The morning news., 1888-12-05
CLEVER BREADWINNERS.
SOME ORIGINAL SCHEMES FOR
MAKING A LIVING,

MAKING A LIVING.
How a Number of Ingenious Girls Cir
cumvent the Fates-One Exercises
Ladies' Horses and Another Has
Made Herself Dressmaker for the
Deformed.
Copyright 1881
NEW YORK, Dec. IA young girl whose
feats of horsemanship are attracting some
little attention haunts the park at all hours
of the day. The all-nighter who turns up
there for breakfast catches a momentary
glimpse of slim figure in blue broadcloth,
topped by bluish-gra eyes, straight brows,
a brilliant complexion and rebellious red
dish hair-a vision which comes between
him and the morning paper while he waits
for his chop to be grilled. The afternoon
cavalcade of fashion pattering under the
Ieafless trees is startled by rosy centaur
passing like fash. The business man tax
ing short cut homeward at twilight hears
the sound of her horses hQofs on the Bride
path and watches for the apparition. The
park has learned to expect her, to form
theories and speculate about her, for she
might have been born on horseback and
known no other home than the saddle,
so completely is she one with her steed.
touch of mystery piques the parks interest,
for she is always unattended, was never
seen to recognize an acquaintance, and the
park is una Bile to form the vaguest of con-
lectures as to what may be Der name or
who she may be. An ornamental youth
who picked up her fallen whip day or two
since was visibly disappointed at finding on
it no monogram or initial as he turned it
over before restoring it to the pretty rider.
waiting for her property with twinkling
eyes.
Four or five years ago the parks incog-
nita was the petted daughter of handsome
house on an uptown street, Her father held
a political position under the government,
but the change of administration threw him
out He had lived we'll and saved nothing
and from the day of his dismissal has wan
dered about doing nothing and mentally
untitled for any work. His daughter is a
high spirited lass who has tried governess-
ing and is now trying something else. She
used to ride for pleasure, she is riding now
for profit: she has invented business, she
exercises the horses of the wealthier girl
riders of the town.
The new craze for horsemanship is good
thing for women, but hard on their mounts.
There are so many fads running at one and
the same time. With tho afternoons teas
chasing on one another's heels, with pre-
parati MS for the evening dances, with due
devotion to Verestchagin and his pictures,
with practicing Slav music and doing over
ones boudoir q La Russo, with memory
classes and classes in physical culture, the
horse, kept in prime condition during the
summer, misses his regular gallops, misses
his petting and begins to take on flesh in
the stall. Here comes in Stella. She knows
the riding school people from her feats on
the tracks of old. They stable the sleek
ladies' beauties close by the park entrances,
but they can't ride them, for the smooth
skinned aristocrats are used to light weights
and resent masculine handling. Stella be-
gan with one nag-the property of an in
valid who fretted about her mount in her
sick chamber-she has considerable client
age now. She makes friends with her
horses, induces them to Ike her, takes them
out as often as specified by their owners,
gives them a breather and maintains them
in good shape for riding She is fond of
horses and the work keeps her out of doors
and serves to enlarge her acquaintance
with human nature, especially the nature of
the park dude.
The girl with the camera has found new
and profitable field Since chronicled in
these columns her bright idea of catching
scenes of city life for inspiration to artists,
have observed her translation, in the jot-
tngs OF paragrephistS, to the streets of
London, Paris and who knows what dis
tant capitals, where she turns up smiling
with her detective ready and the drop-shut-
ter about to spring. In point of fact, she
has not changed her street or number, but
with enlarged experience has turned her at
tention to out-of town people in the family
hotels. Tourists do not care for set photo
graphs of many specimens of New York
architecture but pictures of street life,
caught without posing, on the fly, are quite
different thing. Col. Ingersoll looking
into florists window, with ragamuffin
at his coat tails; Mary Anderson in the
park borrowing the perambulator of som e.
body's bouncing infant from a white capped
nui sery maid; actors, politicians, peo-
pie whom all the country knows about,
swinging up and down Broadway, and
this is card which seldom fails to win
some member or members of the tourist
party itself, entering picture gallery or
absorbed by dry goods or jewelry display
behind plate glass barriers, these are souve-
mrs which, the detective photographer says,
travellers will carry away with them. She
watches for notable people or catchy scenes
with wel-known building or an easily
recognizable corner, or a statue or a monu-
ment to identify the spot, in the back
ground. She studies hotel registers and
Keeps her eyes on the coming and going of
possible buyers, westerners and southernerS
especially.
A young girl from Colorado who has
Deen struggling along in the city for two or
three years, believing that she must sue
ceed as an artist sometime, has abandoned
1or the time being fight with the wolf in
winch she was getting worsted in favor of
"hat sne claims as an original idea. Hei
one success since she began to paint has
been picture which she called ''Tne Chry-
santhemum Exhibition" and which showed
Two ragged flowers plucked by the heads
and held up by chubby child Her chry-
Santhemums were exhibited and somehow
attracted the attention of cousin of Gen.
Logan's widow, maiden lady who is de-
formed. This newly acquired patron
bought the flowers and cultivated the &C
qualntance of the girl arti3t. She has not
soiu picture since, but has turned clever
n9gers to devising a pretty gown for the
niSSnapen form of her friend. In the task
Vi hiding defective outlines and bringing
ouV good points she succeeded SO admirably
maj inquiries poured in on the pleased
woman as to whether she had been under
sne hands Of some skilled surgeon or had
4ouhd wonderful modiste. The answers
20 these queries brought instant demand
ior the artists ervices. Her first friend
nau Kept out of society for years in her
SehSltlVeness ever twisted shoulders and
otooping figure, but began again to go
"inong people in delight over the improve
..I .iehI ana not unwilling to show her graft
euue Under the impetus gained by her
SOU oifces the artist in paints has become