The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-23
AbOut Women.

and the Continental Hotel offers her its very
best rooms. She has not decided whether or
not to come, but she wants her son to come, and
the Philadelphiaps are hopeful that she will
come, also.
Julia Ward Howe finds in q recent leap-year
party this lesson: "Place a man under the
same disabilities which everywhere restrain
women from free natural action, and he at
once feels his impotence. and is as much Grip
Piled by the artificial restriction as any woman
can be. On the other hand, give to women, for
one hour even, the freedom which men claim,
and they will show quite the same power of en-
jeyng and using it, and will possibly display
more delicacy and generosity in its use.''
At the University of Michigan III ladies are
now avaliRg themselves of the right to univer-
sity instruction. In the distribution which
they have made of themselves among the sew
eral departments there is no little significance
A of them having chosen the law, AZ medi-
cine aud &C literature and science
The New York Herald Paris correspondent
telegraphs THE last vagary in evening cos
tunes for ladies is return to classic styles.
The dresses are worn attached to a clasp at the
shoulder, leaving the arms bare and the bosom
recklessly decoVetee."
There are this year III women studying in the
st. Petersburg (Russia )academy Of medicine and
surgery of whom 102 are Of noble birth,1 daugh-
tiers OF merchants, II daughters of clergymen.
The association of men and women at clinics
and the dissecting table has been characterized
by entire harmony and sobriety.
Mrs. Secretary Taft is most cultivated
lady, highly accomplished, and remarkable for
her exemplary piety and her active benevo-
lence. She is constantly engaged In works of
charity, and her removal to Washington will
be serious loss to the poor of Cincinnati, In
whose cause she has increasingly labored. AL
though wealthy, Judge and Mrs. Taft have
always perferred a simple style of living, and
have never cared much to enter into into gay
society. They have three sons, one Of when is
married and has children.
Mr.. Edmund Yates gives this sketch of
George Eliot in the London World: ga slight
presence, of middle height, as the height of
women goes; a face somewhat long, whose
power, lightened by the perpetual play of
changing expression; a voice of most sympa-
thetic compass and richness; manner full of
grave sweetness, uniformly gentle and in
tensely womanly, which proclaims the depth
of the interest taken in ordinary and obscure
things and people; conversation which lends It.
self as readily to topice trivial as to topics pro.
found, and which is full of humor-as, indeed
are her writings-that is redeemed from sar-
casm by its ever-present sympathy; such is
rough and imperfect sketch of George Eliot,
as she may be seen when she is occupied with
her Sunday receptions in her pleasant home
To.I
health, she feels the effect of authorship so
severely, the interest which she takes in the
development and destiny of the creations of
her brain, who might be better described as
the generalizations from Iher own personal
knowledge and experience is so painfully and
absorbingly deep, that she is unequal to the
task of going very generally or very much into
society. So thoroughly does she think out her
books, before she commences to write them
that, unlike Dickens, though like Thackary,
her manuscript displays scarcely an erasure or
| blot.
Mrs. Eunice Stoughton, of Gill, who has
Just died at the age of ninety-fve, was the last
/ of four school girls who were together eighty
four years ago at Warwick, have been intimate
ever since, and have all died within year.
Mrs. E. d. Gillespie, of Philadelphia, delv-
cred an interesting lecture on woman's work in
the Centennial Exhibition at Steinway Hall,
New York, last Friday. In response to in
quires, after the lecture, she said that a woman
invented the celebrated Mccormick reaper.
and another woman the bell-punch now used
on the street cars, but the inventors were too
poor to obtain patents.
Sonora Carmen Alvarez de Araya, of Quill
lota, sent to the recent Chilian Exposition
samples of cotton raised on her estate "This
lady, animated by progressive and patriotic
spirit, wished to make test to learn if it be
advisable to give an impulse to the cultivation
of cotton in Chill. The samples were very
complacently examined by the judges, and the
lady awarded a medal of the first class. The
Mercurio presages that from the trials and les
sons of the lady the farmers will be led to
initiate her example and thus develope
profitable cotton growing industry iD Chill.
Go South! young woman, 60 Southl
A bit of current gossip-as easy to invent as
| to believe-has it that the cabinet ladies" had
quite discussion when Senator Christiancy
married the treasury clerk, whether they ought
to recognize her, and Mrs. Relknap was es.
| pecially bent on an edict of exclusion. But
Mrs. Fish and the other wives of cabinet min
| listers have called on Mrs. Christiancy, and she
| doesn't care about receiving a visit from Mrs.
/ Belknap.
London gossps say that the idea of making
| Queen Victoria Empress of India originated
| with Princess Beatrice, who wants to be, like
l her Russian sister-in-law, ''Her Royal and I'M
perial highness." 1t is said that this wonld
| settle troublesome questions of precedence In
favor of the English side of the amiable family.
| Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler, writing about
visit to the studio of the Scottish sculptor
Mac Donald, in Rome, says: 81 remember the
beautiful casts, one of Lady W4lpole's feet,
which were in poris naturalibus, and admira-
bly, formed, moreover; on cushion of clay re-
posed another pair of wonderfully exquisite feet
duly clothed in stockings and slippers, which
| were Lady Coventry's beautiful extremities.
| Mac Donald was an intimate friend of hers,
| and during her residence in the Palazzo Bar
berini constantly spent his evenings there, and
| on one occasion when she was indispsed and
| lying on her sofa, he copied her feet exactly as
they rested on the cushion of her couch. They
4 certan1v were verv lovely"