The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-15

prsses. and. unlike coieridxe. ne was
, well aware OF the fact. Tie dawcied over
hts edition OF Shapspeare for nine years al
though he had promised it IN year. and
only finished IL in consequence OF the at
tack OF Churchill. who accused him of
cheating his subscribers:
He for subscribers bats his hook.
And takes your cash; but where's your
book?
No matter where. wise fear. you know.
Forbids the robbing of foe:
But what to serve our private ends.
Forbids the cheating Of our friends2
.
woman who gives much time and
effort TO philanthrop.c work felt, she
said at the beginning of tits winter, that
the unusual need OF the poor demanded
unusual methods. She determined that
not one crunb OF food in her house should
be wasted while her feow-creaturcs were
starving. She accordingly provided a tin
lined basket. fitted with partitions and
two or three glass Jars. and with these
aids she taught her waitress how to care
for the fragments left after every meal
Into the jars We're put the tea leaves and
coffee grounds. and into the basket
every bit of bread, meat. and vegetables
which remained uneaten. The food was
carefully separated and arranged as ap-
petizngly possible. Every morning a
young lad. son of a destitute family. has
called at her door, and these fragments.
which would have been thrown away.
have kept three persons fairly nourished
throughout the season.-ExchanSe-
new phase OF the present agitation
i'm the gay world of New York. regard
ing woman suffrage, which has been 50
enthusiastically taken up by prominent
society women. is the development within
the past few days OF movement antag-
onistic to the petition to be presented
TO the Constitutional Convention on the
subject. among women OF the same set
those who are circulating the petitions
clio pfrr &c SD n fra L~r-oxI-
eric Goodridge. Mrs William Beeckman
and other well-known society women
preparing a memorial to be presented
to the convention to be signed by cisizens.
both men and women. who either do not
| believe in having the suffrage or who
| are opposed to its being granted to them
| IN this city State at least at the
| present time or even in the near future.
| Several persons have already been re-
| quested to sign this new petition or me-
mortal and have promised to do so. 20
that merry war Is imminent between
the pro and antf-woman suffrage parties
in the society world.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
| states that n wave of great men Tor babies
| that were destined to become great seems
| to have swept over the world in 1872 Why
they were precipitated upon the world
| during that particular year VIII, perhaps.
never be known, but 1t Is fact that the
| following named historical personages
| count IL as their birth year: Lincoln.
Gladstone, Darwin. Edgar Allan Poe.
Cyrus Mccormick. BENJAMIN Pierce. Al
| fred Tennyson, Mark Lemon. Jules Favre
Raphael Semmes. Albert Pike and oliver
| Wendell Holmes. Ii has been asserted
| that Jefferson Davis born in 1909
| but find it was I'm 1908.
4 \ nobleman was dining lately I'm Paris
| with British diDiomatist. and next to
| him was n noted belle from the United
States. The conversation drifted into the
discussion OF things American, aud the
Briton made some rather disagreeable
remarks
Why. dye know" he continued. .at
some OF the places dined at in America
saw people eat with their knives and
spill soup on the tablecloth."
The American girl was thoroughly FRO
voked by this time. but she replied with
apparent unconcern:-
what poor letters of Introduction .ro,,
must have had. my lordi'
Ihere was no more unpleasant talk
about America that evening
II am born out of time" said Lamb
Il nave to conjecture what the present
WorlG calls delicacy. I thought .Rosa-
muhu Cray was a pretty modest thing
Hessy assures me that the world would
not bear it. l have lived 10 grow into an
indecent character. When my sonnet was
rejected / exclaimed: Damn the age:
viii write for antiquity"
Washington seems to be n paradise for
widows. Ihe latest rumor indicates that
Mrs Stanley Matthews VIII buy Z house
ana make her permanent home there with
her niece. Miss Mitchell. Mrs Iforrief
Lane Johnson. and Mrs. Daniel Manning
have come to the same conclusion after
a few months stay there.
The Intellectual woman of society. says
an Exchange, IS better dressed. because
more quietly and less extravagantlv. than
the non-inteiectual woman She appears