The Washington critic., 1888-03-31
WOMEN; in. GENERAL.
GleahiDgs Here and There Pertain
ipgFtO the oSexs
wHlsIS AND wHiNsIG8LlTIES

WlflAIS AND WHIMSICALlTlES
Personal aud, other Gossip Con-,
ecfning Heayea'ssBest' Gife a.
TheRansas City Times says Of Amolie'
Riyes; "she is perhaps, 10 be tbolonly'
woman who ever became the leader
III a countTy's greatest literature. If
the day of our romantic school Is
at hand she must be its prophet
They say she does odd thingsIAirts
with nan, writes TO men and women
exalted lettefs, receives callers in bowers
Of roses, even smokes ogarettes and
jumps fences on horseback Perhaps she
doCs. We are told that she Is morbid and
sensitive. Probably No human being
gets out Of the commonplace without
highly sensitive nerves, and none with
sensitive nerves can be surrounded by the;
commonplace without being morbid. We
should not Judge her, nor any writer by
such gossip. Her story is before the pub
lie and should be measured for what IL
contains. 1t is full OF promise"
f, Marion .Harland's idea that every wo-
man should have her own bank account
will meet with general approval. The
Pittsburg Dispdtch suggests that large
number of ornamental young men have
found their chief difficulties in life to
arise from the scarcity Of that kind of
women.
Out in Syracuse, sixteen miles from the
Colorado line, on the Santa Fe road, the
town council is composed entirely of wo.
men. They are bright, active, energetic,
business women, and IL has been said of
them that they are doing better work
than the body men who composed the
previous council. It is the only council
of women in the United States.
One of the most prominent ana beauti-
fnl society wemen of Chicago takes all
the exercise she gets in her room. The
major portion of this consists of quick
and graceful movements of limbs, per-
formed before q fine large mirror, each
movement being repeated score of
times, until the whole series (lilteen)
has received due attention. Then she
''rests," at which she is also an adept,
and rises reinvigorated and refreshed.
The wife Of President Carnot of France
is clever woman chatty, lively well in
formed, anxious to please, and successful
| in making herself agreeable in society.
| She is active in pushing her husband
and in Keeping his name before the pub
| lie, and never misses attending an official
| reception. There is no more Unsuitable
reader of English works ofliction in this
| or any other country and she speaks Eng
llsh fluently Her father was Dupont
White. the translator of Stuart Mills
| works in French. Nine. Sadi Carnot is
| the mother of four girls.
| Miss Sadie Crosby of Elgin, H., is said
! 10 have made during the winter snow
| images Of men and four footed animals so
| exccllently as to attract much attention,
and to indicate that she has much talent
| as u sculptor. II is TO be hoped that ii she
| succeeds in this line of art She will have
strength enough to call herself Sarah in
| stead of Sadie.
Pipe smoking is rather encouraged than
otherwise by English ladies, says the New
York Press. Probably this is from two
causes. 1t is more economical and more
| clcanly in the house, the fumes OF tobacco
| from Il pipe not hanging about n room so
long as those of a cigar, there being less
| dust and dirt following a pipe and the
| smell of burnt tobacco being far less Of
| iensve the next day than is that of stale
1 cigar smoke. English ladies' too,
| seem to prefer to see the more robust pipe
| smoker than the--to them-somewha eff
| Terminate cigar or cigarette inhaler. But,
| whereas in this country no apartment is
! completely furnished without its cuspi.
dor, in England man who was SO lost TO
the assumed duties of social amenity as
| 10 eNpeetUrate in the presence ladies (at
| least without both attempting to hide the
| fact and afterward apologizing for ~
\ would be deemed coarse creature ut.
| tery wanting in refinement.
| A Boston letter TO the Providence Jour
| nal says: A worthy and moderately
| wealthy old lady III Boston occupied her
leisure in making silk patchwork quilts.
| They were hideous affairs, and were rcgu-
| larly donated TO the annual fairs whereby
| The church, to which the old lady be-
longed, endeavored TO replenish its treas
| ury. No one wanted to buy them and
| they were apt TO be ratified off in igno-
! ninious fashion at the close of the fair,
much 10 the chagrin of the nice old lady.
Now the old lady was shrewd and canny,
and one day, Just before the time of the
annual'iair, she sent for her lawyer and
bad him add n codieil 10 her will whereby
| S25 for each quilt was bequeathed to
| the person whos after that date,
1
fairs. The lawyer assured his client that
| her injunctiohs to strict secrecy should
be faithfully observed. For six years the
oldlady lived to bestow upon the parish
a silk quilt annually, the gift being
made to take the place of larger dOna.
tions solicited. For six years il was
| noticed that sister OF the LAWYER bought
| the silk quilt on the very first day of the
fair and; Wien the old lady was gathered
| 10 herforemotiIers, the lawyer supposed
| he had secured for his sister the SUN of
| $3.50 But the eanny old lady had neatly
| cut the COdicil from her will and his
sister was out Of pocket the price of six
very unsatisfactory silk quilts.
II has long been the custom ut dinners
Tor men TO respond to the always pro-
| posed toast "Thc LADIES' but in Eng
| land the la,lies are beginning to announce
| hat they are very well able to reply for
| themselves. At an annunf dinner in
London, which occurred lately, the Bar
| oncss Buidett-Coutts answered the toast
| master, and another lady the same even
\ ingat another dinner, performed the same
i duty IN neat speech. Miss Marryatt is
4 reported To have made most amusing
| speech at u banquet of the Primrose
! League, in which she sareastieally held
up To criticism the English custom OF
sending women 10 the galleries while the
men were feeding. .n
There is lady here in New Orleans,
says the Times. Democrat who turns a
! pretty penny every month by her rare
tgiit of writing obituary poetry, She has
Tile happy faculty of expressing other peo'
pies woes in easy verse, and with grace.
i'ul mourpiulncss and detection that is
highly satisfactory to the principals. A
number of bards better known to fame
might be pleased to hear of this practical