Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. Erastus G. Gaylord is Cleveland
(O) lady of note, now in her eighty first
year. At her grandson's wedding a few
days ago General Garfield was receiv-
ing with family friends. When Mrs. Gay
lord made her adieu to the President
elect she said: "My leave-taking to you
is par tibi, but suppose many wonld say
instead, Remember me when thou CONTEST
into thy kingdom. ="
Nine. la Baronne 'Ange, whose cabriolet
and fine horses are well known to the hab-
itues of the Boise de Boulogne, is, says the
PdriSien, remarkable instance of what
economy, order and steady labor can do.
Thanks to thirty years steady industry,
the Baronne DANCE sees old age approach
without fear she need not want bread.
Titles, too, and honors have come at the
same time as fortune, for formerly the
Baronne DANCE bore the simple name of
Angelo Bardin, a fact of which she was re-
minded the other day when a e-dealer
sued her for the price of a horse and gained
his case. The Baronne pretended that the
dealer had given her the horse. The Court
of appeal was not of that opinion
Women, it is said, are often more expert
than men in worming out state secrets,
and such is the character which the fair
sex enjoys in France for craft and finessing
that very few Frenchmen, says a late
writer, could be found to doubt that Ger
many and Russia both employ female spies
on large scale to wheedle soft hearted
statesmen. a little reflection, however,
ought to show that lady who evinced
great anxiety to worm cut political secrets
would very soon put her acquaintance
on their guard. Surprising she OBJ
tanned secret and betrayed it, how
long could she remain undetected? That
she could continue for years, as some
ladies are stated to have continued, col
lecting confidential news here and there,
and making mischief between her people
and the strangers among whom she lived
that she should do this without exposure
and loss of character it is difficult to be-
lieve. The fact is that political spies are
of little use in country that has free
press.
Nine. Theirs will is very vague and
likely to give much tronble to the execu-
tors. Mile Felicie Dosne is sole heir on
condition that she gives Immediately to
the Louvre the different collections of
M. Theirs and Nine. Theirs col
lection of Saxony porcelains. Nile.
Dosne receives also the famous necklace
of pearls which Nine. Theirs wore but
once or twice, and which is estimated
at 300, 600 francs. Nine. Theirs bequeaths
%, 600 francs to the city of Paris orders
the erection of some institution or other
on her land in the Bots de Boulogne, but
without any definite directions as to the
employment OF the money or the nature of
I the institution in question. The other rel
atives of Nine Theirs have nothing, not
even General Charlemagne
Mile. Louise Michel, the recently ex-
patriated but now pardoned Communist,
is described as not well favored. In the
prime of age she has the WORKOUT features
of an old woman. Her cheek bones are
high, her jaw is heavy and UNDERLYING Z;
she has an unpicturesque mass of tangled
hair and there is no beauty in her eyes,
which are small and fiery. Then Mile.
! Michel's voice is harsh and loud. She
speaks fuently, but it is not agreeable to
listen to her, setting aside the matter
of her discourse. She is editor of a
newspaper called La Revolution SOciale,
which appears to pay. The social reforms
it advocates are the reduction of matri-
monial obligations to a minimum by ena-
bling husbands and wives to get divorced
whenever them may please, the political
equality of the sexes and the suppression
| of all religions.