The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-17

uMark Twain" in q late correspondence
f,ou New York, thus sketches Miss Dickin.
son and her style Of speaking. We quote
from the Alta Californian;
went TO hear this famous lecturer inc
other night, and was nightly pleased. one
smoke in the Cooper Institute, to an an9Ience
II !. 500 persons. Peter Cooper brought ne,
on the stage and Horace Greeley introancea
her. She had on heavy, cherry eoioreo
ak dress. cut very plainly, and lace ciaAA'
and cufsa Her thick, straight hair iSsncfr-l
onIv ;ust touches her collar behind. her
aress WIS suited to = middle aged person. her
hair 10 a girl. and her face to one sometimes,
and sometimes to the other. ! cannot poss,>
hIv ones. her aue-she looked old at hrst,
and Young upon better acquaintance
Horeyer. She cannot be over twenly-two OF
,~antv.,hree. There is nothing especially
noticeable about her features, taken IN DETAIL
except that her eyes look rather unusuai.I
deem set. She talks fast, uses no notes "hh.'
aver never hesitates for word, always gets
the right word in the right place ana mas .he
MOS, nerfect confidence IN herself. Indeed,
-. ss.tenees are remarkably smoothly
~or.r and felicitons. Her vim, her energy,
| her determined look, her tremendous ear
nas,ness. would compel the respectand atten-
| ion If M audience, even II she spoke III
/ Cb;nese-would convince third oil them'
,oo. even though she used arguments that
would moi stand analysis. She keeps close
| 10 her subject reasons well, aud makes every
noint without fail Her prose poetry charms,
ber elouuence thrills, her psthos often moves
10 tears. hsr satire cuts 10 the quick, ana
/ she hath certain grim humor that ahoros
an unesv sort OF enJoyment-unessy
because one feels that when she
Gsbttns tha, way she is going 10 storm di'
rectly. She has 90, one defect, winch you
NAV notice IN all women who make speeches
/ Frequently after she has got her audience
wrough, up ready TO explode with enthnsi-
ssm, she does aot spring her grand ehha'
upon them at the precious instant, put orag
toward it so slowly that by the time she rescn
es it they are nearly cooled down TO digni
fed selfpossession again. But perhaps sh'
does not wait spplause-she never stops 10
il. AT any rate, but goes on taking in tn
| midst OF il.
The ain, of her speech was to call the al
. tention Of the people TO the meager numbe
. al avenues to an honest livelihood that ar
, permited to women, and the drudging unln
tellectual character OF these employments
and 10 demand, as simple justice 10 her sex
that the avenues may be multiplied I'll wome
, ray earn their bread elsewhere than ~ Kitten
ems and factories without unsexmg them
selves. She did her work well; she made
speech worth listening 10.
!. Her sarcasm bites | do not know bu
n wha, il Is her best card. She will make
right venomons old maid some day, |
afraid. She said she was arguing upon he
favorite subject with a self sufficient yoat
: one day. and she siieueed his guns one ate
$ another till at last he staked his all uPo
q one powerful proposition w ouid you OF. hay !,
= all woineu strong minded ? NO. h
q tbunde red: "God forbid that the millions I
e men OF your caliher tina, cumber the cart
n should be doomed to travel its weary wa.
10 minated
&c Miss Dickinson is paid very high figures {
A. lecturing. and does good deal OF 1t. 81
n has drndged with her hands, though. IN h
" dnv. She said the first money she ever ear
j. ed was two shilliugs-icr scrubbing tve pa'
> ments They say she was born 10 Ph''s dt
10 phia, but she says ituher and ither Ill
~ women from beyond the Atlantic, and wa
d. ders into brogue frequently that sounds We
- ike Irish