Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-06

the college honors over their heads. She
is about twenty-fCur years OF age, and is
attractive in spite Of the absence Of the
frills OF fashion. She Is engaged TO
preach for six weeks In Brooklyn.
Mrs. ]. Il Butler, Miss Sarah 8. Thayer
and William B. Hale, in behalf OF the
executive committee Of the Village I'M
provement society, of Northampton,
Massachusetts,, are out with an appeal
10 every man to help to beautify
the street over against his own house,
TO all the boys and girls to join the assO-
citation ranks; to all the merchants to
keep their front walks swept, and have
q general cleaning on Saturday nights,
outside OF their stores, so that the town
may appear IS well on Sunday as during
the week.
Hon. Mrs. Talbot, of London, Eng
land, sixteen years ago started the
scheme of the PaTochisl mission wO-
men, The three mission women with
whom she began { work, by their IN
firing labor in Rinistering both to the
physical and spiritual needs Of the very
poor in their own houses, soon justified
the zeal with which Mrs. Talbot urged
her pIsn. At the present time there are
one hundred and eighty-three Of these
earnest and devoted women working In
and about London, carrying christian
kindness and intelligent ideas about
health and work, and the management
of children, into the homes Of the poor
est and lowest. Mrs. Talbot is an in-
stance of the way in which all the great
questions of social politics are being met
and worked out by women, at the pres
ent day, in England.
Laura Ream appropriately sends to
the Cincinnati Commercial letter sew
eral columns in length, recitiDg all the
occasions on which congressman have
dropped into poetry" the present ses-
sion. We learn from this source that
Florida member went to Richard III
for pat lines to use in an obituary, while
the elegant Mr.. BanKs frightfully man.
gIed familiar quotation from Hamlet.
The ferrugiRous Mr.. Kelley gave scope
to his imagination, and, putting himself
in the place Of the lovely "Desdemons,"
said, 81 do perceive here divided duty"
We are glad to learn from several men,
bers that "Truth crushed to earth shall
rice again;n from several others that
Westward the course of empire takes
its way" while we are grateful even to
the southern gentlemen who quote with
now famous rubbish entitled 1.-The BIZ
vouac of the Dead" These gems of
poesy illuminate the otherwise dark
wastes of congressional OTatory.
The Artistic Difficulty I'm France
Lucy Hooper, in New York World.l
A great and growing difficulty, of
which all the artists in Paris at present
complain, is that of finding good models,
especially for the undraped female form.
To find woman sufficiently beautiful
and sufficiently shameless, who at the
same time has not entered upon career
of vicious luxury, is by no means easy
task. And by law a parent cannot force
daughter, II unwilling, to adopt the
profession of q model. Hence arose
thrilling scene-which would make q
fine subject for a picture, by the way
and which took place in the dteIier of q
celebrated Partisan painter, the other
day. An old Italian woman, who had |
sat to him, came to him and |
informed him one day that she had
very beautiful daughter who would be
willing to pose to him rs model for an
unfinished NEUROLOGICAL picture which
he had laid aside, as it go happened, pre- |
cisely for lack of female model. He
engaged her at once on the representa-
tions of the mother, and the next day
she came. Al alteration at once arose
between the girl and the old woman,
which, being carried on in their native |
tongue, the artist could not under. |
stand. It ended by the old bag seiz- |
ing the girl and tearing off her gar
ments by main force, regardless Of the |
painters remOnstrances, who had no |
idea that the proposal of the mother was |
against the daughters will. The poor |
girl rushed shriekipg to the window; her |
cries attracted the notice of the police, |
and the unnatural parent was arrested |
and condemned to several months i'm. |
AS to the girl, who was |
not yet sixteen years of age, she has |
been placed at a conveDt school, and will |
probably become good and respectable |
member of society. Not that the pro-
fession of a model necessarily excludes |
such future, as it is a well-known fact |
several of the most beautiful models of |
Paris are women of the severest virtue |
But as l before remarked, fiue female |
models are extremely rare. Recently a |
American traveller re- |
marked to an artist while in Florence I
that so exquisite a beauty as that of |
Titian's "Vepus" was not to be found in |
modern days. "Excuse me-" replied |
the artist, ;" 1--WE see women Of as perfect !
loveliness as that picture every day of
our lives, but among those that we can
never hope to have sit to us; they be-
Iong to the upper classes of American !: