Show OLD LADIES aad women V ho continue to take a 11 aart in woman work one of our old young people is elizabeth cady stanton everybody has heard of hor but not everybody knows that she is now 79 years old and that ho lives upon tho west elde of new york in a pretty apartment rounded with all the implements for work sho manages a typewriting machine nicoly compared with stanten mis anthony at 74 is really youthful with her old ago quite ahead of her mrs henry ward beacher Be ocher aged 83 almost complained this tpring of being fatigued for financial reasons owing to an unfortunate investment sho was obliged to move giving up her old rooms where she could seo tho boora of plymouth church and move into a oat she had to store many of lier things and she packed several trunks for bonding away to relatives mrs gilbert at 74 and mrs john drew 76 are both as attivo kittens mrs browe theatrical company recently formed owes much of its success to her very clever dancing always many times encored and those who have seen mrs gilbert old women of lato and havo noted tho exquisite minuet dancing done by them can hardly forbear wishing that some of the younger dancers would grow old that they might be graceful and nimble mrs D P bowers nearly 70 and maggie mitchell over the CO mark anro improving as they come into the realm of the charmed existence of perfect old age lady wilde is probably como years over 70 but her mind goes on untiringly her latest public Is to secure titles for women similar to choso conferred upon men tor deeds performed and she has never for a day to lecture tor womans rights among the suffragists are several that aro more than hale and hearty over threescore and ten there is matilda jocelyn gago grand in her platform eloquence and busy writing all the time in her home at fayetteville whore sho leads the town in all senses social and isabella beecher hooker is another of last winter after catching up with her correspondence too long neglected for the worlds fair mrs hooker journeyed to southern california hoping to shako off a slight attack of rheumatism so that she could spend tho summer at her country home noar hartford guobys and working usual mrs hooker past ac of course deeply pities her unfortunate sister harriot beacher stowe who from overwork lost her brain faculties though smart otherwise at 82 A very delightful woman is miss Kat berino draper who in 1841 had tho honor to bo photographed by her brother professor draper of tho university of tho city of new york miss draper waa at that timo a young lady in society and tho fact that a sun picture bad boon taken of her mado her a great object of interest the picture which was the first ono avor taken of a person was cent to england to sir william herschel Her from son it was procured for the worlds fair miss draper still unmarried and very alno looking at 80 tells of it with much enjoyment sho abo process more vividly and with intelligence than could many of tho society bollea nowadays tell how they are photographed among writers there anro a few who must bavo passed into what ordinary women would consider old ago yet who aro livelier than ever and doing better work somo aro oven assisted by their grandchildren think of it I 1 marion just from tho orient whither sho wont to arito an and to gel pointer for eastern reform amelia barr in her seventieth year is ono of tho boat paid of living novelists and travels to europe every summer taking a party of young people with her then toward the old ago mark yet so splendid plen did that one dares to them quite over it into the alvos aro the leaders of new york society among them aro mrs william astor and mrs paran stevens these alno society women never grow old thy die ono reads about their n abe their friends speak of it as sudden and unexpected ant they never say that aho WIM old or graco greenwood la another of the smart old women sho holds annual receptions very largo ones nt her washington home and sho docs considerable writing and public reading now though CO years ago eho was an accomplished editor and of a magazine boston globe |