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Show THE BEE e Wonn's of tho great universities have opened their doors to women as well us men. And so tho wives and mothers of today should bo admirable Pepzirtnjent. IVANUtMNti 5. I'OWlikS, UUITOR, AddrcbM till (uiiimuuicHtious for iho Womnu'b Department to Mrs. l'owera, 1. O. Dux i'M. PRACTICAL CHARITIES. The college settlement has been called tho ideal charity. Not ideal in the sense of being beyond realization, but in the sense of b ing almost faultless. It is a charity unannounced, one undenominated its such, and is thus described in "Tlio World Beautiful. A college settlement "is simply for one individual, or several, to go into poorer quarters of a city and live as a neighbor to tho ignorant, the defective, tho very poor or tho degraded. It is less a mission than it is a ministry the natural and informal ministry of rightn doing. It is to found a home which shall bo a standing object-lessola better ways of living; which shall illustrato the beauty of order, of cleanliness, of gentle ways, of generous thoughtfulness, of friendly sympathy. Tho men and women who are doing this do not keep a houso of correction, or a liouso of refuge, or an asylum of any kind. They keep a home. They do not go out into tho high ways and the byways to preach or to teach, ostensibly, but they endeavor so to order their lives as to give constantly tho indirect teaching of example. Now, very much of the same praise that can be given college settlements applies equally well to a charity that is but just now afoot in Salt Lake City the free nurse organization. Here we have the the same indirect teaching of example. The same living object-lessomere number of invalids attended is not the major part of the good tho service of free nursing accomplishes, although that alone should rank it among the first of humanitarian measures, but the main, the immeasurable benefit must be this silent teaching of illustration. Think of a poor, destitute, untidy home, made doubly desolate in time of sickness, and then picture the entrance there of the sweet, presence of the professional efficacious, restful, cheerful, health-givin- g nurse. Her quiet confidence, her gentle courage, her patience, her beautiful refreshing cleanness, her adaptation of small means to great ends, her clever hands and trained abilities not too good to take hold helpfully of tho soiled, raveled tangled threads of shiftless, cramped, unlovely living, and compared to these things in living breathing demonstration, what giving of alms, what preaching of the true Word itself is more than the fickleness of water? n, homekeepers, healthy in mind and body, directing wisely those who serve, with a miud so occupied with "great themes that there is no room for petty and corrosive ill temper, or anxieties, or jealousies, or bitterness. In tho professional world, as in the home. Dr. Holmes says, "it is a woman's business to please. 1 dont say it is not her business to vote, but it is essentially her business to please, and there must be something about her which makes you glad to have her come near. letulanco and ill temper and aggressive qualities are as weak and ineffectual as they are unlovely. Strength is sweetness, and sweetness is strength, and only out of harmony can success be "But tho mainspring of any life worth the living is its wronght. Tho most real own divine ideal, which quickens and informs it. thing in a man is his soul. "I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, Emerson writes, "to demonstrate to all men that there is good will and intelligence at tho heart of things, and ever higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements. If there bo power in good intention, in fidelity and in toil, the north wind shall bo purer, the stars in heaven shall burn The ethical influence of with a kindlier beam, that I have lived. journalism is often overlooked. "Our leading daily papers are cosmopolitan in their widespread knowledge. All foreign movements, diplomacy, religion and society, are reflected each day in their pages; every new invention; every great discovery or new' theory in science; every great achievement in art or literature ;our own political life; contemporary biography; criticism and imaginative literature; besides all that daily miscellany denominated news, are given semi-dail- y to the masses. The object is, and must be, on the whole, to make good citizens, for a man can only be a good citizen as he has a knowledge of current affairs. The subject of "Vocations and the "Unseen World, with which Miss Whiting closes the book, are so intimately connected with the one entitled "After Her Death, that it seems best to consider them later. j I j' w d w c !' ii w of fo te pa ab wl THE WORLD OF BOOKS. By Prof. J. E. Talmage. It is possible that the present epoch of human history may sometime be known as the age of books and of public libraries. Books are now so inexpensive that a portion of the amount given by the average youth to pleasure might procure for him a library within a limited time. Yet the public will generally rely on the great collections provided for common use. Carlyles words have become a common aphorism, that "the true university is a collection of books, and to this institution as to other colleges and schools, the means of admission and tho facilities for efficient instruction to those who are inside, are being REVIEW OF THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL. rapidly multiplied. Perhaps it is not going too far to say that the educational status of a people and the intellectual strength of a naWritten for The Bee by Mrs. Gray. To us would-b- e dwellers in the "World Beautiful, the most neces- tion may be expressed in terms of their library facilities. Now' it is generally recognized that the public library must be sary and important feature is the relation we bear to those about us. It is the friendships that are tested, that are "winnowed through and something more than a university; it must be to the people a high through, that are proved by sympathy under all conditions, that make school and a common school also; and such many of our great libraries our living worth while. In entertaining these tried and true who con- are not. The New York Public Library, established in its present form but stitute our society, how shall we best accomplish it. The esctacy of life is in doing something for others, not for ones self, and our two years ago by the consoidation of the Astor, Lennox and Tilden Is not the real, libraries, has about 400,000 volumes; but these books, according to the guests who frequent our home are its ornaments. true entertainment the giving the best of oneself, not merely feeding, last report of the director, are mostly adapted to the needs of the un Pc let lia SU( for j I much-to-be-de-sir- ed as but pre I ! J t0 oi wit Lav I I wer sigi tak( unfi uni-ersi- ty But conversational interchange the warming and amusing? range of discussion of comparison, of sympathetic grasp no money will buy these. They are the gifts of friendship only. Then will be felt that charm of atmosphere, that uplifting of spirit, that satisfaction of soul and body which makes our meeting together an inspiration and delight. In order to accomplish this result, a woman must be a homekeeper, and not merely a housekeeper. The truth is that housekeeping and homekeeping have gotten sadly mixed up and mistaken one for the other. The finest and most liberal culture is none too fine to fit a woman for homekeeping. Any woman may be an admirable housekeeper, but "to keep the living coal on the domestic altar is an angelic and a divine life in its truest and broadest significanca It is now some thirty-fiv- e years since Vassar College made the first provision for the higher education of woman, but today we have not only the colleges, but many t , graduate, the scholar and the investigator. The hope is pressed that the library of the future will have a childrens room, and an equipment of books for the masses. An interesting feature recently developed in library work is that of traveling libraries. According to a report just at hand, the New' York State Library began the distribution of books on this plan in 1S92, and during the first year forty-si- x collections of books were sent out; in the second there were sent 139; in the third 212; in the fourth 371, and in the fifth 447. Of these sets or libraries, as they are called, thirty-tw'- o are general in character and nine are devoted to special subjects. Each consists of 50 to 100. volumes, and every' set is duplicated from five to ten times. The arrangements are under the direction of the university regents of the State of New York, and the books are sent mainly to high schools and other educational institutions. The work is regarded as an important adjunct of the States system 5 ; |