, 1875-03-21
DisguiS:Ig SeX---Female Cab-DTiTcrs
in London and Paris.
Dressingg--How American Compare
with French Women.
4 Paradise for Spinsters---Mhat a Sci
OF leWe!ry Cost.
Miscellaneous Paragraphs About
the Fair Sex.
FEMALE, cAB.pRlVER9,

FEMALE. CAB, DRIVERS.
a. woman has recently been detected in En-
gland who has been driving cab, in the guise Of
q man, for the past ten years. She was born, it
seems, at Taunton Somerset, whore her father
WAS land agent to nohleman. She had great
liking for "hand4ng the ribbons" and learned
to drive horses while very young. When little
moro than Il years Of age she Was married to an
army surgeon by the name Of Honeywell, and
bar name, III married woman. is Margaret
Honeywell. The twolived together 80 unhappi1y
that at length she run away from home and vent
to London. She there met with woman who
had formerly been farm-5srvans to her father,
and who had married . cabman. and, from what
she heard in regard to the cab-driving business,
she resolved to earn an independent living in
that branch OF industry. By wearing her hair
Short aud by iudieious use Of clothing, she
| managed to present the appearance of short,
stout man. Her face being OF masculine type,
her complexion horid. and she having an fupedi-
mcnt in her speech, caused BY defective palate,
conspired to render the llusion perfect For
throe years iu London and Bix in Liverpool
she piled the whip as cub ''man," her sex
being unknown and unsuspected BY all. Dur
ing that period she was on several occasions
placed in O peculiar and delicate position. but
came out from each ordeal without even sns-
! p1clon OF her sex beng aronsed: On one oc-
:as9n % t.oso1 rh;nt e,,a +hn,1oht bsJ hoan ;n-
~. ~ .,;o' r,,+, ~ ~ 10 anIv fgocta,
,oat;sn. W. .,tnonct ba tro.1ad To cnTn-
| ini.t s.aaassf,i,, 10 aoemad r. bsva not;ca4
nothing peculiar in the formation Of tie limb
Mrs. Honeywell states that during the time she
| acted "a .tcabby" she saw notice in news
PAPER that her husband had failed IN business.
| In ell probability, the public would not have
! heard for some timo Of this female cab-driver
tbaft iae - Eh;oh cansaa her aTTest and discovery.
similar Instance has occurrodin PARIS Some
| mouths ago the driver OF cab died suddenly,
| and WAS replaced 81 feM days lster ny . qaies'
oeusate,looAh5 ~ ;n. - W. n;s ",a,on.are I'D
for t;s aine1,,ar nnsociable and silent manners.
The other coaohmea q dubbed him Il Little Louis"
and troubled their heads very little about l!im
though, IN spite OF h's SILENCE anu 1nsociaolhsy,
ne vas a"yo ~ IT. otar n av noor :. f;ttia
T,o,;x " wss missing from his stand. He had
fallen sick. and bud been taken to the hospital,
| whore it was speedily discovered that tho quiet
| llttio coachman WAS IN reality Woman' II ap-
| pears that eile was the VIE OF the coachfnan
| who had died suddenly. belng !e1s "!sn an ln-
FAINT 4 fe" months old, sne naa formed me oes-
perata resolve OF, taxing her deaa nuso1un
! place, and thus supporting herself and her chud.
! SO she put her infant out to nurse, oonneu ha!e
attire, and for some months endured all tne
| hardships and exposures OF caorouasel .1' nle;
A. the end OF that time heT ch1'a 1oh eeh anu
died, and then tue poor mother broke down, too,
and tecan1o serlously al. lew Gays o. 1eYo5
| and dolirinm IN the hospital, ana then tue eno
came, and the poor Creatures tons ano sottows
| were cnded. A STRANGE SAD mae 1omance "as s
| this out OF the many that stud the annais OF Inc
| poor of Pa1ia.
.,
| pHE9s,He. ,,.. D.z..,
! Olive Logan, IN m a1s1ee II Aa'pef o1@s1''
sa5s: The leading ldea N rosafo TO oreaS-ans
! dress, atmost-in the mind Of an American won-
an in Tint it shall DO rich aud costly. For many
' ~ ~. H. .;1,o hrt t,ose ca1,sd pro, .>,. ;,,s
scA,s Nv ui7eA onao =. ~ 49, raarl ~ vrsn
could hno pusoaas7te Ia .u's ualA %. .a'
now IN these cur times OF nsnleaine =, puse
strings, this heavy and costly f1brlc'ls almost IN
nniveraa; nsc. and it is nothing uncommon to
80 art ~ tba;r +cana vaar;p, slks
ee' sn'' W. wy .-..sa a. e. 49, 7>o,,,,r,,
OF neas'nesa u 'e1.a.o A' ~ ~ fOF- 1Fs....
appafel oi gray s,1.. 49,.
un. finished as an epig1am," hare never owned
.,<+,, !. dreaa aa a e.roa rrain. And inst here
ia ,he no;nt to motto The basis OF the difference
hat,roan tne Freuch and the Americans, which ia
a;nto ,ot on1v in dress but in ali other OBJ
ssn,e no. ,na g' nbch 60 ereatiy 10 The
sl,n;ra hie ordering Of lie 10 France, viz the
ahm haan"a ~ nratans;on tho ayoidnnca Of desire
eoss" -, r;chnr fhan thoy rnaIly ara which is
b the secret Of The success Of the Partisan s.lon
A1.o 10 III
napsta' o@t . 'rasnectahia woman ;u France
,ua,,Id conasnt IN wear apparel not in
s.nt mouto socordanoe sorn With her established
aaa;to, sstai; "o1 w i;fa Far tho wife Of q clerk
49,, enoati-aalared nerson to appear wearing
" aa,,nra a. Al indian saawl Or anv othor
as;r. tacs muau ,,r,nant m wona be- to invite such
pt e1penmse ~ :. ~ mo5rst darno can meet without
coalaahs il..t TranrhvoTnan's ~ dress must b. in
n1.l.,.. ouzn sr7tb hcr means Int how frequently
accotuansn ts WI nxn.mationa in this country: How
We noa1 saG ~ - t.W5,ara does the money coma
49,, y and when the wife and daughters Of
NOM H., and h.ni-ar'. c1nr. awe,1 nm and down
Jones. tne ooun us;a1;, s.nnnss md fonnced er,os
broaa~sg az ~ +s seat 1aat ms1 thi,r in bonnsts snd
gtalqs ana 1o nesr'acoorsd cioveg the Ieast cen
hve-nutton. a.,'nat h,,t marvel INV they af-
so..oan sora sa,.h ~ coatlv e Reimbursement.
are ooIes W." o,oan ~ %nsn,l{v well dressed? As
- hs uai rassed is to ba ftiy dressed and fresh
IL dressed, have small hesitation in replying
that they are not.
Perhaps even greater .nan nei T.; ~ f ia
nelnE csssu a9 ho1ror of vsarine garment
hat te IL nnsse fane, 5iipt. It requires but few
wenrings in tie dirty streets Of any Of our towns
to convert the handsomest g7os era h lnto - Nh ha