The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-16
Ah0nt Women.

Ristori went on the stage when months
old She is now 40 years of age, has given $40
performances in the United States. She
made her debut in this country as Medea Sept.
%, 1866 under the management of Jacob Grau.
who made fortune with her.
A Brooklyn paper calls Scott-Siddons ''de.
lightful dramatic fraud"
Miss Belle Richardson, daughter of the ex
Secretary of the Treasury, is said to have
perfect little figure and to be a perfect horse
woman. ...
This is what Minnie Myrtle Miller writes to
the San Francisco Chronicle: "Dream oD, my
Oregon! Love and love again. ye dwelers by
the margins of the seas. Land of humid airs
and heavenly drops, let the maidens blush and
sigh to own the tender passion; let thy poets
write sweet madrigals within thy dewy dingles,
and fewer evils will be done beneath the
dreamy shadows of thy hills than in lands
where they love not" Surely Joaquin had
some provocation to desert her.
Miss Louise Meiggs, visitor ct Admiral
Porter's house in Washington, is the best lady
oarsman on the Hudson. She is tall, ruddy
and muscular, and her hair falls in braids to
her waist.
sWhy is it," asks an exchange, "tbat nearly
every Senator's wife in Washington is a band
some woman?" 1t is simply because nearlyev-
cry Senator'S wife who is not handsome wo-
man is left at home,-Courier- journal.
1t is reported that the Empress Eugene is
suffering with consumption, and cannot live
much longer
The widow of Sir John Falstaff, Mrs. Hack
EFT, is studying for the stage. 1t is her inten-
tion to make her debut at the Brooklyn Thea
tire in the arduous part of Lady Macbeth, in
conjunction with Mr.. Vandenhoff as Macbeth
The fame of Falstaff should secure his widow
no small share Of public interest and attention.
Mrs. Hackett is fine looking lady of excel
lent personnel for the part. Her associations
with the theatre have been intimate, and it Is
safe to anticipate from her, even in first per-
formance, an effort of more than usual ability.
Mrs. Finette Scott Seelye has succeeded as an
architect. AT recent meeting of the Trustees
of the City Hospital, Cleveland O., plans for
the new Hospital building were submitted for
examination and choice. The plan presented
by Mrs. Firette Scott Seelye proved the sue
cessful competitor and the Board emphasized
their appreciation of her. and of it, by putting
Mrs. Seelye upon the Building Committee.
Kate Field says the Providence Journal, is
is the girl for our money. In recent speech,
OF article, or lecture, OF some other utterance,
that blessed young lady says: "If had my
way journalists should be paid better than any
other profess ional men and women" And
why shouldn't she have her own way, we ask.
Every girl should have ber own way. That is
what girls were made for. And especially,
why should lady of such excellent sent
ments so evidently posted in the affairs of life,
be interfered with in any manner? Let her
have her own way. She adds III we ooh
see any use in the ''if," we leave off the N
as mere surpusage and go ON with the SUP
stance of her, rsmarks-''they are clever and
| honest. they deserve the best OF treatment
| OF course we are clever, all of us; IT we are
not. down 90 the papers; and-Well, yes, we
oro honest. Don't we know? Miss Kate is an
ornament to her sex and to her profession
When woman's rights are established she shall
| have our vote for governor.
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard. of Carthage, NY, is
a citizen, 1O3 years of age, and the mother Of
eighteen children. She was born in Ltchiield
Ct, and remembers the cannonading when the
British destroyed New Haven in 1778, also the
burning of New London, by Benedict Arnold,
| in 1881. She once had the honor of giving Gen.
| Washington a glass Of water when he passed
through Danbury.