The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-09 00:00:00

Among the many anniversaries whit`. have en-
livened dawning hummer in New York, the meeting
of the American Equal Rights' Association holds a
conspicuous place ; for it was there that the cham-
pions of women's rights kept the lists, anti di;l
valiant battle against all oomera. When trianai•hact
on their own ground they turned upon each other,
and, as might be expected, the battle raged most
fiercely around the standards erected for dress_. In-

deed we may safely pr,diet that the woman's rights
! Tees! ion will be shivered on that rock. Ms. S7AI;-
ton proclaims the dress of the day to be " an invcn-
tion of the devil to befool and belittle worn in ;" aed
1 she believes " the supremely ridiculous i lea that a
Iwoman was made like a churn on castors is fast
passit'e away, and that she Will soon honour the
1 bifurcated garment's." This Miss OLIVE LOGAN,
the pretty little ex-actrcs4, who condemns the stage
as inconsistent with feminine purity, disputes in a
stale as telling as it. is amusing, expressing these
sentiments, as she always does, extempore—'' I re-
ject the trousers with contempt and scorn. Men
cut a sufficiently ridiculous figure in them them-
&lves. The trouble is, they don't like their own
costume, and are envious of our laces, jewellery,
frills, and dresses. ' Trousers, forsooth, trousers?'
Shake not the ridiculous garments at me. No, so
long as we can have our silks, satins, and shawls,
we will repudiate your absurd bifurcatelunwhis-
perables. Look at your swallow tail coats, stove-
pipe hats ; and you wear your hair so short, some
of you, that you look precisely like monkeys, and
I don't wonder that one of your number has written a
bookshowing that animal tobe the father of his race."
But Dr. MARY WALKER takes the foremost rank of
all the young ladies now " on the rampage," as
she has been "running a-muck " among the office.
holders. We were under the impression that M ARY
scorned place ; that her professional acquirements
were to her an ample income ; but in quest of a
post she has hit at every Secretary of State, even at
the Peesident himself. In her last dash at the Com-
missioner of Patents she was intercepted et the office
by the wife of General GAINES. She had just de-
posited with Judge MErCALFE a written application
for the situation of librarian of the Interior Del art-
ment held by Mr. DILLON. While she aw &ited the
Commissioner Mrs. GAINES appeared on the scene,
who eyeing MARY, said, "Is this Mrs. Dr. MARY
WALKER?" Now the pronoun this, certainly if
"thing" be added, might well fire the female heart ;
but we can testify to the calm self-possession with
which the lady faces even a noisy mob, and she ac-
knowledged her ideality with a smile. "Allow me,"
said Mrs. GAINES, "to give you a piece of advice."
MARY, who knew she charged for her own advice,
ma le the proviso that it should be giver gratis.
When Mrs. GAINES assurer her she would mike no
ch irge, Dr. M try Wateeea intimated her readiness
to hear, whereon Mrs. GAINES said, "My advice is
to go home and pull off those breeches at once, and
not disgrace your whole sex by wearing the.n."
After a little sptrriag, the lady continue.], " You
are injuring yourself by dressing so. lla,d I put on
breeches I shoul I never have succeeded in estale-
, dishing my rights. I never put on breeches— no,
not even my huiban l's, an 1 with the bl..ssing of
GOD I never will." On which MARY reinurked,
" Yon way riot dress in this costume, and yet dress'
as unbecomingly in some other garb. You weer
feathers and flowers in your hair, while there is no-
thing of the kin l to be seen about mine." The
argument waxed warm, an I the clerks aed visitors
crowded around the combatants ; nor can we s iy t 3
what extremity the contest might have been carried
had not the bell struck and the ladies separated. Nor
have the women's rights women and others come
to loggerheads on the subject of dress only, for the
champions have shown a disposition so tyrannical
and pretensions so excessive as even to rouse the
much-suffering biped—man. Mr. S. S. FOSTER had
the temerity to appear oa the platform in opposition
to Mrs. STANTON, at a meeting presided over by that
lady. She heard him out so long as he confined him-
self to " hauling her over the coals ;" but when he
presumed to accuse Miss ANTHONY of falsehood, then
she was aroused, and M. FOSTER was suppressed,
but, to do him justice, with diffictity. In the after-
noon session of the Woman Suffrage Meeting at the
Academy of Music in Brooklyn, MINNIE MERTON
created a sens ition, being a veritable madwoman. She
broke in on LucaETIAMorT, shouting to the au Hence
with stentorian voice that all on the platform
had conspired to prevent her from speaking. A 3
n )thing could dissuade her from addressing the
meeting, Mr. STUDLEY brought in a policeman ;
but the people who, in the first instance, had hissed
her, demanded that she should be heard, when the
policeman, on Mr. STUDLEY'S peremptory order,
proceeded to drag her from the stage. MINNIE
held it to be the duty of Government to take care of
women ; and if this resolves itself into one-half, the
community taking care of the other half, we agree
With her, for it but comes back again into the men
taking care of the women as of old ; narrowed,
this appears also to be Dr. MARY WALKER'S idea,
who holds that it is the duty of the Govern-
, meat to take care of a woman. In these proCeed-
ings poor GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has come " to
grief," as he has been thrown over by the Revolu-
tion, which took in lieu of him a large number of -
' subscribers ; a bribe the full force of which we are
in a position to estimate. The Woman's Bu. eau is
in working order, and its hanlsome rooms are now
filled on reception nights with the elite of New
York. For instance, on the 11th May, a writer
describes the line of carriages as equalling that fill-
ing Irving-place on a Parepa-Rosa night—very
elegant cards inviting, very elegant women receiv-
ing, very elegant talk entertaining, and very ex-
quisite music charming the company. A wealthy lady,
Mrs. PHELPS, bought the premises, furnished them,
and lets them in apartments for the special service
of woman's work. The Revolution hires the lower
room, SOROSIS occupies a committee room, the
Working Women's Protective Union finds harbour-
age there, and the Woman's Rights' Association a
habitation and a name. A lady becomes a mem-
-1 ber on the annual payment of $5. The idea was
suggested to Mrs. PHELPS by the failure of a
woman artist, to rent a studio in the building op-
posite, the Young Men's Christian Association,
where she was told no women would be tolerated.
A change is coming o'er the advertisements of our
lecturers and orators. " Pretty Miss COZZENS speaks
to-morrow at STEINWAY'S" i 3 now the announce.
meat. An infiential paper observes—" The even-
ing's exercises were closed with a racy speech by
Mrs. LIVERMORE, editor of the Chicago Agitator."
A leading delegate to the New York Woman's
Rights' Convention is called the " moat brilliant
talker in the country." But this does not embrace
the whole change, for the altered state of things is
giving rise to complications not inaptly expre,:sed in
the following extract :—" Miss JONES, Postmistress
at Winterset, lowa, recently married Mr. ALFRED
SMITH. Mrs. SMITH is not known to the Depart-
ment as Postmistress, Miss JONES has no longer a
legal existence, and things generally are very much
mixed. SMITH is anxious to know if he has mar-
ried into the post-office, or has married the post-
office out of the family."

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