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Lola Montez on Strong Minded Women,


Lola Montez on Strong Minded Women
Another crowded house at the Hope Chap
cl last evening testitied to the popularity of
Lola as II lecturer, and scemed to endorse
cmphatcally her independent ideas on the
subject of Strong Minded Women" She
was embarrassed she said, between the lust
idea of strength and what was now dcnomi-
mated strong minded, in tho woman's rights
movement. Mrs. Bloonicr had obtained the
reputation of being strong minded by merely
cutting six inches off her petticoat Five
hundred women getting together in conven-
tion, and resolving gthatthey were an oppressed
community and that the mon were rascals
and scouudrcls, proved that they were dis
contcnted, but could not prove that they were
strong minded. The strong minded Women
were not women of words, but women of deeds
NOT of resolutions, but of action History
did not teach that they ever consumed much
timein conventions; they were, rather, prompt
10 resent encroachmcuts upon their rights,
and to defend them. or take the eonsounenccs
of such defence When the Countess Cecil
wife of the Governor of Henry w. had been
called upon to deliver up the city that she de-
tended, on the threat that her husband. who
was in the hands of the enemy, should be
put to death she replied---"I have riches in
abundance; have offered them, and would
ignominiouslypurcha n life which he would
roproach me with, and which he would not
ask to enjoy by<means of dishnnor or by
treason ngainstmy King and country" That
was an example of real strong minded w0-
man; and history was full of such examples.
who had no need of conventions or resolutions
to mako herself lSnownin the world. There
was such difference between strong minded
and strong tongucd women Even men al
ways respected u woman OF genius. Genius
was not a sex. Would any one seek to take
woman like Joan Belleville to frying pan
cakes and pcaling onions "(Laughter. y
When they thought Of Margaret of Aniou,
would they pause to speak about the intellect
of woman? Yet Joan of Bcllcvillc, with MI
her military glory, her successive descents on
Normandy, was one of the handsomest wo-
men in Europe. Those were not solitary ca
ses. Who had not read of the Amazons, who
did all the lighting, and made the men stay
at home who were not allowed to marry
until they had killed their man2 This was
carrying the question undoubtedly to an ex-
tent that would satisfy our modern agitators
Who did not know of the Prefecto of Gregory's
daughter and of Joan of Arc ?--of the Coun-
tess Belmont, who, with her own hand, had
taken prisoners, though all mildness and gen
tlcness at home ?-of Por6a, the beautiful
daughter of Cato, of Utica, who in order to
convince hor liusbandrthat she was worthy
ofbeing trusted, andcapable of heroic deeds,
had badly gashed herself wiEha knife ?-4-of
the Countess of Derby, who desperately de-
Tended her castle when all gave it UP for lost
of Sybille, the wife of Robert of Burgundy
who, to secure her husbands life, had, at the
sacrifice of her own ife,sucked her husbands y
poisoned wounds? But not only were wo-
men celebrated for heroic deeds, but also in
intellect and even science. Had not isabella
of Arragon been the only one to appreciate
the diseoyeriesof Columbus, and really proved
tho man of the sovereigns (Laughtcr.) The
intellect Of Semranis, and, she was sorry to
say, her bad morals, would rival that of any
male monarch. What male monarch made a
more splendid reign than Icnoba, Queen of
PalmyraR and did not Queen Elizabeth,
whose moral character she would not under
take to defend, bear the reputation of the
gigantic monarch? Where would men find
arienlto Catharine the Second Of Russia I?
and had not Chrstiana of Sweden thrown off
the dress as well as the manners of q woman
saying, ~ would become man yet i do
not love men because they are men, but be-
cause they are not women (Iaughter. -
Olympus, the mother Of Alexander the Great,
had been q match for the grcatest monarch
of the present day. She would not defend
these women as models of character for .their
hSAt UuI' lileJ NOtiiu IuNOfaDIc COllpufc WIN
tho general line of the male monarehs. Cap
plause.) All the, bad that could be sold of
these women by historians was said. The
reason that so little was said Of the men was,
she supposed, because no gryat degree of mo-
raiity was expected from tEem. (Applaase J
Men hadathe monopoly of sins of the world.
Yet where could the men produce such OK
amplesas Lucretia, the Princess 0otssria,, s...ic
heroine of the battlefield and of the fields of
literature and sciences; Cornclia mother of
the Gracehi, one of the most learned persons
of her day Dacier, who translated Homer
and PlUtarch'si Liycs;R while Elizabeth
Carter not only translated Greek, Latin,
French and Arabic, but spoke all these and
several other languages besides. Helen hu4
cretia Gavap was the most learned person of
hor day, and'oIe Of the greatest curiositios of
Rome while Jane Of Arragon, the NIarcfi-
oness do Chatelle, and Anne Clifford. contrib
uted further to fllup the record of wopian's
genips and learning.
Naaanc lie Staol, George sand, Mad