The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-10


! pretty tyimperiOusneSs which is notaltogether un-
pleasant in young and smart woman. AT n
recent meeting of the WOman's Suffrage Asso-
citation, she has been enunciatng some opinions
which prove how rapidly she has advanced in n
few short months. Upon Mrs. Blake's remark
ing upon the shameful condition of things dur
ing the French Revolution. when scarcely a
woman could go to public assembly without
seeing six or eight husbands. she remarked
tlat for her part she thought such set of cir
! cumstances much better than that under which
! we now lived, when woman was obliged to
! live with husband she detested. DIR. Hoeber
| q woman s-rights man, who believes that Eve
was created some centuries before Adam, and
| had the bringing up of that hen-pecked Aroglo-
| dyte, said that the present system of marriage
was nothing but legalized prostitution. AT this
point several ladies got up and went out in silent
| indignation. Mrs. Norton contended that when
she used the word free-love, she merely
meant it in contradistinction to love which
was purchased, and that the children of di-
vorced parents were great deal better away
from those parents than with them, although
their natural guardian was their mother. Mrs.
Somerby--who is one of those steady-sailing
little vessels that like to make straight for the
port of womans suffrage without stopping at
any VI bHOsb Interesting Dub Oub-Ol-buG-WlyI IJGlc
havens which her sister-craft delight to weigh
anchor in-Mrs. Somerby was the only woman
present who made any sensible remarks. These
were to the effect that the question of suffrage
was the question before the Association, and
perhaps it would be rs well to stick to the point
in hand, and not go flying off to every point
under the sun except that question. As might
be expected, she was talked down.
Art NOfpa
The bad storm on Monday night prevented
large attendance at the first reception of the
tenth season of the Brooklyn Art Academy,
which was to have been held at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music. A very few ladies were
present. and those were of the number COM
prising the committee of reception. Last even
ing Mr. Constant Mayer gave private view of
his paintings at Clinton Hail. Astor place. Next
Saturday afternoon, between the hours of 3 and
4, the bronze statue for the Seventh Regiment
Monument will be exhibited at the studio of Mr..
j. Q. A. Ward, No. 9 West Forty-ninth street.
Anusements
1t is understood that the troupe of Russian
concert singers who have been giving entertain
ments at Steinway Hall win shortly appear in
Russian opera at the Academy of Music. We
have had English, German, Italian, French, and
American eperas-it is time for change; the
Russian is to be that change. Apropos of Eng
lsh opera, Mrs. Bernard has been giving the
HuguenotS, with Mr.. Peakes as Count de St.
Brio, Mr.. Arnold as Count dc st. Nevers," Mr..
Haigh as "Raoul," Mr.. Drayton as Marcel"
Mrs. Drayton as Margaret" Mrs. Bernard as
valentine" and Mrs. Bowler as "Urbain."
Mrs. Bernard was careful and cold, rs she
always is. Mrs. Dfayton was worse-she had
cold, and that is an offense which people never
pardon in priDd donna. Mr.. Drayton bore
away all the honors of the evening, redeeming
in fact the performance from becoming liable to
the charge of being Indifferent Mrs. Bernard's
attempt to give Les HtguenOtS was dashed with
thai audacity which bespeaks for such enter
prises a favorable hearing. Its very daring to
some extent disarmed her critics, and made
them eager to treat her with consideration.
LIE Perc Hyacinthe's Lecture.
The great lecture came of last night, and the
Academy of Music presented such a spectacle as
has been very rarely witnessed within its walls.
The regular price of seats was two dollars, but
hundreds were glad to give ten, and the
around the tickot ofiioos have OnIy been equalled
during the furore attending the visit of Jenny
Lind and that of Mr.. Dickens. At o'clock
precisely LIE Pere Hyacinthe appeared upon the
stage and was saluted by a burst of applause
almost as startling as the roar of cannon, had
several seats in the parquet been occupied by
them instead of by human beings, and all had
been discharged. Nothing, how
ever, rufllcd the serenity of the priests phleg-
matte presence. He made one slight,
low, long, respectful obesance, and
thereupon took his seat without making other
response. His lecture was of course delivered
in French, and was listened to with profound
interest by hundreds who did not understand
one word of the language. ! must confess / was
more interested in watching the countenances
of the multitude than in that Of lie Pere. His
eloquence was faithfully mirrored there. 1t was
like beholding the reflection of an august
panorama, by turns beautiful and tender, at
intervals startling and sublime Writing thus
hastily, l can only say that if / had been as
ignorant of all spoken language as the majority
of the audience was of French should have
been in no doubt as to the general drift of his
discourse, so lucid were his majestic pantomime
and the marvellous intonations of his voice.
ALI BABA.