National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS.


Are women coming to the front2 It would
seem so. Take, for instance, tho editorial
page of the New York Tribune for last Friday,
aud SEQ the prominence given to divers and
sundry Of the fair sex. Governor Cornell
has thought 1t incumbent upon him To- rub
licly acknowledge the executive ability Of
woman In nominating, unsought, Miss Car
penter, of Poughkeepsie, to be one Of tho
State Board Of Charities And the confirma-
tion was unanmous-witho dissenting
voice
Tho immense service rendered by women in
hospital and sanitary work during the late
war was unparalleled, totally inexperienced
as they were in tho beginning But the work
was hr-reaching, systematic and unfaltering,
the rare patience and charity Of the sex com.
ing out nobly. The influence, too, was moi
only encouraging, but refining. No soldier
ever had hospital experience with
out coming out a Drawer and mort
chiyalrious man, ready to go into battle and
suffer his wounds over and ovor again.
The late Frank Leslie showed his manhood
by, publicly proclaiming in his will his in%
deDtedness to his wife for valued assistance in
editorial work and tho publishing business
asking others to have the same confidence and
sustain her in q vocation evidently well
chosen, and by this last direction ignoring
and disiDheriting ungrateful and incompetent
sons. In the Old World a powerful woman
By bold intrigue, holds the balance of power
In her own hand, and makes the Car of all
the Russias withhold, safely locked away ir
his writing desk, the new constitution which
more than half his subjects believe would
neutralize old strife aud break up Nihilis
treason, while the poor Empress is neglected
and dying in exile. This kind of scandalOus
influence seems to be traditional aud an &C.
cepted fact in the precincts of a throne.
Miss Kate Field, accomplished and versatile,
uses her great talents in new venture, and
braveIy enters the protean field, hoping 10
combine intellectual entertainments with a
stylo oil amusement now somewhat in vogue.
ms may bring nOtoriety to which she may
mako good account, but her sincere friends
would prefer her fame pinned to the brilliant
letters which from time to time have floated
over the broad Atlantic from foreign shores
and found an honored place in tho current
literature Of the day.
Mrs. Sylvanus Reed the head of flourish
ing New York school, is mentioned as the abls
mother of clever sou who has Just distin.
guished himself in au English university.
She takes her glory secondhand, but none tho
less 1t is hers.
Honorable mention is made of Mrs Garfield,
wife OF the Senator, who chooses rather to re-
main quietly at home assisting ana superin-
tending the education Of her sturdy young
sons, rather than running round from pillar
to post, returning visits Of exactng and unin-
NSAS''''b ''Sitvao w utIocll u ltduoE
among II lot OF curious aud dissatisfied society
women.
Adelina PATHS whims and fears arc graveIy
noted, as those of q distinguished cantatrico
should be; for the fact is patent that tho
genius Of this woman has triumphed over
oven the scruples of that pattern of goodness,
Queen Victoria, who prohibits the presenta.
tion of divorced woman at her drawing
room, yet, if rumor does not lie, received the
divine Dipd at dejemer; just as that lovely
woman, the Princess OF Wales, forgave the
lrailties Of Sara Bernhard and ignored tho five
different results, as a witty Partisan calls tho
tatherless children of La Bernhardt. If men
have hitherto monopolized that headless thing
We call u mob, the Peruvian women have
shown AN unoxampled ferocity in u combna-
ton OF that sort, short time ago In Luna.
where many hundreds banded together and
attacked their enemies some delenseless Chill
ian women and children, and dragged them
through the streets, tearing them limb from
limb, in their savage Spanish fury, trying 70
revenge the wrongs of their countrymen.