The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-28
Men and Women.

Il n OuiSaSu BiiA hao Juob 4uuuu out that the
| count whom she refused to marry last Decem.
Der because she was told he was not count
| and was the husband Of two other women, Is
| Just what he said that he was, which Is pleas
ant considering that she has consoled herself
py marrying another man.
This is the way in which Louisville girl
disposes OF young man, according to the Cou-
rler-Journal: She says, "You have asked me
pointedly II can marry you, and 1 have an
swered you pontedly that can. L can marry
man who makes love to different girl every
month. can marry man whose main occu-
patton seems to be to join in gantlet in front Of
churches and theatres and comment audibly on
the people who are compelled to pass through
IL. can marry man whose only means OF
support is an aged father. l can marry man
who boasts that any girl can be won with the
help of good tailor and an expert tongue.
can marry such man, but 1 w-o-n.t!"
Atlas in the London World, speaking of
the late Mrs. Cameron, the friend Of Tenny son,
the Lockers and of Watts, the royal academi.
clan, says that her household staff was dream
of fair women, and, to her intense delight,
visitor Of hers once fell in love with graceful
cook who used to dust the -four from her arms
toat she might meet her suitor in the library
and married her. Some ten years ago Mrs.
Cameron had an exhibition of her photographs
at the Dudley Gallery; and the taker Of the
shillings, the vender of the catalogues, and the
guardian OF the umbrellas were girls of whom
the memory haunts me still. She herself was
charmingly, hope.essly, pathetically plain, and
knew 1t. She was rather to be envied, then.
It's the women who are ngly without the
charm and the psthos that are to be pitied.
The following story about President Lincoln
is certainly Characteristic. Soon after he went
to Washington he attend ed the Foundry church
occupying seat within the altnr, while Bishop
Simpson preached missionary sermon. After
the collection was taken at the close Of the SER
mon, and the congregation was about to be
dismissed, an irreD ressible brother rose and
proposed to be one OF given mum Der to raise
SlO0 to make President Lincoln life director
OF the missionary society. The proposition was
put, and Brothers A, b and @ responded glibly.
But the inevitable pause finally came Part
OF the money was wanting. When tho Bishop
announced, "Who will take the balaDc 90 the
pause became slightly impressive. Then the
tall form OF Lincoln was Seen to rise, q long
boney arm was extended imploringly, and he
said: "Bsh0p, this is the first time have ev-
er been placed upon the auction block. Please
let me pay the balance myself, and take me
down."
John Ledyard in his Siberian journal pays
the following tribute to women of all nations:
81 have observed among all nations that wo-
men wherever they may be found are the same
kind, civil, obliging, humane and tender be-
iegs; that they are ever inclined to be gay and
cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not
hesitate, like men, to perform q hospitable or
generous action; not naughty nor arrogant, nor
snperstitious, but full of courtesy, and fond of
society, industrious, economical, ingenious;
more liable in general to err than man, bat in
general more virtuous, and performing more
good actions than can he. never address my
self in the language of decercy and friendship
to woman, whether civilized or savage, with.
ont receiving decent and friendly answer.
With man it has often been otherwise. In
wandering over barren plains of inhospitable
Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen
Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprinci-
pied Russia. and the widespread regions CT
Tartary, women have ever been friendly to me-
and, to add to this virtue, these actions have
been performed in 40 free and SO kindly q
manner that drank the draught and ate the
coarse morsel with double relish''
Corr Springfield Republican: Walt Whit
man, though not at present residing in WASH
ington, has SO identified himself, by long resi-
dence here with the city's cosmopolitan life,
that 1T seems natural and fitting to write of
him in Washington letter. Visiting him re-
Gently at bis brothers. home in Camden, New
Jersey, 1 found bim In better health than he
ASo oooA oAAScs ~ 4OtOl h0 was pdKtihily otkCk-
en- with paralysis. He walks without the aid
of a cane, slowly, bat with more firmness than
he did year ago, and being free from suffering
and having a good appetite, he is in a more
genial and happy mood. His income from the
sale Of the last edition Of his works has been
sufficient to support him living, as he does, q
most frugal and simple life; but, now that he
he is gaining strength be feels as he said, in
democratic phrase, that he "should like to take
| hand again.. Not that the poet is idle, for
he is still writing, adding to his store Of liter.
| ary productions, but apparently his early fond
ness for the noise and hustle Of outdoor life,
and for the presence Of multitudes of his fell
| low-men, which fondDess he has celebrated in
bis poems, revives with his reviviDg strength
He said he was going to New York soon when
the settled pleasant weather came, to deliver q
| lecture upon Abraham Lincoln, and that he
| was tying to pluck up courage to undertake Q
| Journey across the continent to California, q
tree pass for .he journey having been sent to
MIN some time ago by his friend Tom Scott.
be asked me, as he does all Massachusetts,
people, aDout Emerson, whom he esteems first
| OF all Americans, although he wishes Emerson
were more OF democrat and less dainty in his
literary tastes. Although Emerson has given
Walt the smartest slaps In the face he has ever
received from any one, he cherishes only the
kindest feelings toward him, and refers to his
| structures OF himself and his poetry as only
natural expressions of the literary taste which
Emerson chefishes in common with the CAM
bridge school Of literati. But while he retains
immense respect for the sage of Concord, he re-
| CARDS most of the other representatives of the
| Harvard coterie as mere literary fops, and
thinks that most of them-as some one once
said Of the Unitarian olergy-weuld pass for
| women as soon as for men, so far as any mag
| culinity appears in their work. Whitman was Q
| good deal amused not long since By CONVERSE
/ tion he had at Cambridge with Oliver Wendell
| Holmes Tue Englishman had naivsly given
| expression to his own admiration of Whitman,
| uhan HOl dad hat L. e.
days before himself, and Longfellow and Low
ell had discussed Whitman over dinner
| table, "and," said Holmes, Lowell said that
| he was satisfied there was nothing in Whit
| man; nothing whatever" and, according to the
| Engiishman's account, Holmes evidently
/ Thought that settled it,