Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-01-17

wAsuISoroy, Jan. o. 1879.

WASHINGTON. Jan. o. 1879.
Ed. News The weather has been
intensely cold for ten days. The ground
Is frozen to a depth OF thirty inches.
and this being the average depth Of the
water mains, many Of them are frozen,
causing great iuconvsuienes and making
the calamity Of fire doubly dangerous.
In many houses the bursting OF water
pipes makes it necessary for families to
20 two or three squares for water. This
scarcity is felt chiefly in elevated locali-
ties. especially on Capitol Hill.
This week the woman's Rights Con-
vention will assemble at Washington.
and Lincoln Hall will resound with .
reiteration OF the same old. familiar
speeches. Cruel. despotic. tyrannieAl
man will be shown up in his true and
infamous light; Congress will be waited
upon. p~etitioned. memorialized; and
then the convention will ramos the
treadmill for another year. II may all
be very we'll to allow won q vote. but
the ballot would be accorded them much
sooner IL these self. elected champions
OF woman suffrage would only cease. for
q century or two, making the absurd and
silly speeches that convict them of utter
unhtness for public life.
The only event since the adjournment
Of Congress has been the LIST OF January.
1879. II was marked by tho usual re-
ceptions - official. non.oficial. diplo.
matte and military. Every man arraysd
himself in his best clothes aud called on
the ladies' wherever they were prepared
to receive. The ladies' were all dressed
most exquisitely. and many Of them
stood under the gaslit chandeliers, with
the blinds OF their parlors closed. In
Simultaneous photographs OF the tableaun
Of presentation on that day would prove
interesting to those who delight to study
modern manners. aud who discern in
bows. and smiles, and dress. and atti-
tude. the material that IL the base Of 80
much psychological reflection in the
modern novel. In the evening at many
houses. receptions were concluded with a
dance, and the delicate American woman.
who, psychologists tell US Is degsnsrating
physically. whose waist. they say IL
90 slender that she has not sufficient
room for lungs, liver. heart. and other
convenient v~iscera, after standing on
her feet for SIX hours bowling. smiling.
and prnttling-continued for six hours
longer to skip through the mazes OF the
l~sncrrs, or to whirl in the more violent
waltz. Talk Of the feais OF Bertha Won
Hillsrn and Madam Anderson! "Physi.
cal culture" Bahl IL it is desired to
see prodigies Of female endurance. gaze
upon the course at q ball room. One
OF our fair countrywomen was shocked
last Summer when she saw q woman in
Holland. built like q tub. drawing n
canal boat. loaded with two tons Of hay.
her husband and family. Aud vet this
American lady had known women In her
own country. who were not built like
tubs. slender. ~irail-looking specimens,
do the cooking. washing aud sewing for
. large family, half the time balancing q
big baby on her hip. To such q woman
I think IL would be rest and recreation
TO tug a canal boat. Not to create q
wrong impression. l DO not think II ID
habitual for the male navigators OF the
Dutch canals to ride while their wives
walk the tow-psth. She WAS simply
taking her turn at their common labor.
u. A.. y.