The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-05-31

erty to affluence, and went again to Montana.
She came East, after time, for her health,
and, after the birth of her child her husband
sold his ranch, pocketed the proceeds, amount
ing to over $4,000 in cash, and started East.
He has never been heard from since. and she
believed, as do her friends that he was mur-
dered and robbed on the way East. William
Orton, president of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, became much interested in
her, and as she could telegraph herself, he
| placed all of the Western Union lines at her
disposal, and she searched by wire everywhere
for some trace of her husband, but in vain.
She was then given a position as telegraph
operator, and, until Mr.. Vim. Ortons death, he
provided pleasant positions for her, but her
| health succumbed to arduous work when her
protector died. At length, through Mr.. John
Williams, president of the Fulton Bank in
Brooklyn, she secured the position which she
| filled at the time of her death. Her life is q
picture sadly true to the life of many an
American woman.
Among the American artists whose works Of
| art, in oils, drawing, water cOlors, pastels,
painting on porcelain, &c. are on exhibition in
the art galleries of Paris, are number of Ia
dies, including Miss Alice Brisbarre, Miss Emily
Fuller Miss Mary Thompson, Miss Florence
Wait, Miss Helen Hunt and Miss Isabel Waldo,
the latter of whom is relative of Chief Justice
Waite.
Mrs. Florence Hodgson Burnett, author of
Through One Administration" received q
large basket of roses from an army officer while
in attendance upon the dramatic festival. With
it was note telling her how army men appre-
ciated the noble type of their kind, as Illus
trated in Colonel Trendennis, the hero OF her
story.
Anna Dickinson is to give a course of read
ings in the Eastern cities from her dramas of
sc Aural;ar ood Hanna
The Mobile correspondent of the Nashville
american thus describes Mrs. augusta Evans
| Wilson, the author of s Beulah ""St. Elmo" and
| other popular American novels of the romantic
| school: I" Mrs. Wilson is nearly fifty years old,
| is pale and faded about the face but her eyes
| are bright and a sweet expression is found al
! ways upon her lips She looks like any one of
| a hundred well-to-do farmers wives-that is,
at first sight-but l imagine there is the stamp
! of intellect on her brow. All here say she is
one of the sweetest and most lovable of women,
very little inclined to pose as an oracle, and
! always willing to receive friends and strangers
| in her flower -embowered home on Spring Hill
road.
| Miss Sigourney, Hannah Gould, and the
| Careys, are mentioned as the representative
| lyrists among American female poets by Miss
Lucy Larcom in her lecture, woman as a
Lyric Poet" lately delivered in Boston.
| The woman's exchange for the encourage
ment and sale of woman's work is becoming a
| formidable institution for good in our cities
East and West. Among the flourishing socie-
| ties outside of New York and Boston are those
! of Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio.
All kinds of handiwork and domestic manufac-
| lures, such as bread, cake, pickles, preserves,
jellies, &c. as well as fine art work, embroidery,
and needle work is entered and sold on a 10
| per cent. commission. 1t is grand institution,
and we shall hope to see woman's exchange
established in every city and town large enough
| to support one in the country.
| The stand taken by the cigarette girls in
New York in the cigarette strike is honorable
and plucky The cigarette makers resolved to
cut down wages, which the employees resisted,
| wnen all the necessaries of life were so dear.
Then the cigarette makers tried to persuade
the girls that they at least could afford to work
at the reduced wages, but the girls steadily de-
| clined to go to work unless the men were adj
mitted, and then at square figures. A notable
feature of the strike was the address of Mrs.
Amelia Lewis before one of the meetings. She
counscled the girls to stand firm and said it
| was the duty of workmen and workwomen to
teach their employers the morality of fair
wages, for the capitalist would not be expected,
from long indulgence of cupidity, to consider
the question from humane standpoint only.
But if made to see it, he would have to respond.
This demonstration, she said, was one of the
most remarkable in industrial history and bids
| fair to commence new era in the wages strug-
gle and in civilization. Women here stood
| equal to men.
WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?
Fashion is very accommodating just now,
and gives every woman the privilege of dress
ing herself just as becomingly as she can, and
of even exercising little taste in the arrange.
| ment of her toilet
Fashion no longer requires a bump where
nature made hollow, nor any other grotesque
arrangement for the Disagreement of the hu
man body.
Fashion no longer taboos the beautiful, rich
colors of which nature is so lavish, the warm
afluent yellows, which the ladies so generally
find vastly becoming since they are privileged
to try them.
Fashion says you may wear tueks, or pleats
or plain skirts, over skirts, no over skirts ol
invent any device that your style and figure
may demand.
Fashion has discovered that there is nothins
so pretty or becoming after all as profusion O.
black lace on bonnets and dresses, set on quite
full, and worn with everything.
Fashion is certain sure that the old roya
purple and all shades of purple whether pansy
purple, lilac, heliotrope, mauve, amethyst, o.
dove, is just too lovely and sweet for anything
Fashion dotes on every shade of red runnins
down through crushed strawberry, terra-cotta
blood lobster pink, shrimp, peach bios
som, coral pink, copper color, mahogany, SC.
and pronounces even ruby, garnet and claret
au fait
Fashion likes the divers shadings of th,
antique emerald, the myrtle, hunters, Egyp
tan, olive, ivy, jasper, pomegranite, and Sc,
foam.
Fashion is for once in love with all the color
ofthe rainbow at once violet, indigo, blue, green
yellow orange, and red as well as with tn,
thousand and one tints and shades that sprinl
from the primary eolors.
Fashion, in short, has inaugurated regular
go-as-you- please campaign, and she is either
mortal homely woman, OF one utterly indiffer
ent to her absolute duty, viz, that of lookinl
her best, who does not find something in it al
that is tasteful and becoming.
Woman's Auxiliary Work.
A NEW SOCIETY AT YOUNGSTOWN.
Information comes TO us that Tod Post, o.
Youngstown, Ohio, one of the tiourishing Post
of the Buckley State, and named in honor o
Ohios war governor, now deceased, David Tod
has organized Womsn's Auxiliary. with th'
following officers: President, Mrs. j. A. Snod
grass Vice Presidents, Mrs. w. VI. Woodrow
Mrs. job. Couch, Mrs. j. A. Boyd; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Myron Wood; Correspondent,