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8 Woman's J. 1 (1877)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl8 and id is 1 raw text is: She amanS j surnL VOL. VIII. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JAN. 6, 1877. NO. 1. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. i A Weekly Newspar, published every Saturday in Bos, devtedl to 1,b0 interests of Woman-to her tlaal industrial, legalm ndtpolitical Equality,l adespeclly to her right of Sutrage.*f HowS........... EDITORS. M HM Y R. BLACKWELL........ c T. W. IGINSON - E..BITORIAL CoNsRIauTo. MARY A. LIVERMORE 11 1 g Tsams-$.50 aear, In advanT. Sinle copy, 6 cts. a AVERTISING ATE. . 0.....per solid nonpareil line, I insertion. *14.-. ..2 . ... 8 1*.2*5 26 1 t Buvmass Noricas,sset uniformly in leaded nonpa- y Tel, with a full-face aide head, confined to one cl- ma, th page, 20 cents per running line eachnser- tion. oUs RATEsCopies one year, $6.50; 10 copies t one year, $MO0.0. Speien copies sent on receipt of two cent stampa tofr Al eand subscrltions received by Ta Nw r ENGLAND ws Co., 41 ourt St., Boston. BOSO ucs.-No. 4, Park Street.it PHILADELPIA O. c.-Pooms of the Penneyl- I Tata Society, 700 Arch St. 8e. Louis Oe .-Mr. J. M. Dutro, 582 North 2d l St. Louis, Mo.i Sam ru com IOa .-At H. Snow's Liberal and Reform Book Store, N. 19 Keat Street, West I sile between Pine and Bush, up oelight of stairs. ifl communications for the WOA'S JOUNAL, sad all letters relating to its editorial maagement, must be addressed to the Editors of the WoMAN's JoUaxLI. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. A rson who takes a r larly from ueotof ewheterdrce ohisame or n- I ther'sor whether e has ubscribed or noIsre Bpaible for the payment. a. Ifa persn Orders is aerdsontinue, he mt. pay all arearges orepuIser C- tietowsnd ituntil yment Is mdancollt th whe amount, whtr the pper an from the ose or not.i POETRY. For the Woman's Journal.n THE PARTING.* TRANSLATED (FROM UHLAND.) BY HELEN MAGILL. What means that shouting and singing outside? Ye maidens, now open your windows wide, For a lad on hia travels is starting, And this is the comrades' parting. The others are waving their caps it air, Bedecked with ribands and garlands fair, Btt Silent and pae amid them Ie goes, not seeming tohead them. The glasses are ringing, the wine foams high; Drink once and again, good coinrade they cry. Ah, yes, pour wine for the drinking, The heart in my bosom is sinking. They have come to the very last house in the town And a mid from her window peeps shyly down, While jasmine and rose are concealing The tear down her fair cheek stealing. And there, at the very last house of the town, The youth looks up, but quickly looks down; His hand to his heart he raises, And white, as with pain, his faceIr?. What comrade, and bast thou no poy fair? So many bright blossoms are waving up there, That surely the lass can spare one, come, tass him a fower, thou fair one! Ah! comrade, what use were the flower to me; I have no sch maiden to love me as she; And the hot at would fade in at hour. And the cold wind wither the flower. So onward they go, with jestand song, And the maidenalistens and watches long; He Is gone, I mayose him never Again, whom I lov forever. And here I am left with this love of mine, With my roses gay and jasmine fe; All would I so gladly have given, I And gave not a rosebad even. NEW TEA'S PRO ETIL The white snow lads down everything, this morning-heaps the street, covers the' evergreen trees, encrusts the windows; and still the flakes come down. Inha t nsemats it In a tomlto riam storm. It suggests the question whether the winter. is not, after all, the most encouraging period for a reformer. In the summer, amid the delicious warmth and the luxury of bird and blossom, there seems nothing to reform, and the old heroic resolution is enervated. In winter there is not only the perpetual tonic of the atmosphere to support our courage-. ous purposes, but we see all around us the symbols of life preserved under what seems death. Every-snow drift is a majority of ten thousand atoms heaped on the head of. the one little atom-a tiny germ of some plant, for instance,-that lies unseen below. But the snow has its limitations and the un- seen atom has its principle of life. Come next June, and the snow is gone, and the world Is gladdened by the opening beauty. of the bud. Spring, the great reformer, lies dormant in winter at the tip of every twig upon these elm-trees, and constantly rebukes us for any yielding to this winter of. our discontent. And as all this high-heaped winter cover- ing is to give way at last, not to any single attack, but to the steady Influence of the sun-beams and the self-assertion of the buds, thus yields conservatism to reform. That which guarantees Woman Suffrage, sooner or later, is not merely that it is logically im- plied in our institutions, but that it is inevi- tably to follow from the advauce-along the whole-line, which women are everywhere making. Every, woman graduate of a col- lege, every woman-physician, every woman 'ho is marking out for herself a new activ-I ty in any direction, even though she be, ersonally an opponent of Suffrage, is real-I y helping it on; and it is rare, moreover, to ind her an opponent. The promise of Wo.I man Suffrage is implied in the better edu- ated and more prominent women who are rowing up all around us; implied as surelyI s the buds upon the elm-trees imply Spring. It used to be said The High Schools of' New England are responsible for the Wo. man Suffrage agitation because they were hought to have accustomed a large class of oung girls to a more equal position with their brothers. But the school girls of that generation are now wives and mothers; It is heir daughters who go to Vassar College and Boston University-a training that will 'enew and strengthen the demand for equal - ty in other ways. Whenever I am tempt- ed to feel discouraged by the action of a egislature, or the opinion of a leader, my thoughts instinctively turn to this great si- ent generation of young women trained in higher schools, and accustomed to more self-reliant pursuits. They are as little no- ticed as the buds which are already formed upon the trees; and they are almost as nu- merous, as little to be controlled, and as prophetic of their own destiny. When a generation of women has grown up under codtions of equality in all other respects, they will be ready to demand political equal- ity also; and whenever they demand it, they will be sure to obtain It. You have a hard job there said I, the other day, to an intelligent-looking Irish- man who was at work with pick-axe and spade upon the ice in a gutter. It is that he quickly answered, hut not so hard a lob as you have undertaken- Women's Rights. He knew me, It seemed, thought I did not know him. But we, like him, have the powers of nature on our side; win ter is at least bracing and healthy, and by and by it will be Spring. T. W. H. DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOLS. One of the most valuable and suggestive essays read at the Fourth Woman's Con- gress was one by Mrs. A. M. Diaz. The subject of the paper was, The Develop. ment of Character in Schools, or What shall we the People do, to be saved? Some of the leading ideas were that, as character makes the Individual, and as in- dividuals make the State, therefore the State should endeavor to raise the character of Its individuals to the highest possible standard. That although character Is largely the re- sult of Indirect influences, there Is in this field an immense working ground left for direct human effort. That in considering character there are, 1. The part which comes by Inheritance, 2. The part which comes from immediate pre-natal influences, and 8. The part which comes from education. The moulding and modifying ofcharacter can be most effectively done at the period when character lain its formative stage. In view of all the thoughtless, careless, foolish, force- less, ignorant, Injudicious parents, and es- pecially of the depraved and vicious ones, it Is evident that home training cannot be wholly depended upon for this work, which should, therefore, be supplemented by other endeavors. The State In its Normal and other schools possesses the means of assist- ing in this supplementary work. An intel- lectual education alone is not sufficient. The statistics of crime mislead on this point, Inasmuch as they do not include the wrong doing which is committed Inside the law, and which, by making sin respectable, does more to lower the moral tone of society than the more startling kinds which make it infamous. Heart-culture, equally with brain culture, should be considered a legiti- mate part of the teacher's work, and a part for which they should receive a special pre- paration. It cannot be satisfactorily ac- complished by moral maxims, or direct moral instruction. Suggestions were made as to methods, and Fenelon, Fellenberg and others were cited as examples of educators whobave been successful In this direction. Our present system of education is one-sided and does not truly educate. The State is spending two hundred million dollars a year in the punishment of crime; in education, one hundred million. The Power which claims the right of punishing, should as- sume the duty of directing. Prevention is better than cure. The State should be urged to bring its educational forces to bear upon character, by giving its teachers the just- named special preparation, no matter at what money cost. It should be urged to do this, not only inthename of common-sense and of justice, but as a measure of public economy, a measure whic will diminish pauperism and crime, and,To sum up th whole, as something which we the People must do to be saved. This is a work which lies behind all reforms, all reforma- tory institutions, and all charities. The above abstract, which is all we are at present able to give, will make our readers wish to read the essay entire. We hope that its future publication will enable them to do so. . u. U. IENC FLATS-APARTMENT ROTELS. Ten years ago, says the New York Times, the only refuge for the average New Yorker from the cares of housekeep- Ing, was the boarding-house. If he could not pay the enormous rent demanded by his landlord, he must take up quarters for himself and family insomeovergrown board- Ing-house, there to be dependent upon the good will of the landlady for the necessi- ties and comforts of life. To be sure there was the hotel, with its illimitable perspec- tive of halls and court-yard, its clanging bar and its urbane hotel clerk; but even these luxuries were apt to be clouded by the high cost attendant upon their enjoyment. There was nocompromise between an independent establishment of your own and a dependent share in that of your neighbor; and as the chances were fully equal that your neighbor would turn out an uncongenial host, theun- certainty of this mode of existence was not the least among its discomforts. At last a change set in. People who had traveled abroad hinted mysteriously of a new mode of living, in which the cares of housekeep- Ing were reduced to a mere minimum, and at the same time the unwelcome publicity of boarding-house life was done away with-of a system by which the seclusion and inde- pendence of one's own house were united with the conveniences of the hotel, and the cost of living reduced to one-half of its for- mer proportions. The system was general- ly approved, and soon an enterprising real estate owner erected a house on the foreign model,in East Eighteenth Street, and opened it for occupancy. Success was immediate. Every suite in the house was filled within a few weeks, and the result encouraged other property-owners to pirsue the same course, until to-day there are no fewer than twenty large buildings of the French-flat class in the City, besides numerous smaller establish- ments upon the upper avenues and side streets. 'French flats, in New York, are divisible into two classes: the flat proper, or apart- ment-house, where the suites of rooms em- brace kitchen, dining-room, and bed-room, or bed-rooms, and accommodations for private housekeeping; and the apartment- hotel, where the suitesacontain fewer rooms, and meals are supplied either In a large din- ing-room, or In private apartments, as the occupants may elect. The Albany, at Broadway and West Fifty-first Street, is a good type of the former, and the Berkely, at Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street, of the latter. The apartment hotel is strictly a New York Institution, and is an outgrowth of that inbred repugnance to the troubles of private honee-keeping, which has become so characteristic of i large class of New- Yorkers. It Is a c rms ewe h studied seclusion of t pure French sys- tem, and the open, flIng, gaudy life of the fashionable boarding ouse. The suites of rooms are entirely pr ate, are furnished by the occupant accord ng to his own taste, and kept in order, if ecessary, by his own servants. He sees no n but his own fami- ly, save at meal time and then he has his private table In a ri ly furnished and se- cluded dining-room, I waited upon by spe- cial attendants assigned to him, and is to all practical purposes as much alone as If he were in his own house. In the pure French flat, or apartment house, as It is called, each family possesses a dining-room, kitch- en and servant's room of their own, and do their own house-keeping. Thegreatadvan- tage of this plan is, at by it, half the ex- pense of servant hire I dispensed with, (one or at most two serva s being all that are requisite for a singleuite, however large,) all the minor cares an petty annoyances of ordinary house-keeping are excluded; the labor of climbing four or five pairs of stairs .Is abolished, and a degree of comfort, quiet, and security is enjoyed which to the occu- pants of a large house is almost unknown. The endless worry of having the door-bell pulled In succesion by the peddle, the beg- I gar, the soap-fat man, the asicollector, and the purchaser of old clothesis unknown. . The house Is heatedthroughout with steam or hot air, the guests are conveyed to up per stories by steam elevators, the lighting, plumbing, and ventilation are all attended to by the owner, andkept in perfect orde by him. The drery discomforts of wash ing-day, the vaie ted smells of soap- suds, hot water, and steam, are all transfer red to a distant story, entirely removed and shut out from the body of the house. In a word, house-keeping in a model French flat may be said to embrace all the comfortm and independence of a private home, with-p out its responsibility, worry, and expense. The class of people who avail themselves f of its benefits is already very numerous andp is yearly increasing. Retired merchants, lawyers, physicians, otficers of railway and business companies, rich tourists who have returned front Europe, and appreciate the comforts of this style of living, all are to be met with in any one of the many elegant structures which abound in various parts ofC the city. Men worth their millions, asld men whose yearly income is crowded with- In a few thousands, live in the same build- ing, as entirely isolated as though they dwelt a mile apart. Of the more prom- nent of these houses, a dozen or more will be described next week. CHRE JUSTICE STORY ON CO*EDUCATIO. Errtus JoUnNAL.-Chief Justice Storyt in his autobiography says, There is one circumstance connected with my studies at Marblehead Academy, which has probably given a turn to my thoutghts which yot nay easily trace. Girl as well s boys went to te same School t the same hours, and were arranged on op- posite sides of a large hall on their appro- priate forms. In the simplicity of those days, it was not thought necessary to separ-I ate e sexestin their stktdies. Generally we studied the sanme books, nd as we rectel our lessons in the presence of each other, there wasea mutual pride to do our best, and to gain an honest portion of flattery or of p ise. I was early struck with tae lexi- ilty,aCtivity,and power of the fealemind. Girls of the same age were, on an average of numbers, quitetour etals in their studies and acquirements, and had a much greater quickness of perception and delicacy of feel- Ing tan the bys. Remain ing thus at school witihthem until I was toutfifteen years old, I could not be mistaken as to their powers; and I then imbibed the opinion, which I have never since changed, that their talents are generally equal to those of men, though there are shades of difference in the character uOftheir minls, resulting from several causes. My imression is, that the principal difference In intellectual power wlich Is marked in after days, re- sults not so much from their original Infe- riority of mind, as from the fact that edt- cation stops with females almost at the tite It efectively bens with men; and that neither their habits nor pursuits in life en- able them afterwards to cultivate science or literature with much diligence or success. They have no professions which constantly require and constantly encourage them to master new sources of kiowledge. The above I have copled from page ten of the miscellaneous writings of Chief Justice Story, editdd by his son, William W. Story, Boston, 1812i, and I ask for a place for this extract in your valuable paper. A. T. 5. NAROARET W. CAMPIELL IN1 RODE IBLAND. EDrronS JoURNAL-I should e glad to send notes from the lecture field, every week, for the JOURAL, but my time is so etirely taken up, that I find it impossible to do so. Since the annual meeting in Providence, I have held eighteen meetings, and three tore appointments were made, two of them with much labor, but when the time arrived, were postponed on account of storms.. My next appointments are at Peacedale, Hope Valley, Hopkinton, Woodville, Plainville, Richmond, Carolina, Apponaug, and Watchemoket. I find the people of Rhode, Island much like the people of Massachusetts. Some towns give me a cor- dial welcome and a good audience. Where- ever the old abolitionist is found, there is a friend of Equal Rights broad enough to in- clude women, and I am sure of good help .from such a one. In some places where I had much labor to find any one to give me a helping hand, I have, after giving one lee- ture, been invited to return and give anoth- er; so it is plain that what they need is more r light. 3 I think sometimes, when I[remember the long years of hard labor done in these old States, that the friends would do better to . give their time and money to the work in some of the new States, before they get so bigoted and moss-grown that it needs the . trump of an archangel to arouse them I I wish you would call the attention of the New England Woman Suffrage Association to the fact, that the question of Woman's full enfranchisement, Is to be voted upon at the polls in Colorado next October, and that a lix weeks campaign, or sharp, earnest, r wide-awake rallies in that new State, would secure the majority necessary to carry it. M. w. c. Providence, R. I. Digitized from Best Copy Available CONCERNING WOMEN. Miss Woovtsox's poem, Two Women, will appear In the January number of Ap- petoal' Journa. Ms. A. T. STEWART has taken the whole loor of a hotel in Jacksonville, Fla., and proposes to pass most of the winter there. Miss ANNIE JWuETT and Miss MARY HItour, of Northborotgh, Mass., have been engaged its teachers in tthe Atlanta, (Ga.) public schools. M188 KSMILEY has been holding a series of Bible services in the Congregational Church of Rutland, Vt., and is about to begin another series in the Methodist Church at Burlington. M1ns. F. M. BACKus is president of the Backus Oil Company, manufacturers of lubricating oils. Their prinipal oic Is No. 144 Superior St., Cleveland, 0.. anti at 01 Broad St, Boston. NILSsoN owns six lots in the southern part of Chicago, andi has just given the re- quiret Ilandfor the widening of an avenue on which they are situated, without waiting for the usual legal process of condemnation. Mi. R. F. BARDWECLL, of Oxford, Mass., aged ninety, and widow of Rev. Dr. Hora- tio Bardwel. died of paralysis, Friday. She was widely known, and Ws formerly a missionary at Bombay, India, for six years. TIEi Ducinss oir Enmiuuoi and daugh- ter of the Czar, chose Malta as the birth- place of the latest result of the Anglo-Rus- elai marriage, and now the Maltese petition the queen to -accord tme wee thing the title of Princess of Melita. MI.L. PIOLA, the young prima donna who tiled recently at Marseilles from disap- pointment at her professional failure, was constantly singing during her last moments the music of La File du Regiment, be- lieving in her delirium that she was on the stage. MADAME LA CO6MTEsBE DE MONTIJO, mother of the ex-Empress Eugenic, has just entered a suit against several republican newspapers, for defamation, with the inten- tion of giving the fine imposed to the poor. The case should have come off on the ninth; as usual in such cases, it was deferred, but the conclusion In favor of the plaintiff can- not be called in question. M31s. MATInA HUNT, of Indiana, has been giving temperance and religious dis- courses in Doer, N. H., much to the edifi- cation of the people. In the lecture-room of the M. E. Church, Sabbath evening, No- vember 19, she spoke to a large audience on Seed Bowing. On the afternoon of the same day she gave an address before th& Reform Club, which is spoken of as one.of remarkable beauty and eloquence. Mas. JEANNEC . CARn, Deputy Superin- tendent of Public Instruction in California does not confine herself to the work of the office; but enterseinto that of the County In- stitutes held in various parts of the State. She has been active for many years in the work of education; and lier private pupils have risen to distinction in the walks of lit- erature and art. Her present work Is high- ly appreciated In her adopted State. Miss ANNA OLIVER is now pastor of the important but unfortunate M. E. Church In Passale, New Jersey, whose elegant edifice, costing nearly a hundred thousand dollars, Is embarrassdd with an overwhelming debt, and the Church divided and greatly discoit- aged by this pecuniary burden. She is tak- ing hold of the work with characteristic zeal, and with a woman's hopefulness and enthusiasm. She has organized a series of lectures, and Is summoning the ingenuity and practical labors of the ladies to the aid of the trustees of the Church. * Mns. IBMIiELLA WALLACE lat lya'ppea- ed in a New York Court in the character bf The adjustable f6lding-char company.' She alone was the company, and she broughlt suit against iertsi of heragents to recover moneys for goods sold. Her feminine cha- actersticeappeared in the affidavit, in whidh she swore that she was induced to give a agency to one of the defendants, beca, when refused, lie lifted up the flood-gae of his morbidly-sensitive emotional lattie and poured out upon the afflant a tloiu of tears. She was touched, and em lo him, expecting that he wouldtravela drum up business, but he i sed so6 vated with the alluremets ill fascinations of this magnificent metIopolIs for theyousg and ardent that he would not consent tb put up with the duller interest of 'smaller communities. He boarded at expensive hotels, sported fine wardrobes and jewelry, and put on airs of leisure, dignity and com- mercial consequence. Now it is not often .that such fine language Is to be found inathe papers of a common case in court. . . . I

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