The Portland daily press., 1881-02-01
Gossip
About Men and Women.

81 called on Dickens" says foreign writer,
Immediately after he had finished reading
Adam Bede,' and recollect his telling me he
had no longer any doubt as the sex of the
writer. He gave as his reason that there
were certain passages descriptive, think, of
the feelings of Hetty as she surveyed her
charms in the looking glass-which it would
have been impossible for any man to write
without gross violation of decency, but which
might easily have been penned by clever wo-
man. Months later wrote to him to ask the
name of the writer, which l was sure he
then knew. One of his daughters was his
amanuensis for reply, and at the end Of note
which treated of other matters, she said: pa
pa desires me to say that the name of the per-
son you inquire about is either Bradbury or
Evans; he does not think it's Bradbury
Some of the new slang is published in St.
Louis: When a girl is 'ilck" she is knowing;
when she is ''lency" she is quite the reverse
of knowing. If you wish to convey to your
hearts idol that you adore her transcendent
beauty just tell her she is Oppressive" GA
Johnny boy is new variety of the gcnus ho-
mo who knows how to dance like an angel
supposing that angels would SO far forget
themselves as to dance-who wears good
clothes and is an idiot in every other respect.
The feminine equivalent of ''the Johnny boy"
is generally called "Evangelne." If you dis
approve OF place, person or party, you may
refer to it as a "snide," 'gummy" or "toppy."
Excessive admiration wrecks pitself upon ex-
pressions in such CLOSES as "balmy," "harmo-
nious," "gulative." "Gulative'' seems to
mean a great many things. 1t is sort of nom
committal word, which can be used to fill up a
If q Y a douhtf,,l npipinp
Mr.. Evelyn Ashley, the private secretary of
the late Lord Palmerston, holds an estate in
Sligo, which came to him under such curious
circumstances that they read more like fiction
than fact. When Lord Palmerston died he
left by will the whole of his property to Mr..
Cowper- Temple, his stepson. The heir had
enjoyed this property for some time when he
discovered in a secret drawer the draft of
codicil which clearly showed that Lord Pal
merston had intended to leave his Irish estate
to his private secretary, Mr.. Ashley This
was, OF course, not binding on Mr.. Cowper
at once informed Mr.. Ashley of the discovery,
aud made over to him the Sligo estate.
Here is a pen-and tnk sketch of an American
girl, which is interesting as showing how
Yankee girl appears to French eyes: "Stylish
W iho odChDOuO. 4uuOpCuuCut dS luuCpouuOul
cs n be, but very pure. Is devoted to pleasure,
dress, spending money, shows her moral ma
ture nude just as it is so as to deceive nobe dy.
Flirts all winter with this or that one and dis
misses him in the spring, when she instantly
catches another. Goes out alone. Travels
alone. When the fancy strikes her she travels
alone with a gentleman friend, or walks any,
where with him; puts boundless confidence
in him; conjugal intimacy seems to exist be-
tween them. She lets him tell what he feels
talk of love from morning to night; but she
never gives him permission to kiss so much as
her hand. He may say anything-he shall do
nothing. She is restless she gives her heart
and soul to amusement before she marries
After marriage is a mother annually; is alone
all day; hears all night nothing except discus
sions about patent machinery, unexplosive De-
troleum and chemical manures She will then
let her daughters enjoy the liberty she used
without grave abuse. As nothing serious hap
pened to her, why should Fanny, Mary, Jen-
ny be less strong and adroit than their mother?
She originates French fashions Partisan wo-
men detest her. Provincial women despise
her. Men of all countries adore her,
but will not marry her unless she
has an immense fortune. Her hair is vermil-
lion, paler than golden hair; her black eyes are
boiu anu lTdukJ Suo LAS q pdI6uI shape Wu1Cn
It's forbidden to counterfeit spreads herself in
carriage as if she were in a hammock-the
natural and thoughtleSS posture of her passion
for luxurious ease. When she walks she moves
briskly and throws every glance right and left;
gives many of her thoughts to herself and few
of them to anybody else. She is wild plant
put in a hot-house."
The ex-confederate generals are all busy
practicing the arts of peace. Major-General
MarnaaduEa "a ic q Missouri
er, and as bachelor, lives omfortably in ST.
Louis on a salary of 5000. Gen. j. B. Cor
don, as counsel for the Louisville road, gets a
Salary of $4,000 Major-General f. B. Cheat
ham has handsome farm in Tennessee, and
Gen. L. j. Polk has another. Gen. Beaure-
gard makes fine income by supervising the
Louisiana lottery. Gen. Toombs practices law
and is very rich. Gen. Basil Duke is lawyer
in Louisville and has a good income; Gen.
Bradley Johnston is also getting rich in the
same profession in Baltimore. All the sons of
Robert e. Lee, except one, are moderately
successful farmers in Virginia. The exception,
Curtis Lee, succeeded his father as president
OF Washington Lee university. Gen. Jubal
Early is living quietly at Lynchburg in COM
Portable circumstances. Gen. j. G. Pember-
ton has become a resident of Philadelphia, is
an invalid, and has written book on Vicks-
burg. s-...s.fa q #Af1
Rev. James Freeman Clarke tells the follow
ing: On one occasion tried the new method
of pronouncing Latin. was travelling in
Italy. My wife, happening to see priest pass
by, asked me the meaning of the tonsure At
that moment not recolleting its significance, 1
said, 81 don't know; but there is priest, and
l will go and ask him." So, not knowing
Italian then, first constructed a Latin SEN
tence thoroughly. thought had made it
very well, and then l put it exactly, as
thought, into the Italian pronunciation got it
ready to say, and then went to him and said it.
"Eh! Che dite?" he asked. So repeated it.
this man to confessor. He wants to confess
his SINS" This was as near as / ever came to
the continental pronunciation of Latin; and
have never tried it since.
MIR. Labouchere recently said in an article
In Truth on the London stage: Actresses
live In world Of their own. They generally
exaggerate every sentiment. Their real life is
tinged with their theatrical life and high
wrought melodrama becomes a second nature
to them Few of them have perfectly sane
notion Of existence; they exist in the feeling
OF the moment. They are generally incapable
OF taking an interest in the ordinary occupa-
tions of their sex; at one moment they are in
the widest spirits, at another in the depths Of
despair, and those with whom they come in
contact are in their eyes alternately either me-
lodramatic villains plotting their destruction,
or those angelic beings that have no existence
out of plays. If they are asked why they love
or they hate, they insist that they are endowed
with peculiar instinct, and this instinct,
which most people would call unreasoning
caprice, they exalt as something far superior to
practical intelligence, and glory in being its
submissive slaves. There are certain auali-
ties which go to make an actress and most of
them go to make lunatic. All actresses are.
of course, not necessarily mad, but if were on |
a Jury empanelled to try an actress for murder |
should approach the inquiry with the feeling |
that nature had probably not been lavish to |
her in that harmony of intellectual powers |
which produces moral responsibility"
A Chinese Fable.
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