The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-12
TELEPHONE NO. 123.

in a stage coach. Among the passengers
was bright little boy. Presently he
missed a package and asked Miss Edge
worth to stand up that he might look for
1t under the seat. She told him she was
standing, and the little fellow looked
at her with dstended eyes and exclaimed:
well, you are the very iittlest lady /
ever did Sect Sir Walter Scott admired
the famous Irishwoman because of her
dimtnutiVe size, as well as for her wit
and keen observation Byron was an
other of her admirers, though he spoke
OF her as an unassuming, jeanne Deans
little body Thomas Moore was actually
Jealous of the attention bestowed on his
tiny countrywoman. Altogether Maria
Edgeworth filled a place in the world Of
fashion and letters of her time dispro-
portiOnate to her size.
Most of the blue stockings of the eigh-
teenth century seem to have had bodies
overweighted with brains. There was Mrs
Montague, the English woman of letters
of the eighteen century" as Boswell
ponderously called her. What Mrs. Mon
tague lacked in hight she made up in
breadth, for she was as broad as she was
long. She was leader of the famous Blue
Stocking Club, and her house was famous
for its entertainments, not the lerst Of
which was the annual feast she gave the
chimney-sweeps OF London If one were
o celebrity one was sure to bring up
Mrs. Montague's sooner or later, for there
gathered all the wits and scholars and ar
lists and beauties of her time.
Do you know that small women have
a way of living on to old age? To be sure
Cleopatra QieQ young, out II was her own
fault. There was Mrs. Montague who
was still loving ribbons and diamonds after
fcur-score, and good. solid tiny, gossip
despiSing Hannah Moore, who at eighty
tripped about her drawing-roOm in a pea
green silk gown. The list is endless.
There was Frederika Bremen, the German
novelist, plain little specimen OF woman
hood And Lady Morgan, who wrote The
Wild Irish Girl'-nobody thinks of look
ing at its pages nowadays, but 1t was
popular once-was hardly four feet tall.
She loved to appear in a gay red Celtic
her day they were the Sunday garment
of every woman in Ireland-that is, every
woman who didn't belong to the gentry.
After she had turned sixty she affected
white frOcks and green sashes She had,
indeed many pecularities, not the least
amusing one being her dislike for dates.
Il protest against datesi What has a
woman to do with dates?" she asked in
dignantly. And some of her aequaint-
ances loved to tease her by referring 20
her as Lady Morgan Of the eighteenth cen
fury. But Lady Morgan, for all her lit
end admired for her ready wit and fluent
pen.
Rose Bonheur is another famous little
woman, and one evening in London she
met many other famous folks at the salon
Of short Miss Spence. Miss Spence was
not tall, but she was very, very broad and
a rather remarkable character In her way
She seems never 10 have done anything In
particular herself, except TO draw about
her many people Of worldwide reputation
And this, mind you, when her salon meant
Two small rooms, and she made tea In a
closet. II was there Bulwer Lytton and
Rosina Wheeler made their first appear
ance after their hetrOthal
And there was Lola MonfeZ, that famOus
woman whose influence moulded nations.