ABOUT WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 4045, 12 February 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

ABOUT WOMEN.

It appears (a Paris correspondent of the 'Pall Mall Gazette' writes) that on the occasion of the Jewish New Year, a certain number of Jewish ladies attempted two reforms. They requested, in the first place, that the synagogues shall be left open all day long, and in the second, that they shall be allowed to drive to the temple on Saturdays. The Rabbis have not as yet given their decision.

The following communication has been received by the President of the Exhibition Commissioners, Victoria :—" International inhibition, Women's Centennial Executive Committee, No. 903, Walnut street, Philadelphia, November 9, 1875. Dear sir,—l have the honor to inform you that the Committee over which I preside—acting by the advice of the Director-General—have made arrangements for a separate department in the International Exhibition of 1876 for the exhibition of the works of the women of all nations. A building for this purpose is now in course of erection. lam directed by your Committee to give you this information, and respectfully request that you will bring the matter before the women of your country in such manner as you deem best. Pray assure them that their co-operation is earnestly requested, and that their works will be gladly received, subject of course to the rules which govern the general Exhibition. We extend this invitation through you, and shall hope for a favorable reply at as early a moment as practicable. I am, very respectfully yours, E. D. Gillespie."

Most of our readers will know, through her writings, Mrs Cashel Hoey, the talented wife of the former Secretary to the Victoria Agent-General in London. We find from a Home paper that a Mrs Davison has for some time personated this lady, and apparently with some amount of success, until her imposture was discovered. The London correspondent of the ' Nottingham Journal' writes :-—" Personation, does "not pay. It sent Mr Arthur Orton to Dartmoor, and has made Mrs Davison look something more than ridiculous. It will be remembered that Mrs Davison, being not without ambition, but without the talent which is necessary to success, thought the easier way to fame was to rise on the shoulders of somebody else. So she made herself a wonder to her friends by the simple process of naming herself to them privately Mrs Cashel Hoey. tor years she has traded on a reputation not her own. In Hereford—where she lived, the wife of a proud seed merchant—she was able to do this with impunity. But she sought larger honors, and had the audacity to enter London society under her assumed name. It so happens that in London society the real Simon Pure is well-known and exceedingly popular. When, therefore, Mrs Davidson made her appearance, she was speedily detected. Mrs Cashel Hoey and her personator were brought face to face. The lady who, had aspired to honors not hers confessed her fault, prayed, for the sake qf her relations, with her husfjand, feu;, pardon, and by saying that open confession would destroy her marital happfness wrought the injured authoress to pity. Promising that she would not repeat the offence, she was allowed .to go. But circumstances seem to have been too strong for her. She would not cut herself off from the reputation her falsehood had made her, and still continued to obtain social consideration on account of works she never wrote. Meanwhile Mrs Cashel Hoey has become increasingly popular, and her shadow in Herefordshire began to attract public attention until the Press spoke admiringly about her. Then the whole truth whole out. For some time, I believe, she held out that she was the actual authoress ; but a threat of legal proceedings brought her to her senses. She has at last confessed her fault, and asked forgiveness. Mrs Hoey has no desire whatever to push matters to an exand is disposed to let the matter drop. She only wants everybody to know that she is what she is, and nobody else.