Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-26
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

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painting "a young girl with very sweet
lace, seated in the fields, with hands clasped
in her lap, wrapped in happy thoughts"
This sort of wrapping may do for summer,
but girl needs more on than happy thoughts
can be in winter.
Miss Mathilds Blinds monograph on
George Eliot ia to be the first volume OF a
series Of Eminent Women. There is no pros
pect of the publication of Mr.. Cross Pfssn-
ised biography for some years TO come, as,
in consequence of the state of his health, he
has so far made little progress with the
work.
Mrs. Langtry passes the forenoon in re-
pose at her hotel. In the afternoon she
sttends rehearsal at Wallack's until 5 o'clock,
when, rain or shine, she takes an hours
drive in the park. Dinner at O'Clock, at
the theater from to IL o'clock. She ends
her day with late and usually lonely sup
per.
Mr. Bsecher read the thiriy-seventh and
thirty-eighth verse;, and, commenting ON
them, said: eff there are any persons en-
the face of the earth so utterly low a
woman of the town, know not where you
shall find them" Mr.. Beecher then told the
story Of the woman who bathed Christ's feet
with her tears, and wiped them with her
hair, and said: "There was not a man
there that saw that God was there working
the regeneration of this lost girl"
"Women are coming out rs mission aries,"
said Mr.. Beecher, "and we have nothing in
the world 10 do but to call the platform or
the lecture-room pulpit, and then women
become preachers. Ny nature is not Of that
kind; my nature is such that when two
things are substantially alike 1 kick away
the partition between them and call spade
a spade. By the power of the emaucipating
spirit of God, the barbarism that restricted
woman to an inferior position is broken, and
she stands emancipated, the equal of man in
privilege"
Great have been the services of the Rus
sian women as surgeons, physicians and Sis
tiers of Charity on the batlleields of Turkey
during the years 1877-78, as well in the
anbulatory hospitals, where they worked
away with untiriDg energy right under the
enemy's bullets. Proportionately great was
also the devotion displayed toward these
women by the soldiers and the respect paid
to them by their fellow-physicians of the
steruer sex. Their merits and exceptional
fitness for medical work were brilliantly ac-
knowledged by the tribute paid them by the
late Gar, who caused a special decoration
10 be made and distributed to all the women
graduates of the Medical Academy.
A discouraging object of attack for auto
graph hunters is Mme Christine Nilsson.
One of the fraternity, album in hand, man.
aged to gain access to her parlor the other
day. But the moment he made his errand
known she arose in all her dignity, and,
pointing 10 the door, exclaimed: "You go
right out of that door this instantp And he
went. Another story about Nine. Nilsson
and the autograph hunters. A few days
ago she yielded to an importunate applicant
CHANGING through the book she saw on the
Last psge the inscription: "Last, but not
least, Adelina Patti" Sizzling pen she
wrote on the inside of the cover, facing this,
"Last and least, Christine Nilsson Rou-
zsaud."
Princess Louise started in married life
with the determination not to be the rival,
on their own ground, of plutocrats' wives.
There was to be comfort as well as elegance
ia her establishment, but DO ostentation. At
Rideau Hall, her Canadian official abode
she affects more state. Once a week, when
the Legislature is in session, she gives a
formal banquet. A day or two after, there
is an informal dinner, which Canadians term
the "scrap feast" To be asked to il is
thought marked favor. A piper dressed
in Campbell plaid is in attendance, and
performs at dessert on his noisy instrument
On Sundays English visitors to Ottawa are
asked in quite an unceremonfous way 10
partake of a family dinner, which is snug
and we'll served.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, than
whom few. public speakers have shown
themselves more ready with apt illusions
and sallies of wit, seldom drought down
the house" with single sentence more sue
cessfully than he did last Monday evening.
Plymouth church was crowded 10 the doors
with one of IFS characteristic audiences, and
Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago, deliv-
cred lecture on the work of the Women's
Gospel Temperance Union, which was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. As the pro-
longed applause at the close Of the lecture |
died away Mr.: Beecher assembled the plat
form, slowly, thoughtfully, and stood for
moment regarding-almost staring at-the |
lecturer, with an expression of mingled
wonder and admiration. Then, turning to
the audience, he remarked, slowly and medi- |
tatively, emphasizing the words with mods
of his head: "And-yet-she cannot vote 20 |
1t is hardly necessary to add that it was
some time before the audience was quiet
enough for him to add, in ringing tones
"And are you not ashamed OF it?n /
1t was only on the 1sl of October last tha
the first series of young women students
graduated from the st. Petersburg Uniyer-
sity-they numbered 1853. When this uni.
versity was first insugurated Sl4 young
women were admitted to it, but part of them
soon lett the establishment, being fright
ened away by the hardness of the labor
required in il, so that by the end OF
1879 there were only 7S9 women stu.
dents at the university. In 1880 they
numbered $40, however, and in 1881 there
were already $50 women attending the lee
lures, All of whom were in the department
of literature, 466 on the physico-mathemat-l
ical faculty, and fifty-iYe ON the special
faculty of mathematics. Seven hundred and
seveuty-four OF these women students be-
longed TO the orthodox religion, I23 10 the
Jewish faith-the remaining women were
Catholics and Protestants. Ranged accord.
ing to their family position 927 of the stu
dents were young girls, 6fty-one were mar
ried women and 2 were widows, while their
social standing was as follows: 6l0 etuden;s
were noblewomen, l33 belonged to the class
OF merchants, l13 came from clerical fami-
lies, l02 from small traders, nine were meas
ant girls and eight daughters of soldiers of
the old regime To this number must he
added 20l young women who entered the
university this year, while l63 graduated
from it month ago. The course of sIudv
in this university is as much extended a.
the curriculum of the universities for men
Mrs. KATE Atkins. a wealthy lady If
Pttsburg, Pa writes: '.Rich food and hfsh Iiying