and provided with an Infold side,
producing a spring edge, is a late Inven
tion. White and dellcatoly-tlnted book bind
ings may bo cleaned by rubbing the covers
with a soft, perfectly fresh piece of
chamois skin, dipped in powdered pumice
stone. .
Gold or silver embroidery may be cleaned
by warming spirits of wine and applying
It to the embroidery with a bit of soft
sponge, and then drying It by rubbing It
with soft new canton flannel.
If you want to make squash pics nnd
eggs uro scarce and deur substitute rolled
soda crackers for eggs, say one to cauh
pie. Season particularly, well, don't forget
the salt, and if not just as good as the
orlglnul, It Is excellent, nevertheless.
Boiled eggs,' to slice nicely, should be put
over tho fire In cold water, and Bhould re-
niuln fifteen minutes after the water be
gins to boll, nnd allowed to cool In the
sume water. If cooled by dropping them
Into cold water they will . not slice
smoothly.
A valuable assistant on silver-cleaning
day Is a lemon. If sllv.er after it is cleaned
is rubbed with a peace of lemon, and then
washed and well dried, It gets a white
brilliancy which It seldom has otherwise,
and will keep longer than with the ordi
nary cleaning.'
For earache and toothache, and neu
ralgia In the head or face, the surest rem
edy is a hop poultice wrung from-hot
vinegar; and against - such needs one
should keep on hand a. half dozen flannel
bags of convenient size, stuffed with
strong, home-cured hops.
Cold feet are a positive affliction, which
somo persons endure throughout the win
ter season. Many remedlus are suggested
one practiced In Russia may be of benefit
to somebody. This Is to wrap the foet In
tissue paper every morning before the
shoes and stockings are put on. It is so
simple ub to be easily worth a trial.
The system of washing linen with petro
leum said to be customary In parts of
Russia has been Introduced Into a Herman
military hospital. Fifteen grams of petro
leum are added to fifteen liters of water
containing soap and lye, nnd the linen Is
boiled In the mixture. .The cleansing is
much easier than by usual, methods, the
linen suffers less, und assumes a whiter
color.
Never throw away a scrap of black silk
An inch strip of black silk is a boon some
times. After ripping up the old gown take
three or four old kid gloves and put them
to boil in a pint of water. Let them boll
for an hour, strata through a cloth, and
put In the liquid a quart or more of hot
water and a tablespoonful of borax. Lay
your silk flat on a perfectly clean table
that has no seams or cracks in It, and rub
every inch of the silk with the mixture.
till If Is thoroughly saturated and all spots
are . removed. Then fix a tub of warm
water, In which put a liberal quantity of
borax, and pick the silk up by tho corners
and dip It up and down in the tub of water.
Dip and dip until It Is well rinsed, then
take out to the line, where you have
pinned a long strip of cloth about a foot
wide. To the edge, of this cloth pin the
silk by the extreme edge, stretching It so
that It Is not wrinkled aud does not droop.
Let it drip dry, nnd it will need no Iron
inng. Do this on a bright day, when there
Is no wind. Black ribbons may be cleaned
the same way.
SOME FAMOUS WOMEN:-
Mrs. T. Jones, of Colorado, died' of ex
citement while preparing to cast her lirst
vote. , . . . . ,
.- Mme. Carnot, wife of the late president,
is recognized on. the continent as the best
dressed woman in France.
. A competent authority, declares that
over a million and a half of the women of
this country earn their own living.
It 1b stated by a church authority that
there are over 300 American women liv
ing In foreign countries as missionaries.
Jeannette Gilder says that Robert Louis
Stevenson never found the discussion of
Illicit love necessury to the strength of
a story.
The third biennial meeting of the
World's Woman's Christian Temperance
union win bo m London, beginning on the
19th of June.
John Hunter, tho famous anatomist,
once said' that tho feminine love of con
versation was a consequence of a peculiar
ity lu brain tissue.
'The brain of womnn is absolutely smnl
ler than that of man, but It is stated to
be somewhat larger in proportion to the
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In Albania the men wear petticoats and
and the women wear trousers. The women
do all the work and their husbands attend
to the heavy standing) around.
Mrs, S. Van Rensselaer Cruger Is the
Mme. de Stael, of New York. 'She Is more
than Mine, de Staeel was she has beauty
as well as brains, and is a society woman
as well as a writer of books.
Women have worn ' corsets from the
earliest times. The mummy of the Egyp
tian princess who lived 2,000 years before
Christ -was discovered In 1872, and round
the waist was a contrivance closely re
sembling the modern corcst.
The two . richest unmarried girls In the
whole universe today are.Alta and Edith
Rockefeller, daughters of John D. Rocke
feller, head of the Standard Oil concern.
The much-talked nhout fortunes of the
Oould and Vanderbllt girls pale lnto.Blg
niflcance when the Rockefeller wealth Is
mentioned. .'
Mme. Carnot has In her apartments a
salon consecrated to the-memory of her
lato husband. President : Carnot. Mme.
Varnot has collected. all the ribbons bear
ing Inscriptions which were attached to
the wreaths received for the funerni, and
has also preserved Intact all those wreaths
and escutcheons which have an intrinsic
artistic- value. This salon Is used by Mme.
Carnot as an oratory, and only intimate
friends are admitted to it: -- ..
OUR DISAPPEARING FORESTS.
Facts of Present .Interest Culled from
' Forest Commission's Report. . '
In Professor J.- Tj . Rothrock's report
to the forest commlssl( for tlfe year
1894 are many facts of live Interest, of
which a few follow: In 1875 there were
190,000,000 feet of pine went through the
boom at Wllllamsport. In the same
year there were 19,963,736 feet of hem
Itick. ;ln 1893 there were 33,197,207 feet
of pine went through and in the same
year 186,984,478 feet of hemlock. This
does not indicate. an inexhaustible sup
ply of hemlock, for that cannot last at
most over fifteen years; but it shows
that the lumber market Is glutted with
hemlock wood because the trees happen
to be felled to. obtain hemlock bark.
. In the year 1894 .there were adver
tised toibe sold for taxes In the different
counties ot the commonwealth, so far
as heard from, not lesa than 1.500,000
acres of land. This does not Include
6.C0O smaller lots In cities and towns. It
means thai within the last year, there
were lands equnl 'ln acreage to twelve
times the area of Delaware' county, "In
this stated which had 'beeri rendered so
valueless by t,he removal of timber that
the owners' would rather give them up
than pay ;the taxes on them; in other
words, it . would be an area "equal to
one-nineteenth, of the commonwealth
and at present almost every acre of
land Is liable to become a nursery of
destructive fires. Something over 8,000
miles ot 'the "'commonwealth Including
stripped timber lands arid Impoverished
farm lands have become unproductive,
. The question has been raised as to
whether or not timber lands could be
legally exempt from taxation. It seems
Vital. illlO IB JUIJJUOBIUIU U1IUV1 lTIICI..
tutlon; it can, however, .be placed in
the clas by Itself and be subject to a re
duced rate . of taxation. . Out of these
waste lands of the commonwealth the
future may obtain reservations which
Inbenuty of scenery-and healthfulness
as well as In- area will rival those of
the Adlrondacks, The commission be
lieves that It is unwise to delay the pur
chase of these lands. It Ib almost cer
tain that what can be purchased now
at a small sum will require a vast ex
penditure a few years later, when the
lands will-be more Impoverished and
the task of forest restoration infinitely
greater. The money so laid out is not
un expenditure,, but an investment
which New York state has clearly
Bnown may, be made to yield a liberal
revenue.- . , ,
Professor Rothrock shows that unless
something Is done to restore the lum
bering Industries of the stute the in
dUHtrles worth $30,000,000 or $35,000,000
annually to the commonwealth will be
blotted -out; Ho also aftlrms that the
lunds otherwise wasted In fifty years
on timber worth $1,500,000,000 may be
grown within our limits, and lie en
forces this by photographic Illustra
tions of volunteer crops of timber on
areas from which the tire has been ex
cluded and thai) practically we are
taking no steps as yet to encourage
this desirable condition.
The reports as to forest fires are In
complete notwithstanding the efforts of
the commission to obtain full details.
Here, ' however, are some 'statements:
One county reports a loss in twenty-five
years of $2,000,000 from forest fires, of
which $300,000 was In one year. An
other county reports $300,000 in the last
five years. Another an average of $-15,-
000 a year. One getleman In Luzerne
county expended $3,000 during last year
to extinguish-fires In his own grounds.
Another county reports several mil
lion worth of timber loBt by forest fires.
Potter county reports for last season
a loss by forest fires of $500,000 In money
and the labor and time of a large body
of men. One firm reports the loss of
150,000,000 feet of standing timber dur
rlng the past few years.
"ART FOR ARrSSAKE.
Its Baneful Ksults Are Most Impressive
ly Illustrated by tho Downfall of Its
Chief Apostle.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The. fall of Oscar Wilde has put before
the Bight of all men tho end, fate and
fruit of "art for art's sake." "sVlien
right Is shut out of the aims and acts of
men, men rot. There Is no way to dodge
this. It Is as sure as fate. All the
world shows dt, but part of the world
now and then seeks some bypath on
the plea that "art for art's sake" gives
a field In which beauty takes the place
of right, and men are to be judged not
as good men or bad men, but as "ar
tlstB" and the 'artistic Instinct" is used
for veil and excuse for all that offends
morals or outrages propriety. Wilde
for twenty years has led in the ill path
lwld, near or far from his steps, by
those who seek "art for art's Bake,"
save that he deove the phrase to its
foul full end, went to the end of his
rope,' found a noose there and hung
himself. Through all his life, from his
youth up, in his verse, In his speech, his
books and his phxye, he has stood for
the creed that as long as beauty were
sought and the word and work were
fair It was of no hurt nor harm that it
was foul. He has held and said by deed
and word that the gift of life is in the
hands of each man to eat the sweet and
drlnk-thd new wine of lust In all forms
In which It Is poured, and that no man
ought to fear In this life the words of
men or In the next the wrath of heaven
so his days were sweet and soft and full
of the longing of the eye and the will
of the flesh in all loose ways which men
have trod to their own undoing.
Tho Devil's fJospel.
This was the faith by which he
worked and lived and this devil's gospel
he preached. He had the gift of verse.
He had the skill that can weave plays
and Heck them with phrases that shine
and words that sting and leave at last
the taste of death. He knew the ways
that win the babble of the mob false
kin to fame babble which has made
more than one man 'stray and fools the
wise. He got all the cheap gaud and
gain of life. Over the beast In man In
all Bhapes he threw the guise of love
for what Is fair and swore truth and
faith to "art for art's sake," and held
by no other rule.
When good men and women cried
aloud and spared not at this foul wish
for -all that was foul, set In the claim
that naught was good or 111 save as
thinking made It so, they were told that
"art" hud its due, a poet a claim to for
bearance and "art" a law for Its own
acts against which none ought to put
forth the mere, plea of what was right.
"If, as alleged," said Mrs. Julia Ward
Howo, 1882, of Oscar VHde, "the poison
found in the ancient classics Is seen to
linger too deeply In his veins, I should
riot, prescribe for his case the coarse
jeering, and Intemperate scolding so
easily, administered through the public
prints',' but a cordial and kindly Inter
course with that . which is soundest
sweetest and purest in our own socie
ty.' These words read strange to-day, now
that "the poison found In the ancient
classics" has done Its full work, They
were said In 188.2 when 'a sound, whole
some and Honest man, Thomas We-nt-worth
.Hlfjginson, protested that Oscar
WUde, known then to hold to the creed
Just laid bare, ought not to be left to set
foot In a pure home or an honest house.
There were many then and there have
been elnce" who held with' Mrs. Howe
that the wise way was to bear with a
view of life, wrong It might be but still
"art." "The England of this day,"
urged Mrs. Howe, citing Lord Byron,
"did -not treat Its brilliant, reckless son
as a mother should."
Tho Pnco of tho Swino.
Oscar Wilde has'not been so treated.
He has had free course and. been glori
fied, and he hns used It, as did other
swine, to run down a steep place Into
the rea... Cut his fate Is of small weight
or worth by the side of the sad fact that
he i-tands for a class and does not hold
his creed alone. No such man does.
Tho foul deed for which he falls Is his
alone, but It came In due course from
the creed he held, and this Is shared by
men and women, aghast at his deeds,
who with him, hold In "art for art's
sake." His guilt Is not theirs. His
creed is. His scheme and plan of life,
which sought the sweet case of self and
set aside right and wrong as things for
which there Is no place in "art," is held
by many;- They are in-art schools.
They write. They paint. They thrill
to all that Is fair and forget that all
things fair are. foul and lead to the pit
of death If they be not built on right.
There is no field from which right and
wrong cart be shut out on- the plea that
"art" haa a world of its own. In which
the "law of beauty" bears rule alone.
and when this Claim Is made and pushed
to lta far sure' fruit the end Is Ktne
such fall as Wilde's. "'', -'
INCREASING LENGTH OF LIFE.
People of Today Sscm to Hav Longer
Existenac-
From the Providence-Journal.
Is the human race becoming longer
lived despite the fret and fever of mod
ern civilization? It is an interesting
question, and it may very probably be
answered some day by science in the
affirmative; The longevity of profes
sional men Is now generally considered
to bo greater than that of farmers or
mechanics. In other words, Intellectual
activity, although in many respectB
more exhausting than physical, has In
the main a salutary effect upon the
human frame. It may be the nerveB
rather than the muscles upon which
we mainly depend, after all. It is a
commonplace observation that the
big, hearty men nreconstantly dropping
out of the world, while those of far
more fragile organizations, apparently
live to a ripe old age.
As to the Increasing longevity of the
race generally, there Is no little inci
dental testimony on this-head to be
gathered from various sources. Some
of the early heroes and heroines Of
romance are old before they reach
what -we should call middle life. And
nt the beginning of our own century,
Jane Austen, whose testimony Is always
unimpeachable, speaks of tho healthy
and contented woman of 40 as having
a good prospect of 20 years of life yet.
Twenty years! What -woman of to
day thinks of herself as falling Into
decrepitude at CO? Elsewhere In Miss
Austen's pages We run across people
who are old with the passage of half
a century of life. But now we have
Gladstone at 80 and over, and think
nothing of It. . - .
UELSII JOTTINGS.
It Is 91 years ago that the British nnd
Foreign Bible society was established.
It Is interesting to recall the fast that
the first mover In the matter was Rev.
Thomas Charles, of Bala, one of the
founders of Welsh Calvinlstic Metho
dism, Thus wrote one of the most celebrated
church dignitaries of this century on
the future of the Welsh language: "It
may die, but you'll die ages before It.
You cannot justify your present posi
tion by saying that you are waiting for
the shoes of a dead language."
The Cymro and the eisteddfod are In
separable. Last week's Herald Cym
relg Contains an Interesting account of
nn eisteddfod held at Newcastle, New
South Wales. The proceedings lacked
little of the usUal keenness and enthus
iasm which characterises the old Insti
tution in tho mother country. Among
the several presidents we find the
names of the Rev. Seth Jones, the
bishop of Newcastle, and J. C. Ellis,
M. P.
Rev. Edward Roberts, V. D., the pop
ular Baptist minister, of Pontypridd, is
no more, having died at the ripe age
of 75. For several years he was joint
editor of the "Athraw," and for eight
years the sole editor of "Seren Gomer."
He translated "Theodosla Ernest" Into
W'elsh, and published a selection of
tunes and hymns called "Y Canledydd
I cuanc." His greatest work, however,
was his "Commentary, Exlgetical and
Homlletical on the Epistle to the Gala
tians." The chnpels from his designs
which now adorn towns and villages
throughout Wales , are exceedingly
numerous! Soon after his arrival In
Pontypridd he designed and superin
tended the erection . of Tabernacle
Chapel, to the church of which he so
long ministered. He also designed the
well known chapels, of Salem (Forth),
Noddfa (Treorky), nnd the new chapels
now In course of erection at Treforest
and Aberdare Junction. In his death
his country, no lessithan his denomina
tion, has lost a worthy son, and Ponty
pridd will long mourn the loss of a moBt
esteemed, honored and genial citizen.
Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector of
Hawarden, having been asked his
views on the Welsh disestablishment
bill, contributes an article headed "A
Grave Political Crisis In AVales," to
the April number of the Hawarden
Parish Magazine. He Bays ho thinks
this is wholly a question not for church
men as such to decide, but for citizens,
and for this reason he can have noth
ing to do with, the so-called Church
Defence society, nor with the arch
bishop's new scheme for the Bame pur
pose. As citizens, and also as church
men, he thinks the case for disestab
lishment, at all events In Wales, Is
amply made out. The majority, and
probably the great majority of the
Welsh people do not now belong to
the Established church. Of thirty
four members of parliament elected by
the Welsh, voters (as Wales Is nov,
reckoned) thirty-one are in favor of
disestablishment. The old church
grammar schools throughout Wales
were disestablished In the sense of be
ing made undenomlnatkinal by the
Welsh education act of 1889, which was
passed with tho approval and support
of the last Conservative government.
The reverend gentleman believes that
the church's claim-to exist as a state
church cannot be fairly sustained. But
what of endowments? This, too, Is a
question to be decided by citizens. ' The
trustees of thlB property are not the re
ceivers of it as is often wrongfully sup
posed, but the whole nation, for whose
spiritual provision alone they were in
part given and in part exacted by legal
processes. Of course the Disendowed
church became a poor church for the
time at all event ) and had hard work
to reorganize herself. Yet who could
doubt that In a country such as ours
voluntary offerings would be forthcom
ing where work was to be done? A
humbler arrangement and, a more
economical administration of the
church In Wales would not necessarily
mean a crippled or even a weaker
church than at present. ' But, however,
that might be, a poor church was much
more likely to do God's work than a
richer church In possession of endow
ments, which so large a proportion of
fellow Christian citizens did not be
lieve she .had a moral title to retain.
It was to her past and present policy
of active resli3tance, and nothing
more for not even reforms were seri
ously proposed that the sufferings of
the church would be chiefly due. In a
foot note the writer adds he alone Is
responsible for the article. He wishes
to commit no one else at all by the
views he expresses. There Is a very
great difference of opinion on this riiat
ter, and he does not wish to bring it
into the pulpit. -
Fun nt Our Expense.
From the Wilkes-Uurre Times.
Bcanton's mayor in Ms annual message
calls attention to the hundreds of gentle.
meek-eyed bovlnos which obtain their
dally rations ot grass and turnip tops
from the business streets of that city and
their drink from tho' limpid waters of the
Lackawanna as it gurgles on Its devious
way between the central city culm banks
The mayor should have incorporated In
his message a recommendation establish
ing a "maverick police," whose sole at
tention might be devoted to rounding up
the herds of stray cattle owned by her
economically-Inclined citizens.
Random 'Notes of
Life ta LoMdoira? -
The 'VarsSty Boatrace, Mrs. Ebbsmilli, Mrs?
Patrick Campbell and Other f opacs.
London, March 30. Yesterday - was
the occasion of the 'yarslty boat race
on -the Thames and the town was very
gay Indeed and most dreadfully
crowded with visitors from all over-trie
kingdom, who had been Invited up to
see it. We had been invited down the
river to view It from a launch, but
Academy duties prevented some of us
from going, so all of us just stayed In
town. We were right glad of It in the
end, though I, for one, should like
to have seen It, but it rained Intermit
tently all day, just pouring Borne times,
and trie course could not have been
comfortable. London was dreadfully
crowded and it must have been much
worse down at the river, ot course, as
the visitors In London were only a
small fraction of those who came up for
the race. I had occasion to go down
town during the day, and I really
thought that 1 should never get back.
The cabs were all bought up, and even
the busses seemed to have been subsi
dized for the whole day.
Flags Hew everywhere, dark blue for
Oxford and pale blue for Cambridge.
Wo were all for Cambridge at our
house, though Just for no other reason
than that we had been Invited to the
race by some Cambridge people and
so we all wore pale blue ribbons and
pale blue mufflers and pale blue In out
hats. No one dares to be neutral. You
must take sides with either one, and
even the cabmen and bus men had their
horses be-rlbboned and rosetted with
their favorite colors. Some of the swell
shops even took sides with their favor
ite crews, and displayed all pale, blue
fabrics, ribbons, feathers, etc.. In their
windows, while others had deftly decor
ated windows In dark blue. These Ox
ford windows, of course, were not so
pretty as the Cambridge ones, though
they had the pleasure of displaying the
victorious lion among the dark blue at
the end of the afternoon, for old Ox
ford won the race, and the pale blue
was trailed In the dust of defeat. One
of our young ladles, coming home from
the Academy rather late in the after
noon, was accosted by an amused little
bootblack at a corner who pointed to
her blue ribbon and advised "Take it
hoff, iMIss; youse lost!"
Notes of Musical Happenings.
There Isn't much to write about this
week, as my number of "evenings out"
has been limited to two. On the one
I again heard Etnil Sauer play, which
he did well Indeed, this time, barring
some very energetic thumping. He
plays admirably some times, and at
others very Indifferently, his best points
being his absolutely perfect technique
and clearness of execution, and his
worst ones his hardness and lack of
feeling, crowned by a great big lot of
affectation.' He will come over to
America some time, of course. I heard
Andrew ' Black, the great oratorio
basso, the f;ime night, and another
oratorio and concert favorite In the per
son of Miss Thudicum, one of dear old
Slgnor Gai-cla's pupils.
Speaking ot Garcia, this veteran
singing master has just passed his
nlnetj'-first birthday, and still keeps on
teaching nway just the same as ever.
He is a wonderful old man, Kver since
the great success of that adorable wo
man, Jenny Lind, who came to him for
lessons over fifty years ago and whom
he helped so, he has lived In London
hel-e, and has taught singing to hun
dreds and hundreds of women, not one
of whom has ever succeeded In touch
ing greatnes-s even under his tuition,
though he has had many a voice to
mould that had been quite as good as
the voice of that wonderful artist.
A Vetcnfn Voice Trainer.
It Is the verdict of all thinking peo
ple that while Garcia himself is, no
doubt, a very fine master even in his
declining days, still, granted to Jenny
Lind any other good teacher, she would
have become quite as perfect an artist
aa she was, by virtue of her great
mental powers, as none of his other
pupils have ever got to be even a patch
upon her, and some of them are very
bad Indeed quite as bad as they can
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well be and still bo called singers.
Still, such great prestige Beeifs to at
tach to his name, especially among tha
unthinking, that he always has hosts
of pupils, some of whom are themselves
teachers of forty or fifty years of nge.
They all adore him, and at every birth
day the' flowers, bouquets, editions da
luxe of operas, and the photographs
which this old teacher gets Bhowered
upon him, are simply overwhelming.
We have one of his pupils here In our
house, nnd a week or so ago, when his)
ninety-first birthday came, she was- up
ulmoHt with the sun, and sallied out of
the house a couple of hours before
breakrast to buy him a basket of tho
freshest roses that the flower-women,
had brought Into the city, which sha
took to his house Instanter.wlth the dewi
still on them. Ho must be a dear old
man, for even the other masters all
love him, too, and they are not given
to loving each other over much, you
know. He is the oldest tencher on the
staff of the Royal acudemy, and on hla
last birthday, the ninetieth, the other
masters all united in making quite a
demonstration in his honor. It must
be all because of Jenny Lind, and be
cause of his great wealth of experi
ence In teaching, too, I suppose. They
say he Is a most charming man, ex
cept that he always keeps poking
"Lind" at his pupils, until they all ara
tired to death of hearing about this
wonderful artist of the past generation.
Somo Novelties of the Stage.
"His Excellency," the light opera
running at the Lyric, was rather catchy
and interesting the other evening, but
it Is not quite deep enough to give one
well, brainfag. We left before it was
over. The play of the hour is the one
I spoke of before, at the Garrlck, called
"The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmlth." All
London Is talking about It and its
heroine, Mrs. Agnes Ebbsmlth, which,
part Is taken by Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
who is the- actress who created nnd
made such a success of "The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray." I had held out all
along that I did not want to go to see
it, and that I would not, either. Hut
you are out of the world, practically,
If you have not seen It, ns everyone In
London Is extolling Mrs. Campbell's
great acting in it, and the first ques
tion, after an Introduction to anyone,
at tea, at a dinner, or even at the
Academy, where you are supposed to be
filled with music and nothing else, the
first question Is "How do you like 'Mrs,
Ebbsmlth?' "
So at last I gave In and Indulged In a
shilling seat at the Garrlck, for I would
not pay any more to see it. It is mor
bidly horrid. I did not enjoy it a single
bit and hate the whole thing cordially.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, however, Is a
marvel, as her acting in it Is really,
superb. She rises to absolute inspira
tion In the part, which was written fop
her, and which, of course, suits her
down to the ground, nnd there Is no
knowing when we shall see the end of
the play, as it has taken such a tre
mendous hold upon the public of play
goers thait they will not be happy with
out It. Mrs. Campbell will no doubt
make her first bow in New York during
the next year or two and you will then
see her yourselves. She is said to
strongly resemble, both In appearance,
and In her methods -of acting, the cele
brated Italian, Eleonora Duse, whose
appearances both In London and New
York were such a delight ito play-goers.
Tliat Mrs. Campbell Is a great actress,
there can be no doubt, her progress,
since her creation of Mrs. Tanqueray, a
few years ago, when she stepped from,
the amateur to the professional stage,
having been nothing short of remark
able. The play which gives her sucK
scope for the exhibition of her extra
ordinary powers as an emotional ac
tress, however, Is most dismally mor
bid, and can surely do no good In tha
world, that I can see. However, they
suy thait it is one of Pinero's greatest,
so I suppose that It needs a cultivated
tust, like the liking for caviare.
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