Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-05

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widely travelled, and has the good sense
not to know that she is very bright
girl.
Every one has heard Of Helen Cougar,
and she is another woman who has brains
as well as beauty. She is the editor OF
paper IN Indiana, and she is willing
to assume all the duties OF an
editor, even to the thrsshing Of those
who make assaults upon her. promi-
nent man, year or SO ago, used Helen
Cougars name in way that only cow
hiding would wipe cut the insult. Helen
IN him on the street and cowhided him.
Still, there is nothing OF the desperate in
Mrs. Cougars appearance. She is fine
talker, and is quiet and IT fned. She has
considerable brain power.
Another noted woman here is Frances
E. willard, the great temperance lee
turer, who has done more for temperance
than any other woman in the United
States. Frances E Willard has strong
motherly face. She Is q good orator
Pte5e Cousins will probably make nc
speeches st the convention, and in re-
ply to areqnest for her to make an ad-
dress, she wrote that her throat was
sore and that she could not do SO. She
was some time ago made United States
marshal ct St. Louis. Her father helc
the Office before her. It was she, in fact
who did the work of the marsbsPs Office
there during his latter years. she is ont
of the brightest and most popular womeI
OF the convention.
Mrs. May Wright Sewell is one OF the
leading authorities among the lsdies herr
on education. She spoke Of the "Highe
Eiucstion Of Woman," and she spoke re
markedly we'll. Mrs. Sewell established
a model classical school for girls in In.
dianapolis some years ago, and she be.
liev in training the body as well as the
mind. Her pupils are required to wear
comfortable gYmnastic costume. All thei
garments rest loosely on their shoulders
and corse's, tight waists and high heelet
boots are forbidden. Mrs. Sewell think
that deep thinking requires deep breath
ing, and she has gymnasium over he
school room. She says she has no dull
scholars, and that headaches are IN
known. She is pre-eminertly common
erse woman, and her tastes ,re decided
ly literary and aesthetic, as well IS prac
ticsl.
Laura c. Holloway is so here, and sh'
is well known as one of the money-mak
ing women journalists OF the country. Sh'
was for twelve years an associate edito
of the Brooklyn Eagle, and her "Ladiet
of the White House" Is the best autho-it.
upon the Presidents wives Mrs. Hollo-
way is q good book-maker, and she haI
written s number of subscription book
which have paid very we'll. She has alst
written book on Chinese Gordon !
biography Of Adelaide Nelson and o!hel
works.
Lucy Stone is another of the woman
rights women who have attracted grea
attention for their persistent efforts II
favor OF their Cause. She ranks will
Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony in thu
length of her service. Long before thu
war she wss an advocate OF anti
slavery doctrines and lectured upoI
them. She WAS one of the pioneer
woman suffrsgists, and as long back a
1855, when she married Mr.. Henry Black
well, she would not take his name se'
cause she thought woman hat
no right to lose either he
identity or her name in her husband
Mrs. Frank Leslie will be here before
the meeting is over, and she has writer
that she is very sorry she cannot delive
an address. She is one Of the brightes