The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-02-27

soC WOsoou hAOe ooo soO ooNnon OCtuE
last Biornson believes that an intel
lectuslly developed woman with q life
work can get on very well by herself
Laura Marholm maintains that apart
from man woman. is nothing. Accord
ing to her. woman 10 q creature OF in
stiucf. and This instinct is her most
precious possession and Of far greater
value than the intellect. The nix women
whom she writes about are the wonder
ful Russian mathematician Who wal
awarded the Prir Bordia; George Eyer
ton, the author Of "Neurotic Keynotes;'
Eleonora Duse, the greatest and most
modern actress that ever lived; Amalie
Skram, the woman naturalist; Marie
Bashkirtseff, the inspired baby, and A.
CD. Edgren LETTER. the Swedish expon-
emit Of womar's rights. An intuition,
sympathetic and loving. has enabled
Laura Aarholm to show to the world the
souls Of the women whom she studies.
OF the six, she loves EleoDora Duse,
Sonia Kovalevfky and Marie Bashkirtseff
a. only women can love each other. She
diagnoses the miseries Of q modern
woman's soul with unerring success.
Speaking Of Sonia Kovalevsky's hands.
Laura Marholm says: when she shook
hands you felt 70 il q little bird with q
beating heart had futtered into your
hand and out again. Her
hands are the hands Of child, with
nervous. crooked little fingers. anxiousIy
bent inwards; and in one hand she
clasps book with such visible effort
that il makes ones heart ache TO look at
her.
The hands often afford better material
for Psychological study than the face.
and they give deeper and more truth
ful insight into the character because
they arc les under control. There are
people with fine. clear faces, whose
hands are like saueages, fieshy and vein.
Ices. With thick, stumpy fingers which
warn 10 to beware Of the animated
mask. And there are round, warm,
sensuous fsces, with full. almost thick,
lire, which are obviously coutradicted
by pale, blue-veined, sickly looking
hands. The momentary amount of in
tellectual power which . person has at
his disposal can change the face, but the
hands are Of more physical nature and
their speech is q more physical one
Sonials face was lit up by the soul in
Der eyes, which bore witness to the in
terse interest which she took in every
thing that was going on around her. but
the weak, nerveless. trembling little
hands told Of the unsstisfied. helpless
child who was never to attain the full
development of her womanhood."
OF Duse Marho.m says: "When Duse
10 ip love, even in Fedora it is always
she Who 10 the little woman and the
man is for her the big man, the giver,
who holds her happiness in his hands.
to whose side she steals anxiously, al
most timidly. and looks up at him With
her serious. wearied. almost childlike,
snike. She comes to him for protection
and shelter, just a. travellers are won't to
gather round a warm fire. and she clings
to him carlessly with her thin little
hand, the hands OF q child and mother.
Never has woman been represented in q
0orewomanly way than by Elesnora Duse
and moro than that, I take it upon my
self to maintain that woman has never
been represented upon the stage until
now-by Eieonora Duse. Eleonore
Ouses acting telle Of infinite suspense.