Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-20
ABOUT WOMEN.

MARY \. SAWYER, in The Continent.
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ABOUT WOMEN.
MARY ANDERSON will sail for Englsnd to.
day. Lawrence Barrett viii go to Germany in
July.
MRS SCovILLE, sister Of Guiteau, wants
the Chicago Circuit Court to allow her TO change
her name to Howe.
QUEEN VICTORIA, who is Dursing her
bruised knee at Balmoral, will visit Baden at the
latter end of next month.
SPEAKING of male and female of the same
mental style, the Philadelphia Times writes them
dudes and didlums. Dudine, says the Boston
Herald is the proper designation of the girl dude.
Mrs. LUCY H. PICKENs, the widow of the
war governor of South Carolina is at work in that
State in the interest of the Society for Restoring
Mount Vernon, Washington's home, to its former
condition.
lex Senatcr Tabor's latest father-iH-law
expected to reap any material reward in this world
| by deceiving Father Chspelle he was mistaken.
The old gentleman has gone TO answer before a
higher court
| AMONG pieces Of sculpture at the Gros-
venor Gallery (London) Exhibition OF Art, is fine
bust of Robert Browning by Henrietta Montaloa,
the property of MIS-. Bloomfield Moore. 1t attracts
much sttention.
MRS. OLIPHANr denouuces Mr.. Froude for
taking the roof from the private life OF Mr. and
Mrs. Carlyle, but admits that the great, grim
scotchman and his wife could not be happy with
or without each other.
Mas. FAIR, grass widow" of United
States Senator James D. Fair, is likely to be rated
decree of the she gets trie of "a 900 in
| cash and bonds. With reasonable economy
| Theresa is not likely to come to want
JOSIAH HURD and wife, of Bennington,
VT celebrated last week the seventeen anniver-
sary of their marriage In the house in which they
began housekeeping nearly three-quarters of a
| century ago The old gentleman Is ninety-one
| years of and his vile eighty SevGn.
ONE of the earliest climbers of the Alps
| was a woman, Nile. D'Augebille, who made the
ascent of twenty give Swiss mountains. When
sixtyn years OF age she climbed the Oldenhorn
| with one guide. Night overlook them, and she
| was left alone on the mountain, while the guide
| went to the nearest chalet for a light.
| NINE. DE JEssErs is handsome and charm
ing. She has the indolent suavity Of the creole,
which is very attractive in the feverish society IN
which she moves Athough by mo no means %9
world. She is the mother of ten children. the
eldest OF whom is only thirteen years old.
| In farmhouse near Boone, Ia, lives
sps Ssr yased
granddaughter, aged forty; her great-grand-
| daughter, sged twenty-one, and her greatgreat,
the only house in the country sheltering five gen
| erations.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered a large
4 brass, bearing eulogsuc inscription, in memory
of John Brown which is to be placed on the walls
| of the Prince Consort's Mausoleum at Frogmore.
A bust and a statue are also in preparation, and
\ at Crathie an elaborate monument is 70 be placed
| over the grave, and ''caiIn" on one of the ada
cent hills.
A woMAN's safeguard is to keep a mans
| hands Off OF her. If you need his assistance in
Just tell him in plain English to hands off,. He
may not like it at first. but he will respect you in
the future tenfold more. Men will be and do just
what the women allow them to do. Men will not
/ do to trust.
| Miss CYNTHIA ELoIsE CLEVELAND, the
| only lady lawyer in Dakota, and widely and we'll
known as the president OF the Dakota woman
| enter upon the active practice OF her profession
she will confne herself TO the practice OF the law
| i'll reference to land matters, and Will have her
Office in Pierre,
| MRS. HOWE says: "Women do not fall in
| love any more" All, well, perhaps Mrs Howe's
authority on that subject than her gifted mother.
| You see Mrs. Howe, there comes a time when We
when we are apt to-yeli, the plain, fact Of the
matter IS other people do notg grow old at eighteen
just because We are forty-five.
The docket of the Supreme Court of Mas.
sachusetts is crowded with divorce cases that a
special effort is being made to clear them OF.
The fact has been developed that there are PROBES
sional witnesses in that State who will undertake
to furnish the evidence necessary to procure the
| desired separation between any man and wife fol-
i moderate fee.
| AT a congress of working women in Lon.
don, Mrs. Blunt said that she should like ladies
II
| were SO neatly clad were MADE up by poor women,
paid at the rate of fifty cents dozen, who had to
find their own sewipg-machine and cotton, and
4 carry their work to and fro. Sewing machine
nesnleS nfton broke, and then hours of labor were
gone in q moment.
| NJ. DAMALA, Sara Bernh srdt's husband
1 quickly distinguished himself in the army In
Tunis, after quitting the stage Three days after
he arrived in camp the outposts were attacked by
banditu. Damala saddled his horse rushed head
long into the fray, and succeeded in bringing the
bandit chief prisoner into the French camp.
| Sara is said to have telegraphed for the captive
bandit photograph as II sOuue7ttr.
| IT ia probably an error 10 say that one OF
his female friends so fascinated William NJ Tweed
| that she kept him in the country when he might
nave hea IN safety as ny ana Eook ana fleo
| rival schooI-teachers on whom Tweed lavished
| fortunes urged him to leave the country. One of
them iually departed with Tom Field, and she
| still shares his exile and extreme poverty in
Canada.
| Miss AVER gave the young Italian who
shot himself at her door, the other day, very good
\ advice. She did not refuse to marry him, she
| said. She merely told him If he was poor he
| should go to work. He told her he would rather
die than work. She does not recognize that she
wounded his proud and sensitive nature by cold
~ telling him to go to work, when he wanted
the cold and cruel child of distinguished father.
| Now that Senator Fair is a free mau,
| rumor has it that he will marry Miss Annie Car
penter, who became notorious in q divorce case
1 several years ago. w. f. smith, well-known
| oculist in California, became enamored with her
/ and took her 10 Arizona, where he obtained di-
4 vorce. When he returned to San Francisco with
her his vile had the divorce set aside and he was
not permitted to marry. A few months ago she
\ infatuated the senator
| FLORENCE MARRYAT saws that when
4 Dickens was writing David Coppe-fetd, at a time
/ when its publ cation in a serial form WAS about
half completed, an American firm procured some
body to write conclusion, and thus put a bogus
| book on the market. The version of the story
married David to Agnes rather abruptly. Dick
| ems had intended the same thing, but when the
| news of this audaeious piracy reached him be
forthwith introduced Dora, and made her David &
| vile with as little delay as possible.
| The approaching IN arriaee of Leo XIIFs
1 favoIite nephew, Count Camille Pecci, to Sonora
| Bueno, a wealthy Cuban heiress, has attracted a
certain amount OF attention on the Continent.
/ The count first met his future bride at Seville
whittier he was dispatched by his uncle as bearer
of CARDINALS hat to the late archbishop. yesI
or two aftervard Sonora Buena and her parents
| paid a visit to Rome, where the young couple
| became engaged. The young lady is said to be
| very handsome.
MRS LUCIEN Moss, The daughter of Ben.
| jamin Nathan, Of New York who was mystic.
| riously murdered in New York about ten years
ago. committed suicide on the 18th instant at her
paired some years ago, and she has twice been an
1 inmate OF an insane asylum, returning home each
| time when her health had improved The loss oil
/ her only child was shock from which she never
| fully recovered, and recently she became habit
| ually melancholic She took laudanum and soon
died. She was niece of the wife of ex-Judge
/ Cardoza, of New York. Enc about forty-fve
/ years old, and in former years well known in
4 society.
THE Saturday Rerie,O which affects to be
i an authority on Continental literature, makes an
| amusing display of its own omniscience in a
critiQue publisher by it the other day upon Nine
I'm HiveT au caire The Saturday ReTier speak.
i Of the book as beiOg obyiSusly "a translation
| from the English" Nine Lee Childe-though she
i is the wife of an accomplished American, long
4 resident in France, Mr.. Lee Childe nephew oil
i Gen. Robt Lee and the author of an admirable
| Frenchwoman. She is q daughter of the late
Baron Tnqueti, q sculptor of enlinehce TO whom
ment' and who was he'd in high and deserved
1 esteem by Queen Victoria and by her husband.
THE Boston Globe, of Sunday, showed the
many arenas of employment opened to women
and girls during the last thirty years particularly
| in kassaeh useIts. In 1S40 when Harriet Mar
tineau visited this country, she showed that only
seven vacations were open TO women who wanted
1 work. These were keeping boarders, setting type,
teaching needle work, labor in cotton mills, ana
folding and stitching in book binderies. Now
/ there are 2s4 occupations open TO women in Mas
sachusetts and 25l l5s members of the gentler sex
in that State alone earn their own living, recetv
| ing from $50 TO 5000 each per annum This does
| not include amateurs or mothers and daughters
in the household. There are 10000 more women
i than men in Massachusetts,. Hence these new
l avenues of employment are widely appreciated.
| THE gay world of Paris hiss been a little
/ dull this week says London Truth. Somehow the
TrocadeTo Jete AZ which Sara Bernhard acted the
l part of q speeehess clown, did not excite those
Il who aspire 10 u. II WEE well organized
| and the programme was taking. All the mare
| chsIes of France-wives and widows-who are
| now in existence patronizsd it and sat on a re-
| served bench. The dOyeHRe was the Duchess of
| Albufera who is ninety-six years old, and whose
| memory OF the stirring events she witness ed is
fast fading away. Sara was ilinSpired in appear
4 ing as q dumb clown. Imagine a lay figure with
| out drspery, engaged in a pantomime! When
l say she was not drsped - do not mean to cor
yev the idea that she had not passed through the
costumer's hands before she appeared the sts ge
4 Her garments, though masculine, were not i'm
1 modest and she contrived TO give feminine ele-
| gance to the belongings of q Pierrot.
THE old adsge that "truth is stranger
than fiction is fully exempliied in the marriage
| on last Wednesday of the Rev William Salisbury
| Of the junction" 10 Miss Angelica Smithers OF
| Bartholomew county, Ind About six months ago
| Mrs Salisbury died and notice of her death
appeared in one OF the -. Louis papers In about
| two weeks Father Salisbury received letter
from Miss smthers, offering consolation to him in
i his bereavement, and, womAn-Hke, added post
script that twenty four years ago she had heard
| Mr. salisbury preach q sermon while he was