Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-07-11

80 1865 VI eeEng five f
tall. The erectness wirh Which
carried her body-spine straag,,. sae
arrow, shoulders well back. sass "a
poised, together with tle su.a. vi
robes OF state-all combined ID nv
form the royal midget into an ,, aus
ing commanding women. n 80
younger days Queen Victoria v,,s "
sensitive about her height ar ..,s
lack of It, s4''%
They tell a pretty story al,op. "
little Maria Edgeworth. from +. ssN'
Waiter Scott got the iiisplrat ion ~
led him to immomalize the r,p,sii,s w
gends of his native hills. ono glar
was travelling in a stage 60.
Among the passengers was h.Ist
little boy. Presently he missed 80 ~
age and asked Miss Eelgewor,5
stand up that he might look for /, !. /"
der the seat. She told him STA H.
standing, and the little fellow ,ool.ss
at her with distended ewes ana i
claimed, well, you are the yerv I.
tlest lady / ever did see." Sir w.,t".
Scott admired the 'amous Irishwoms.
because of her diminutiye size u r-as
as for her wit and keenness Of obs.
walton. Byron was another of har a.
mirers. though he spoke of her u ].
unasSuming jeanne Deans lirla ma
Sir Thomas Moore was actually ieala,.
Of the attentions bestowed on his I'M
country woman. Altogether MAJ.
Edgeworth filed place in The World
OF fashion and letters of her time AHA.
gether disproportionate to her Size
Most of the blue stockings Of ira
eighteenth century seem to have bad
bodies overweighted with brains
There was Mrs. Montague, '.the Emo.
lish woman Of letters of the eighteentb
century" as Boswell ponderousv
called her. What Mrs. Monfagua
lacked in heigh; she made IN n
breadth, for she was as broad as she
was long. She was the leader 81 ~
famous Blue Stocking club, ana her
house was famous for its entertain.
ments, not the least of which was tae
annual feast which she gave the chin.
ney sweeps of London. Ii one were
celebrity, one was sure Ito bring up Al
Mrs. Montagueis sooner or later. for
there gathered all the wits ami
scholars and artists and beauties Of
her time.
Do you know thar small women have
a way of living on TO old age? TO be
sure CLEOPATRA died young. but 1t was
her own fault. There was Mrs. Mon.
tague, who was still loving ribbons and
diamonds after four score and good
solid, TINY, gossi despising Hannah
Moore, who at eighty tripped abolt
the drawing room in a pea-gr silk
gown.
Fhe list is endless. There was
Frederika Bremen. the German novel
list. a plain little specimen of woman.
hood. And Lady Morgan, who wrote
"The Wild Irish Girl nobody thinks
of hooking at it's pages nowadays, but
1t was popular once-was hardly four
feet tan. She loved to appear in a
Celtic cloak. Those, TOO, are obso-
lete, but in her day they were The Sun
day garment of every woman in Ire.
land, THAT Ii, 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 peculialdties, not the least anus.
ing one being her dislike for dates.
Il protest against dates What has
woman to do with dates?" she asked
indignantly. And some of her ac-
quaintances loved to tease her by IA
ferring to her as Lady Morgan Of the
eighteenth century. But Lady Morgan,
for all her little weaknesses was
much sought after and admired for
her ready wit and fluent pen.
Rosa Bonheur is another famous Ut
tie woman. and one eveaing IN Londln
she met many other famous folk Al
the salon of short Mrs Spence. Miss
Spence was not tail, but she was very
very broad. and a rather remarkable
character in her way. She seems never
to have done anything in particular
herself, except to draw about her many
people of worldwide regulations. And
this, mind you, when her salon meant
two small rooms and she made tea u
a closet. 1t was there Bulwer Lytton
and Rosina Wheeler made their first
appearance after their betrothal.
And there was lola Montez that
famous infamous woman whose ID
fiuence nodded nations. And there \
Patti and the tiny Lolita Of the en-
chanting heels and perpetual yoatn-
and Mrs. Frances HodgeSon Burned
and Harriet Prescott spofford. Inc
list might be continued indefinitely
but 1t lis quite long enough now 70
show that the little woman Is worthy
sometimes.