Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
THE FEMALE sUFFRAGIsTs.

The women suffragists have captured the
Capital. Elizabeth Cady Stanton trots
about as though she owned Washington,
Phoebe Couzins' eyes snap with grit and de-
termination and Helen NJ. Cougar acts as
though she weighed a ton. May Wright
Sewell has put on her war paint and Susan
B. Anthony is making scores of votes by her
siege on the Congressman in the Capitol
committee rooms. Susan was 20 years old
this month, but she looks no older than
when first met her years ago, and her eye
is as bright and her brain is as clear as it
was in the sixties. She has devoted her life
to woman's rights and she has come into
close association with the public men of the
country for two generations. She is
not a blusterer nor a notorietv-seeker
and she has never cut of her
hair. She dresses as we'll as any
lady of Washington and she is fond of black
silk as stiff as a board. She has the brain of
a man rather than one of a woman, and her
warm gray eyes look out through gold
glasses in a very fetching way. I saw her
chatting with Senator George Frisbie Hoar,
of Massachusetts, in StatuarY Hall, at the
Capitol, this afternoon, and Hoar's face
beamed with smiles, and his great round
blue eyes popped out with kindness as he
looked down upon her with Horace Gree
ley air To my mind he looked more like
grandmother than she did, and the picture
might have served for model for great
painting of the platonic affections of Janu-
ary and December. As looked at them they
were proudly rehearsing old times together,
for both seemed decidedly tickled. I did not
address either, but merely said to myself:
''Oh, you giddy things" and walked away.
BANCROFT, THE HISTORIAN.
George Bancroft, the historian, is confined
to mis- bed, and he has been sick for the
greater part of the winter. He is not doing
any literary work and he considers his life
work done. He still plays whist occasion
ally and one night this winter he played the
whole evening without making but one mis-
take, which is very good for man nearly
80. His library is one of the most valuable
in the country. 1t contains many rare man.
uscripts and it is, am told, Mr.. Bancrofts
idea to have the Government purchase it at
q fair appraiSepent at mis- death.
Ex-senator Joseph E Mcdonald is prac-
ticing law in Washington. Isaw him at the
Capitol yesterday. He weighs $50 pounds
and he says he is "solid from in to out"
asked him how he maintained his youthful
vigor. He replied: "It comes from a good
conscience and voting the straight Demo-
cratic ticket. These make me rest we'll at
night, and have as much iron in my blood
as when began to vote. 1 recommend the
recipe to the young men of the present"
THE POPULAR EDITOR.
hear that George W. Childs dictated the
which lately appeared in
Lippincott's Magazine to a newspaper re-
porter, and that the young man got s., 900
from the magazine for the job. Mr.. Childs
gave him the matter to help him along, and
not to add to his own personal notoriety.
Speaking of Mr.. Childs, Colonel John
Brownlow tells me that he made fortune
out of the Parson Brownlow book, which he
published during the war. The book paid
Psrson Brownlow $40, 900, and Mr.. ChiIds,
as publisher, must have got several times
this amount.
Congressman Cogswell, of Salem, Mass,
tells me that ex-Secretary Endicott has re-
sumed the practice of the law. His shingle
Is out and he has two partners, and though
he will probably not do much work himself,
his name will add to the firm and his assist
ance will be given on big cases. The ex-
Secretary spent his last summer in England |
with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Chamber
lain. He is well-to-do, and he lives very
nicely at Salem.
FRANZ G. GARPENTER