Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-24
A New Yorker in Brooklyn.

The Surprising Difference Between the
Woman oftheTyv Cities Interests Him.
IFrom the New York SUM-
The New Yorker who has moved to Brook
lyn believes that the first thing that strikes
an observant stranger is that Brooklyn is a
city of women. His wife says that she can
not see how he can be SO obtuse as to pass
twice day through garden-lined, tree Dor
dered streets between parallel rows of the
most well ordered and attractive houses and
not see that Brooklyn is first of all a city of
homes. But these are the New Workers.
opinions, and some of his new neighbors
warn him that he ought to prize them, since
he is not likely to have any after his wife
becomes acclimated A ride along any ave-
nue. in Brooklyn at any hour between break
fast and supper on fine day gives rise to
the impression that not only have all the men
left town, but that all the women are out
shopping. One would think that only girl
babies were born in Brooklyn IS, 20, or 80
years ago. The sidewalks, stores, cars,
parks, and carriages are all given up to wo-
men In Prospect Park on fine afternoon
may be seen between 800 and 500 village carts
managed by young women, and often the
didoes of the horses show how plucky the
drivers have to be.
Every Brooklyn man is fond of saying that
the women go about from street to street and
house to house at night without escorts, as
late even as 10 O'Clock. This would indeed
be wonderful in New York, but in Brooklyn
the more striking fact is that the men have
nothing to fear, but travel about with impun-
ity. The Brooklyn girls are remarkable in
two ways. As rule their faces are fresh
and bright, and the same perfect health that
brightens their compilations is noted in their
confident gait and manner. The plenteous-
ness of fresh air and elbow room account for
this. Then, for simplicity of attire in the
streets, they are not approached except by
x1o~u n a1TlhJ NaI1tPQ1 GhQ6aG
in dress goods preferred, and strong
colors are rarely seen. The New Yorker saw
the young wife of a rich and well.known
Brooklynite yesterday on Fulton street in an
English walking coat that was dear If it cost
her $12, a red straw 50-cent hat, with dol
lars worth of autumn leaves wound around
it, and plain walking suits and little or no
jewelry. 1t is said that those women on the
Heights who pretend to dress in the extreme
fashions pay as much as stylish New York
women for their costumes, but dress with
less taste. They overdo it. And the New
Yorker has discovered in his explorations on
the hill that there is a good deal of rusticity
m the attire, and even in the speech, of the
young women there.
His neighbors tell the New Yorker that
through their church and social combinations
the women WELD tremendous power. Not so
much in politics, for though the Mayor is
young and handsome the average Brooklyn
brother. But it is for the women that the
fine houses are built, the gardens bloom, and
the shade trees and grass plots line the streets,
and the New Yorker marvels when out of
his back windows he sees at dusk every day
his neighbors, the organist, the clerk, the
grocer, and the lawyer, digging, pruning,
sprinkling, and raking in the back yards, or
the hired men at the same work, with women
at their elbows.
The most surprising discovery the New
Yorker has made is that in a well-regulated
establishment the house is turned over to the
daughter as soon as she reaches Ii or 10.
Then she relieves her mother, superintends
the servants, does the buying, and reigns in
the parlor. If the family is well off, the old
couple fit up apartments of their own: if
not, they hobnob in the basement while the
parIor rings with the merriment of the
daughters company.
Brooklyn girl who is coming into two
million dollars, dances divinely, and is said to
lead whole ward in point of wealth and
tone, but who is as approachable as kitten,
was asked especially for the New Yorker,
"What is the difference between the New
York and the Brooklyn girls?' Her answer
was short;
''The New York girls are stuck up"