1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
847 
A VETERAN REFORMER. 
STILL AT WORK AT EIGHTY YEARS. 
HILEmostof us feel that the good 
old religion of Thomas & Kempis 
and Isaac Watts, is still very good, and 
that we are doing the best we can when 
seeking growth along the line suggested 
by hymn and meditation, we have to 
own that a more modern conception 
does, perhaps, touch higher ground when 
it places love of one’s fellow men, and 
zeal for the upward lift of civilization, 
above sanctity of the closet and hope-of- 
reward order. Probably the life where 
the two most completely blend, comes 
nearest the spirit of that Perfect One we 
are fain to copy. Hidden with the source 
of all good, the soul’s life must be, and 
seldom heralded abroad will be its 
effects though they count for so much in 
the home, the neighborhood, the nation. 
Each striving from his center of influ¬ 
ence out gives beneficent and lasting re¬ 
sults. Here and there, unusual ardor 
and capabilities carry an individual into 
prominence, and well do such deserve 
all the respect and recognition the public 
has to bestow. 
A striking example of the zeal that 
goes outside of self to do and dare for 
the liberties of others, is Mrs. Elizabeth 
Cady Stanton, whose personality and 
work have lately been brought pleasantly 
into the public mind by the celebration 
of her 80th birthday, at New York, on 
November 12. Quite in contrast to the 
position taken at the present time by 
some of our women of wealth and high 
position, upon whom fortune lays no 
burden of injustice, who have nothing 
to gain and are free to be ruled by senti¬ 
ment and impulses of mere refinement, 
is the example of Miss Elizabeth Cady; 
when a young lady, beautiful, accom¬ 
plished and well placed in society, she 
appeared before the constitutional con¬ 
vention at Albany, pleading for a re¬ 
vision of the laws bearing unjustly upon 
her sex. Even a slight acquaintance 
with the present laws relating to women, 
will serve to show the ameliorations 
effected since the days when a married 
woman was simply property; when a 
husband could cane her for misdemean¬ 
ors, could put her on a diet of bread and 
water* for real or fancied offenses, could 
drag her out of a house to which he had 
any objection, and could force his way 
into her presence, no matter where she 
might be or how much she objected to 
seeing him ; when he “ owned her prop¬ 
erty, whatever money she might have 
put by in the savings bank, her earnings, 
and, in fact, every stitch of clothing 
upon her body.” (Such were the condi¬ 
tions which obtained when Judge Daniel 
Cady’s gifted young daughter, with her 
reputation for extraordinary scholar¬ 
ship, delving deep in jurisprudence in 
her father’s library, was aroused by what 
she read to make the protest which was 
at the time “the talk of the United States 
and even of Europe.” 
That she dared to step outside the 
narrow conventionalities which hedged 
in the gentlewomen of that day, and pro¬ 
claim sentiments then considered revo¬ 
lutionary, and even vandalic, make it 
fitting that we honor her abilities and 
force of character, remembering how 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Ad/v. 
great is the debt of this day and genera¬ 
tion to the pioneers of progress. What¬ 
ever our positions regarding the duties 
and rights of women, or reservations 
concerning the lengths to which radical 
sentiments would carry the overthrow, 
we can but admire the spirit that, in¬ 
stead of resting content with a personal 
freedom from injustice, would go out of 
its way to champion the rights of 
others. prudence t. primrose. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
Write the order for patterns separate 
from other matter, give bust measure 
and pattern number, and inclose 10 cents. 
Each pattern is complete with instruc¬ 
tions for cutting the garment and put¬ 
ting together. 
Misses' Waist. 
The full front is arranged over linings 
fitted by single darts, being gathered at 
the lower edge to fall in blouse style. 
The backs are smooth, and close with 
small gilt buttons in the center, a belt 
completing the lower edge of the waist. 
A close standing collar finishes the neck. 
The fashionable bertha is provided with 
stiff interlining, and corded on the edges 
with velvet, being placed on so as to 
reveal the upper part of the waist in 
round yoke form. Pattern No. 6590 is 
cut in four sizes, for 10, 12, 14 and 16 
year old misses. 
PRINTED PATCHWORK. 
This is the cruel cross of life, to be 
Full-visioned only when the ministry 
Of death has been fulfilled, and in the place 
Ob some dear presence is but empty space. 
What recollected services can then 
Give.consolation for the “might have been”? 
— Anonymous. 
_Mrs. Margaret Bottome in Ladies’ 
Home Journal : “ Some one says that 
the experiences of life kill most of us 
sadly soon ; more people die of want of 
soul than want of breath.” 
-Governor Greeniialge : “Educa¬ 
tion fits a man for citizenship, whether 
it be one system or another. No branch 
alone can be the education. The best 
education is the one that fits for business 
life in all its forms.” 
-Polly Pry in N. Y. Recorder : “ In 
the struggle for bread—it’s rapidly be¬ 
coming a struggle for crusts—the exi¬ 
gencies of living make many people do 
mean and cowardly things. Poverty is 
a breeder of hypocrisy and cruelty, and 
an absolute extinguisher of independ¬ 
ence.” 
-IIaryot Holt Cahoon in N. Y. Re¬ 
corder : “ The effects of whisky in the 
family relation are so disastrous that it 
seems as though women are strangely dil¬ 
atory in expressing opposing views re¬ 
garding the liquor question. The femi¬ 
nine nature lends itself so readily to 
suffering of all sorts, and is so adaptable 
to circumstance, that women may be held 
indirectly, if not directly, as the cause of 
all the trouble.” 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Good Effects of Coeducation. —The 
system of coeducation is now fully estab¬ 
lished in the State institutions of the 
North and West, and in most other col¬ 
leges of the same region. Its effective¬ 
ness has long since passed beyond ques¬ 
tion among those familiar with its 
operation. Other things being equal, 
the young men are more earnest, better 
in manners and morals, and in all ways 
more civilized than under monastic con¬ 
ditions, says the President of Leland 
Stanford University in the New York 
Ledger. The women do their work in a 
more natural way, with better perspec¬ 
tive and with saner incentives than 
when isolated from the influence and 
society of men. There is less of silliness 
and folly when a man ceases to be a 
novelty. There is less attraction exerted 
by idle and frivolous girls when young 
men meet also girls industrious and seri¬ 
ous. In coeducational institutions of high 
standards, frivolous conduct or scandals 
of any form are unknown. The respon¬ 
sibility for decorum is thrown from the 
school to the woman, and the woman 
rises to the responsibility. Many pro¬ 
fessors have entered western colleges 
with strong prejudices against coeduca¬ 
tion. These prejudices have in no 
case endured the test of experience. 
What is well done has a tonic effect on 
the mind and character. The college 
girl has long since ceased to expect any 
particular leniency because she is a 
girl. She stands or falls with the char¬ 
acter of her work. 
An Early Conversion. — “I am a 
native of the beautiful, blessed, but 
awfully conservative South land,” said 
Dr. John A. B. Wilson at a suffrage 
meeting in New York. “ Yet I experi¬ 
enced an early and radical conversion 
fr^m the species of conservatism against 
which we are doing battle to-night. 
When a child of four or five, one election 
day, which was a gala day in our town, 
my father dressed me in my best to take 
me with him. As mother kissed me 
good-bye I said, ‘ Mother, why don’t you 
goto ’lection, too ?’ ‘Oli,’ she replied, 
smiling, ‘ negroes and women are not 
allowed to vote !’ 
“ I feel now the pain of my heart that 
moment, as it swelled with indignant 
remonstrance at the association and the 
injustice. My parents both laughed 
pleasantly at my surprise, anger and hot 
protest, but I feel it all to-day, and 
never since that moment have I been 
other than an advocate of equal suffrage 
for women. The pain and protest will 
never go out of my heart until I can take 
my wife on my arm to the polls with 
me, and see her deposit the result of her 
best judgment in choice of rulers—my 
equal before the law as she is, and more 
in everything else. Those who are near 
me in that great day, will hear me sigh, 
‘ Oh, that my sainted mother were here!’ 
But God will let her know that the life¬ 
long longing of her son for her sex is at 
last accomplished in their complete en¬ 
franchisement.” 
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