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2 Woman's J. 1 (1871)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl2 and id is 1 raw text is: 5he auruaL VOL. II. BOSTON, ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1871. NO. 1. THE - I -AED- THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE, CrNSoLWATEDbAUGUST 18,18rd, oAoo, devoted to the I.tets o o al, rndusIrl,tIlea and political F4 ad epecal y e ih fSuffrage. 39ARY A.LIV ERIO1RE. EDIO . ju A R. .low g, L ,o D .ENRY B. su,,and T. W. Hnispusox, Associate Ed. Ct _o Address, care of Go. SHERWOOD, 105 Address, FANNYf HoLY, Insurance .Ex. 8 Building, Roon 18, corner Fifth and Olive TERas-s.5oa year, invariably in advance. Sin 81g RAcrsa *4 copies, one year, 86.50; 10 cop. l1e O 0,S00 And an extra copy to getterup of asn coples sent on receipt of two-cent stamp jr=imAsubscriptions received by Tnca NEw iLAND saws Co., 41 Court street, Boston, and ga' AxAmon Newa Co., 119 Nassau street, New York. . tATES OF ADVERTISING-l nosquare of eight Jm, first linsertion 6 1.50; aubsequent Insertion, 75 Bautil no otc 4e nts per line. The price a dertising is uniformand Inflexible. BsToNrorms-. Tremont Place, rear of Tremont seenatdssosddoor from Beacon street. AlU commenictios fortthe WOMAN'S JOURNAL, ,sigial letters ilting to Its 'editorial management, a atddressedto MAnY A. Livicamona, Editor. lettifrsontia n Hianoeandtrlang othe bdss d o nt! he ' rmust be a dressed to de AVKw.LL, It, 4297, Boston. ByHELEN NT. Not he who rides throu conquered city's g tel At hea fbl i ed hosts and to the sound Of victoea trumpets , in fu pomp and state Of wa, the stiost pite has dreamed or To w thrill of triu ph can be wound; Not he'w by aination's At acclaim Is en den ht d sing1 d out alone, And, while the people ma shout his name, Without a eonson purpc , of his own Is swung adliftd to the tion's throne; But he who has alIngle- nded stood, withbfoes invisible tni ever side, Ad, unsuspected the m titude, he force of fate iIf has red, defied, ndconquiered sle tly- Alh that soul knows what white he the blood of triumph glow TE 0LD WE SONG. Sixtyars old .row, Joh, Andstill we tw arehere, While iany of the' ng and gay, The beautift Il dear, Are slumbering intih chill ground, The sod above than growing; While, strange to tell life still with us Is bright as evqrvLwing. We never will gre jy ,dear John. For we~ ipgtopjher As when in sunny, glome days, So in stormy wealr; O14 Age, his grsp upa is then, Shall strive In va to fasten, For we will joyously tIwn Ife's bouding srym hasten. AMl though we aiy old, dear Joht, Within, our hearare will Be joy, and yoth, angladness-all Litgering litius till. Though wrinkles, tracdAtppon the brow, D~eclare thatwe aold, love, ellet the spring-tholin our hearts the hd, love. NOT 5oWe. know not what wili !fl inch God hangs 4 mist o'er my eye' So'er each ystep of dnward path He ake w sceneso rise, d every joy He seuds ser comes as a sweet and glad surprise,- see not a step before meas 1 tread the days of the year,. It the past is still in Gl's keeping, the fu- thais tlmercy shalclear, ul what looks dark inathe distance may brlghten as I drawnar'. >r perhaps thie dreaded thwre has less bitter- ness thnIlthink; o aLord tey weeten asi water before I stoop to drink. ifdarah Mustbe Maral, He will rnd be- e Its brink. may befthere Is waiting for the coming of MnY feet, ome gift of such rare blessedness, some joy so strangely sweet, hat my lips can only tremble with the thanks I cannot speak. restful, blissful ignorance! 'Tis blessed not to know, t keeps me quiet in those arms which will not let me go, laid hushes my soul to rest on the bosom which loves me so. o I go on not knowing! I would not if I might; I would rather walk on in the dark with God, than go alone in the light, I would rather walk with Him by faith, than walk alone by sight. ify heart shrinks back front trials which the future may disclose, Yet I never had a sorrow but what the dear Lord chose; So I send the coming tears back, with the whispered word, He knows. MR. GHES' MISTAEE. It has been said of that good friend of Amer- ica and ofchildhood,Mr. Thomas Hughes, that Ro man was more cordially received by Amer- icans, or saw less of them. The workingmen, the politicians and the radicals, have all sev- erally complained that he found very little op- portunity to observe them, except through the windows of some Cambridge library. It was his misfortune that his visit was so short. It was fortunate, perhaps, for his own enjoy- ment that he spent it precisely ashe did. But it certainly impaired the value of his general- lzations. It is especially a pity that he should have given a fresh lease of life to the old delusion that educated Americans take no interest in politics. This maxim has had many years of life in Europe, on the authority of De Toque- ville, and has pointed the moral of many European attacks upon America. It is a pity that It should do another thirty years' work of mischief whi set in motion by Mr. Hughes And it has a special bearing on the woman question, because if educated men forswea politics, why should not educated wonen ? Now it is natural to ask, in what part o America is it that educated men do not inter est themselves in politics? It will not bepre tended that it is n the vast States of the West nor in the South, except as temporarily de ranged by the war. In those States the ca reer of public life still attracts to it the bes educated young men, and the same Is true o the rural parts of the Middle States. Even in New York city, though the ward-politician are not college-bred men, their advisers or agents in the newspaper press and in the court rooms are such. Tweed and Sweeney may or may not be college graduates, but the editor of the World are. Fisk, Jr., is not a graduat of anything but the pedlar's wagon, but hir legal adviser, David Dudley Field, is. Fron the Tribune to the Sut, the majority of th intellectual labor of the New York press i done by college men, They may not win th prizes, but they do the work. The circle is then narrowed to New Eng land. But no one who knows antything of our rural colleges in New England, such as Dart mouth and Amherst, will say that their grad uates do not interest themselves in politics How is it with Yale? Yale has always boaste of the number of Its graduates who have dis tinguished themselves in public life. The in quiry brings us back to Harvard, and Harvar alone. I do not know another college i America of whom it can even plausibly be as serted that its graduates are Indifferent to pol itics. And if I know anything about Har vard, if such an evil exists there, it is of ver recent origin, and Mr. Hughes should have ad dressed his warnings, not to the young men but to the present set of teachers who trait them. The writer was born and bred under th shadow of Harvard College; his father was a officer of the InstitutiOn, and he had no hom but Cambridge for twenty-tbree years. H has lived in New England ever since, and ha never yet seen the time when he himself, an most of his com peers, were not actively inter ested in politics on the one side or the other Those who became clergymen generall preached politics, and often lost their pulpit for its sake. Those who attempted topursit a literary career, like Lowell and Curtis an' Dana, were apt to be drawn aside into politic and to-end in editiig periodicals of amanke political character, like the Sun or Haer'e Wyeekly or the North American Reie Those who became lawyers or business mer took ayet more engrossing InterestanPoliticp affairs. All these may not have reached pc liticaldistinction, but there are not distinc tions eough for all, ad the fact that a mar takes an interest in a thing does not prove that he has a gift for it. Looking back over the political influences that have successively controlled Massachu- setts, we see educated men (as Mr. Hughes would use the term,) behind them all. Theo old Whig party of the State was devoted to the fortunes of college-lred men. The Free- Soil party, which broke It up, was founded by Sumner, Palfrey, Allen and Adams-all col lege-bred men-togethqr with Wilson, who took his honorable degree at the lapstone On the other hand, th Abolitionist party, who certainly interested themselves most ve- hemently in politics, without casting a vote, was led-after Garrisoi-by Phillips, Q1cy and May, all Harvard men. Looking round ford the lass of educated men who are not interested in polities, I find this class only in a few enI In our larger cit- ies, half spoled by wealth and Europe, who have been pooh-poohing America and every- thing in it, ever since I can remember. Or in precisely the class of men who nestle in some of our colleges, and dread nothing so much as a hearty faith or a genuine enthusiasm. If all educated men were like these, they would, of course, have nothing to do with politics, and politics would be the gainer. But if Mr. Hughes had taken the time to see more of these Americans who were so eager to see him, lie would have found our educated men a far more robust and vigorous class of human beings than he seems to imagine. Nothing Is harder than for a foreigner, who goes for all his information to one set of peo ple, to see a nation as a whole. Americans themselves may be so ignorant of America! I dined last surymer with two highly educat ed young Englishmen, both eager to know and to admire this country. There was, also, a highly intelligent young Bostonian present eager to Instruct them. One of his first bits of information was based upon this same cant about the aversion of our educated men to politics. He said, Formerly our college-bred men went to Congress-now you find hardly any there. I asked higi How many-in the House of Representlitvesfor.ipae?' He said, Probably a deen? I sadProba' r bly fifty. Referring to Poore's Congression at Directory, it proved that 08 Representatives out of 205, and 31 Senators out of 0, were - vholly, or in part, college bred, not counting - those who had merely attended professiona schools. When a thirdoftthe Lower Hottie,and - nearly one half the Upper, belong thus to th - class of educated men (according to the Amer It lca standard, at least), It is absurd to say tha f these men do not interest themselves in poll ties. And, considering the narrowness an s pedantry that have confessedly marked much r of this college education In the past, It seem - doubtful whether a very much larger proper r tion would be an improvement. So far from saying that educated men i1 America do not interest themselves In politici I should say that one great reason of our Infe riority in works of literature and science i e because our educated men Interest themselve s in politics so much. It requires a constant of e fort for them to get time for their studies, an keep away from the platform and the newspa - pers. This is well, for it nakes stonger men r though Inferior scholars. Whether educat - ed men exert theirrightful,share of ifuenc - in America is another question. If the do not. It Is their own, fault. I cannot con d ceive of a more feeble and .querulous figur - than that of an educated man, with a pet - and a voice at his command, and the powe I to influence the whole nation by their means n who yet whines because, when eleeion-da * comes, he can throw personally no more vote - than his speechless neighbor. I trust tha - women, when they vote, will escape such folly T.W. H. , TRE OLD YEAR AND TEE nW TEAB. I am reading the last pages of that wonder e ful volume, the Old Year. Before me lie' th ni New, with leaves uncut and lids tightly clasp e ed and locked. Time, who carries the key, wil e neither stop nor hasten. Glad expectanc a watches his coming, and would fain laend hi I the speed of wings; eager youth can hardly en - dure his tardiness, while hope and fear try to . gether at the clasp, longing to steal a glanc y between the leaves. a Ah, beautiful New Year, Book of Days, i e which is written a chapter for every living ma d and woman, yoicannotfail to be full Of late , est. In you prophecy will find Its fulfilmen td and theapparently Impossible become delon 'astrated reality, The heaigrt of the pat will RA sate along your pages, the artist make the . eloquent with the expesion of his dreams nI Thee will be fouind thenitIal ebapter of main - a glorious career, the bitter disappointpnent o many a hope, the sad autograph of many n finished life. God's gift-book is the New Year to be accepted with thankful hearts, and con* t ned reverently page by page. Some we shall A read withheart-leaps ofjoy, others through hot tears falling like rain. Standing here before ' the new volume, we cannot quite forget the Di old-the years that are gone. How many of o us would have the courage to go back through T them one by one, and live over'li7ven ihiemein- e brance their varied experiences, to trace the pencillings along the margin, and touch the hr dead hopespressedlike spring flowers between theleaves? God knows-ewho fthosalltoq hearts, and metes out to us what is best. t For me It is rite ekough to linger a littleN with the year thAt Is waning, to avail myself of the space between the illuminated Christ-.o mas page and the Fnlas for retrospect and N farewe!l. I am in no haste for the unlocking of the new volume; I find each more closely written than the last, and lit place of the fairy tales and thrilling romances that once delight- ed me, the pages are filled with grave problems of middle life and the lore that makes one sad. To-morrow will be soon enough to read thei title-page of the new wonder-book; to-night I prefer to linger over the pages of the old. Ad. dressing for the last time this year the readers of the JOURNAL, my thoughts go back to myo Oist utterance, to the time when, standing In the midst of strangers, I reached out my hand like one groping ln the dark, if haply I mightI touch that of some fellow-traveller journeyingV thle way I went. What the sun is to the earthI love is to the soul. Lacking recognition its powersalie dormant, like grains buried in Egyp- tian tombs. If during the year that is past, I have done any good work, said any word that has been helpful to other souls, It has been largely owingtothe generous appreciation that has greeted my efforts, the loving trust that has surrounded me like an atmosphere. I cannot lot the old year go by without say- ing to the readers of tite JOURNAL, Dear friends, I thank you. As week by week I have come into your presence I have felt my heart warmed by your sympathy, upheld by your faith, and the ties between us growing * ever stronger and sweeter. So deeply consloO * am I of this fact, that it sets me to considering - anew theproblem of spiritual forces. I am in- s alined to think that there is but one force In e the universe and that that one is love; that our refbrms willosucceed only so far as they are Imbued with its spirit, and that the machin- ery of the world will continue to creak heavi- e ly till it is thoroughly lubricated with the oil - of good will. t If we could somehow have more faithin peo- l pie we should find more good in them, for we d go through the world finding just those things that we look for. A friend of mine once told S me that he had discovered an antidote for an- - tipathies. When I find lam in danger of dis- liking any one, said he,I seek anropportuni- 1 ty to do him a kindness; and we often fancy that people are uninteresting or disagreeable - because we do not know them well enough to s have found out their good qualities. Whe we s remember thath itIs the shallowest natures that - find most to complain of we have the hint of d self-examination lost the poverty we find in others should after all be our own. I hope we shall go into the New Year rich - in faith, believing in the grand possibilities of e every human soul; that we shall expect good y things, be slow to resent injuries, quick to for- * give, and prompt to respond' to every human e need. The millennium of the race may be a n long way off, but the heaven of a loving heart r and an unselfish life is within the reach of all, ,s CEL.A BUBLEIGH. y 159 HUnITOx Sr., BROOKLY. t CONCERNINGWOMEN. Vassar College has received a munifieent gift of $20,000, to found a professorship of Nat. urial History. A few days since a young lady was appoint- e edh stenographer on dity in the oflice of the . Secretary of the Interiora position which few Smen could fill. y Early in January a fair will be opened in U Washington for the relief of the Frenkc atf- ferers. Many prominent ladies are devoting - their energies to the undertaking. e A woman in Newark, N. J., supports a hus.* n band and five children on half an acre of land a by raising roots and flowers, and has pur- chased two houses with the surplus profits. , Gra.e Greenwood, In comparing different - kinds of women, says: When the pleasure- boat in capsized in asquall, the most fastidous a ladies' man has a profound respect for the , woman who can swim. y Miss Maria Mitchell was chosen . nember f of the American Association for the Advance- a ment of Science, on the nomination of Profes- ; sor Agassiz. She was the first woman admilt- ed a member of the American Academy of rts and Sciences. Tite Louisville Journal truthfilly says: George, Elliot is the successor of Charles )ickens. A woman stands to dayat the head f English fictitious literature, the peer of ennyson and Mill, and greater than all oth- rs. Mrs. Clara H. Nash of Columbia Falls, M\e., as been appointed justice of the peace and luorum. Mrs. Nash has been studying law ro idbme time, and she is intending to prac- ice in connection vith her husband, F. C* Nash, Esq., of that place. Mrs. Amelia Walker, aladyeghty-our years f age, recently akd over from Westport, Mfe., to visit her daughter, liviig in Broad Rl- er district,a distance of five or six miles. She staid all night and walked back again next day -the coldest day of the season. The rule recently adopted by the Louisiana State Board of Edication-that no distinction is hereafter. to be made by which women teachers shall receive less pay than men, when the services required are equal-affords un- bounded joy to the advocates of woman'seights. Miss Mary Hall, daughter of Dr Hall, editor of the Journal of Health, is one of the seven hundred Americans residing in Dresden, and is so notably proficient in German that on her return she will be qualified to assume the position of tutor in German literature in any American college. Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb aid blind girl, whose case so Interested Dickens on his first visit to America in the year 1842, is now ott a visit to her sister, Mrs. Simmons, of New- port, Ky. The sisters manage to converse freely, the one having only the sense of touch to reach her imprisoned mind. An enterprising girl of twenty, living near Alton, Illinois, has contracted with her father to dig hnt a well, at seventy-five cents a (ot. It is reported that she was twenty feetuider- ground at last accounts, and no hds thatthree offers of marriage from delighted young farm- ers had gone down that hole since it was com- Miss Charlotte Cushman and Miss Stebbins, the sculptor, are now in New York, which henceforith is to'be their permanent residence, Miss Cushman having broken up her establish- menis at Rome and London.' Se will build a summer home at Long Branch or Newport. Miss Stebbins will probably have a studio In town. They mix things considerably In ChinLa. mat tailor may be seen working diligently at a lady's dress for about six cents'a day, and a washerman will wash aind Iron your clothes at $1 a hundred; while a boatman's wife may be seen tugging at the oar or handling the salls like a man, often, too, with a baby on her shoulders. The New York Jfall says: Many of our tfshionable young ladies have adopted nick- names, which they use on their cards, prefer- ring to be known by them. and to let: their proper names be forgotten. It. strikes a for- eigner as rather strange to see cards bearing such names as.'Gerty' this, 'TOody' that, or 'Pinky' so and so. Aionig the French volunteers Is a com - pany commanded by a post-mistress. She is a Polish woman, and fought in the Polish rev.' olutioin. She acts at the satme 'time as chap- lain and surgeon for her troops, and carries a case of instrumets, a cross, a gun and re- volver. Her husband hasl meanwhile tai d at. home, and attends to household affairs. 'Miss Emily Davis, one of the ladies recently elected to the London School poard, Itutded the Ladies' Colege atHitchlN to be coUnect.- ed with the UniversitysatClambrdgthrough -whlchanypirl'may attain thehighest educa- tional prizes.: She was inustrutmnental in .pro- moting theOxford And Cambridge local ex- amination for girls andI Isecuring the com- mission on endowed schools, andfor years ar- tiles from er pen otn the different branchde 'ibmale education and the mods of ilvellho for girls have appeared in the reviews. fShe ihs written Higher' Female Edtial6n, Needliwork fo Schools,Physicl !xerises. and RecreatIon for Girls, Application or Funds for the Educttion of Girls, etc. ,A HAPPY NEW YEAR. Since Its a custom kr and near, At the commencement of the year, For fliends their wishes to express Yr each one's greater hapins, so, we, s each new year's begn,, Send our regards to every one; piecally those who've traded here, ''And wish tei a-A J*52PV New Year. We wih the'IBos who ned nwCOTURuS, toa, Pants, Vest, Rtt and Shoes complete, May buy them still at Gones FaNo', Corner of liench and Washington street. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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