The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13
AbOut Women.

Marie Mitchell, of Vassar, will preside over
women's congress which will be held in Syra-
cuse, N. Y, next month
Mrs. Lizzie Ehling is lady aeronaut who re-
Gently made an ascent at Harrisburg, Pa,
without breaking her neck.
Miss Emily Parker the English champion Ia
dy swimmer, is coming to this country profess
sionally, and will exhibit at the variety thea
tres in large glass tank, as johnson does.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean wants to stop wo-
men from kissing each other when they meet.
Such kissing is nothing; they don't bear on or
roll their eyes a single bit.-Detrot Free Press.
Thememoirs of Miss Caroline Herzchel, the
sister and assistant of Sir William Herzchel,
are being prepared by the wife of grandson
oi Sir William. Several unpublished letters Of
the astronomer will be included in the volume.
Miss Florence G. Perkins, who delivered the
valedictory at Vassar at the last Commence
ment. has just entered upon her duties as
teacher of Greek and Latin at Cookies Col
legiate Institute, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary Bassett, M. D., is said to have an
annual income of $4,000, derived from her pro-
fessional work in Cooperstown, N. Y. She has
met with prejudice and lived it down by faith
full work, with bitter persecution and has ig-
nored it altogether.
Mile. Titiens, just before her departure for
this country, performed the ceremony of laying
the first bricks of the new National Opera
House en- the Thames embankment. The
bricks were firmly placed in position and care
fully "plastered'' by the eminent artist whose
name is so inseparably connected with Her
Majesty's Opera.
The Court Journal mentions among its So
ciety items that ''two American ladies are Just
now making pedestrian trip in the Highlands
and enjoying the best of all ways of travelling
amid mountain scenery. They are alone, each
having her knapsack on her back and each also
armed with revolver"
The Princess Mercedes, the youngest daueh.
ter of the Due de Montpensier (whose betrothal
to King Alfonso, as recently announced, is
likely, according to the Paris correspondent of
the London Times, to produce considerable
effect in Spain, and reunite. to the exclusion Of
the Carlist King, whom civil war and the blood
which has been shed cut off from the nation in
one and the same interest all members of tho
royal family, is described as 'just passed from
childhood, full of grace and ingenuousness, one
~ shO AAOoe SAaOchui pCAsOudRcS WuO COul2
occupy throne. She is but fourteen.
Miss Mary Gay Robinson, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, was formerly teacher, but. finding that
profession crowded by her sex, she COM
menced reporting for New York and Brooklyn
papers. Many obstacles met her, such as hard
work, snail pay, and objections raised by
friends. But she has continued, until her re-
ports are sought for by the prominent dailies
and week.ies, and she has won admiration in
place of criticism. This has not been accom-
plished in day. She has devoted her entire
time and energies for two years. Sometimes
an article has travelled to five or six papers be-
fore it has appeared in print. Reporting is a
business for which women are eminently quail
flied. Miss Robinson's country home is Gull
ford, Conn.
There was charming girl, moderately tall.
slender, dark and sweetly spoken, who lived In
small cottage with her father and ber broth.
er. She had slow, deliberate method Of
enunciation, and few peculiarities of pronun-
citation that made her speech very delightful.
Her burden was, "Oh, how you Northerners
have trampled upon us!' Then, pressed to de-
fine her charges, she would plunge into the
very middle of ihe monstrous tangle and wind
herself up like poor fly in web When this
was done she would ask, with contracted
brows, "How can you expect women to know
the ins and outs of all these thiDgs?" Then
she would go Indignantly to her "pet" (pit, a
small hot-bed that all gardens in that region
contain) and make bouquet for her visitor,
and would say, finally: After all, what i
said about being trampled upon is only o sort
of slogan that we girls keep up for prde's sake.
The gentlemen have their cries, too; but when
they meet Northern people they always ask
them TO dine. One cannot be expected TO give
u2 all appearances of being faithful to old in
terests. You must allow little vain glory. at
heart, we all love what is now our country.
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