The sun., 1892-10-23

neapolis Convention the services OF the asso.
r the 25 ee sSmoe 10 ewRah
League, a mass mas meeting was held under the
lican party seem to accept with moro gracious
women: Indeed. provided tho the We women men do not not
bother too much, about q woman's suffrage
them to solicit. funds and distribute circulars
SSTy and the In
Frances Willard claims that the amount OF
force exerted ut II given moment to compress
the waists OF women by artificial methods.
would. y aggregated. turn all the mills be.
the condensed force Of their tight shoes il Il
could be applied. would run many trains
is bright one. An elderly lady in England.
one OF tho old school OF gentewomen. has for
several years knitted each year seventy
shawls and score or more OF muners for the
poor. besides cutting out colored scraps and
pastng them in books for children In the hos
pltal. All this never seems to interfere with
her writing exquisite little letters In a beauti-
political events OF the day by means Of papers
and books. arranging the flowers u II over her
to Ths M
lady is nearly 9O.
Tho Empress OF Austria takes each day
long walking excursions. in which she tires
out her ladies In waiting. convcrsing all the
wav in modern Greek with n Greek professor.
It is in study and exercise that the Empress
drives away the attacks OF melancholia which
the death Of her son. ~ '' N'''''
II Prof. Lombro keep. on with his lndict-
ments against women he will soon have ex-
hausted tho category and his apparently
congenial occupation will be gone His latest
charge against the sex comes in the form OF
an alteration OF the provorb that "all men
are liars" to make 1t appear that tho prevari-
cation of the world should DO laid at womans
door. womans lilo is usually very color
less affair. in which !, no deceit Is intended and
the sable hue Of the falsehnods which take the
form OF business. swindles dishone in
Of o nov
theories?
woman sanitary engineer has been chosen
to represent the English women ut the Con-
gress OF Hygiene. She is a woman OF versatile
genius, q .possessor OF certificates for art.
tAry science. She visits professionally slaugh-
ter houses. workshops. and dairies. and under
mains. connections. and SO forth.
me DrOOklyu uOSplRl lOr women anu Snl-
dren has Board OF sixty women managers. a
hospital staff of twenty-five physicians and a
| training school for women nurses. 1t is the
| only hospital in brooklyn whero women are
permitted to practise.
| One OF the purposes OF the woman's share in
| the Columbian Fair, and perhaps not the least
| important, is that the exhibits shall demon
| strate that women have had through the ages
greater originality and inventiveness than
| they have been accredited with. Among the
| primitive pupils women were the oriEinators
it is claimed. Of Industrial arts. and 1t was only
after they became lucrative that men usurpcd
them. Women devised the curin. and dress
Ing OF game ard the fashioninG Of the skins
| ofanimals into garments. Woman invented
the needle the shuttle. the weaving OF textiles.
She was tho first potter. ard she originated
basket making. There will be shown. as H.
| lustration Of the influence OF women during
| mednval times. u cory OF the old Bayeux
tapestry made by Matilda OF Flanders and h er
ma aldens. which is the best and most authontic
husband, William the. Conqueror: renrodue.
tions Of the statues of sniina Won steinbach:
| Strashurg Cathedral. TO her is as"rihed tho
change from the s1if nedirval an:,rs t" the
f" rev" %S book Hs . in tn. two3 @
century by the >bhrss OF Harrnd. which con-
tstEcd comn"nd.nm Of Of al the tho s,Gow"tEe,
considered by many to he the origin of the
modern encyclopaedia. There will be records.
early Italian universities. and many other
things of interest illustrative OF woman's
uprising in the ranks is only the natural force
O.! the stream seeking its level. and not at all
anew departure.
There is little paragraph going the rounds
and appearing with moro or less regularity in
the papers to the effect that Nodes
ka says that ono reason why she pre-
serves her beauty is that she husbands
her emotions. for where woman is be-
ginning to get old she cannot afrc rd to be glad
or sad as in her youth. To some ono who
questioned her concerning It, tho still beauti-
full actress answered: "Modjeska cconomi cal
OF her motons-why.I am not even economical
with my money. am tho vcriest spendth rift
that ever lived OF smiles ana tears and dollars.
II is that have still retained the power to
feel everything. whether glad or sad. most in
tensely t" laugh and cry within the same mo
ment almost that KEEPS me me- y"unf toutt' i. is is
every emotion. sure Of the iuiness OF Its fount
OF feeling"
Two American girls who are studying art to
good advantage In Rome. whose work Will
he seen at tho Exposition. are Luella
Varney AMI Adelaide johnson. Miss
Varney has been ut work only seven or eight
years. but her marble and bronze are widely
known. and arc seen IN puuilc halls. IN cathe-
drals and in beautiful homes Among her
important works are bronze Of Bishop Ralph
IN full canoncals: an exquisite figure OF
"Truth." which forms tho crowping figure Of
n creni monument, and tho husts o; Miss An
tEuny and Julia Ward Howe. which are to he
at tho Exposition. Miss, Johnson is aSt. Louis
Girl. VINO has conquered fate with the deter
mnation oi, n, NapoIn,,n Once her funds.
inst ns she was about to begin study in
marble. Again. having by heroic effort,
| nl lpin m
studies. she met with an accident which
confined her to tho bed for several
months and exhausted her means. At last.
almost hrstitutc OF money and walking only
hy the aid of n cruich and n cnno she entered
| tlIe i'm porial city, tho mecca OF every artistic
souiIl4me. HowScysr' tom the timr o; hcr
General and Mrs Logan. Miss Johnson has
never lacked rntrons ilcr stndi" Is n v, Wnsh;
men at work on her marbles, executing in
iawloss Cnrrnra busts, OF Llizt' eth Cndy
Stanton nnh of I.ucrc,ia Mott. The,::c are des.
tined primarily for tho Columbus Exposition
and later are destined-tne first busts OF
| A,,ari,un womap to ndorn its halla-for the