St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-25
TWO KINDS OF WOMEN.
women of Thrift and SOciety..W O
men as Observed i'm Washington.

women of Thrift and Society..Vv0-
men as Observed in Washington
The women correspondents of Washing
ton are as bright, brainy and busy set of
money-making ladies as you will find on
this side of the Atlantic. The yearly
profits of some of them run into
the thousands of dollars, and one
made enough out of describing the
dresses worn at the presidents wedding to
take her off on a vacation trip to Europe.
CIevelands inaugural ball Melted several
girls over 500 apiece, and there is a Cleve-
land woman who corresponds at the capt.
tai who, though unmarried. has little
house of her own, and entertainS very
nicely.
The clearinghouse women of Washing
ton are numbered by thousands. There are
two classes of these. The first merely rent
rooms, and the second give board as well.
1t is a great business here at Washington
for women to take large houses, paying
from S75 to $500 per month for them, and
then to sublet the rooms to single gentle
| men or to families, as the case may be.
They receive, as a rule, as much for their
ground floor rooms as they pay for the
whole house, and there have been in
stances in which women have made them
selves independent by roOm-renting. One
| hundred dollars and more is not an UNI
common rent here for a couple of fur
| nished rooms in good location, and $50 and
SIS are often gotten for two rooms on the
second floor. A good third-tioor front room
will bring S25, and house that rents for
| 500 month unfinished, will often bring
| in 5000 or $3.50. if furnished and subIet
besides giving a room for the landlady. A
number of landladieS make money here
| keeping clearinghouse, and the one
| who entertained w. D. Howells during his
last sojourn in Washington. has been
! able to buy the house i'll which she
lives. which is worth about $40. 900 and is
now starting a new hotel near the treasury.
| Of course her success is phenomenal, but
there are numerous others who are doing
well in a smaller way. and the number of
those who make their living by feeding
others is legion.
The society women of Washington are
the only ones known to the outside world
but they form only the smallest part of its
female population. Some of the women
mentioned in the above classes go into
society, and there are not a few social
circles below the court circle. AS far as
| wit, beauty and culture are concerned,
the workingwomen of Washington
are equal to those who pose as the leaders
of Washington society. The government
clerks for instance, come as rule from
good families, and form the best society
of the towns or cities from whence they
come. They are often the daughters of
old families, now reduced in wealth,
but high in education and social cult
ure, they are often, in fact. ladies to the
manner born, whereas your congressman'S
wife gets her social standing through her
husbands position, and her career has often
been that of Hannah Jane" without the
nobility of Hannah James" nature.
Still there are many bright women in
Washington society, and there are many
women Of cosmopolitan tastes and culture.