The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-14
ABOUT WOMEN.

MISS LYMAN of Boston and Miss Lee
Of Salem are on the Board of Trustees of the
Danvers Asylum. DR.. Julia Carey is one Of
the physicians.
MINDA CAMPBELL, an aged colored
woman, has just died in Savannah. She
was the mother of Simms, the hero Of the
celebrated slave case tried in 1850.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE delivered
an excellent address before the Brooklyn
Woman Suffrage Association at their last
meeting. The rooms were crowded.
ROSE G. KINGSLEY, daughter of
Canon Kingsley, viii have an Alpine paper
in the March Wide A,oake, "Stoned by q
Mountain" which botanists will enjoy.
MAHARANEE SoRNoMoYKC, a gener-
Gus Hindu lady in Calcutta, has given s75,-
women students Of medicine. The govern
meDt has contributed the ground for the
building.
NINE. NILSSON has received kilograms
from friends all over the country congratu-
lating her upon winning back the $4,000 her
husbands relatives borrowed from her
through him, and which they have been try
ing for years to avoid paying.
PROBABLY many persons smiled when
Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells had lectured be-
fore the Young Mems Christian Union on
'Woman's influence" Forty years ago, or
even twenty, it was understood that a woman
could not speak in public without losing
her influence a, q true woman. But we are
gradually "evolutin'
WoMAN's JOURNAL: The woman
suffrage cause owes much to the men and
women who circulate petitions. II is mis-.
siOnary work without compensation, except
that which the work itself gives. Many
converts are made in quiet talks when the
naNaN aE.sNg or gNl rod nruA haW NIana
apt words of cheer or sympathy or courage
that comes with letters when petitions are
returned to this Office are much rized.
IT Is not true, as reported, that Mrs
Alice Jordan has left the Yale Law School.
She has no idea of leaving. The faculty has
no authority to grant degree, and the cor
considertd her case. The Hartford Couram
gives some interesting information regard
ing her connection with the school. She is a
graduate of Michigan University, spent one
year in the law school of that institution, and
is an attorney -at-law regularly admitted in
Michigan.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: at
seems that in the construction of the Bride
well gross miscslculation was made as TO
the sex of the birds likely to be Gagged there
in. There are 4S8 cells, go in the smale de-
partment and 2SS in the male. The grand
jury found IS females and 5S3 males in the
Institution. This speaks we'll for the women
of Chicago" Here is another point for the
people who say that women suffrage would
sire ngthon the political power OF the crimi-
nal class.
FRANCES E. WILLARD, in her
Thoughts on the Now Year, says of the wO-
men eng aged in public hilanthropic work:
ITO us there comes the lOudest call 10 con-
slider our ways, for our lives arc scrutin zed
more carefully than those of any other
class, The wide-awake world is on the
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our ranks and to characterize ours as
mission to 'Borioboola Cha For any work
outside her home is still believed to be in
woman's case "A foreign mission and that
patient continuance in well-doing will rout
every ObiectOr in duo time, for his words are
like feather-down beside the gold Of genuine
deeds, gently persisted in
"ON the 18th of January, at her
residence, 10 Pitt street, Kensington, Eliza
beth, widow of the late George Hudson,
Esq, M. ,, aged ninety years. Here, is the
the London World This old lady, passing
away in a small street in a suburb, once
lived in the enormous mansion at Albert
Gate, which is now the, French
way King, who had royalties for
his courtiers and blue-blooded peers for bis
subjec s.. In the year '46 he was at the
height of his prosperity; by '6S there was
leIL none SO poor 10 no MIN reverence
Alter his fall he lived at Paris and Boulogne,
and readers of Forster will remember how
Dickens saw him at the latter place in the
year Ga shabby man, standing on the
brink of the pier' and waving bis hat IN
desolate manner Hudson died in ChurtOn
street, PimlicO. in December, n, eyed
seventy. Mrs. Hudson figured as the Mrs.
Malaprop OF her day just as Mrs. l.. does at
the present time, and all kinds Of ridiculous
sayings were put into her mouth"
Mis-. ARTHUR KEEEARD, in her biog-
raphy of the famous actress Rachel, tells the
characteristic anecdotes: One
evening, while dining with the Minister of
the Interior, C0mte Ouch atel, she admired !
the center-piece on the table. M. Duchatel |
presented her with the flowers, but ex-
claimed "0hl il was not the flowers, but !
the bowl l admired so much" you shall |
have it, then, as well as the iheWers,' an |
swered her host, in n sudden fit of generOs- |
ity. Monsieur lie Comte, sfhe answer,
your roses and yiolets delight my heart,
but your .center-piece will be the ornament |
and wonder Of my dining room" Rachel /
had come in a cab to dinner. When the time |
for leaving. approached, the Minister Of
fiered her his brougham to take her home;
With pleasure" she said; then /
can take your present with me. with, !
but aay fear OF being waylaid and (
robbed" Her hest CONDUCTED her 70 |
the top of the staircase himself.
lm delighted, made mOiselles' he said, with
/ sarcastic smile, as be babe her Good
night" THAT you would have my silver
bowls. bat you will send ms back, my
will you net2" "0ften," Hous-
aye adds, "did dine at RaehePs, az d see
he bowl, made in the model Of Pliny's doves
n the capitol, and smile q sympathetic
mile Of fellow feeling as remembered the
tory COD nected with It, for many were the
hings she had rifled me Of" She was
rot the daughter of the Jew peldler, or
Esther Haya, his wife, seller Of old clothes,
or nothing.