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Not the Rival, But the Partner and Co-Worker of Man. HER INFLUENCE OVER MEN. A Gifted Woman's Views of the Des- tiny of Her Sex—Her Hopes For the Future and the Lessons She Draws From the Past. Written for the Sunday Bee. It is & well-known fact in natural his- tory that the' highest torms of life de- velop most slowly. The ephemera are born in the morning, go into society and dance merrily over the green pools of their birth, become parents, and dic before sunset. The elephant, with his wonderful sagacity and human powers of method and memory, is years in reachipg ‘maturity, and, under favora- ble circumstances, lives for centuries; while apes, our cousins, according to Mr. Darwin, grow more diabolical as they grow older, and probably are, in the end, translated divect to the T ferno, to be herded, according to tr tion, by luckless damsels who have found no other destiny. Another well- kunown fact is that man is the head of the animal creation; and, also, that he is a oreature of such slow development that a good many n“)c\'imonfi never de- velop at all, but, whether lrom innate weakness, a worm at the heart, or bliz- zards of adversity, they drop off the tree and lie in abject heaps, poor, use- less windfalls, “‘scarce fit to feed the pigs,” And now, to ascend one step higher in the scale and reach woman, is it not a fact, perhaps not as widely recog- nized as the others, but still a fact, that woman, not as an individual, but as a race—woman parexcellence—is but now reaching her perfectian? Looking back through the centuries, do not we sea that she has been gradually grow- ing up until now she is just entering upon her magnificent maturity, and beginning to show what she was made for—to prove, indeed, that she is the crown and final finish of her race? See her in all stagest In the east and Turkey even now what is she but a baby; a thing to be played with, chid- den, punished, coaxed, fed with canaies and decked with pretty clothes, and carefully kept inclosed lest she should fall into mischief or danger? See her as the child of the middle ages, amused with tournaments and extravaganzas of chivalry, listening to interminable ballads’ about love and adven- ture, sung by harpers in castle hall. See the romantic irl, listoning to troubadours and dre ng asa page to follow her knight to battle; and, if he died, rushing into the cloister, and fancying she gave herself 10 God by running away from her duties in the world. See her, ignorant of her own powers, and following some of her swectest instinets, submitting to be the vassal of man, yielding obedience, without self-respect or reason, to her husband or her sous; serving patiently until the unpitied burden bore her to the ground and into her grave; con- senting, withont argument, to man’s dictum: “I am the stronger, and I can fight, and I can wring a living from the world, and I have no nerves o be over- wrought, and so 1 am the master and you are the slave, or, at best, the pupil; (NAR JOH ¥ NSop, AEPTRONTED Y SELKAAP.ARMIN A PONELL AL, S0 UMBRELAS WINDSOR. The Windsor Parasol or Sun Umbrella, with Each one warranted. gold, oxodized and natural wood handles, leads them all. We know it will wear longer, give bet- ter satisfaction than any other make. An slegant line of novelties in Parasols, in- cluding plaids, stripes, changeable moire, faille in new and choice shades, with white and gold tips and selvedge edge to match tips. 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We would call special attention to THE ONLY All Linen Summer CORSET [N THE MARKET, Price only SI We carry the best line of Corset Waists Made for ladies and children. ou are to do just as I_bid you, and o what T tall you, and imitate that nice womanly womin who said, when a candidate offered herself to the con- vent and wished to bring her bible with her, ‘No;_we will have neither you nor your bible; we arve a community of Women who only know how to spin and to_ pray And, finally, see woman in our own day less, inquiring, aspiring, expe menting in this direction and in that, making a thousand failures and a hun- dred glorious feeling the un- suspected power stirring at the core of her being, expanding lungs that noth- ing less than all the air that stirs under heaven can satisfy, and listening, half- bewildered, to the whispers of her own brain’ and the throbs of a heart that says: “Oh, T can love more than hus- band, and child, and family. T can love art, and use, and my own race. Like the heartof God, I can sympathize, I can comfort, I can strengthen all that live; and by loving as He loves, I reach my own highest lmp&flnons}" Tn not this somewhat the meaning of the stirand ferment we sce in our day among the ranks of womanhood? And when some one ardent and too hasty sister breaks out in rank absurdity of dress or 'manner, or some cruclly mis- taken sister imagines that liberty means license, and that the love of all mankind means {free love, and that the rht to labor means the right to wrangle, let us not set down the fault or folly of that one woman to the corporate body of womanhood. In every great movement there are individuals who fail both in aim and achievement, but the whole moves on to success. The explorers and settlers of ourown land were, many of them, sordid treasure scekers, or fugitives from justice, or mere mercenaries; but the grand and governing idea of open ing up a new world, and making a new home for humanity, led on the whole and the result is the land of which we ave so justly proud. Take another and very homely example: The swarms of grasshoppers that make their mys- terious journeys across the westérn plains have, no’ doubt, some object in view, although they have never yet con- fided it to man: but no obstacle has ever prevented their reaching this myster- ious goal. A good many rush heed- lessly into the fives that are kindled in their path;a good many drown them- selves in the sf ms they encounter; a good nany stick fast in the tar and pitch spread in their route by the farm- ers; but over the bodies of theso victims or these fanatics, or these blinded zea- lots the great mass passes on and on, and in the end achieves its purpose, 8o, then, let us say that woman, hav- ing passed in her iu!um‘&u her child- hood, her girlhood, and unreasoning pupilage, has reached maturity, an feels within herself both the power and the determination to rise into a ‘more prominent and executive position in the world, How shall she do it, and how shall she adjust her new phase of exi ence to her relations with man? First of all, in importance and stubility, re- muins the fact of that inborn atwaction of the sexes to each other which results in love, marriage and the dutics of par- No development of woman's pivitual or executive powers one jot or title, alter the ature which leads her to love, ge and maternity, and her other capacities must always be grouped around these fundamental bases. No doubt there are a greut many woman who never marry of become mothers; but should any one of them be invited to do s0 by the man of men in her eyes, it is more tham likely that she would, for the time being, fee that no de stiny was higher, and no vocatlion more eon- genial, than that he suggests. Some years ago a prominent artist ostublished a cluss of female wood-engravers at Cooper institute, and for a while met with brilliant success; but, after an- other while. the work was abandoned, and the reason given by the artist, with rather a pettish laugh, was that it quite useless to spend time and ene i ing young women anything re- ng and experience, by the time they learned it they in love or married, and art was flung to the winds. It is rather to broad & statement, no doubt, but still has a good deal of truth in it. andisone of the many steps by which I have reached the firm conviction, which I here an- nounce, the woman is not the riva but the partner of the man: that his nature supplements hers, and hers his, in harmonious co-operation, and that either one which despises or ignores the other commits the same foily that the hands would if they despised the feet. or the head if it felt superior to the lungs. I half-playfully said, in the first part of this puper, that woman is the crown and giory of man, and in many ways 1 think she is; but a crown could be of small use without a head to wear.it, and glory requires strength to sustain it. So, in my mind, dear sisters, the coming woman for whom the world waits and watches, and whose advent is fore- shadowed in all the throesand strug- gles of our own day, is not going to be emanciputed from the tender weuk- nesses and loving impulses of the wo- man of to-day. She is not to spring, like Minerva from the head of Jove, fully urmed and equipped, into a world she will coldly govern by wisdom and justice. She will, to the end of the chapter, love, and marry, and bear children, or feel rather sorry and humiliated if no man asks her to do 50; and she will never, ah, never! under whatever circumstances, lose that de- light in submission of her own will and judgment to that of the man her kin logical, or very consistent, or ver prehensive in her theories; she al- ways have & good deal of personal pre- ference in public or in private life, and she will very seldom be capable of ab- stract justice in her decisions or herac- tions. But where she fails in these characteristics, man—that is, the com- ing man—abounds; and as the woman gives to him her quickness of intuition, her losty standaras of right, her over- flowing benevolence and untiring devo- tion of self, her bright fancy and subtle perception, her gentle courtesy, her pure morality, and her inborn religious tendencies, so may he give her of his own best qualities, and the two will work together in sweetest harmony,and with noblest resuits. Perhaps this hope is a little Utopia: but, one thing I know, and, Cassandr like, I lift my voice and cry aloud my warning: The woman of the future is the power of the future! The philosophers tell us that no true force, once set in motion, ever censes in its effects, and I think any thought- ful person, considering the l.i.m‘»f of woman, from Eve's persuading Adam that it was better to sin in her company than to remain virtuous without her, until the late conventson of women in Washington, will deny that woman has been, is, and will be, a force in the des- tiny of the world. And we all know the object lesson of the snowball which, be- ginning in a small boy's hands, ac- uires, before it reaches the bottom of the hill, size enough and force enough to upsel the boy's big father.. Haeo fubula docet; and it was not at Ameri- that they never learned anything and never forgot anything. And the lesson, both to man and woman, is clear. To man, not to bury his head in the desert sands of tradi- tion and medizweal contempt of woman, except as a docile domesti and subject, but to re her tremendous power him, and his destiny, and his world, and to make room for her at his side. d to give his best powers to con- sidering the terms of copartnership on which he and she can work together for the advantage of both, and to see to it that if the man is tobe the head of the woman, that he rises up to a level higher than that to which her victo- rious army is climbing, with the deter- mination never to go down again. And to woman the lesson is justin two Hasten slowly! The y that we are impetuous, impulsive, ill-consid- ered and impat! and there is fire beneath this smoke of aspersion. Then let us resolve, having a tremendous work to do for this poor old world of ours, to lay broad and deep foundations for the glorious structure we plan, Lot women be educated for their work. not only by the severe and exact training of books and schools, although these are needed, but let them be taught and teach themselves habits of thought, of perseverance, of justice, of self-con- trol, and of reserve. Learn to think be- fore you speak, and think a good deal moré than you' speak. Remember that the pyramids and the cathedrals and the monuments of all sorts, that claim respect for their grandeur and scorn of time, were a long time in building; and don’t expect, in your own lifetime to gather the harvest you are sowing to-day. Work for the future, and the woman of the future shall thank and bless you. And just one word more, asort of postseript, in which lies the gist of the whole letter: Our influence over man unlikeness more than our likeness to himself. He loves and admires our womanliness, and he is jealous and sus- picious of our manliness. Then, let us never cease, however manly we may become, to clothe ouvselves in the gra- cious garments of womanliness; and, however irou the (hand beneath, be very careful never teslip off the glove of velvet. “‘A word to the wise,” ete, FRANK LESLIE, — - Kit Carson's €hum Killed. A special dispatch from Fort Garland, Col., to the Chicago Herald says: Billy Carson, a son of Kit:Carson, the famous scout, shot and killed Thomas T. Tobins in a fight here yestarday, Tobins was & companion of Kit Car- son and almost egually famous. His most noted exploit mwas the capture of the Mexican bandits, the Rspanos brothers, single handed, for whose ture, either dead or alive, the territory and the United States government had offered large rewards. When Kit Carson died, Billy, hisson, married Tobins’ daughter, and in later years the old scout hus done little but eke out a lazy existence on his ranch. 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Handsone line of Boy’s Shirt Waists, GOSSIP OF THE GREEN-ROOM. News and Anecdotes of Plays and Actors. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S LATEST Patti Kissed by a King—Stories of Dancers and Singers—Wit and Humor Behind the Scenes —Dramatic Notes. Modjeska’s Protege. Mme. Modjeska has for a protege, ys the New York Star, a little fellow countryman. of hers, who travels with the company, and is known as Johnny Tata, The countess takes a great in- terest in the boy V' teach him his catechism. She com- menced by making him learn the seven deadly sins and the seven sacraments. She called himout one day to exhibit his wonderful memory before some friends. She made him recite the sins, one after another. Six he remembered perfectly. **What is the seventh sin, Jack?” The boy hesitated a moment, and then stammered out: ““Matrimony, madame.” Milton Nobles' Legs. The Cairo (I11.) correspondent of the Mirror tells the following on a promi- fient star: “Milton Nobles, the actor, isa trifle bow-legged. Monday after: noon he and some of the members of his company were in the opera house arranging the scenery, cte., for the night's performance, when the ubiquit- ous small boy strolled . *What do you want here, boy?’ demanded Nobles. Sternly. 'Oh, nuthin’’ said the b “I'm just lookin’ round.” *Well, you I bettér clear out.” The boy looked quiz zicully at Nobles' legs. ‘Strikes me,’ 1, ‘that you had better git out an’ go to some tailor an’ have your legs pressed. The actor laughed good naturedly. ‘I guess you may stay awhile, my son.” “Thanks, father,” And the boy went on ‘lookin.’?? One On Digby Bell. One night while the McCaull opera company were singing “The Mikado” in Philadelphia, Digby Bell staid out somewhat later than usual, says the PhiladelphiaTimes. The truth {s that he lingered to see DeWolfl Hopper make a Welsh rarebit. *‘Merciful heavens!” he cried, looking at his watch. *‘Four o'clock! Ihad no idea it was so late! What will my wife say —npoor Laura, will she ever forgive me? I know she has been waiting and watch- ing for me these many weary hours,” So she had. Gentl anticipation had, however, mellowed into resentment,and this natural emotion had by degrees broadened and deepened into stern in- dignation. So that by 4 a. m, the usually amiable Laura Joyce Bell was in a mood to deal heroically with her delinquent spouse, aud her superb contralto voice was never in finer form for the impres- sive delivery of the riot act, At 4:15an uncertain_fread in the hall without announced the approach of the offender, and by a tremendous effortthe aggrieved wife gathered together every energy of her foreeful nature to rece him with what she determined should be the chef d’ceuvre of her martial career. But the next momenther husband burst iuto the room, prostrated himself before her blazing eyes, and shrieked loud enough to be heard all over the hotel: “Far- dop, Katisha!” 3 'Fhe eftect was electrical. Mrs. Bell's resentment subsided, melted, vanished, under the pathos of that ery and of that scene. Her tenderer emotions asserted themselves, yet her intensely dramatic instinet did not desert her. She said: ‘‘Arise; my Digby, we'll to breakfas hie, methinks the bell therefor will ring anon.” Mrs. Bell has a precedent in the fa- mous Mrs, Siddons, who invariably talked in blank verse. It is narrated that at a dinner given her by a lady of quality, she reproved one of the waiters saying: “Come hither, lackey, and atonement make; T called for sherry— you have brought me beer.” (- Abusing Actors and Plays. San Francisco Chronicle: I don’t suppose anybody or anything gets as much abused in a quiet way a: and plays. I know people who will pay their money to go to a theater just for the s wction of being able to abuse something, with some kind of right. Then there are other people who find overything good and spiondid,and nover haveé a bad word to say about any picce or player. Iknow a'lady who'l don’t believe ever really came out of a theater quite atisfied. Almost the first case of her boing compelled to admit the badness of the piece was a week or two ago. Then her husband said in an ttz_mp]nu,ic mauner that defied contradic- ion: “;:’\Vc]l, that wasa bad play, wasn’t it? ‘‘Y-e-s, but I think the orchestra was real good.” AND DRAMATIC. Raiph Delmore will sail for Liverpool on the 16th, Minnie Palmer is a slave to the fruit of the succulent gum tree, Clay Green is writing plays for McKee Rankin and Fred Bryton, Georgin Cay an album of all the stage babies she ever played witk, Leland Williamson of Philadelphia, has written a comedy for the Florence Wilton Lackaye bas been engaged for the *‘Siberia’” company for next season . Clara Morris_ will close hel Niblo’s theater, New York, on Ma, . Joseph Jefferson invested §5,000 in rental ¥ in Fort Smith, Ark., last week, New York gossip has it that the husband of Mrs. James Brown Potter is secking a di- vorce, Lotta sails for Europe on May 18, She will be absent from this country about three months, ‘The monkey actors at the Star, New York, are amusing large numbers of children—and of old people, too. Clara Morris has disappointed her audience but once this season. Sie is getting stouter, and is in good health, ‘I'he name 'Rhea’ is a talismanic dramatic trade mark in the United States and the adjacent English dominions. A report comes from San Francisco that Washington Irving Bishop, the mind reader, is in @ private insane asylum. lura Lowmse Kellogg and her husband have returned to New York and are reported 10 be as loving as two turtle doves, The lot upon which the California thea'er stands was lately sold in San Francisco for $127,000. It cost #45 forty years ago. Mr. Osmond Tearle and wife, accompanied by other members of the Wallack stock com- pany, will sail for England on May 16, Mr. Frederick Warde never had a more prosperous season than the present, under tue management of Hudson & O'Neil, Lawrence Barrett has leased a farm at Southborough, Mass., und, with his family, will occupy it during his summer rest. Colowrel Mapleson's creditors held a meet- ing in London last week and accepted an offer of $2,500 in settlement of his debts. Charles H. Hoyt's “A Hrass Monkey" will be tried at New Bedaford, Mass., May 14, with his wife (Miss Flora Walsh) in the cast. Miss Jennie Kimball has given up her pro- posed lnr to London. The Corinne cow- pany will play & summer engugement at the oslon museum. Pauline Hall Lias been engaged by Mana- MUSICAL ger Harris of the Academy of Music, Baltj more, 1o sing there during the summer soge son for eight weeks, This weck Edwin Booth and Lawre Barrett appeared in the dramatic festivhl which bezun at the exposition building in Louisville Thursday night. Mr. Edward Lloyd, the English tenor, left Liverpool for New York. He will ma) his fiest appearance in America at the Cin- cinnati music festival, May 23. The Jim the Penman No. 1 company closed the season in Philadelphia last Saturday ht, while the No. 2 organization closed at igston, N. Y., on the same date. Munager Miner has offered to present Pay Kauvar on threo successivo njghts of. nex week in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash. ington for the benefit of the actors’ fund. It is estimated that the profits of the Boot] —Barrett scuson of forty-threeweeks wil reach 000,000, The lightest week of the combination thus far shows profits of §15,000. Three now plays, “Drifting Aput, “Among the Pines,” and “A_Perilous Voyage,” are to be tried at the New York People’'s theater before the winter scason ends. Fann Davenport has decidod to omit “‘La repertoire next season, It husband, Mr. Price, is ve a “La Tosca” company on the Francis Wilson's_vacation bogins May 18, on which occasion ho will sail for Europe, accompanied by A. H. Canby, the business manager of Atonson’s New York Casino com- panies. Mr. Melton Prior, the English artist and war correspondent, gave some of his experi- ences in the Soudan war and the Nile expe- dition at Chickering hall, New York, Tues- duy evening. Eben Plympton will be the leading man. in the company which is to support. Mrs, Drew when that admirable actress gives a season of old comedies at her theatre in Philadelphia late this month. The Alhambra Theaters of Varieties, Lef- cester London, has recently under- fon, and artistic embellishment, and now compares favorably with the finest theaters in the world, The Troubadors are in Ne ork, bt they start out on the 16th thence to this city,and then to San Francisco. Their entire summer will b sive tour of the Pacific coast. Mr. Haberkom, hushand of Margaret Mather, says that'all Miss Mather received from J.'M. Hill for five years work was #4,500 in cash and 10,000 in” worthless stock of the Columbia theatre in Chicago, Two new theaters are being built in Los Angeles, Cal,, each costing over $150,000, They are expected to be ready in time for the opening of next season, The city has more than doubled in population in the last three years, Katie Rooney has left the_company pre- ken up in an’ exten- sided over by Patrick Rooney, and hae signed with W. B. Blaisdell for'a starrin trip next season. Rooney has taken lega steps to secure the girl's return, as she is & minor. Carl A. Haswine has played the role of Wilfred Denver in the “Silver King' over cight hundred times, while Sam H {'l-rnly, as Juikes, and Harry Dilton as Spider, havg each been scen in the play over one thoue sand times. John Hart, the massive Ethiopian comedian of the variety stage, will be a wember o Denman Thompson's company when th new play by Mr. Thompson aud George W, Ryer, called “The Two Sisters,” is produced next season, The Carleton Opera ems 0 bo. making a feature of t theaters, Aft ir B gugement they have contracted fo ks’ run at the High- land house, Cincinuati, 13ut Carleton is not with them, as he goes to Europe. Aunie Louise Ames, the young Hoston ac- tress who is to create the role of “Angela” in Justin Adams’ dramatization of Rider Haggard’s “Dawn’ at the Hollis street, Bos- ton, May 25, is said to be talented, under twenty-oneand extremely beautiful. There is no foundation for the statement that “'La Tosca” would not be played by Far davenport next season. Mr. Klaw says Miss Davenport has wiready ordered her “'La Tosca” printing, engaged the people specially for le play, and wil make it hee piece dé resistance, T DIy