Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-01
THE BLUE.STOCKING CLUB.
First Meeting of the Members
The Panacea of Tea
The Questions at Issue.
The Speeches on the Occasion
-WOman's Rights and
Mans Wrongs.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York SUM-
Finding how much interest the gene
raj public has taken and still take in the
Blue stocking Club, whose organization
was recently announced in the San, we
are enabled, through the kindness Of one
of the officers of the Club, to lay before
our readers an account of the first regu-
lar meeting, which occurred on Tuesday
last, at one o clock, at leading hotel up
town.
The nucleus of the meeting was an
elaborate luncheon, at one dollar head,
consisting of sandwiches, chicken salad,
cakes and ice cream; the whole enli-
vened with twenty three kinds of tea,
each tea having its special virtue, de-
signed to meet some of the many wants
and needs of woman's nature in her
present state Of oppression. Tea No. |
is for the women who conceal all sorts of
inward disquietudes, under the general
name of headache, and is recommended
as panacea for wounded vanity, canker-
ing envy,agonizing jealousy and slighted
affection. No. 2 is recommended as
stimulant to the countless women who
demand their rights and can't get them.
No. 3 is for the correction of mantua-
makers, who are incapable of any fits
but epileptic ones. No. 4 for the tran
utilization of babies that insist upon
their destiny, being born to make noise
in the world No. 5 for the easing of
the money market when avaricious hus-
bands declare it in state of chronic
stringency. No. 6 for the sudden
beautifying of faces that look horrid
on the eve Ct a momentous social occa-
sion. No. for the creation of hun
dred new superlatives, required to ex-
press overpowering emotions OF the
feminine heart. No. for the perfect
arrangement of the latest horror in hair
No. 9 for the sustainment of patience in
trying on new gloves and CATERS. No.
10 for the greater fascination OF angels
over tyrants. No. IL for the encourage
ment of the sex to make men what they
ought to be. No. II for the enlargement
of the candy trade. No. IL for moments
of inspiration when women want to be
brilliant and cant utter word. No. IA
for the development of woman's capacity
to hate man when they say they do.
No. Is to prevent women from exposing
the secrets of their hearts when there are
State reasons why they should be wholly
diplomatic. No. II for making man
understand that he should stay when he
is ordered to 90. No. Is for raising the
standard of masculine appreciation.
No. l9 for interfering with the privilege
of husbands in going to lodges. No. 20
for determining where men have been
when they vow they haven't been any
where. No. Fl for preventing men from
seeing that more than one woman is
lovely. No. % for fastening on buttons
without needles, and No. % for the rein
ing of men so that they can see women's
faults are merely the impressions OF
mems society.
About forty ladies we're present, in
eluding maids, wives, and widows. Some
of the most noticeable were pretty girls
of sixteen, seventeen and eighteen, who
seemed more anxious than their sex gen.
orally to let their friends know how old
they were at breakfast time, and who
conveyed the idea that they would never
be SO aged again. Among the partici-
pants, according to our informant, were:
Mrs. Bressy Hamilton, Mrs. Janette July,
Mrs Hickories Smith, Miss Susan B.
Stamford, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Virgins,
Miss Kate Farm, Misses Diana and Luna
CORY, Mrs. Isabella Cslbert, Mrs. Fan
ME Greenleaf, Mrs. Salie Purdose, Mrs.
Magdalen Dodger, and Mrs. Oliver Red
man.
Miss Stamford was elected to the chair,
and declared that New York and society
we're in the midst Of q revolution; that
an effort was on foot to deprive woman of
her inalienable privilege to write for the
newspaper, and to make row.. She
called upon every woman who had a
mother Ia number Of the ladies present
admitted the remark referred TO them) TO
rise in her majesty, and join the Blue
stocking Club, whose mission she con-
ceived to be the stemming Of the torrent
Of inappreciative manhood that was
sweeping over the land, from the Gulf
III Mexico to Gowanus Bay. Woman's
right TO vote was coeval with her birth
and while men might have the right 10