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THE FEMALE CAPACITY.
At the recent Meeting of the British Association, held at Glasgow, the opening Address in the Economic Science and Statistical Department was delivered by SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL, who appears to have “discussed a variety of topics, from Thriftiness to Women’s Rights,” and, “in regard to the Women’s question,” to have “suggested a scientific inquiry into their capacities.” But which of their capacities, Sin GEORGE? Their capacity for admiration, or their capacity for amusement, or their capacity for spending money, or their capacity for varied and costly attire, or their capacity for gossip, or their capacity for flirtation and fascination? Oh no! He meant Woman’s capacity for arithmetic, for politics, for all the details of
public life; tor general information, for scientific research, for philosophical speculation, ad for taking that share in the Government
of her country to which every year she asserts, more and more
noisely5 her indefeasible right,
To assist SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL in his proposed inquiry, we have
prepared a few simple questions :—
If you were left, by a generous uncle or aunt, £7000 invested in a
security paying four-and-a-half per cent., how much a year would
you receive?
Your husband allows you three guineas a week for current house-
keeping expenses. How much does this amount to in the year?
It the cost of a Sealskin Jacket is thirty-two guineas, and of a
Velvet Mantle £17 l0s. what will you save by being economical,
and choosing the latter
in round numbers, of how’ many Members the House of
Commons consists; and state, with as much approach to accuracy
and as little vagueness as can possibly be expected, by whom they
are elected,
Who are the six Great Powers of Europe to whom constant
reference is made by the newspapers at the present time?
On the breakfast-table this morning there were tea, coffee, cocoa,
sugar, cream, butter, marmalade, dry toast, French rolls, rashers
of bacon, eggs and kidneys. Which of these articles are taxed?
With what places do you connect your calico balls, your cambric
handkerchiefs, your muslin dresses, your damask table-linen, your
hangings, your fashionable milliner, and ,your favourite
cordwainer?
Who was the last, and who is the present Prime Minister of
England, and by what one word would you describe the political
opinions of each?
Name any three great measures which have been passed by Parliament in the last ten years.
What is meant by Repeal of the Corn Laws Abolition of Church
Rates, Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot. Disestablishment of the Irish Church, Local Taxation, Sihoo1 Boards, and the Balance of
Power?
How much is the Income-Tax at the present time?
Can you give, say within forty or fifty years, the dates of the
birth and death of SEARSPEABE, MILTOI, the great DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, LORD NELSON, SIR. ISAAC NEWTON, HANDEL, SIR JOSHUA
REYNOLDS, GARRICK, MRS. SIDDONS, CROMWELL, PITT, DANTE,
RAPHAEL, FREDERICK THE GREAT, and WASHINGTON.
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales, essays of Elia, The Doctor,
Don Quixote, The Wealth of Nations, Clarissa Harlowe, Oft Blas,
Sle Stoops to Conquer, The .Ils’vals, Absalom and Achitophel,
All’s Well that Ends Well, Samson Agonistes, The Dunclad, The
J1xcursion, and Sartor Besartus
Who invented the Telescope, Thermometer-, Steam-engine, Electric
Telegraph, Orrery, Sewing-machine, Cork-Screw, and Perambulator?
What is a Syllogism, a Dilemma a Triangle, a Clerestory an
Archdeacon, aoeum tenens, a County Court, a Metaphysical Question,
a Protocol, and a Protoplasm?
Explain D.C.L., Ph.D., M.S., H.E.I.C.S., C.S.T., K.G., G.C.B.,
F.S.A., QC., 0.0., P.C. L.S.D., and I.O.U.
Place Earl, Viscount, Marquis, Duke, and Baron in their proper
order of precedence
Write down the English Archbishoprics and Bishoprics, -and make
the best guess you can at the Welsh ones.
Who is Lord. Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice of England, Archbishop of Canterbury, Commander-in-Chief, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Poet Laureate, President of the Royal Academy,
President of the Royal Society, Speaker of. the House of Commons,
Governor-General of India, and Master of the Buckhounds?
Who lives at Hughenden Manor, Hawarden Castle, Lambeth
Palace, and Chelsea? -
Should you consider it an inestimable privilege1 and proper
recognition of your rights as a woman, to be called upon to serve as
a Jurywoman in a. trial lasting three weeks?