Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-23
ABOUT WOMEN.
Anna Bishop is contemplating a
areWell tour of the United States.

Mainelis Dragging of a matron, in
her seventeenth year, the mother 0
four children.
Deprived of her tr-s-rs in New
Orleans, Mrs. DR.. Walker has sought
concealment in the wilds of Texas.
Three of the wives of men EN-
ployed on the City of Boston have
consoled themselves by remarrying
A Christian Association of the
Women of Louisville is to be organ
lied for the relief of INDECENT females
Madame D'Hericonri has delivered
an address in Farwell Hall, Chicago
on the position of women in the
church during the first five or six cen.
tUries of its history.
Eight oil paintings have arrived in
New Orleans from Rome, the handi-
work Of General Magruder's daughter,
Miss Kate Magruder, and son, DIR.
Henry r. Magruder. Both have re-
sided in Italy for number of years.
A young lady who was captured by
the Indians in 1850, when a baby, on
the plains, and bartered for by trap
pers, when three years old, who
brought her to st. JO., has just dis
covered her relations in a rich Nir-
ginia family.
No explanation is given as to the
reason why the English ladies lately
required to leave Rome were expelled,
and the statement that the Pope him
self gave the order is confirmed. 1t
seems they may now go back if they
please. The affair is highly mystic
rious.
Nile. Cary, the young cOntraltO who
is receiving many praises in Europe,
is Miss Annie L. Cary, of Boston.
Miss Cary is a native Of GOrham, Me-,
and daughter of Nelson II. Cary,
NJ ID. For two or three years previ-
Gus to her going to Europe to study
she resided in Boston, and sang IN
public on many occasions throughout
the New England States.
The lady professors of Vassar Col
lege are letting their lights shine in
public, as well ss before their students.
Miss Professor Maria Mitchell is lee
turing in public and writing for Hours
ct Home: " Miss Professor Doctor"
AIidia e.. Avery is writing for the
Christian Union, and Miss Professor
Elizabeth NJ. Powell is becoming a
contributor TO the new Standard
magazine.
Patti threw the staff of the Paris
opera into CONSERVATION a few even
ings ago by announcing that she was
sure she had been attacked by the
smallpox. Luckily for the music
loving world, it turned out to be
false alarm. As the american Register
delicately phrases it: Upon the ar
rival of the medical staff at the theater
IL was proven that our fair country
WOman's alarm arose from those disa-
greeable harbingers Of spring that crop
out now and again upon the human
form divine to remind US that we are
but mortal"
The WOmdn's AdcOeate expresses an
Olive Logan view of the dress ques-
ton thus: Our dress reformers are
working against those dear, delightful
accessories Of dress, W-ith will to ex-
tirpate every one. Ought they not to
remember that " fine feathers make
fine birds?" Strip the bright plumige
from our birds OF society, and what
would you have left? Who wants TO
see procession of gray-eoated bipeds?
Who wants TO have clothes made up
" irrespective of age, sex or colOr?"
We have said this last 50 much when
speaking Of "rights that there is
danger of claiming too much, "irre-
speciive Of ser" etc.
Mrs. Mentia Taylor writes to the
WOHQa's Journal. at is very diff
cult for Americans to realize the OBJ I
stacles in the path Of us English wO-
men. We are Of a conservative na- /
ture-at every step some conservative
prejudice meets US. Nevertheless, we |
are to a considerable extent breaking
down these prejudices. Women are
lectUring in various parts of the cOUn-
try-in Scotland, in Newcastle, South !
Shields, Lynn in Norfolk, in Brigh- !
ton, in Greenwich, and in several
towns in the midland counties. At
the meeting we held in London on 1
the 26th of last month, at the Han
over Square Rooms, took the chair,
and Miss Taylor (stepdaughter Of Mr..
ATiIl, Mrs. Grote, Mrs. Faweett, and
Miss Hare, ali spoke. will send you
q report which Is just out. Miss Tay-
lor's was the speech of the meeting,
as / think you will agrea."
4 correspondent Of the German
% reform" paper, Die AelJe ZeitstRg,
gives the following alarming picture
of European ilfe. 1t is generally sup /
posed in this country that the Ger-t
mans are the most domestic people in
the world. " Family ties get every |
day IOOser with us. Men spend their |
leisure time IN public houses, and wo- |
men associate with women. The con- /
sequence Is, that men get raider and |
rOugher, and women more silly. In /
the south Of Germany man scarcely /
associates with his family. The same /
here on the Rhine. All the time ] |
have been here, have basn invited 1
out TO meet women, eating cakes, and |
talking stuff. Two Of my female 1
friends haveparticularly talented hus- |
bands. but they cannot prevail on i
them TO spend one evening at home. i
II 1 call ia the daytime and meet /
them by accident, all very well. Do 1
not imagine this TO be domestic hap |
piness. They bear with what they |
cannot alter. But this separation of |
the sexes in all that concerns public !
life and culture is Of awful import. If |
women had more self-esteem, they 1
would not stand this treatment.b
Annie Brewster, in a recent letter
from Rome, says: At Florence, last
September, a project was formed for q
national exposition of works of female /
labor. Some of the most distinguish
ed persons in the city have consented
since the movement was made to act /
on the committees. Prince Ponia-
tOWsii is President of one committee,
and Princess Poniatowski is Vice
President Of the Female Committee. |
The committees have asked and OBJ
tanned the support OF the government.
The Minister Of Agriculture and Com
merce has offered his patronage and
counsel. All the projects and syn
dies have been applied to in order to
have their help in forming sub-cOm-
mittees throughout the kingdom. The
hope is, that through this movement
national industry shall receive impOr-
tant services from the activity and in
telligence of Italian women.