ABOUT WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 4027, 22 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

ABOUT WOMEN.

( I'he present condition of the Empress Carlotta, Maximilian’s widow, is said to be truly distressing. r lhe heroine of Joaquin Miller’s new story, “The One Fair Woman,” is said to be a Tennessee lady, whom Mr Miller fell in love with while in Koine, forgetting “Minnie Myrtle.” The Princess Frederica, daughter of the ox-King of Hanover, is said ho bo, without doubt, the most beautiful Prince?;; in nil Europe. She is the devoted comphnion of her blind father.

Mother Stewart, one of the most prominent of the loaders in the “temperance crusade ’ in Ohio, two years ago, nas received an invitation to begin a similar moVeBjojit in England.

Madame Madeline Bres, Doctor of Medicine, is about to open a consultation room in Pans. This is the first instance of a female practitioner iu the French capital. Two of the successful novels of the season are the “ Queen of Connaught ” aud “Comm’ thro’ the Rye.” The former is attributed, by some of those who have not read it, to Charles Reade; the latter, by many of those who have read it, to Rhoda Broughton. Both are wrong. “ Cornin’ thro the Rye ” is by a young lady, who will suortly appear as a poetess. ladies who demand “women’s rights will hardly appreciate the reductio ad absuraum that has been reached in elshpool, in Wales. A pauper named Richard Jones is supported in the workhouse His wife, it appears, who earns a living by serving as cook, refused to maintain him, and the guardians summoned her for the expense of his residence in the workhouse Formerly this could not have been done, but under the Married Women’s Property Act a wife’s earnings are her separate property, and though she has a general right to apply them to her own use, yet that does not relieve her from the obligation of supporting people having a fair natural claim upon her. Amongst those an impoverished husband must now be reckoned, since Mrs Jones has been compelled to pay Is 2d a week towards the maintenance of her pauper “lord.” This is turning tables with a vengeance. \

A ROMANTIC STORY. < A New York correspondent of the Chicago limes, tells a romantic story of a young lady now residing in the metropolis, who may be seen daily passing through the streets or riding in the horse cars from her home iu the suburbs, with' a roll of manuscript in her hand, on her way to the offices of the magazines or the weekly papers, trying to dispose of the productions upon which she is dependent for her daily bread. She is the daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough, whose Louden residence is in Cavendish Square, is the owner of the superb estates and palaces of Exton Park, Oakham and Cottesmore, in Rutlandshire, besides Campi mi- ouse » * n Gloucestershire ; but his brilliant daughter, Lady Blanche, whose baptismal name, as will be seen by reference to any recent edition of Burke’s Peerage, was Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata, is lost to his sight if not to his memory. Her mother, the deceased wife of the Earl of Gainsborough, was Lady Auguste, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Errol. Her two brothers are Viscount Campden and Lord Edward, and her two youngest sisters are Lady Georgiaua and Lady x ranees. While in her 21st year she fell in love with a young organist named Murphy, and contrary to the wish of her family she married him. The mesalliance of the daughter of so great a house was a surprise and horror to the Earl, who, in his wrath, disowned her, forbade her returning to the ancestral halls, and cut her off from all the heritage of the family. Mr aud Mrs Murphy very soon experienced the trials of penury and adversity in London, and four years ago, or within the first year of their marriage, they arrived in New York, where they again felt the pressure of straightened circumstances. But Lady Blanche was persevering, aud some of her sparkling manuscripts soon found acceptance and brought her a little income. Among other things, she contributed to the Galaxy a series of brilliant essays on English high life and English aristocracy, which attained much notice.