The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23
WOMEN MUCH TALKED OF
a GROUP OF THOSE NOTABLE IN
VARIOUS FIELDS.


Law School
NEW York, Sept. 21.-Annie Besant, the
socialist, one Of the most discussed OF En-
glish women, whom half London adores
and the other half shudders at as danger
srous element in society, an alien 10 state
and creed, is perhaps coming to New York
+5is winter. Her recent adhesion to The
osonhv and friendship for Mime. Blavstsky.
With the alienation from Mr.. Bradlaugh, in
association with whom she has for some
Years been a partner in publishing COM
many which sends outmuch atheistico-social-
st;c literature, has interrupted the current
~ her life. aud it is her present intention to
davota some months, beginning perhaps in
Dacauber. to a study of the condition of
American working women. particularly in
4bo mill towns Of New York and New Eng
land and to visit Kansas observing the So
oisl situation in those peculiarly enterpris-
inc little cities which are run by feminine
Officials Mrs. Be ant is woman OF highly
sensitive orgaliz ton, anG tae WORK OF
ed:tj.C the Link, i labor paper published
~ 7 o1don. together with lecture engage
-,enrs tbe wear round and attention to her
Jutias sc a member of the school board of
T0ndon has not been sufficient to keep her
mind from dwelling on her separation from
- cbiIdren and the American tour has
been MANNED bv her friends to avert a
breaking down in health by total change
of scene. Mrs. Besant Is slster-ln-law of
Waiter Besant, the novelist, whose hostility
70 her is openly expressed, and who has
heen credited with an attempt to disguise
the family connection by accounting his
name on the second syllable while she &C
Cents hers on the first. 1t is rather a pa
thetic story, girls marriage to q
clergyman, later a canon of the
Church Of England, the growth
of doubts which put her out of harmony
with the Sunday service and out of the
heart Of her husband, his suit for divor ce
in which her life shone stainless, but her
little boy and girl were nevertheless taken
from her, and the weary years since, in
which warm hearted, impulsive woman
has flung herself into the cause of the la
boring poor and into all manner of social
theories and speculations. Since her cleo
ton to the school board by East London,
which idolizes her, she has directed the ed
ucation of the little people of the worlds
metropolis while denied the privilege of 50
much as seeing her own. 1t was Annie
Besant who organized Bryant 81 Mays
match girls during the strike of a year ago
iuLD btio ldTKeBb WOnlbLl QuAOI III bI6
world, and there is talk already among a
few New York women interested in sucn
matters of calling on her experience TO assist
in banding together the American prisoners
of poverty. Those who are invited to meet
her this winter will see tail slender woma
with an expressive face, whose sweet mouth,
large eyes and dark wavy hair would be
beautiful if every feature did not speak of
loss, was not so sad. The last time [ saw
her she wore gown of dull gold silk cut in
quaint aesthetic style.
Jenny June will edit the Cycle, a new
magazine devoted to the interest OF
women. The unlucky Woman, which died
young, bids fair to have several successo s.
Juliet Corson has accepted the editorship
of the Domestic Monthly, which is now
published in Boston, but Is to be removed
to New York IN course of the year. Miss
Corson aims to make magazine for the
household which shall mai 1T lin as high
standard as any of the purely literary
publications, filling place quite different
from the run of the periodicals. which
appeal for the support of the mother of the
family. The well-known teacher of cook
cry has been in poor health for a number
OF years, an ingenious apparatus enabling
one to write while confined to the bed hav-
ing been her recourse for considerable peri
DDS. She Is now much better, though
finding still much difficulty in walking.
Annie Jenness Miller's magazine, Dress, is
to be published as a monthly instead of
once in two months, beginning with
January 1. Its scope is to be enlarged
materially, taking in everything which
pertains to the health and to the interests of
the broadened life of the modern woman.
Gertrude Garrison, one of the best-known
New ork newspaper women, now edits
Dress for Mrs. Miller.
Mrs Plunkett. the superintendent of the
House of Mercy, a hospital on the English
cottage plan, in fashionable Pi.tsfield,
Mass, has given an example of a mothers
devotion too complete to pass unnoticed.
Ter son, promising young man just ready
to enter medical school, was stricken with
a disease which left him bind. TIe was
unwilling to resign himself to idleness and
has mother we t into the classroom with
MN, making herself his eyes. The text
books on anatomy, physiology, chemistry
and m0terio medica she went through
win him, reading each days portion over
-FOUR tunes aloud to be sure that it was
thoroughly cOmPrehended. The charts and
diagrams she contrived way of redrawlng
Ior MN with raised lines, and exhausted
these sources Of language in picturirg what
could not be reproduced, SO that through
her desc options the student might see.
Last spring the young doctor graduated
with hon7rs, and will devote himself to
heart and lung diseases. specialties in which
sIgnt has comparatively little play. Mrs.
f4unket IS serene-faoed woman of 60, who
Is an Intimate friend of Miss Dnwes. the
daughter Of the senator.
Georgia Cayvan, who is the bading juve-
me i,ady OF the Lyceum company, has an
oad little mania for pins. Pretty society
Euis VINO make rendezvous of her dressing
room at the theater begging her to coacn
tasnl Tor amateur theatricals always ex-
claim over the dainty little houd lr. Its
walls and ceiling are covered with pale blue
saVeen and the same color prevails in the
!olet articles, cushions, draperies and hang
Eal8 The ceiling is gather eel into huge
Ios1 te OF blue folds and the nirror frames
are covered with the same material that
aides the woodwork. T ere are a few ric-
sures' one Of which is a fine ateel engraved
p1'Ualt OF the actress her self. There are
S5us easy chairs d a couch with bits of
SS.o.ce photographs and etchings character
sue III style aud subject of their owner.
!, one corner is a tiny brass candlestick
SIa- constitutes Miss Cayvan's selection
ION the famous Morgan collection and
se1ich she displays with pride to her visitors
al e"o 7easons, not the least being the alb
atIuly large sum she paid for it at the Nor
"a sale. But the treasures of
- room are te actress pins, which
thrust into fourteen pin cush-
rs lying on the dressing table.