The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30

been rendered them, had it not gone abroad
| that the convention at this time had a political
complexion. This IL was that prevented Scr
! osis from giving grand reception at Delmon
| ico's for the delegates. The matter was dis
| cussed at n business meeting, but Sorosis care
| fully refrains from dipping its Minerva fingers
| into political pie. Religion and politics are
| subjects forbidden 10 be discussed in the club
| SO Sorosis, seeming the political mouse in the.
| wholesome meal tub Of temperance, contented
! itself with sending Elarge basket of exquis-
| lite but pure flowers to Miss Willard and the
| representatives OF her noble band.
Women are figuring more and moro promi-
! nently in the movements of today. They
| take an intelligent interest in all that means
| progress and endeavor; and it is thought the
| time is now ripe for the advent OF daily
paper that shall be a woman's organ. con-
trolled by women, and voicing the opinions
and sentiments Of women on all the lighter
questions and weighter problems Of the day.
The matter is now being seriously agitated
In New York. 1T Is suggested that the coming
wonan's organ is to be called. "Ihe Moon, "
and that II be an evening paper. published
from the office OF the Times, which has no
evening issue Of Its own. Several prominent
women journalists who have moneyed friends
are sanguine of securing the fifty thousand
dollars which Is the capital needed to begin
the enterprise. A good part OF this has been
already promised. A lady who operates large
ly in Wall street will keep up the department
Of financial news. OF those who will probably
projected evening paper is Miss Bessie Bis
land, of the World Miss Bisland was former
Iy ON the staff Of the New Orleans Times Dem
ocrat. She is young and beautiful land though
she Is one of those Creoles (natiyes) OF Louis
ina--whom Ella Wheeler Wilcox character
lies AZ "indoent" and "unwashed" in her
poem, "The South"--yet she is an energetic
and vigorous newspaper writer. Outside her
position as society editor in the World she
has ether literary work which brings her an
In Gba baa Iata set IN a la
of her own, thus following the fashion OF most
OF the literary women OF New York. Near her
also in her fiat is pretty Miss French, who is
ON "The Star" Other newspaper women
Mrs. Merrill, also one OF tho Worlds force; ;
Alice Harper, Margaret Marston, and others
have flats on Fourteenth street, convenient to
the elevated roads and the downtown pub
fishing houses. Mrs. Merrill has fiat near
my own.
One soon grows tired of boarding houses,
and every woman has an instructive longing
TO make herself home. And these flats are
very tempting--so cosy and conyehient-so
bright-looking with their handsome stained
glass and marble columned entrances, their
steam heat, elevators, dumb walters, etc, To
be-sure the bed rooms are mere BIRDS nests,
except in the very expensive fiats-hut they
are large enough for practical purpose, the
parlor and dining-room are ample enough, and
the kitchen quite roomy and lined with cup
boards In red imitation cherry. One can set
that she is at home even In a stranger land
have left no space to tell Of what is going
on in society or on tho stage. Well, there is
not much. This is the last week of Coquelin
and Hading and the verdict is that the great
French comedian, with all his art, cannot
equal our matchess Jefferson, while Hading,
as an emotional actress, fails to stir the foun-
tain OF tears as Clara Morris can. This may
be partly owing to the foreign tongue. No
body can laugh or cry properly when he has to
consult a libretto to know whore the cry and
laugh come in.
The new Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "Yeo-
man Of the Guard" packs the Casino every
evening. Society--the exclusive "four hun
dred"--came out to its first night, and then
promptly returned TO Tuxedo, Lenox, and
Orange, for the -four hundred" effect English
ways, "don't you know" and 1t is very English
not 10 come to town in the autumn, but to stay
ut the aristocratic parks and country villas-to
have exclusive dances there, fox hunts and
paper tallys. Society will continue to
exclude itself In Tuxedo, Orange, etc. until the
opening of grand opera at the Metro
poltan late in November. Mr.. Kyrle Bellows
fate Is q warning TO all tho unannointed not
10 apply for admittance TO Perie Lorillard's
aristocratic paradise. You have read of the
scrubbing Mrs. Potter's leading man received
when he knocked for admission Mt the portals
OF the very English entrance lodge of Tuxedo.
He was told in the words substantially OF
an old negro song
"Youre mighty good looking, but you can't get in.
The affair may yet lead TO pistols and coffee,
though i really seems that Mr.. James Brown
Potter should take 1t up, for 1t was at his ex-
press invitation that Mr.. Bellew tried TO enter
the Eden of exclusives.
MARY E. RRYAN