Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-03

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trOnomy which interested women and
working girls who were quite ignorant of
the subject, and made them know more of
the worlds above us than they had ever
dreamed Of before.
Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander, widow of
Gen. Lander, and once popular actress,
occupies cottage which she made out OF
stable belonging to one Of the houses
upon her grounds, and which is directly
upon the water. Sitting at the table in
her pretty dining room, one looks out up
on terrace carpeted thickly with green,
bounded on one side by a ridge which
would be beautiful in England, yet over
looking a broad eXpanse of ocean water,
the harbor of Boston, and the beaches OF
Nahant, Lynn and Swampscott. Below
the terrace is the "Fisherman's Walk"
a right Of way included in the land grant
from the crown hundreds of years ago
and is still respected, which terminates
at the beginning of the beach at Swamp
scott. From this point also there is fine
view of Egg Rock and its lighthouse, and
and Of the curVing shore with its cottages
and rocky inlets, into which the water care
lessly rushes as if pursuing its advan-
tage. There is an eternal fund Of interest
and amusement too, in watching the in
coming and outgoing of the fshermen's
/ boats, the pleasure yachts crowded with
gay parties of young people, and the va
riety of small craft, sail and row boats,
which toss about as if the summer winds
and waves were playing lawn tennis with
them.
Mrs. Lander's salon, the floor of which
is stained and covered with large Smyr-
pa Tug-which boasts a real little Marie
AntOnette side stand and a centre table
with an India shawl for a cOver-was for
| merly the carriage house. The dining room
! is where the horses were stabbed, and
! the kitchen once served for the harness
room. Upstairs are four large rooms,
| high, though with shopping roofs, and
with lovely views over the water and
/ the grounds which slope up to Ocean
avenue, and are enriched with many fine
| trees. Mrs. Lander's last appearance on
the stage was made eight years ago next
| January at the Boston Theatre in the
| ''Scarlet Letter. She stopped playing,
/ not from age, or Indifference on the part
| of the public, but because necessity did
/ not Oblige her to play, and she found ii
/ difficult to adjust herself to the
new conditions demanded, the personal
management, the,system of picturing and
/ placardizing, of story inventing, and OF
all the modern claptrap by which theatre.
| cal ''stars' are largely invented. She
! still retains much of that fine personal an.
/ pearance which aided her art, and speaks
| with the clearness and expression which
/ always shows the training which has once
I been given to voice and manner. She
/ dresses quietly but with habitual taste,
| and made picture at afternoon coffee
/ which was served German fashion, on the
! balcony, in view of the ocean-with her
! blue china spread out before her and a
! glow as Of gathered sunshine in the centre
from a dish of the vivid yellow broom
which now covers all the hills with a
golden glory.
Mrs. Frances HOdgsOn Burnett is al
ways an object of interest when she is
! seen swinging in her hammock or out
/ driving or riding. She is a good horse
woman, but does not ride much, for she
is suffering from nervous prOstratiOn and
Oyer-wOrk or, perhaps, eXcitement), and
is obliged TO keep very quiet. Her two
little boys are with her, but DIR. Burnett
only comes occasionally, the distance
being so great from Washington. Mrs.
Burnett cares nothing for fashion; she
dresses uncOnYentionally, but in a style
that suits her strong rather than beauti-
full face and lovely rounded figure. One
merit of her dressing is that she rarely
wears black, which has become the badge
of professional women, and when she does
it is as habit, or is long, rich and I'M
trimmed, except with lace. She wears
long, soft white woods, pale blues, laYen-
der, pink and even pale yellow, and each
seems TO be part of her personality and
quite different from anything seen on any
other woman.
A SHOE FACTORY.
In Lynn one discovers that "shOemen"
are not necessarily ''shOemakers," but
may be great capitalists who put a for
tune in the shoe business as others do in
iron or dry goods. 1t is in the past thirty
years that machinery has been applied to
the making of these complicated articles
Of attire which presented so many diff
culties, required so many different and
separate processes to bring about the
complete result, that it seemed impossible
ever to accomplish 1t except by the nice
manipulation of the hand. 1t has been
accomplished, however, and now one can
follow a shoe from the rough cutting of
the sole to the polishing of the sides and
the putting on of the buttons through
twenty or thirty different operations, per-
formed by different hands with different
| and surprisingly deXterOus little machines
that hammer, stitch, fold, press, bind,
make button-holes, and as before re-
marked sew on buttons. One great adj
vantage is gained by this application of
force, besides rapidity, and that is accu-
racy. The average shoe is much heater
object than formerly, and better made,
and the buttons are sure Of receiving two
stitches at least and the moral support of
a strong, continuous thread. Six thou
sand pairs of shoes per day are turned
out and inspected from one factory alone,
during the busy seasons, and both men
and women earn more than in the old
sShand made" DAYS when men "lasted'
and hammered and ssOled," and women
ssbound" the shoes and made the dreadful
button holes and sewed on the buttons.
They work by ''piece' too, and come and
90 pretty much as they choose at the
factories. The intelligent women opera
tiYes rarely become a part of the perma-
nent population. They come from Maine
and New Hampshire to earn money for a
special purpose-to pay on mortgage,
to buy a wedding outfit, to get year
or two years schooling, to help the sold
folks.'' The mill girls belong to different
class. They are usually fixtures, are
often fOreign-bOrn, have no skill, can only
follow a machine but not guide it.
Strikes have become as common among
the girls as among the men, and occur
from the most absurd causes. The manu-
facturer must of course follow the fashion
in the colors Of his Innings and facings, as
this has much to do with the appearance
of ''style" and the actual sale of the shoe.
But the girls get the habit of associating
certain colOrs win prices, and when re-
Gently manufacturer substituted pretty
shade of peacock blue for the orange yell
low the girls were accustomed to use they
struck for more pay, not because it gave
them more work, but because they be-
lievedit was finer shoe upon which such
a color would be used, and therefore enti-
tied to better rates.
The great difference between q machine
sewed shoe and a hand sewed shoe is
not alone the insertion of the welt that
strengthens the sole, but the difference in
the stitch, one being made by an upright,
the other by a horizontal movement. The
desideratum has been a machine that
would accomplish the process exactly
as it is done by hand-put in the welt and
perform the horizontal movement. This
at last has been achieved, is now in opera
ton, and will in time create a revolution
in machine methods.
ALONG THE COAST,
between Boston and Portland, are an
hundred beaches and famous places of
resort much frequented of late by New
Workers, especially by professional class
who want the fine air, the magnificent
views, and the freedom of simple out
door life in preference to the convention
alities of the usual summer hotel and wa
tering place. The young man is gener-
ally conspicuous by his absence from the
kid-glOyed hops and prOmenades of Sara
toga, and people wonder where he spends
his summer or his vacation. In nine
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