The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-10
NO. 19.
DAUGHTERS OF eve.

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What the Newspapers Say About r.mo,ss
Ones of .fie Fair sex.
Lady Colin Campbell! WINS offered
$4,000 for two lectures in America,
which, on the advice of Matthew Arnold,
she declined.
The most fearless rider in the capital
is Miss French, the daughter OF Repre-
sentative French, Of Connecticut. who
rides a very spirited horse and sits her
saddle with grace and counposure.
Mime. Janauschek's name is pro-
nosInced in three or four different ways,
but her own way is as though the name
were spelled .Yan-ow-shek, !" with each
syllable plainly sounded, and the accent
upon the first.
Mrs. Annie Besant, the well known
English radical thinker and lecturer, is
described by a correspondent who re-
Gently saw her as well proportional
lady of medium height and upright bear
ing, with face of somewhat masculine
cut. every line in 1t indicating determina-
ton and resolute purpose. Her voice,
however, is pleasant and well modulated,
and her manner is gentle.
Mrs. George w. Childs is a frequent
and cordially welcome guest at Atlantic
City. A correspondent at that resort
says That Mrs. Chiltls possesses one of the
kaaeat celleetions44Qf jewels 10 b seon,
slough " = siat1es II TACT lsho wears, AS
y rule, very few and simple Jewels. She-
possesses, among other things. rare
East Indian gem that seldom gets beyond
the borders of that land, and Of which
there are very few specimens in America.
| A great portion of the latter part Of
Miss Alcott's life was spent with her sis
ter and nephews and nieces at Nouquitt,
town on the west shore of Buzzard's
bay. 1t was here that the sculptor.
| Walter Ricketson, ain intimate friend of
| the family, made the medallion of Miss
| Alcott not long before she died. A pho
tograph of this medallion is one of the
best pictures to be had of her. When
her sister saw the bas relief for the first
time the tears came to her eyes and she
said, THAT is my 10y"
The present German empress is the
fifth English princess who has held that
rank. The others were: Edgyth. dsugh-
| ter of Edward the Elder, wife OF Otto
L; Gunhild, daughter of Knut, wife of
Henry III, of Germany; Matilda. the
link between the Norman and Plantagenet
dynasties, wife of Henry V, of Germany,
and Isabella, daughter of King John,
wife of Frederick II, the wonder of the
world. The last named princess was a
direct ancestor Of the late prince consort
of England, and, therefore, of the present
German empress
Florence Kelley -Wischnewtsy, the
daughter of Judge Kelley, of Pcnnsyl-
vania, who married a Russian student
abroad, is one of the closest observers OF
the condition of the working women of
New York, and one of the best informed as
regards their condition and prospects.
She does good deal of newspaper and
other literary work in that city, is a clear
thinker and has better faculty of putting
things on paper than her father She is
fine looking, vigorous young woman,
with an unusually attractive face.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is failing. Her
memory grows daily more treacherous.
She is much of the time her old self, con-
versing on all the topics in which she is
interested with great intelligence and
huency. But there aye intervals, not
infrequent, Turing which she forgets the
names u, friends, loses track of her own
business concerns and cannot speak ac-
curateiy IF the events IF the past In
some of these forgetfui intervals she has
denied all acquaintance with people
whom she Is known 10 delight to honor
and occasioned no little temporary en-
barrassmsnt thereby.
A fragile looking woman, tail. slight,
with graceful, yielding. willowy figure,
shadows under her eyes and ghosts look
ing put If Them, attracted some little at
tention standing in front OF a glowing
mass If lark pansies in florists window
lay ,r two since. None Of the passers
bad ever seen quite such an embodiment
of ;he pailid. the wistful, the spirituelle.
Everybody turned to look second time
At the large eyes, the sad curves of the
face. che melancholy mouth that looked
as ii, should it smile, It would light up
.he whole ,ountenance gioriously by
and by it did smile. and cordially, at a
little child who ran up to look at the
pansi ss too. The W ,man was beautiful.
Nobody recognized the quiet figure but
1t vas thac d writer whose name Is
signed 70 sous of the strongest verse of
the day-Edith Thor,,s who has recently
made New York her permanent home. :,