june as 
CONDUCTED BY MISS FAITH RIPLEY. 
CHOOSING THE BING. 
I looked at an amethyst first, dear— 
’ T was so like your violet eyes. 
Dreamy and soft, yet deep and clear. 
The very lino of t.lio skies 
When dark clouds part, and the steadfast bluo 
Looks down on the Btortns below; 
For a faith that is tender aud tried and true 
The tints of the amethyst show. 
And then the sunlight suddenly streamed 
On a mammoth topaz there; 
Diquid unlit, (t glistened and gleamed 
Like the amber glint of your hair. 
And Ilopn, g lad hope, was the word I read, 
As in whirl of a sunny curl. 
But the ring was far too largo, and I said. 
Not this for my little girl. 
’X was a ruby atone that I looked at next, 
It glowed like my own heart, dear; 
And I poised it a moment, half perplexed, 
For I felt your read lips near! 
Love, hive, I read In its burning rim. 
Aud yet—can you tell me why ?— 
The color grew suddenly cold and dim, 
And I passed the ruby by. 
It was only tho diamond’s flash revealed 
Blue, gold aud crimson in one! 
Ay! faith, hope, lore—all lie concealed 
In this magical matchless stone, 
Where amethyst, topaz aud ruby Cingr 
Into one the glory of three. 
And so it was that I chose the ring 
My darling must wear for me. [ Transcript. 
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WOMEN PHILANTHROPISTS. 
Who has not heard of w ortby Mrs. Fit, the 
Quakeress, who led the van la the noble work or 
reforming both prisoners and prisons ?—a work 
so ably carried on by Mary Carpenter, who ex¬ 
tended her philanthropic efforts to India, iu the 
Interests of education and prison discipline, 
Elizabeth Fry, surnamed “the Female Howard," 
was a daughter of John Gurney, of Earlham, and 
sister to Joseph John Gurney and Lady Buxton, 
She began to preach in 1310, and three years 
later commenced her work as a prison reformer. 
She effected much improvement in Newgate, 
and In parts of tho United Klndom, and then sho 
proceeded on a mission to the Continent, which 
occupied her during several years. She died at 
Ramsgate in 1855, having been the mother of a 
large family. Mary Carpenter comes next on 
our list—the friend of the miserable and out-cast 
—who labored not only for their reform In En¬ 
gland, but, as we have remarked, In India 
likewise. Three times she visited that country, 
and on her return from her first visit, In 1866, 
she published two volumes on the subject. She 
took part In the conferences at Birmingham In 
1S51-52-53, and was called upon to give evidence 
to the committee of the House of Commons which 
In 1352-53, Inquired Into the condition of crim¬ 
inal and destitute children. Miss Carpenter 
was horn In 1807, at Exeter, th e daughter of a Una^ 
tarlan minister, and died on the ltiih of June last 
year. Her decease took placo In the “ Red Lodge 
Reformatory,” which she had herself Instituted, 
and where she had labored many years. The 
third great female philanthropist was Caroline 
Chisholm, the daughter of a well-to-do yeoman 
in Northamtonshlre, a good and actively benev¬ 
olent man. Her mother, early a widow, gave 
her an exceptionally thorough education, turned 
well to account, In after lire. Having married 
Christian Chisholm of her Majesty’s Indian Army, 
she went out to Madras, where she founded the 
"Schoolof industry” for tho daughters of sol¬ 
diers ; In which rudimentary Instruction of many 
kinds Is still being given, including those of the 
various duties connected with the household. 
She was little more than twenty when she 
opened the school, and In 1S39 she and her hus¬ 
band removed to Australia and settled at Sydney. 
There she established a homo for tho protection 
of young girls, whose peril was great on landing 
in a new and very rough country—as It was some 
thirty or forty years ago. Expeditions Into the 
country were then undertaken by this brave and 
generous woman, for the purpose of oscortlng 
sometimes as many as eighty young women, 
to be left here and there In tho scattered farm¬ 
houses, paying all expenses herself. Ou one 
occasion she took lu charge the whole emigrant 
importation from one ship, consisting of sixty- 
four girls, possessing but fourteen shillings be¬ 
tween them. Faying tor all, she took them up 
the country, and In two years they were nearly 
all married, and, t hanks to her selection of homes, 
all had preserved good characters. But her work 
did not end here; she opened a money-market for 
Immigration at Sydney, and advanced no less 
than £ 10 ,( 10(1 of which she lost but ilo lu return 
for her generous confidenco. At last after much 
up-blll labor, the colonists began to subscribe 
to her work. Through the Colonial Secretary, 
she Induced the English Government to send out 
the wives and families of "tlcket-of-leave,' cod- 
victs. One shlpful, collected from most of the 
unions In the country, she brought out In per- 
on. Sho also effected important, reforms In the 
regulation of emigrant ships, on one occasion 
of her leaving, the colonists presented their ben¬ 
efactor with a purse of money and an address j 
and her Invaluable work was publicly acknow¬ 
ledged both by Lord Derby aud Mr. Lowe, *borh 
ministers or the Crown. The valuable life of 
this exemplary woman terminated March 25, IS7T. 
•SLURS ON WOMEN. 
Of all evils prevalent among young men, we 
know of none more blight,lug In Its moral effects 
than to speak lightly of the virtues of women. 
Nor Is there anything in which young men are so 
THE 
thoroughly mistaken as the low estimate they 
form as to the Integrity of women. Not of their 
own mothers and staters, but of others, who, they 
forget, are somebody clse’s mothers and sisters. 
As a rule, no p n r.-on who surrenders to this de¬ 
basing habit Is to he trusted with tin enterprise 
requiring integrity of character. Plain words- 
should he spoken on this point, for the evil Is a 
general one, and deep-rooted. If young men are 
sometimes thrown Into the society of thoughtless 
or depraved women, they have no more right, to 
measure all other women hywhat;theyseecf these 
than they have to estimate the character of hon¬ 
est and respectable citizens by the developments 
of crime In our police courts. Let our young men 
remember that their chief happiness In life de¬ 
pends upon their utter ratth in women. No 
worldly wisdom, no misanthropic philosophy, no 
generalization, can cover or weaken truth. It 
stands like the record of Itself—for It Is nothing 
less than this—and should put an everlasting 
seal upon Ups that are wont to speak slightingly 
of women. 
-♦ ♦ ♦ 
UTILIZING USELESS WOMEN. 
A newspaper so seldom speaks In a sen¬ 
sible way of women, that the following article Is 
worth noticing, from the Ogdensburg (N. Y.) 
Dally Journal: 
In 1855, a cargo of women, numbering 150, left 
New York for Oregon, arrived there safely, and a 
letter recently received, says they all found homes 
and husbands, and ha ve passed happy lives. It Is 
said there are loo.ooo bachelors now on the Pacific 
coast wanting wives, aud a simitar enterprise 
might prove equally successful.—Exchange. 
Very likely; but the average of women are no 
longer willing to he shipped as “cargoes” to 
search for husbands upon the Pacific coast. They 
would gather their robes closely about their fair 
proportions and trip Indignantly away at such a 
suggestion. Women, like men, have their repre¬ 
sentatives. Years ago they sought service with 
the foreign missionary societies, and were con¬ 
tent to go out and spread the gospel net, to catch 
the shirtless and unsuspecting heathen. Now, 
one representative woman Is an applicant for a 
first-class foreign mission under the general gov¬ 
ernment, and she would like to know “ how long, 
o Lord, how long,” it. will he before 9he can have 
a white man’s chance to live In a palace In a ror- 
elgn capital under the Old Flag, as a representa¬ 
tive of her darling native laud. 
The aspiration Is a natural one. We do not 
know why the chin of a woman might not wag as 
successfully In diplomacy as that of an antedilu¬ 
vian scare-crow like Cab b Cushing. But the tra¬ 
cery of green and the bursting buds upon the 
trees are likely to mark the advent of many a 
spring-time, we fear, berore the hope will be rea¬ 
lized. This perverse world moves hut slowly, and 
with many a groan, perplexing hitch, and end¬ 
less creakiug, as it makes progress. The Metho¬ 
dists decided In their conference lately held In 
New York city, that women could not preaohjt.be 
Gospel. Wo are In favor of enlarging the suff¬ 
rage, admitting women to the pulpit, sending 
them .abroad as diplomats, and terminating the 
pitiful littleness of a policy that would restrain a 
woman from being a policeman or a statesman. 
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WHAT A QUEEN COSTS. 
The Amount Englishmen are Taxed to sup- 
por the Royal Establishment. 
When Qi,een victoria came to the throne In 
1837, the usual steps were taken to provide for 
the support of her Majesty and the royal house¬ 
hold. A select committee or twenty-one mem¬ 
bers was appointed by the House of Commons to 
prepare estimates for suoh support. For her 
Majesty’s privy purse they set apart $300,000 
yearly; for household salaries, $056,soo ; for or¬ 
dinary household expenses, $302,500; for royal 
bounty, etc., $ 06 ,ooo ; and tor various other small 
Items, $40,200. Tho total la about $1,925,000. The 
estimate was agreed to by the House of Com¬ 
mons, and so the account stands to-day. Some 
of the offices for which provision was made In 
that list have since become obsolete, and the 
Incumbents have absolutely no duties to perform. 
Yet the offices are still filled and the salaries are 
still paid as before. 
These Items by no means constitute the whole 
expense of the Queen's household, and that 
lump sum of $1 025,000 is by no means her whole 
Income from the National Treasury. She also 
receives the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster 
which amount to *215,000 net. The amount 
from this source is not uniform, but that was the 
sum received ror the last year reported—1S75-7T. 
This swells her Majesty’s privy puree to $515,000 
per annum out of the funds of the nation. On 
this sum she has absolutely no demands for her 
actual ordinary expenses. It Is dear pooket 
money. She Is under no necessity of laying out 
a single penny of It, for every possible expense 
seems to he provided for In other allowances. If 
she travels by water, a yacht la placed at her 
disposal at government expense. If she travels 
by rail, the country, likewise, foots tho bill by 
an additional allowance. Even for charity she 
need not draw upon her own purse, for a liberal 
grant Is made for this express purpose. Not 
only does she travel by water in royal yachts but 
a small fleet of these yachts la built and kept In 
repair for her particular use. This, of itself. Is 
an enormous extra bill, but I have no means of 
finding the amount of It. The maintenance of 
royal palaces takes an additional $157,900 a 
year, and the maintenance of royal parks and 
pleasure gardens takes another $529,655 per 
annum. 
Addlug tho annual allowance to her Majesty, 
the net revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster and 
the maintenance of royal palaces, parks and 
pleasure gardens, we have a total of $2,827,555 a 
year. This does not Include the traveling ex¬ 
penses of the Queen, the maintenance of the 
royal yachts, or any of the half a dozen other lm- 
EW-Y0RKER. 
portant Items which are strictly a part of the ex¬ 
penses of royalty in England. Allowances to 
other members of the royal family are also addi¬ 
tional Items. " Iu fact,” as an English authority 
says, “If all the expenses Incidental to * the honor 
and dignity of the Crown’ could be ascertained, 
It would he found that the *1,935,000 annually set¬ 
tled by Parliament upon her Majesty, constitutes 
but a very small portion of the actual cost of roy¬ 
ally. 
It would be wrong to blame the Queen Individu¬ 
ally with any great part of the responsibility of 
her absurd and expensive household. It Is a 
creature of the British aristocracy as a whole, 
and the Queen is only a kind of central figure or 
the system which the country has built.. I may 
add that ihe Queen also has a large private for¬ 
tune, from which it Is estimated she realizes an 
Income of no less that $l,oon,000a year, tn addi¬ 
tion to the amount paid her by the nation. 
The allowances to the Royal Family, not in¬ 
cluding the 1 Queen, amount to *785,noo yearly. 
The revenue of the Prince of Wales from the 
Duchy of Cornwall—about $350,000 annually—Is 
not Included In this pum. Summing up the lead¬ 
ing Items of the cost ef royalty In England, we 
have a total of $3,064,430. If ali the Items could 
be ascertained, 1 do not doubt that the total given 
would be found to be not more than one-half the 
direct annual copt of royalty In England. 
Thk London Times takes as manly and wise a 
view of woman’s education as does the E xaminer. 
" However opposed," It says, “men’s views may 
he ou the advantage to the world of the free com¬ 
petition of the women lu tho labor market, few 
would question tho advantage ot Improving the 
quality of women’s education. Nothing less well 
adapted than the kind of training hitherto pro¬ 
vided for girls to lit them, keeping strictly within 
their own limits, to be useful companions of men. 
cun well be conceived. Women will not have 
done much toward ' Intellectual freedom ’ If they 
merely superimpose a boy’s Latin and Greek on a 
girl’s pianoforte and embroidery. What Is re¬ 
quired to give, women ' Intellectual freedom ’ Is, 
nut to Increase the range of study, but to deepen 
it.^ Music, Italian, drawing and the use ot tho 
globes may be taugbt tn such a way as to culti¬ 
vate the whole Intellect: and Latin, Greek and 
the higher mathematics may be learned with the 
result merely of creating female pedants. The 
* higher education of women,’ when It Is fully de¬ 
veloped, will, it it be really worth the name, 
make women not less, hut more womanly. Even 
so there may he plenty ot scope for a certain ad¬ 
mixture ot women In the liberal professions with¬ 
out changing the relations of society and setting 
sex against sex. * * * « It la not so much a 
higher education as a deeper and more thorough 
education that is needed. Let women he thor¬ 
oughly taught whatever they have to learn, whe¬ 
ther It be much or little, and they will thereby he 
fitted, as occasion calls, to take up any occupa¬ 
tion that may be open to them with application, 
thoroughness and efficiency,” 
WOMAN’S SPHERE. 
War does It Tollow that women are fitted for 
nothing but the cares of domestic life? for bear¬ 
ing children and cooking the rood of a family? 
devoting all their time to the domestic circle—to 
promoting the Immediate personal comforts ot 
their husbands, brothers and sons? I admit that 
It la their duty to do these things. But I say that 
the correct principle is that women are not only 
Justified, but exhibit tne most exalted virtue 
when they depart from the domestic circle and 
enter on the concerns of their country, of human¬ 
ity, of their God. The mere departure ot women 
from the duties ot the domestic circle, far from 
being a reproach to them, Is a virtue of the high¬ 
est order when It <s done from purity of motive, 
by appropriate means and toward & virtuous pur¬ 
pose. Aud 1 say that woman, by the discharge of 
such duties, has manifested a virtue which Is even 
above ^the virtues of mankind and approaches to 
a superior nature. That Is the principle I main¬ 
tain; and I hold It to be proof of pure patriotism, 
of sincere piety and of every virtue that can adorn 
the female character .—John Quincy Adams. 
Female Education.— In the days of Queen Anne 
the education ot woman, as we understand the 
term, was very much neglected. The daughter 
of a country gentleman was taught the duties ot 
a cook; sometimes, also, If the parents were am¬ 
bitious that she should shine In after-life as an 
accomplished hostess, she received lessous from 
a carving-master. The cardinal duty of hos¬ 
pitality, as she heard it inculcated at home, was 
for the lady to press the guests to repletion; 
while It was tUe province of the master of the 
house to make them drink to excess, 'this, per¬ 
haps, was a fitting education for u young woman 
who was to become the helpmate of a rude 
landlord, who regarded a wife as an upper 
servant, and who thought the company of a 
woman an Irksome restraint upon the rreedom of 
social intercourse. To a woman of any education 
and refinement, an English manor-house, during 
at least the earlier days of the Hanoverian succes¬ 
sion, must have been an Intolerable home. 
The ROSE of Jkiucho.—T he so-called Rose of 
Sharon is one of toe most exquisite flowers in 
shape and hue. Its tHossoms ate bell-shapert, and 
of many mingled hues aud dyes. But Ha history 
Is legendary and romantic in the tlghest dog tee. 
In the East, throughout Syria, Judea, and Arabia, 
It Is regarded with the protoundeat reverence. 
The leaves that encircle the round blossoms, dry 
and close together when the seasons of blossoms 
aro over, and the stalk withers completely 
away at last from tho bush on widen it grew, 
having dried In tho shape or a ball, which la car¬ 
ried by tho breeze to great distances, in this way 
It Is borne over the waste aud sandy deserts, until 
at last, touching some moist place, It clings to the 
soil, where It Immediately takes fresh root and 
springs to life and beauty again. For this reason 
the orientals have adopted it as the emblem of 
the Resurrection. 
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