The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-11
NOTES AND GOSSIP
 ABOUT WOMEN.

A terrible example of what is interest ing in a woman "a given in the advertise ment of Mrs. Howard kingscote the aristi ocratic Englishwoman who is to deliver a course of fifty lectures in the United States on the subject of The Position of Women in the Victoria Era" She Is advertised as educated in the school for scandal, as she herself says, her name has been mixed up in the most extraordinary affairs. She ruined Lord Byron, several Ilergymen and shrewd men of business fell victims to her wiles. that havo been called hypnotic. Her father was ambassador of England at that have been called hypnotic. Her Khan of Bokhara. and himself poor, mar ried a peers daughter. Her brother and husband shared in the ruin that ever fol- lowed in her wake. She got millions from her many victims.'
 Mrs. Kingscote says in regard to her lectures;
 "I shall talk of the position of woman in social and political life and the change which has been brought about in that position during the last half century. The late Queen. I may say, was absolutely astenished by the great revolution in the status Of woman that came to pass In her reign. She advocated the education of woman, but was somewhat pained when she saw the unconventionality that education brought in It's train.
 ''For the educated woman refuses to be cramped by certain little social restric- tions. The woman who has read and thought advances in other lines. not ex- clusively academic, and so the Queen helped along unwittingly great move ment, many of the results of which later met her disapproval. ~.
 ''I am not here to advocate female suffrage, or anything of that sort-I have little sympathy with the shrieking sister hood
 The New York woman who finds upon study of the subject that the English wife Is perhaps of all wives "the most devoted, the most humble, patient and object of wives" makes of the English woman debased creature and of the English man a coward and a tyrant when she gives as an example of the English wifes servile devotion the fact that she has seen English women do what no other woman In France or America or Germany would. She cites that an English man in good society took it as a matter of course that his wife should walk up five flights of stairs in a hotel to get his overcoat. This sample of devotion is as benighted as is the absence of elevators in the hotel.
 Some times the advanced woman gets into too deep water for even her up to date fitness for emergency as is surely the case with the Woman's Suffrage Society of Paris when the members de- clare that it is prejudicial to woman's interest to lose her name by marriage and to be obliged to adopt that of her husband So hungry were those women for the new that the meeting at which this progressive idea was presented was unanimous in favor of the married wo- man continuing her own family name after marriage. But the question. what name shall the children bear" was too much for them. Those who could only see as far as the end of their own nose wanted the child to take both but some far-seeing feminine suggesting that after the fifth generation under the new regime the unfortunate youngster would have just thlrty-two names. the point seemed little misty again. The meet ing disbanded little unsettled on the subject except to one woman who de-