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

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THE .WOMAN'S zifo#Ts CITAMPIONS.

(From the Anglo-AmerAnn Times.)

Among the many =livers:ries wide, have en-
livened dawning summer in New York, the meeting
of the American Equal Rights' Association holds a
conspicuous place; for it was there that the charn-
p:ons of women's rights kept the lists, and did
valiant battle against all comers. When triumphant
! on their own ground they turned upon each•other,
and, as might be expected, the battle raged ino..t
1 fiercely around the standards erected for dress. In-
deed we may safely predict that the woman's rights
question w ill be shivered ou that rock. Mrs. STAN-
ton proclaims the dress of the day to be " an inven-
i tion of the devil to befool and belittle worn In ;" and
1 she believes " the supremely ridiculous idea that a
1 woman was made like a churn on castors is fast
! passing away, and that she will soon honour the
bifurcated g trinents." This Miss OLIVE LOGAN,
the pretty little ex-actres,, who condemns the stage
as inconsistent with feminine purity, disputes in a
style as telling as it is amusing, expressing these
sentiments, as she always does, esetempore—" I re-
ject the trousers with contempt and scorn. Men
eat a sufficiently ridiculous figure in them them-
selves. The trouble is, they don't like their owu
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 bifurcated unwhis-
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 NI aes
scorned place ; that her profetsional acquirements
were to her an ample income ; but in quest of a
post she has hit at every Secretary of State, even at
the PnEsident himself. In her last dash at the Com-
missioner of Patents she was intercepted at the office
by the wife of General GAINES. She had just de-
posited with Judge METCALFE a written application
for the situation of librarian of the Interior Depart-
ment held by Mr. Druog. While she awaited the
Commissioner Mrs. GAINES appeared on the scene,
who eyeing MARY, said, "Is this Mrs. Dr. MARY
WALKER?" Now the prououn 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 the ac-
knowledged h3r identity with a smile. " Allow me,"
said Mrs. GAINES, " to give you a piece of advice."
MARY, who knew s'ae charged for her own advice,
male the proviso that it should be given gratis.
When Mrs. GAINES assured her she would m Ike no
ch urge, Dr. Mary WALKER 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 them."
After a little sparring, the la ly coatinue 1, " Yoa
are injutiug yourself by dressing so. Had I pa', on
breeches I shoul I never have succeeded in esta')-
lishing my rights. I never put on breeches—no,
not even my hashaid's, and with the blessing of
GOD I ne7er will." On which MART remarked,
" You may not dress in this costume, and yet dress
as unbecomiagiy in some other garb. You we it
feathers ail flowers in your hair, while tiler,: is no-
thing of the kind to be seen about mine." The
argumeot waxed warm, and the clerks and visitors
crowded around the combatants ; nor can we s ty to
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 ha I
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 aceusa Miss ANTHONY of falsehood, then
she was aroused, and M-. FOSTER was suppresse I,
but, to do him justice, with difficulty. In the after-
no .m session of the Woman Suffeage Meeting at the
1 Academy of Misic in Brooklyn, MINNIE .111.:P.rox
createdasens tti on, being a veritab!e madwoman. She
broke in on L',7(.:RETIA MoTT, silo sting to the au hence
with stentorian voice that all on the platform
had conspired to prevent her from speaking. A 3
u 'thing could dissaa le her from adlreszing 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-
ment 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 Bureau is
in working order, and its handsome 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-
beron the annual payment of $3. 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 CozzEsis speaks
to-morrow at STEINWAY'S" is now the announce-
ment. An inflential 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 " most 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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