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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
For the Sunny South.)
To lone.
Thy heart is light, thy smile is bright,
My own lone;
And gay thy air, devoid of care,
lone, my own.
Thy dancing eyes they speak the sighs
That art can dart;
So very well I cannot tell
My heart to part;
And to forget that a coquette—
Fairy so wee—
Could e’er deceive and make believe
As thee to me.
So when I sigh and when I lie
For thee, cherie.
Thy tiny frame is more to blame
Than me, you see.
And yet I’ve seen what may, I ween,
Be naught but thought,
Steal thro’ thy art as tho’ thy heart
It caught and wrought.
It seemed to long (if I’m not wrong)
My own lone,
For something more, scarce felt before,
Nor grown alone.
Ah! can it be that over thee
Has crept, adept,
In charming spite, thy victim’s plight
You kept unwept?
And in thy heart has lodged the dart
You aimed so very stupid,
And now at last you’re netted fast
By clever little Cupid?
Yei.rov.
THE PIONEER NEW WOMAN.
W With this issue we
give the readers of the
Sunny South a picture
of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. * For seventy
years she has been en
gaged in securing for her sisters the
rights equal to that enjoyed by men.
Upon the celebration of her eightieth
birthday anniversary, Nov. 12, there will
be a most remarkable gathering.
To begin with her personal appearance,
and that is a leading question, she is ex
tremely pretty—having that crown of wo
manhood a wealth of silver white hair; her
cheeks are as pink as a young girl’s, and
the fact that she is not an amazon nor a
masculine “rampanter” has won friends
for her cause that a volume of speeches
would never have touched. She will make
the first speech of the evening and will be
supported by delegates representing over
700,000 women. The celebration is in the
hands of a committee from the National
Council of Women of the United States.
Miss Kate Bond is chairman. Susan B.
Anthony will make a speech well worth
hearing, Miss Frances E. Willard will tell
of her temperance work in every clime and
all circumstances. Miss Clara Barton will
tell of her work of relief wherever fire,
war or pestilence has left suffering human
ity. Harriet Hosmer the sculptor, will tell
of the advance made by her sex. Mrs.
Emily Burlingame Cheney, for ten years
president of a foreign missionary society,
will show the vast influence that women
have exerted on that field, while Mrs. J.
Ellen Foster will talk of the relation of
woman’s progress to human progress and
Dr. Emily Blackwell will represent the
advance of women in medicine.
Mrs. Stanton’s family was a distin
guished one. Her father was Judge Daniel
Cady and her mother a brilliant represen
tative of the historic Livingstons of Knick
erbocker days.
Mrs. Stanton graduated from the Emma
Willard Female Seminary, at Troy, N. Y.,
having gained the highest education a wo
man could then be given. She was not
satisfied however, and tried to enter Union
College, but that institution refused to
open its doors to women. Not to be out
done, she studied Latin and Greek at home,
and gained a fair knowledge of law under
her father’s tuition.
She was in London, in 1840, on her
bridal trip, when the famous anti-slavery
convention was held, and was there aroused
to what has been her life-work.
The convention was thunderstruck at the
unexpected appearance of the women dele
gates, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Pugh, Abby
Kimber, Elizabeth Neal, Mary Grew, Ann
Green Phillips, Abby Southwick and Emi
ly Winslow. A solemn discussion by the
men ended in an overwhelming vote ex
cluding them from the convention, but
permitting them as an especial favor to sit
behind a curtain and listen without being
either seen or heard! William Lloyd Gar
rison and Nathaniel P. Rogers refused
their seats as delegates on account of this
decision and sat in silence throughout the
ten days’ convention, although the discus
sions were agitating two continents.
It was on the i9th and 20th of July,
1848, that the first woman's rights con
vention ever held in the United States
qonvened at Seneca Falls, N. Y., on the
call of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Martha C. Wright and Mary
Ann McClintock. The ninth resolution
was introduced by Mrs. Stanton, and after
great discussion, was ^adopted by a
small majority. It read: “Resolved, That
it is the duty of the women of this coun
try to secure to themselves their right to
the elective franchise.” Elizabeth Cady
Stanton is the first woman in America
who dared to place on record a request for
the enfranchisement of women. Lucretia
Mctt and other of her associates at that
time considered such a resolution too
radical.
THE RESULTS OF HER LIFE-WORK.
Almost half a century has passed
since that memorable meeting. Since then,
what ?
Lucy Stone has lived and died. Wil
liam Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phil
lips, Abraham Lincoln, George Wil
liam Curtis and a host of other
distinguished men have lifted up
their voices for the cause, and the number
of women actually enlisted in it even here
in America is so large as to be difficult to
compute, while there are great hosts in
England, France, Canada, the Australian
lands and other foreign countries.
Mrs. Stanton has lived to see Cornell,
Oberlin and Johns Hopkins open their doors
to women and graduate them on equal
terms with men : she has seen Radcliffe,
Wellesley, Vassar, Smith, Barnard and
other institutions for the higher education
of women rise and flourish , she saw Rev.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first wo
man minister in the United States, early in
the fifties, and she sees today, by official
statistics at Washington, 1,235. In other
professions and higher occupations the
gro-wth has been equally remarkable and
TALKS WITH CORRESPONDENTS
On Various Topics—Domestic, Sentiment
al, Practical and Literary.
BY MARY E. BRYAN.
Rose Mary says: “I have heard my
mother speak of the cosmetic gloves that
girls wore in her time, to whiten their
hands; can you tell me if they can be
bought now, or what they were made of?”
Cosmetic gloves were simply soft loose
kid gloves lined inside with a preparation
made of wax, mutton-suet, white soap,
sweet oil, benzoin and a little rose essence
or other perfume. These were melted to
gether—four drachms each of the wax, and
soap and seven drachms of the suet; two
ounces of the olive oil, a drachm of the
benzoin and a few drops of the rose es
sence. While the mass was hot, it was ap
plied with a brush to the wrong side of the
gloves. The gloves were then re-turned,
blown up and put by in a warm place to
dry. And even better preparation for coat
ing the inside of gloves is this : Beat up
the yolks of two eggs with two spoonfuls
of oil of sweet almonds, and add half an
ounce of rose water and two drachms tinc
ture of benzoin. This pomade may be
rubbed on the hands as well as put on the
inside of the gloves that are worn at night.
MUST SHE BE CHAPERONED?
Elliott V., says: “A lovely girl between
seventeen and eighteen, I think, has lately
moved to our town. I would like to visit
her with the hope of winning her to be my
MRS. ELIZABETH
CADY STANTON.
the women physicians are numbered by
scores of thousands in America. In Eng
land the way is now almost entirely clear
for them. The degrees at the universities
of London, Durham, Ireland, Edinburg,
Glasgow and St. Andrews, the medical col
leges of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ireland
and the license of Apothecaries’ Hall are
now all open to women.
Such are a few signs of progress which
Mrs. Stanton has lived to see blazed along
the world’s highway. Science, religion,
art, philosophy, philanthropy and statecraft
all show a tendency toward converging
into a force in the twentieth century which
will bring the dawn of a higher civiliza
tion in which women will represent half of
the political power.
Sea Shell Murmurs.
The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath’stood
On dusty shelves, when held against the ear
Proclaims its stormy parent: and we hear
The faint far murmur of the breaking flood.
We hear the sea. The sea? It is the blood
In our own veins impetuous and near,
And pulses keeping pace with hope and fear.
And with our feelings, every shifting mood.
Lo, in my heart I hear, as in a shell,
The murmurs of a world beyond the grave,
Distinct, distinct, though faint and far it be.
Thou fool, this echo is a cheat as well—
The hum of earthly instincts; and we crave
A world unreal as the shell-heard sea.
—Eugene Lee Hamilton.
A Discovery.
Mamma—Why did you give the baby
that drum ?
Papa—Because he makes less noise when
he has the drum.—Life.
wife, but each time I have called, her
mother has come into the sitting room and
remained there all the while. I invited
Miss Marie to go to a church fair with me;
she accepted, after a glance at her mother,
who said, “Certainly we will be glad to
go, Mr. V.” And the mother went too.
She was very pleasant and seemed to think
it was a matter of course that she should
go along, and so did the young lady; but
it was embarrassing to me, and I am not
sure that it was not meant as a rebuff.
What do you think of it?”
The young lady probably comes from
some city where it is not customary in the
best society, for a young woman to
go out with a gentleman not her near re
lation, unless she is accompanied by a chap
eron—her mother, aunt, or married sister
or friend. This is the case in the first cir
cle in New' York, Boston, Philadelphia and
most of the Eastern cities. It is not the
general custom, however, in the cities of
the West, though many mothers, all the
world over, hold to it, as the best and saf
est course. It is indeed a wise plan not to
allow too much freedom of intercourse be
tween young people. It is quite fashion
able, too, in refined circles, for the mother
to receive men guests and to help her
daughter entertain them during some time
of their visits at least. This is liked by
many young men ; and it has a tendency to
keep the conversation from drifting too
much to love making and familiarity. Be
sides a girl always shows off better with
her family about her, even if the home
folks are not so “high toned” as her novel
fed imagination would like. The home
setting is the one in which she seems
sweetest to the eyes of a right-thinking
suitor.
THE CHEAPEST, MOST DURABLE PAINT.
Arkansas Farmer says : “I have just fin
ished improving my place by erecting a
large barn, a row of poultry houses and a
carriage house ; also, a dairy. My money
has nearly given out, but I want to paint
all these buildings. Can you give me a-re
cipe for a very cheap but lasting paint,
such as I have heard of?”
The most durable as well as one of the
cheapest outside paints is made thus: Take
two parts (in bulk) of water lime ground
fine; one part (in bulk) of white lead; mix
thoroughly by adding best boiled linseed
oil, till it is thin enough to apply with a
common paint brush. Make any color to
suit. Adding yellow ochre in powder will
give a pretty buff color; Prussian blue and
French yellow in powder will give a hand
some olive green shade. Ochre and a lit
tle vermilion will give a fawn color.
Lime mixed with paint renders it much
more durable. The paint made after the
foregoing recipe will last three times as
long as ordinary paint. The “Premium
Farmers’ Paint” (without oil or lead) is
made thus : Slake stone-lime with boiling
water in a tub or barrel to keep in the
steam; then pass six quarts through a fine
sieve. Now, to this quantity, add a quart
of coarse salt and a gallon of water; boil
the mixture, skim it clear, and to every
gallon add one pound of alum, half a
pound of copperas and, by slow degrees,
three quarters of a pound of potash and
four quarts of sifted ashes or fine sand. A
more durable paint was never made. It is
very cheap and may be made any color de
sired.
FOR THE WEDDING CHAMBER.
Elsie’s mother says: “My daughter is
to be married on the twenty-sixth of De
cember. I am anxious to fit her room up
prettily at small expense. I do not like
dead white, but prefer cream or blue; what
kind of spread should I get for the bed ?
and what curtains would be prettier than
lace which it seems to me is too cold?”
You might make a lovely spread out of
thin nun’s veiling lined with yellow satin,
which imparts a soft yellow tone to the
veiling. Border it with a strip of yellow
China silk quilted, or embroidered, in a
pretty vine or braided with narrow yellow
braid. A canopy of the same material,
draped over a light support of brass or iron
rods (a cabinet maker can soon erect this)
will add greatly to the grace and beauty of
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