The Portland daily press., 1877-02-07
Men and Women.

Men and Women.
B. L. Farjeon, the Dckensy novelist. Is en-.
gagged to marry Meenie Van Winkle-we mean
Joe Jefferson's daughter. The London Court
Journal says SO.
Mrs. Fanny Hodgson Burnett, author Of
"rhat Lass O. Lowrie's," is an Englishwoman
but now married to young doctor of Knox
vile, Tenn.
The young men of Troy, N. Y, are worrying
over the great problems of the day. Last Sat-
urday night, after a protracted debate, they
decided that Congress was not justified in pass
ing the Compromise bill, and at the next meet
ing they will grapple with this question: RE
solred, That it is justifiable to marry for
money" For the sake of the young ladies Of
Troy the local papers ought to put every men,
Der on record by publishing the vot- in full.
There are now So reigning sovereigns In
Christendom, from the queen of Eogland, with
237, 900 900 subjects, to the prince of Monaco,
who has but 5741. The oldest reigning sover-
eign is the Emperor William of Germany, who
Is 81 years old on the 22d of March next; the
youngest Alphouso XII. of Spain, who was 10
last November. The monarch who has sat the
longest on the throne is Dom Pedro Of Brazil,
who began to reign in 1881; the queen of Eng
land is fourth on the list and will complete her
fortieth reigning year on June 90
In her last letter from Washington to the In
dependent, Mary Clenmer writes: "When
Senator Christancy married little cir! who
counted scrip in the Treasury, the society
leaders met and debated whether they should
receive her or not. She entered their enchanted
circle as by fire. She was by no means unani-
mously received nor in any way warmly well
coined. Nobody tabooed her so positively and
utterly as Mrs. Belknap. She, the daughter of
country doctor, was not willing to receive on
equal terms the little Countess Of Scrip
suddenly elevated to the dignity of Senator's
wife. But Mrs. Fish, with the blood of old
Peter Stuyvesant in her VEINS went to see the
little golden-halred woman. and treated her
just as kindly as she could any one-and that
is very kindly. That was but one year ago.
Yet already we have ceased altogether to hear
Of Mrs. Belknap's magnificent dresses. She
lives at the Arlington, and no doubt keeps still
her near personal friends; but she is no longer
the fashion. Nobody cares whether her shoes
are ones or tens''
On Wednesday evening ''Toddie," otherwise
Charles, second son of Mr.. John Habberton,
died of membranous Group at his fathers resi-
dence, No. 66, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn
'Toddie' will be widely remembered as one
OF the infant heroes of Mr.. Habberton's popu-
lar story entitled "Helen's Babies He was
precocious child. and, though only four years
old, wore number seven hat. Such of his
infant freaks as art narrated in the book do not
at all exaggerate his precocity of mind, his
persistence, mischievousness, sensitiveness, and
energy His vitality and vivacity were per-
fectly irrepressible. He was never quiet except
when asleep, and be talked so well that be was
excellent society for children of larger growth
So robust and vigorous was his body that he
was not likely to be the victim of any disease
less formidable than this terrible cutting off of
the breath by delicate membrane which
battles all the surgical and medical ingenuity
OF the age. AT the time of the bereavement
Mrs. Habberton was absent in Hartford, her
former home She arrived here again on
Thursday morning, and with her husband re-
turned to Hartford this morning with the
precious burden. This is the second son they
have lost, and two left with them--an older
child, Lawrence ("Budge'') and a youpger,
Frank.-7he Graphic.
Roman women are the direct opposite Of Ger
man Gretchen whose blonde tresses are wound
round gentle, dreamy little head, and whose
blue eyes look even by day as
though'they were full of the soft glimmer
Of moonlight. The Roman woman
typifes clear decision. She is the rep
resentative of serious and majestic womanhood.
Her beauty is celebrated all over the the world.
and has no rival throughout the rest of Italy,
Fair-haired Roman women are: very rare.
But the wealth of black locks suits magnifi.
Gently with the rich brown of of their complex
ions, mellowed by southern sur, and with
the pomegranate flower red of their lips Such
liveliness as that of the Neapolitau women and
coquetry are foreign to Roman female nature,
These women move like queens, with fine,
broad shouldered and broad hipped figures and
flexible waists. They do not bend or wave
from side to side as they walk, but glide along
with sweeping draperies, like so many wander.
ing goddesses. These physical attractions are
accompanied by dignl6ed, gracious bearing,
and the bal mobile parlare, the noble speech of
the Roman women, is peculiarly fascinating.
No one who has once felt the charm of this
eloquence, whose deep, full tones and flowing
vowels are as harmonious as fine mnsic, can
ever forget it, The rich, high-born beauty
blooms and fourishes like the flowers and
shrubs in the luxuriant Roman gardens; the
wretched peasant woman of the Campagns is
poor, haggard, tanned by sun and weather
But her gait TOOLS proud, her eyes also flame
orightly-they flame, alas, with hunger and
fever, two maladies hereditary in her blood
There IS character in her features; and even
when her couDtenance shall be utterly with
cred and wrinkled and discolored BY years,
hard work and weather, it will yet be full of
character though it be as ugly and hag-ke as
that of an old witch. The buntness and dsa-
greeaole sharpness which age impresses upon
the women of other European countries are not
seen among them. They are all fit to serve as
painters models Roman girls are utterly de-
void of sentmentaity, and women of the Ro-
man populace talk as familiarly of the latest
trsgical stabbing case as our women talk of the
last new novel, and whenever a man has been
killed they Immediately take the part of the
wretched assassin. There is nothing to be done
for the dead man, but the other interesting,
much-to-be compassionsted criminal, whu has
had the misfortune to kill somebody, he, indeed
may have need for help and sympathy, for the
accursed carabinieri are after him, and he
must not te left to fall into their hands
Wheresoever he goes and relates his bloody
story, he is sure to meet with shelter. The
women press round him fnll of pity and curios-
ity, the children stare at HIM as at hero, the
men admite him and help him as best they
can't A, Irollope' Sneac book on Italy.