Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-05-31

side of the affair. She went with the best inten-
tons, bat was so captivated by LucysStone, her
sweet manner and speech, that she was disarmed
at once and became suffragist forthwith.
Mrs Sangsters article is dangerously beautiful
The anti-suffrage reader will scarcely notice it's
entire lack of argument. "Ihe Indifference of
women rather than the antagonism of men stands
in the way Of women, brave, true and unselish,
who lose no opportunity of pressing the claims Of
their cause on public attention" In this gentle
sentence Mrs. Sangster rebukes some of her mis-
guided friends.
'Men are our sons, our brothers, our fathers,
husbands of good women, champions of the de-
fenseless, loyal and loving, and bearing every one
of them, faint or deeply stamped, the characters
moulded in homes over which women have pre-
sided"
The ideal standpoint of the poet looks only upon
Utopan scenes 1t is happy standpoint; would
that there were no other points of observation, no
other scenes save those of Utopia.
But it is fair to consider both sides, and after
the gentle reader has reveled in the sweet utter
ances of the poetess-then in all fairness bid her
turn to the February Home Maker and read Lucy
Stones article with its clear succinct logic. There
is nought to this but reasoning and argument, and
no one can fail to respect it, and to gain wisdom
if he or she has not yet acquired it.
A very beautiful and talented Southern woman
who is drawing a charmed circle about her in New
York City is Mrs Lee c. Hardy, of Galveston,
and member of an old South Carolina family.
1t was the privilege of your correspondent to en-
joy one of her Friday Evenings last week in a
circle composed Of literary, scientific and cultured
nor MIRO Inv c fo bouo Il
''Texas Types" finely illustrated, in Lippincott
next month"; and has been introduced to the liter
airy world through Harper's Magazine and other
prominent journals. She is brilliantly beautiful
woman, and although the mother of son and
daughter grown to manhood and womanhood, the
years have left no lines upon her face to indicate
their flight. She~i7 a wonder to the average New
Yorker and bears evidence of life in a kindly
Southern cline, which deals lovingly and gently
with women.
Among her guests who dropped in to partake of
her hospitality was charming young literary light,
Mr.. Francis Livingstone, who has been recently
introduced to the reading world through some Of
the prominent journals; a pleasant-faced gentle
man, consul to siam; pretty, old lady who read
some beautiful verses of her own on the subject.
Decoration Day; some college misses, who gave
some delightful character Rotations in dialect.
a distinguished gentleman and young lady who
gave scene from Hamlet and Ophelia; and gen.
teman with antagonistic ideas about the South
nourished since the war, who appauded the orig
inal verses given by the fair hostess with more
vigor than any one, and confded in me his recent
ly acquired admiration for Southern people and
the fading away of prejudice.
l think New York is rather proud than otherwise
to do honor to her Southern daughters and is not
slow to appreciate the excellence and culture that
form an inherent part of the Southern character.
HARYoT Holt.