Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03

she has been besieged bv repcr...s, yet the
eternal patience, which is said to be one
with genius, she graciously extends to al,
| with the preface that latter all you news
paper people have done for me it would be
more ungrateful than think am to refuse
the small fayors you ask. Bat please don't
overrate me. It really 10 painful to me to
see myself credited with knowing every
thing known In the art from the days Of
30 little yeti Why, have only studied
two yesrsi''
This she said rs though anyone could do
the same by studying two years.
In reply to an almost beseeching request
for her photograph she replied in that
naive little wav so peculiarly her own and
which is perfectly bewitching: 'Yes, 1
will give you my photograph, too, but not
as proof of my amiabilitv, but as a means
of self-gratifcation. I have hopes of yet
seeing one likeness of myself in news
paper which will not cause my friends gen.
orally to send me messages of coincidence
and sympathy"
Women Wear Their Own LaureIs Now.
But, apropos Of women and their work, b
1t not a continual surprise that they have
proven themselves SO capable in so many
unusual occupations7 And more 30 whom
were suppressed and training refused? This
has rightly been called the woman's age.
Women now not only dare TO do, but to
own what they have done. instead of per-
mitting men to wear their laurels, as in
times past
Herr Stineback could not to-day take all
the credit to himself for the doors of the
Strassburg Cathedral, allowing his sister no
share of credit, and if Madame de Scuddery
had lived in this age she might fearlessly
and with honor have owned the novels she
permitted to be published under her brcther's
name, which brother, it is said, used to lock
her in her room to keep her at it and who
upon one occasion drew his sword upon a
friend who doubted his having written
them. So also might Fanny Mendelssohn
now claim the "Songs Without W ords" SO
generally credited to her brother. Fanny,
We are told, was suppressed BY the whole
family, who dared not risk what would be
thought of her for SO unsexing herself as
to be composing music instead of washing
dishes ,
Public Opinion and the Seq.
Neander's sister, too, In this just era
could claim her full share In the 'Church
History" that made her brother famous, and
SO on through the long list of brainy women
of past ages who could not live long enodgh
to enjoy the tardy honors We nineteenth
century folk propose to confer upon them.
That great barrier to Yoman's progress,
public opinion, which Mr. so long time
stood like an insurmouutable wall between
her and her capabilities, is now thing of
history only.
The contest between women and tho pub
lie has always reminded me of the fable Of
the sea wall and the tide. Said the tide to
the sea wall: 'T think I will go up where
you are"
''Oh, no, said the sea wall, ''vou must not
do that. For ages on ages you have stayed
where you are and it was never intended
that you should come up here"
The tide who had been all of these ages
finding out its Godgiven strength had con-
cluded such power had not been bestowed
for nothing and had quietly replied to the
sea wall: However, think will GO"
What answer the sea wall made was
never known for 1t was no longer there.
MARY TEMPLE BAYARD.