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DOINGS OF THE

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Mrs. Fred. Grant's Reactionary Ideas on the Education of

Women.

Nc NOTIONS AND NEWS OF INTEREST TO THE FAIR SEX.

A Congress of Women at ttie French. Exposition—The Masculinity of tlie Summer Girl's Attire.

It is said that Mrs. Fred Grant has some very reactionary ideas on the subject of the education of women whioh she is carrying into effect upon her own little daughter, says the New York World. Mrs. Grant, who was aMiss Honore, isof French extraction and was herself bred in the convent, where, es is known, the most advanced ideas are not as a rule inculcated. But she goes even further back than do most of the modern convents. She has a perfect horror of the theory of woman's suffrage, and quite as much for the theories of those who advocate the higher education of women, in which she does not in. the least believe. She holds that women should not be, nor even desire to be, anyf.hing but wives and mothers, and not frornlndiain and mothers according

Mr. and Mil® modern standard, but should New York yenly conform themselves to such rules Mrs. A. Gay be laid down for them by the morning frfrn fathers of the church. Following

week

MissJ&'ut this theory, Mrs. Grant has allowed nothing to be taught her little daughter which would te»d to make her independ

ent, self-reliant

or forcible. The four

rules of arithmetic is the Btrict limit of her mathematical education. Philosophy of any sort she is not even allowed to hear a suggestion of. She is never permitted to argue upon any subject whatever, and is trained to accept absolutely whatever is told her without question. Her education consists of the

Btudy

music, such literature as her mother thinks best for her to read, a little history, drawing, needlework and the languages, and all this is taught her by a private governess who lives with her and is warranted not to instil ideas outside of those elementary ones Mrs. Grant considers suited to female capacity. The Honores have always carefully kept up their French, and the Grant children have had, besides, a French nurse, so that they would learn the two languages together and know no difference between them. Mrs. Grant takes great pains with their pronunciation, and they really speak very beautiful French, with the fluency and accent of natives. She is particularly pleased on their account that her husband Bhould have a mission to a German-speaking country, and before his term at Vienna has finished they will undoubtedly be speaking the language like natives, as she means to fiurround them entirely with Germans as their teachers and attendants, in order that they may speak the tongue with that ease which can only be had from intimate association with the Teutons. The daughter is a very pretty child of a brunette, French type, and resembles the HonoreB entirely, while the boy is a Grant. Mrs. Grant is an ambitious woman, and those who Iiaughty and arrogant.

is certain that

she has been very much disappointed that her husband's name has not given her the power and prominence she expected when she assumed it. In Washington she has bad small influence, and her siBter, Mrs. Potter Palmer, has, on the whole, been a much more brilliant figure in the social world. In Vienna, as the wife of the American minister, she will have a very agreeable position, the relations between this country and Austria being of the happiest. It is not very gay there now, while the court is in the deepest mourning and the empress not visible to any one, but Mrs. Grant does not care very much for the more frivolous diversions of society, being somewhat straight-laced herself, and she will not miss these things.

The French women are anxiouB during the exposition summer to call another congress of women, somewhat similar to that held in Washington last season, where delegates from all over the world were in attendance to report the progress of their Bex on every continent. The idea originally was to call a peace congaess, but it is difficult to accomplish anything of the sort in France without governmental countenence and in a country where Boulanger is defied and where "La Revanche" is a watchword. There was no particular enthusiasm manifested in regard to a congress whose object was to abolish war. Mme. de Morsier, who had the plan for this peace congress in hand, applied to the government last June for. permission to hold it and sat down to wait for an answer which did not come until about six or eight weeks ago, when the minister of commerce and industry, who is in charge of the feminine -fny of the exposition, sent for her and proposed she should, instead of a peace congress, hold a congress of women on the plan of the one held in America. In her disappointment at not carrying through her favorite project she at first refused, but was led to re-ooneider the matter. The committee of organization has been appointed and officially accepted by the ministry. It consists of some very high personages, a member of the academy, several deputies, senators and judges, and repeesentative women, Catholics, protestants and Hebrews, all finding a place on it. The representation of the congress will all be for practical work. There will be no theoretical discussions, only exposition of facts and work done and work created by women or in favor of women. The delegates to the congress must, of course, be all women, and it will probably be divided into the following sections: Philanthropy, morality, science, art, literature and training. It will be the first time that a government will have patronized the manifestation of the value of women as Bocial beings. This is the characteristic feature of it. Mme. de Morser says: "The most curious thing is that I met with approbation from Catholic priests, who say they will encourage woman to come forward. How-, ever, the difficulties to overcome are immense, the first is to find money. Alas! we shall never be able to do anything like you in Amerioa or in England. The inertia of the rich people is dreadful we find sympathy only with those who have no money." She writes to Frances Willard on the subject and save: "I hope, my dear madam, that you think these facta worth your interest and you will be kind enough to give as much publicity to the

Moderato assai. 100.

1. O sing gain 2. From child hood's home, 8. When life

3. mei ties 2. bit ter 1. Kind die

1. child 2. cares 3. dream,

3. Mun de, 2. lan de 1. let se

1. mov ing, 2. pon der 3. pos ing

maimer fifi poeeible. M. JuleeSimon has consented to give the high authority of his name to our manifestation and will be the president of this congress, with two ladies as vice-presidents. As soon as the programmes are out I will send them to you. The title of the congress is to be 'International Congress of Women's Work and Institutions'" Mm. de Moreier's address is 71 Rue Claude Bernard, Pari?, France, and she wishes every one from America who proposes to'take part in the congress to communicate with her as promptly as possible.

Among the wardrobes of the girls going into the country may be found packed in with their frou-frou, the Parisian gowns,

Bome

Bide

very masculine-looking

garments, whioh might be suspected of being part of their brothers' wardrobe were it not that they are too small for any but the smallest of small brothers, and too much curved in at the waist for anything masculine whatsoever. The young women have discovered that however inadequate the male mind may be to grappling with chiffons, when it comes to inventing something comfortable to wear out of doors in summer he leaves his sister far behind. The blazer was a masculine invention, and so convenient and picturesque that the young woman has promptly seized upon it as if it were her own original possession, and by curving the lines a little more she has made it entirely her own garment, wearing it with much comfort and satisfaction to herself. The flannel shirt and the silk shirt were both a man's ideas, and after sitting lazily by for him to invent them, she now walks in with the most astonishing assumption and quietly adds them to her own wardrobe. Miss Hecksher takes away in her summer trunk two or three white flannel shirts with pocket upon the left breast, atd a wide collar, under which knota a blue tie. Right on top of this is a pair of flannel blazers in stripes of blue and white, and she has calmly walked into a bureau drawer of her nearest male relative and abstracted therefrom the blue Bilk waist sash which he wore last season with his white flannels. She adds to this his best fore-and-aft white white with bluestripee,and then considers herself prepared to follow him and be his match anywhere, on the tennis ground, in the stern end of a canoe, up the

of a mountain or on the deck

of a yacht. Mise De Wolfe spends her summer days dressed in little silk shirts striped in white and scarlet, with her initials embroidered in one of the oornera of her turned-over collar, a scarlet sash about her waist and a sacque coat of scarlet serge. The very latest invasion of these masculine prerogatives takes the Bhape of a linen ahirt, buttoned down the front with studs, a high standing oollar belonging to the shirt, and a silk tie knotted about it in a bow. No waistcoat is worn with this, only a blazer and a broad waist aash, ana the wearer has a very masculine air indeed. Many of the girls who spend their summers in vigorous athletic exercises have adopted the fashion of acoordion plaited to the divided skirt and in this, with a silk shirt, a waist sash, a blazer, a fore-and-aft cap and pig-akin shoes she is quite the equal c! her brother, aa far as the convenience and freedom of her attire ia concerned.

FaiUom Notes.

The new mohairs come in all shades of color in "ahot" effects and in bare, plaids

AGAIN I HEAR MY MOTHERg&IHi

(WAS JOS ALB snrn DIB MUTTMM 8AX6.)

«.

3. Und will 2. Tom Ta 1. O ting

in met ter haus noch tin A

ner letz ten an fer ne mal mtr die

the song, so a far I is near its

Le bens Stern, b'6 se Muss, Mut ter tang,

•ay moth er sang! .It was my heart has known, But er has gone its woe, How sweet

Braid or embroidery or both trims moat fashionable gowns. Both wide and narrow braids are used in trimming dresses, wraps and bonnets.

The stylish mode of making a silk gown is to have it of two shades of the same color.

The long pelisse, the Connemara cloak and the bonne femme mantle are the leading long wraps.

The barred and plaided mohairs in light and bright colors are in high favor for little girl's frocks.

The Gordon sash in place of the waistcoat is growing in favor with gentlemen who know how to drees in summer.

The latest fancy in neck lingerie is the deep falling blisse and the narrow upright ruche of sulphur-yellow gauze.

Jackets are never out of fashion. This season they have deep revers and sleeves full above the elbow, but they are not worn with dressy toiletB.

The long, straight Bcarf mantle, worn around the shoulders and falling to the hem of the dress in front, is revived among other wraps in London.

Pretty spencers, blouses and Garibaldis in surah silk, veiling, China silk, and taffeta are sold in all the

Bhops,

•.«£.*

so sweet, that voice on moth

Mut ter, je ne Wei se gern. oft xeie der je ner Lie bea (truss, bis in die tie/ ate See le drang.

That thro' my in most heart it rang! it dear er, fond er still has grown! To hear that song be fois I go-

be fore I

Bros., 1888-KIWKJSL»S BOYAL EDITION.

and checks of great beauty and effectiveness. Braid is the most fashionable, of all trimmings.

to be

worn with any kind of a skirt. The cheapest pretty and durable silk gowns are made of American woven foulards, which come in plain self colon, in printed figures, and in bars and plaids.

The beet dust cloaks that we have had for years are those of the light new luatrous mohair fabrica that have been brought out this spring in superior finish and light aa a feather.

An Atlanta Monk*y'*8nlclde. ^.

Yesterday there was considerable excitement occasioned by the suicide of one of a pair of little- monkeys in Mr. J. H. Daniels' store, in the Kimball house block.

Somebody had dropped a piece of hemp rope used in tying the bananas, and it fell within reach of the little animal.

He was in dead earneet and when he poked hia head in the noose and jumped off he was as completely hanged as any manjihat ever tried to take his own life.

His oompanion would go to him and try to remove the rope from around his neck. Then she would pull open the eyelids of the dead monkey and look into his sightless eyes in the most pathetic manner.

She seemed perfectly desolate and realized that her oomrade was dying. A little boy was lifted over the transom, and the dead monkey waa cut down, but it was too late. He was cold and stiff.

Sergeant Moss brought the pieoe of rope to the station house, and will preserve it as a memento.—[Atlanta Constitution.

•,3The Mania Car 8nlf-Destruction.

"Talking about suicides," said the phyucian, "the wonder ia that more people don't go before their time in that way. There ia hardly a man who at some time does aot nave auioidal tendencies. There are oooaaiona in the life of even the most hopeful men when, if they could have their way, they would prefer to let the candle flicker oat." The hearer didn't aay anything, bat thought the doctor wae a little off.— [Buffalo Express,

C. BOHM.

Stun de er 19 arta#®^. Bra* de trieb mich das Wei die mir ait

lov ing, To me, a wan dera .And wea ry clos ing, And like a

dann hfirf ick wohl doch klang nir au» die mir so sUsa,

aus dei nem dem Hei math-' to mild und

so mild and my thoughts have er's heart re-

Dort ben Und kranlc te In b'6 ter

In lone ly The world for Ah I far a-

A MAGICAL TBBE.

One Hu Only to Toncli It to Get Whatever He WlihM.

She waa a charming'blonde, with hair the color Titian loved to paint, and melting blue eyes that seemed to invite inspection, and the closer the better. Turning the big bronze knob of the door leading into the main corridor of the White house, the fair unknown, in tones of liquid silver, inquired of the baahful representative of the Post ''Please, sir, can you tell me where the wishing tree is situated."

For an instant the history-maker was in a quandary, but in the course of a brief conversation ascertained that the visitor waa in earneet about her question. Some one had told her that there waa a tree in a direct line from the White house, in front of Jackson square, which susceptible maidens were in the habit of touching and making a wish aa they did so.

Close scrutiny of the neighborhood showed that saoh a tree exiats, but whether it possessed the qualities ascribed to it remains to be seen. The meridian of Washington, an imaginary line from which longitude was formerly reckoned for the United States, rune through the center of the White house, and in the grounda near the Waahington monument there was until a comparatively reoent period an old sandstone column, probably three ot four feet in height, known as the meridian atone. The tree in queetion atands directly as the meridian line in front of the horse balanced on ita hind feet, which ia so conspicuous looking north from the White bouse windows. According to the young lady, ifthe wiah ia a proper One it ia aure to be 'granted after the magic tree is touched, and the bark shows evidence of numerous visits by the fair sex who desire to tempt fate. ,—Pmhahly..tf)ia.tree ..will become popular with the sterner sex, BayB the Washington Post, now that its properties are known and ita looation determined, and eepeciaUy with thoaewhoare seeking offioial distinction at the hands of the preeident. Whether any ot thoee atthe executive mansion yeeterday bad heard of the wiahinir tree or not is difficult to say, but it ia certain that there was a large crowd and a few of the congressmen in attendance wanted merely to pay their respecta.

Aa American Indian Potlatch.

The word "potlatch" ia one which to many ot our readers may be unknown. We will give an explanation. It is a word in use by the American Indians of the North went territory and meana "to make a preeent." The ceremony which goee by thia name ia the following: When an Indian haa accumulated wealth—usually in the form ot hones, blankete ana weapona—and wiahee to become a great chief he aendaout invitations to theohief men of the surrounding tribes and rsaervationa aaking them to come to a oertain place at a given date. When the guests arrive the early part ot each day is taken up by the presentation of gifts by the inviter and speeches and songs on the part of the receivera. The leader must not imagine that the gifta are abaolute,'aa in reality they are mere* ly temporary, and have to be returned with interest whenever the recipient in hia torn given a potlatch. The Indian nature doea not permit ot anything being done without a

clear

prospect ef

making by the transaction in the hag run. The afternoon ot eaah day ia spent in bona racing and betting, for

1. boon, 'i&in paht and sad Hess, 3. m«s ~*i--"-'tho» dark ^with troo ble, 3, bore the stars, «olt shin ing,

wenn

in der

trtmquillo

3. tang,

1J2. tang,

When thro' my

1,2. sing! 3. sibg!

3. Kind

1,2. wenn

1,2. hear

[Lbeard]

3. hear

Give the child a seat that shall be atrictly its own. Teach it to take ite seat quietly.

To use ita napkin properly. To wait patiently to be served.. To anawer promptly. To say thank you. If asked to leave the table for a forgotten article or for any purpoee to do so at once.

Never to interrupt and never to oou-

Neve'r to make jeemarks about the food, such aa "I saw that turkey killed, and how he did bleed," as I once heard a little boy remark at a Thanksgiving dinner.

Teach the child to keep hia plate in order. Not to handle the bread or to drop food on the cloth and floor.

To always say, "Excuse me, please, to the mother when at home, and to the lady or hostess when visiting, if leaving the table before the reet of the party.

To fold its napkin and to put back ita «h»ir or puahgit cloae to the table before leaving.

I know children who observe every one of these rules, and are in no way

Solighttul

riggish, but are aimply well-behaved, companions, and thejr owe it all to the mother's careful training from babyhood.—[Good Housekeeping.

8hoea and Luck. v--

It is supposed to be unlucky to put either shoe on the wrong foot, nor must one put the left shoe on before the right, unless one wishes to bring about some dreadful calamity. Augustus Caesar, it is said, put on his left shoe fint and before nightfall be narrowly aacaped assassination. Dr. Brewer saya that pluoking off the ahoe among the Jews, smoking the pipe among the Indian', thumb lioking among the Scotch, breaking the atraw together among the Teutons, and ahaking hands among the English are all ceremonies to confirm a bargain. The Jewiah cuatom of plucking off the ahoe or sandal is frequently referred to in the scriptures. In the story of Ruth it ia rf corded that a compact which Boaz made waa sealed by a ahoe being drawn off one of the verses reads: "Now, this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all thingea man plucked off hia ahoe and gave it to hia neighbor, and thia waa a testimony in Israel.''—[Providenoe Telegram.

fe'mother Man.

He entered a saloon on Monroe avenue with hia hat on hia ear and hia coat on hia arm, and flinging the garment on a table, he shouted: "Ii the man here who aaid he oould pulverize me in two minutes?" •»He is," replied an individual waa juet wiping off hia chin. "And are yon the man?," "I am." "And you aaid itt" "I did." "And you wont take it back? •No, air." "Well, let'a have aoata more beer. The boya aaid you were an old man with one am. and

da A5r' Ick je -net Lie dt« Klang, dot mir alt Kind die Mut ter 3. lacAt, 2. OlSdt, wenn in ^Xsrust dot Lied er Hang, war wir't ab wem die Mut ter 1. Freund,

1. friend: When thro* my Xsoul^that strain doth ring, A-gain I 2. store When thro' my 3. dwell, I there shall hear those ech oes ting, A gain 111

ftranquUlo

3 3

da A»r' ieh je net Lie des Klang, wenn in der Brust das Lied er klang,

BOU!

I there shall hear

die Mut ter sang, die' Mut ter tang, rit.

my moth er sing! my moth er sing!

•"•AGAIN 1 BEAR MY MOTHER BIKC-St

greater gamblen than Indians it would be hard to find.—rChamben' Journal.

TABLE KTIQOKTTE FOR CHILDREN. Here area few good olcTrules that can be safely followed:

who

didnt propoea to take aaaa

from any each pereau Drink hearty, my friend."—{Datroit Free Prssa.

A sufficient preventive against harm for ah Irieh babe ia a.belt of woman's hair.

Garlic, salt, bread and ateak are first put in the cradle of a new-born child in HoHand.

A pair ot tonga or a knife put in the cradle will satisfy the Welsh mother aa to her child's safety. The knife ia also used in parte of England.

A email bit of red ribbon ia all the Roumanian infant requiree to secure it from harm, while the Eathonian mother attaches a bit of aaafetida to the child's neck.

In modern Greece the mother, before putting the child in ita cradle, tunie three times around the fire while ainging her favorite song, to ward away evil apirita.

The Turks load the child with amuleta a« soon aa it ia born, and a small bit of mud, welhiteeped in a jar of hot water, ia atuck on ita forehead.

Among Voegee peaaante, children born at new moon have their tongues better hung than others, while those born at the hut quarter have lees tongue, but reason better.

The Swediah mother puta a book under the head of a new-born infant that it may be quick at reading, and puta money into the first bath to guarantee its poaasssion in the future.

Wants to Cross the Ocean In a Rowboat.

Dr. Bibhy ia a Bath phyBician with a queer hobby. He is anxious to have the ocean crossed in a rowboat. He sunk a round sum of money in fitting out a man for the voyage a few yean ago, and the man waa loet—at least he never has been heard from ainoe he left the coaat. The doctor'a ardor iB not dampened in the leaat, however. He aaye that to a stout man, who haan't chick or child dependent upon him and ia willing to try the experiment, he will furnish a lifeboat that poeitively cannot tip over and all the euppliee for the voyage—[Lewiaton Journal.

The Tknt Fastest Boats.

The three faateet vessels in the world are torpedo boata. The Vesuvine, of 810 tons diaplacement, heads the liat with a reoord of 21.646 knota an hour on her trial trip. The Tripoli, belonging to Italy, oomea next, with a displacement ot 831 tons, and a epeed ot 20.1 knota per hour. The El Deatructor of the Spaniah navy madea mean of 22 6 knota per hour on a four hours' continuous run, but she ia lesa than five hundred tona diaplacement and oarriaa little or no armament. The Vaauviua, on her trial trip, waa weighed down with 140 tona ot armament.—[New York World.

Overwork.

Polite Doctor (cautioualy)—Your huehand ia Buffering from overwork or exosarive indulgence in alcoholic atimulante—it ia, ahem, a little difficult to tell which.

Aaxioua Wife—Oh, it'a ovework. Why, he cant even go to the theater without rushing out half a dozen timeetoeee hie businaaa partnera. [New York Weekly. vll

The "tiettaee get hi ble."

Thai lettuoe aoeiable given by the young people of the Pint Methodtat Church iMtweek at the home of Dr

'-go "e wig Fri* de mil ate afcftt wei* sit mein be Mr

She was my true est Still had some joy in Then tr. ly joy doth

that strain doth ring, those ech oes ring,

SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT B1B1E8. A daughter born daring the waning moon ia alwaya preoocioua.

hear my moth er tllMrt] hear my moth er

das mir als war

mir'i

alt

•X'

A gain

gain

I'll

Ferris waa among the fint of the kind ever introduced in thia part of the world. Pilee of the green fodder aa large aa hay stacks won consumed with ill the rww possible.—[Waterloo Tribune.

One Hundred Years Ago.

There were no burglar and fire proof safea in thoae daye. It is not muoh over fifty yean ago that a bank in southern Vermont kept its treasures in an oak chest about two by four feet. This chest wae made of two thicknesses of oak plank bolted together and studded with naila rivited on the inside and locked with a padlock about the aize of a bakery pie. The first patent for a fire-proof safe waa issued in thia country to Daniel Fitzgerald in 1843. The patent WAS assigned to B. J* Wilder,

SOD

the

safes mule under it were known as "Wilder'e patent aafea." In thia aafe the walla were made hollow, the principal involved being the well-known non-con-ducting properties of common air. After thia asbestos mixed with plaater of paria waa used. A burglar-proof lock waa invented by a man uamed Bramot and claimed to be "non-pickable," but one Hobba picked it in 1851. The Yale lock waa invented in 1843 and held

Bway

til it wae picked by hiB son. Improvements have gone on, however, until fire and burglay proof aafes, so-called, are found, not only iniatorea generally, but in many private residences.

The Sweetest Thins*.

What is the sweetest thing you know of? The qusstion waa submitted to several persona. Their anawera were widely different, and indicated that the appeal had not been made to the same aenaea in each inetance.

A mother said—A Bleeping baby, with round, roey cheeks. A horticulturist—The perfume of grape blossoms.

City boy—Honey. A farmer's wife—A young Jeraey calf. A man 35 yean old—Maidenhood. "Standing, with reluctant feet,

Where the brook and rl*er meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!" A religious girl—The organ prelude and the aolemn momenta before prayer at church.

An old soldier—"Tie sweet and glorioua to die for one's country."

In the Scientlfle World.

Recent experiments with sugar as a

goilen

raventatlve for incrustation of steam are reported as giving very satia* factory results.

Oil to be spread on stormy .wavee haa been inclosed in a cartridge and fired from an ordinary breech-loading gnn, giving most excellent reeults.

The amount of rain with a falling barometer in Great Britain ie twice that with a rising barometer. The ratio diminishes aa we go eeetward.

In reoent yean it haa been claimed by chemiata that the ohangee attending the diaeolution ot metala in acids are only in part electrical and in part chemical.

The quality ot the effecta produced by aluminum and copper diaphragme for telephonea ia very remarkable, aa they give the timbre of the eounda and ot articulate speech far better than iron.

Ia a recent paper on the hygiene ot Japansse house* the common idea that dwelling houeea in that country are very unhealthy waa distinctly disproved. The (••urkably email infant mortality among the Japanese shows that their houeea aro healthy and edited to their of lit*.