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EWJ-1861-04-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | APRIL TEARS. | 1 | 1,683 | 6 | 1,689 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | Yet the promise sure remaineth, As the Lord in heaven reigneth, "After eventide of sadness Morn shall rise with joy and gladness." | 1 | 4,075 | 32 | 4,107 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | . Earth's are "April tears." | 1 | 4,075 | 8 | 4,083 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | Forward to the bright to-morrow Look the children in their sorrow; Watch we, too, the certain dawning Of the everlasting morning | 1 | 4,075 | 31 | 4,106 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | That shall know no tears! | 1 | 4,075 | 6 | 4,081 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 0 | 2 | text | 5 | .
L. F. | 1 | 1,099 | 5 | 1,104 | B0C2R5 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 1 | 0 | text | 7 | I NEED not linger over the early dawn of my day, but proceed at once to that point from which may be dated the commencement of events which colored and influenced my entire existence. | 1 | 4,075 | 39 | 4,114 | B1C0R7 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 1 | 0 | text | 8 | My mother was taken from us when we were mere children. My father, a professional man in a small town on the borders of Cumberland, speedily followed her; and at an early age my brothers and myself were tossed about from one relative to another. We were not rich; therefore the possession of “the dear little orphans” wa... | 1 | 4,075 | 441 | 4,516 | B1C0R8 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 32 | 1 | 0 | title | 6 | XVII.—THE PORTRAIT.
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EWJ-1861-04-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and when a child, but the memory of that visit and of Mr. and Mrs. Bethune was of a gloomy and chilling character. When I spoke of refusal, every aunt and uncle in the town and out of it gave it as their unanimous opinion that nothing under the sun could possibly be of such advantage to "a girl in my position" as to se... | 1 | 3,051 | 640 | 3,691 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The change from the simple life I had been leading in our quiet town, to the bustle of London, combined with the luxurious habits and fashionable style of Mrs. Bethune's establishment, was at first rather embarrassing. A few months however brought me to more VOL. VII. | 1 | 4,075 | 61 | 4,136 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | than an easy compliance with my new mode of living, and I enjoyed the pleasures thrown in my way, on the plea that as I had been sent "to see the world," I ought to look at it from every possible point of view.
Change of scene must have had a miraculous effect on Mrs. Bethune, for no trace of indisposition was visible... | 1 | 4,075 | 250 | 4,325 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Time went on, and amidst its whirling we were carried across the Channel to Calais, and from Calais—with its pharos, its long pier, its singular “cour-gang,” and sturdy inhabitants—we were slowly and joltingly driven on to Paris. My anticipations of pleasure were unbounded; for had not Paris the “Louvre”? When however ... | 1 | 4,075 | 441 | 4,516 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | hour of his doom, with the death-knell of his kingship, when neither would he be longer tolerated by his angry subjects, who rent again the kingdom in pieces, and cast the ancient crown of France on the ground. History has shown by whom to be lifted up and worn.
We were on the eve of leaving the Rue Rivoli for the res... | 1 | 3,051 | 596 | 3,647 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mrs. Bethune looked reprovingly at the speaker; she did not like the levity with which he spoke of reverend gentlemen whether Catholic or Protestant. But what cared the ever-jesting | 1 | 4,075 | 42 | 4,117 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | empty-headed Edward Mansfield for the looks of his aunt? Not a whit more than he would have done had a poodle shaken its head at him.
Evening came, and with its darkening hours came Mr. Cleveland.
At the first glance, I found that after all I had formed an ideal portrait of the stranger to match the real Master Edwar... | 1 | 3,949 | 411 | 4,360 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mr. Mansfield called himself, and laid claim to the title of, “a lover of art,” but alas for art, had it only such admirers! Inspired with fresh zeal by the praise bestowed by Mr. Cleveland, Mrs. Bethune applied with renewed vigor to her favorite pursuit. She had earned the right to be spoken of as a true artist, where... | 1 | 3,949 | 283 | 4,232 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | always tried to find one removed from the commonplace. How can that which is not interesting or beautiful in nature, become so when transferred to canvas? was the question I used to ask. As for my teacher, Mrs. Bethune, she chose nothing but religious subjects—holy families, martyrs, and saints occupied her pencil, and... | 1 | 3,051 | 582 | 3,633 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | As Master Edward stood before me, a second "Amico," with his coarse daubs and coarse words, so did Mr. Cleveland represent the refined and gifted Leonardo. Another graceful image fitted likewise before me as I watched the countenance of Mrs. Bethune, lit up with admiration and glowing with enthusiasm, bent over some | 1 | 3,949 | 73 | 4,022 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | favorite subject. This third was that of the beautiful sculptress of Bologna, Properzia da Rossi, whose genius and sad history had made a strong impression on my imagination, rendered doubly strong by the lines addressed to her by another gifted one of modern times, I mean Felicia Hemans, who in her "records of women,"... | 1 | 4,075 | 374 | 4,449 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Mrs. Bertrune belonged to a class of women frequently met with among the affluent. Refined in manner almost to fastidiousness, elegant in taste as became an artist, languid and pensive, when not excited; somewhat fitful in temper, her spirits either too high or too low, impatient of contradiction, given to command, and... | 1 | 4,075 | 289 | 4,364 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | CHAPTER II.
The following is a list of the principal events which occurred in the year 1850, and which are of sufficient importance to be recorded in the annals of the world. The year was remarkable for the great interest which was excited by the proceedings of the American Congress, and the subsequent secession of th... | 1 | 4,075 | 2,000 | 6,075 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | usually does to an elder, for in early years differences of age are more felt, and Mrs. Bethune having had the start of me by as many seasons as I had numbered, I naturally regarded her as a guide and guardian.
As the growth of a blade of grass is invisible to the most careful observer, while nevertheless it continues... | 1 | 4,075 | 271 | 4,346 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In Sarah I began to see (after having been long blind to it) unmistakeable signs of discontent, and from her own lips learned the cause. The heaviest item in her list of grievances was the solitary life to which she had been consigned ever since Mr. Cleveland had become so constant a visitor, and for this cause and non... | 1 | 4,075 | 420 | 4,495 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | through the influence of fine eyes; I was not quite so absurd as that fact would imply. Mr. Cleveland possessed many dazzling qualities of mind, and a vast amount of curious knowledge; his personal appearance was only one of his advantages. There was no love-making, that would have broken the spell, dissolved the encha... | 1 | 4,075 | 224 | 4,299 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | As a contrast to this silence, there was no lack of love-making on the part of Master Edward, by which I might have been bored to death, especially when he took it into his silly head to ape the sentimental, had I not got as inured to it, and careless of it, as I was to the singing of our canaries or the barking of our... | 1 | 4,075 | 467 | 4,542 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | her believe that the happiness of his life depended on my assuming the name of Mansfield, and perhaps she thought my happiness would be secured by the hand and wealth of the aspirant. He might with as much truth have affirmed that his happiness depended on gaining possession of any horse or dog on which he had set his ... | 1 | 3,435 | 549 | 3,984 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | His acquaintance with Mr. Cleveland had been a chance affair; they had met occasionally in Italy and had travelled to Paris in company. I was of opinion that the wish to introduce Mr. Cleveland arose, on the part of Master Edward, from dread lest his aunt would expect too much attention from him; which would prevent hi... | 1 | 3,949 | 124 | 4,073 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | comfortable a salon in which to spend his evenings." I had all the inclination to pull the red ears of this man of culture, when he made such insolent remarks about the friend he had brought to serve his own selfish ends, and who was not poor to the degree such an assertion implied. This was the morale of the man I was... | 1 | 3,691 | 467 | 4,158 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The Properzia was almost finished; Mrs. Bethune had expressed herself more than satisfied, and that I accepted as a favorable omen, as few handsome persons are ever content with their appearance on canvas—it is never thought sufficiently beautiful. Now as Mrs. Bethune was not yet so saintly as to be beyond vanity, and ... | 1 | 3,949 | 175 | 4,124 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | looked at it near, and at a distance, and was thus employed, standing brush in hand, when a tap came to the door, which, as I said before, I kept always locked. Certain that it was Mrs. Bethune, who said she would return at that hour, I undid the fastenings, threw the door wide open, and exclaiming in a triumphant tone... | 1 | 2,923 | 670 | 3,593 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "I do neither; but you always take a wicked pleasure, Miss Lindores, in misunderstanding me. I have remarked that you have | 1 | 4,203 | 28 | 4,231 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | done so, especially of late. I shall paint my Properzia nevertheless, and compel you to confess, as an artist, that mine surpasses yours, as day excels night."
"Thorwaldsen's Night is as beautiful as his Morning," I gayly answered; "and I defy you to make Properzia more beautiful, although you ought and must make a fi... | 1 | 3,179 | 552 | 3,731 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | There is a constant outcry against the luxury of this age, against the striving of all classes to attain to a standard of living which can be easily reached only by those of higher rank in the social scale. Much has been written of the improvidence of the working classes, and of the difficulty which they experience of ... | 1 | 2,923 | 557 | 3,480 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 117 )
XVIII.—HIGH LIVING WITH LOW MEANS. | 1 | 3,949 | 18 | 3,967 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of comprehending and foreseeing the neglect of some of the highest duties of life which must inevitably result from the constant straining after a large income as not only a good but a necessity. But let any woman of ordinary understanding once fairly consider the subject, and she must see that all is not sound in the ... | 1 | 3,307 | 613 | 3,920 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Moral courage—this is all that is wanted in the majority of cases. Our experience has been that most women do not care for display so much as that they and their husbands should lead comparatively easy lives; lives, that is to say, unfettered by constant pecuniary anxieties, and that they should have leisure for someth... | 1 | 4,203 | 104 | 4,307 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | society, and dare not risk anything, though the gain would be so great. Now we would venture to suggest, that the amount of esteem which is exacted from our fellow-men by our style of living is greatly exaggerated; that even the world estimates us after all more justly, and that we should not sink in its good opinion b... | 1 | 4,075 | 409 | 4,484 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In our small household politics the necessity of an economical expenditure must be first recognised; then rigorously carried out in all the departments which fall exclusively under the direction of the mistress, always regulating the amount to be spent on each item in a just proportion to the income. We believe that su... | 1 | 4,075 | 284 | 4,359 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | .
( 120 ) | 1 | 3,949 | 7 | 3,956 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Tue mild breath of spring has ere now begun to kindle a light of blossoms on our boughs, but it will be some time yet before summer's warmer smile shall have ripened the flowers into fruit; and while awaiting her coming we are glad to avail ourselves of any frugal variety afforded by the produce of other lands, and thu... | 1 | 2,987 | 589 | 3,576 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | XIX.—FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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EWJ-1861-04-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and endogenous wood, though he was not aware that it extended to a considerable part of the vegetable kingdom, separating it, indeed, into two grand divisions. That particular palm too which bears the date-fruit became generally known at a very early period, for it is the palm of the Scriptures, so early mentioned in t... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,358 | 7,076 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Oriental writers indeed, assert this palm to be no mere vegetating insensible plant, but to be actually a creature partaking of the animal nature, adducing in proof thereof, that it appears to possess an inherent warmth above all other trees; that the cutting off of its head causes it to die, and that not only are ther... | 1 | 4,139 | 436 | 4,575 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is no great marvel that this tree should be regarded with rather warm feelings in its native clime, for it seems to have been kind heaven’s special gift to the inhabitants of that part of the world; and as the camel has been called the “ship of the desert,” so the date-palm might well be termed, in the full Yankee s... | 1 | 4,203 | 236 | 4,439 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | green setting that the “diamond of the desert” sparkles, and where the palm-tree is, there also will be—water! Entwined too must it be with desires and feelings deeper, if not more engrossing, than those of physical necessity, for the date-tree is a sort of medium of exchange, and it is in this currency that the brideg... | 1 | 3,949 | 268 | 4,217 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Date paste, called _adjooue_, and consisting of the ripe fruit pressed into large baskets and forming a sort of cake, is the staple Arab subsistence during the ten months of the year when fresh dates are out of season; the fruit is also eaten boiled, stewed with butter, simmered to a pulp with honey, in short, soyerize... | 1 | 3,949 | 486 | 4,435 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | about two months the exhausted victim is dead and dry. The sap thus collected can be fermented into toddy or palm wine, and, distilled, becomes arak, the general Arabic name for spirituous liquor of any kind; and as it was on the juice of the grape that the prophet's stern interdict was laid, the Mussulman Arab rejoice... | 1 | 3,499 | 519 | 4,018 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | When they were first introduced into England does not seem to be on record, but it was probably at a very early period, for they seem to have been tolerably common in Tudor days. Among Strutt's collection of the bills for the preparations for the funeral of Sir J. Rudstone, who died in 1581, after having been lately Lo... | 1 | 3,703 | 176 | 3,879 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | for which is given in "The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby opened," published in 1677, and which directs that among other sundries "3 lb. dates" should be added to the principal ingredients of a boiled cook infused in eight gallons of ale. The fruit seems afterwards to have risen in price and also declined in public favor, ... | 1 | 3,949 | 133 | 4,082 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | cheaper nor medicinal purposes, for which they are chiefly sought.
The trunk of the Phoenix dactylifera, as the date-palm is called by botanists, is a cylindrical column fifty or sixty feet high, and from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter, its appearance evidencing plainly its mode of growth, and showing that it i... | 1 | 3,243 | 594 | 3,837 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | be ensured unless the pollen be collected from the one and deposited on the other, for if this be not done it is found that the wind often disperses it in the wrong direction, and it does not reach the pistil-liferous flowers in sufficient quantity to prove availing. As soon as the blossoms on a female tree have emerge... | 1 | 3,051 | 606 | 3,657 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The seed of the date, like that of all endogens, monocotyledenous, or forming one undivided mass, is an oblong cylindrical stone, marked lengthwise down one side with a ventral indentation or furrow, and looking sufficiently like a vastly magnified grain of rye | 1 | 4,203 | 59 | 4,262 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to prove its relationship with the cereals. No soft kernel lies within its rocky walls, but the substance throughout is one stony albuminous solid, save a minute embryo in the midst of the apparent petrification, lying mostly remote from the _hilum_, or scar, which marks where the seed was attached to the fruit. In Bar... | 1 | 3,499 | 569 | 4,068 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . Except during the season for the fecundating process, date-trees need little attention, beyond occasionally lopping off the old leaves as they wither, only a fragment of their stalks being usually left projecting from the trunk, to assist the ascent of the climbing fruitgatherer, though in some places the whole faded... | 1 | 4,075 | 153 | 4,228 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | water used in irrigation, though it is obtained from the torrents of the hills.
Instead of being formed like exogenous timber, of regularly disposed bundles of woody fibres, radiating from the centre through a cellular tissue of medullary matter, the substance of the palm-trunk is composed of longitudinal woody fibres... | 1 | 3,243 | 598 | 3,841 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | An attempt once made to cultivate the date-palm in Jamaica, proved a failure; but it grows in India, though it does not ripen fruit well in that latitude, and is, therefore, valued chiefly for the sake of the sap, which is manufactured into that harmless-seeming, but mystic goor, which, as the chosen offering of Kali, ... | 1 | 4,203 | 95 | 4,298 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | juice is extracted by means of tapping the trees in cold weather and Dr. Roxburgh says, that each tree yields from 120 to 240 pints, every twelve pints is boiled down to one of good, and every four of good yields one of good powder sugar, so that the average produce of each tree amounts to seven or eight pounds of suga... | 1 | 2,923 | 641 | 3,564 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * This word supplies too the title of the tamarind, called in the East the tamr hindee, or Indian date. | 1 | 3,949 | 30 | 3,979 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | that the difference lay, a discovery far beyond that of the ancient writers, but had acted on this knowledge, in their fecundating process, for centuries before botanists had gained equal insight into the physiology of plants, and while what is now an elementary principle of science was generally looked on as but the d... | 1 | 3,691 | 553 | 4,244 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Pistilliferous trees largely preponderate, one male sufficing for 400 or 500 of the other sort; but, perhaps, it may be in some measure to this disproportion that the necessity for human intervention between them is due. That this is necessary, is proved by the fact that in the year 1800, when the Turks and the French ... | 1 | 4,203 | 187 | 4,390 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | stameniferous trees in one province were completely destroyed. The inhabitants, however, had prudently provided against such a contingency, by preserving a quantity of pollen in close vessels, and when they regained possession of their land, after a lapse of nineteen years; this long-hoarded treasure had lost none of i... | 1 | 4,075 | 145 | 4,220 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | In the message delivered by the Governor of Michigan to the Senate and House of Representatives for that State, at the opening of the Session of 1861, we find the following passage: —
“FEMALE COLLEGE.
“In my inaugural message of 1859, I called the attention of the Legislature to the great injustice of excluding our d... | 1 | 4,011 | 423 | 4,434 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XX.—FEMALE EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN.
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EWJ-1861-04-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | mon school system, as the early nurseries of the future statesmen, and the very foundation on which our free institutions must ever rest; yet we could not carry on this system one day without the aid of those females who are excluded from the university. The Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, fo... | 1 | 2,923 | 669 | 3,592 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Though in extent exceeding by one-fifth that of Scotland, it | 1 | 4,203 | 13 | 4,216 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | possesses but 750,000 inhabitants, and—according to the same Governor's message from which we have already quoted—by far the greater portion of the State is as yet a wilderness. Surely, if in one of the outlying and sparsely populated districts of the yet youthful Transatlantic Confederacy such provision is contemplate... | 1 | 3,949 | 128 | 4,077 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | 1. _Historical Pictures Retouched._ By Mrs. Dall, Author of "Woman's Right to Labor." Walker and Co., Boston. Whitfield, 178, Strand, London.
2. _A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor."_ By Caroline H. Dall, Author of "Historical Pictures Retouched." Whitfield, 178, Strand.
Mrs. DALL is an earnest and e... | 1 | 3,819 | 459 | 4,278 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXI.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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EWJ-1861-04-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | known to our readers. Her predecessor, Elizabeth Blackwell, “was born in England in 1712. Her husband becoming bankrupt by extraordinary reverses, she studied midwifery, in the hope of supporting her family. The jealousy of the faculty hindered her success. She was, however, encouraged to print a large work on medical ... | 1 | 3,115 | 650 | 3,765 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We give this extract as throwing light upon the after friendly relations of Marie Zakrzewska with the medical students of the colleges and hospitals through which she passed, and of which she herself thus speaks. | 1 | 4,203 | 46 | 4,249 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “My relation with these young men was of the pleasantest kind. They never seemed to think that I was not of their sex, but always treated me like one of themselves. I knew of their studies and their amusements; yes, even of the mischievous pranks that they were planning both for college and social life. They often made... | 1 | 3,243 | 608 | 3,851 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "I was therefore forced to have her company, of which I should have been very glad, had I not feared the moral care and responsibility. We decided to go in a fortnight. My father paid her passage, and gave her a hundred dollars in cash, just enough to enable us to spend a short time in New York: after which he expected... | 1 | 3,949 | 111 | 4,060 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | For New York then the sisters sailed on the 13th of March, 1853, arriving off Staten Island on the 22nd of May. The feelings of Marie as she gazed on the shores of the New World may be best told in her own words.
"I took my breakfast on deck. No one seemed to have any appetite; and I felt somewhat reproved when I hear... | 1 | 3,307 | 644 | 3,951 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On the morning of the 15th of May, 1854, a lady gave Marie Zakrzewska the addresses of Dr. Blackwell and Miss Catherine Sedgwick, and that very day Marie sought Dr. Blackwell. These two noble women seem to have understood each other at once, and from that interview dates an earnest friendship, and subsequently a commun... | 1 | 4,203 | 111 | 4,314 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Dr. Zakrzewska offered two years' gratuitous services as her contribution to the Infirmary, and remained there as resident physician, attending to her private practice in the afternoon. In the second year of the existence of the Infirmary, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's health compelled her to go to Europe, and for nine mon... | 1 | 3,371 | 583 | 3,954 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | "One thing I feel profoundly: as men saw they must reap; and so must women. The practical misery of the world—its terrible impurity—will never be abated till women prepare themselves from their earliest years to enter the arena of which they are ambitious, and stand there at last mature and calm, but, above all, thorou... | 1 | 4,075 | 129 | 4,204 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | One more extract from this preface, and we have done. | 1 | 4,075 | 13 | 4,088 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | In conclusion, we must draw attention to the fine specimens of printing and binding which both these American volumes present, but more especially “Historical Pictures Retouched.” It is a pleasure to handle such a volume, apart from the merits of its contents, and we commend it as a sample of excellence worthy of emula... | 1 | 3,307 | 627 | 3,934 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " The complete reform of a monastery like Port Royal was not, however, the work of a single day, or accomplished by one effort. The sisterhood were not altogether willing to give up indulgences which they had been taught to consider innocent; and the monks of Citeaux, the metropolis of the order, violently opposed a ch... | 1 | 4,203 | 153 | 4,356 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of her associates. In all labours she was the foremost to take her share; no austerities were enjoined which she did not herself practise. Her room, her bed, her strength, her sympathy, were all freely bestowed on the ailing or the erring. The discontented and the worldly-minded were shamed out of their faults by the e... | 1 | 3,051 | 753 | 3,804 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The resolution was steadily kept. When the Courts again commenced their sittings, and Le Maitre failed to make his appearance, the news was soon bruited abroad through Paris, and created the utmost astonishment. Many persons, and among them some | 1 | 4,075 | 55 | 4,130 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | even of his own relations, looked upon the change as the result of youthful enthusiasm, which would soon pass away. His uncle Henri Arnauld, afterwards Bishop of Angers—advised him to enter the Church, and to strive after the rewards which she offers to a laudable ambition. But his intentions were at once more fixed an... | 1 | 3,371 | 546 | 3,917 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | (As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.)
To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
LADIES, Will you kindly allow me a little space for a few words relative to S. E. M.'s letter, in your last number? Referring to the study of ... | 1 | 4,075 | 125 | 4,200 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXII.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,075 | 9 | 4,084 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Perhaps your correspondent and some of your readers may not be aware that there are at the present moment two excellent classes for instruction in physiology open to women on very moderate terms. One conducted by Professor Huxley, in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, open both to men and women. The other ... | 1 | 3,703 | 110 | 3,813 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LADIES, 'The article in the last number of the *Cornhill Magazine* on "The Turkish Bath," clear and sensible as it undoubtedly is, will be likely to disturb the minds of many who, while indulging their natural love of cleanliness and comfort, have flattered themselves that they could secure both in the privacy of their... | 1 | 3,703 | 519 | 4,222 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | LADIES, Referring to another letter in your March number, signed A. E., I beg to say that the plan for the X. Y. Z. fund is not a mere suggestion, but a carefully arranged business, which has received the sanction of the Board of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution.
In order to explain on what terms the scheme is ... | 1 | 3,703 | 172 | 3,875 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
I have read with much interest the article in your last number on the subject of "Women and the Law." I am glad to see that the question of marriage is being so fully discussed, and that the injustice of the present law is being so strongly condemned. I am, however, surpr... | 1 | 3,703 | 165 | 3,868 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
I am glad to see that the English Woman's Journal has at length taken up the question of the education of girls. I have long felt that the subject is one of the most important of the day, and that it is high time that the women of England should bestir themselves to secur... | 1 | 3,703 | 84 | 3,787 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | A reference to the Circulars will show that the X. Y. Z. fund is merely an effort by an individual interested in the cause to increase the number of annuities in the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, which are still painfully few, every governess being asked to make a small sacrifice for so great an end.
I agree wi... | 1 | 4,203 | 254 | 4,457 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LADIES,
An interesting letter appeared lately in the Gardener's Chronicle, from Mr. F. Steinitz, from which I make the following extracts, thinking them not unworthy of your notice.
"The January number of the Technologist contains an article by Mr. T. D. Rock concerning everlasting flowers, from which the following i... | 1 | 4,203 | 510 | 4,713 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
. | 1 | 4,203 | 12 | 4,215 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We have this month to record the death of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who departed this life at Frogmore House, about half-past nine o'clock on the morning of Saturday, March 16th, after long suffering from that most terrible of all maladies, cancer; sufferings borne with exemplary resignation and fortitude... | 1 | 3,371 | 678 | 4,049 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | In the United States, (what mockery there is in the words,) Lincoln has entered upon the presidency, and in his inaugural address announces his firm determination to preserve the integrity of the States, and to uphold the Federal Government in all parts of the Union, levying revenue and taxes as usual, leaving the onus... | 1 | 3,949 | 130 | 4,079 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 143 )
XXIII.—PASSING EVENTS. | 1 | 3,949 | 15 | 3,964 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | boundaries will not be tolerated during his administration. The inaugural address is manly and straightforward, and, though firm and resolute in tone, is conciliatory in expression and in the resolve to uphold the law of the Union both in free and slave States.
We can only allude here to what is called “the Yelverton ... | 1 | 3,051 | 924 | 3,975 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1861-04-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Recent statistics regarding the population of the islands of New Zealand, show that in December last the European population exceeded that of the native by 17,294. In a European population (inclusive of soldiers and their families) of 73,343, there were only 30,891 females to 42,425 males, leaving a deficiency of 11,66... | 1 | 3,949 | 114 | 4,063 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-04-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 2 | text | 1 | THE SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CHANCELLOR, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS, ON THE NIGHT OF THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1848. | 1 | 505 | 70 | 575 | B0C2R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 3 | .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B1C0R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_1 |
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