The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-02-22
Men and Women.

Washington letter says: "Dawes, the
massachusetts man, has habit of sitting
down twice; that u.s. he sits down, then picks
himself up to be certain he is all there and sits
down satisfied"
A Washington correspondent says that the
Widow Oliver, who ensnared the willy Came
ron. is solid forty. and her brunette face bears
the indications of having had a steady fight
with stern world for many years, and evil
dences resolute determination to keep the
warfare up or die.
United States Consul G. w. Giffin, who has
returned home as commissioner from Samoa,
has in his possession the head-dress which the
princess, Lono Juno, niece of one the ex-kings,
will wear when she is married. 1t consists of
band to fit the head, to which is attached
profusion of white satin-like ribbons, about
foot in length, made from the skin of the
coooanut, taken from between the meat and the
shell. The headdress is to be carried back to
Samoa. Mr.. Griffin describes the princess as a
beautiful maiden of eighteen, with fair COM
plexion, large, lustrous eyes, pro fusion of
long, soft, black hair and musical voice.
Whether at work or at leisure in his study,
Mr. James Russell Lowell occupies broad
easy chair standing midway between the table
and the fireplace, which holds blazing logs. In
this chair he has done most of his writing his
only desk being stiff piece of pasteboard, CON
veniently resting on his knee One of the
curiosties which Mr.. Lowel's study contains
is pair of silver sleeve-buttons, now furnished
almest into blackness which were once worn
by Robert Burns. Mr.. Lowell is fond of trees
and flowers, and often works among them.
He is an angler and pedestrian, never riding
when he can walk. He is in excellent health,
and looks manly, robust, and erect. He may
sometimes be seen in bleak wintry weather
walking leisurely through Cambridge thorough
fares with not even the ghost of an overcoat
epveloping him.
Celia Logan explains the origin of the phrase,
"Wake me up when Kirby dies Kirby was
the leading man in the old Chatham-stre
Theatre, New York, and although good actor
Of his type and favorite with the boys, he
made no especial fame until melodrama was
produced entitled mike Martini in which he
played the character of Ihuaderbolt. 1t fell to
his lot to be shot on the roof of a house. When
he received his death wound he leaped from
the roof to the stage. In order to make a real
istic effect he concealed in his sleeve a sponge
soaked with red paint When the shot was
fired he instantly clapped this sponge to his
forehead and the red drops running over his
face gave the appearance of CHASTITY wound,
and that coupled with his bold leap and well
acted death made great sensation. He was
nightly encored and compelled to die over
again. The boys would often drop to sleep in
the early part of the play with the request to a
companion to wake them up when Kirby died.
Miss Anna Ballard, reporter on the staff OF
the New York Sun, has been elected member
of the Press Club by vote of "a to 10. With
in the last ten years women contributors to the
press have become numerous. The book reviewer
of the Her Adds lady one of the book reviewers
of the Tribune, one of its most valued correspon-
dents and several of les regular contributors
are women; the agricultural aud market re-
porter of the New York Times is a woman; the
New York Suns fashion writer is a woman,
and one of Its most industrious and sagacious
reporters is woman. Women correspondents
flood the evening papers with news from Wash
ington. We instance these not at all as a
complete catalogue; for there are, we doubt not
more than hundred women known and rec
ognized in and about Printing House Square
as regular contributors to the columns of the
daily and weekly press AS rule they are
modest, reputable, pains-taking servants of the
press; and it is generally conceded that if they
are willing to put up with the Inconvenience
attending journalistic work, it is no part of
mems duty to interfere with their attempt to
earn an honest livelihood in a profession which
has SO many aveues as yet uncrowded.