The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-11
THE Do1NGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
title Things and Big Going on in the
World of Femininity.

title Things and Big Going on in the
World of Femininity.
New York, June 9.-Here is a scrap of
story from real life anent the house mis-
tress' restrictions on the servant girls
visits from her regular company" Lima,
Tina and Wilhelmina are three young
Swedish girls, yellow-halred, and blue-eyed,
Gigh cheekboned, as like as three peas,
coHsins and neighbors at home, who came
IN America together year or two ago to
cool, their fortunes. Each girl became a
Maid of all work in a Brooklyn household
They spent their afternoons ''out" together,
cont home at one and The same time for their
bondwoven old country aprons which they
ned left behind in their first zeal to adopt
IN all things the dress of the new country,
Init which they could not match for dura-
hility here, compared notes on the cheap
but bright bonnets in which they arrayed
themselves fresh for holiday occasions
snring and fall, kept each a little account in
The same bank, held their letters from Stock
holm in common, and formed little sister
hood held together by common feeling of
loneliness in a strange land.
some few weeks ago Wilhelmina disap-
reared. She failed to keep her Sunday ap-
continent with Lima and Tina, and when
thew asked for her at the house in which
she had been living they We're told that she
had gone away without leaving any adj
dress, The two cousins were greatly con-
cerned to know what had become of her.
T ev had no relatives in the country to
whom they could apply, they spoke En-
elish imperfectly, had the Swedish habit of
reserve fully developed, and were probably
100 ignorant of methods of looking up
people lost in the cities to think of going to
the police. so they waited week after
week, consumed with anxiety, until one
bright afternoon Tina almost walked
into the missing WllhelmlnA on
the street. The greeting was cordial,
but the lost girl persisted in remaining lost.
She would give no account of herself and
sljpped away of O sudden into side street.
This little encounter did not quiet the fears
of the others, who tOrmented themselves
with all sorts of surmises, until Lima was
still further perplexed by receiving let
ter from fourth girl employed in family
in Connecticut, whose acquaintance they
had made in the Storage coming over and
with whom they had kept up an intermit.
tent correspondence since. This Connecti-
cut Swede incidentally inquired what sort
of a match Wilhelmina had made and how
did the girls like her husband9
LIMA AND TINA SPENT
an evening putting together carefully
worded letter of inquiry which should not
betray their ignorance and anxiety but
should elicit information. A reply came
shortly, giving Wilhelmina's new name
and address, her husbands pedigree and
particulars of the wedding. which appar-
emily she had not hestated to make known
to a person living out of town. More puz-
zed than ever, the cousins looked up the
street and number, finding neat lodging
of three rooms in the top of a big tenement
house, where, so the neighbors said, some
body by the name the Connecticut letter
had indicated was living, for Wilhelmina
was not in, 1t took second visit and then
a third to find her, but finally the lost
cousin was fairly run down and queer
story poured into sympathetic ears.
Wilhelmina had lived with a lady who
did not allow followers. When followed,
size mad passed her lover off for her brother
and under that title had won him ad-
mission occasionally to her kitchen. The
pseudo brother was young countryman
lately landed, who, as Wilhelmina's relative,
had made sufficiently good impression to
receive an offer of employment as coach
man for the same family. This chance of
work opened a chance of marriage and the
wedding day was set There the two
Swedes took fright. They had cooked
pretty kettle of fish and how to eat it they
could not tell. They had repeatedly de-
cared themselves brother and sister, how
we're they going to prove in a strange land
that they were not? Was it safe or posi-
bic under the circumstances for them to
marry at alls They conjured up all man
ner Of dangers ahead of them and in their
ignorance got into terrible alarm. Tina
and Lima might testify for them, but what
would their word count against that of Will
helmina's mistress who had heard the con-
trary stoutly affirmed?
The two young people discussed the situa-
ton and could see nothing for it but to
run away. They dared not face the imag-
med consequences of their marriage. They
dared not tell Tina and Lima, for they had
wrought themselves into such a wild ter
ror that it seemed to them if two people,
even two friends, knew their secret, it
would work round to quarters where it
might do them harm. Crime might be
fixed upon them, and at the least the deceit
would cost the husband his place and both
of them their bread. They found them
selves driven to play a game of hide and
seek with the world. This is a bald state
ment of fact from beginning to end. They
we're hidden away in a strange quarter of
the city and might have remained hidden
indefinitely if their whereabouts had not
been almost accidentally revealed.
AN INGENIOUS GIRL HAS HIT UPON
aningenious method of self-support. Some
tlne ago she was bitten by the amateur
Photographic mania and became an adept at
catching picturesque views. With one of
those clever little detective cameras she
amused herself whenever her fancy led her
about the city picking up here an
Old apple woman, with skirts fluttering
and cape bonnet blown back by an I'M
Kindly breeze, there a ragged newsgirl with
her bundle of papers, yon group of babies
tumbhng on the grass in the park and
somewhere else an Italian woman with
huge bag of stale crusts balanced on her
head, full of artistic possibilities. The girl
mad something of an artists temperament,
and though she could neither paint nor
draw she had an eye for the essential fea-
lures of picture and for what would or
would not compose we'll. Many of her pho
tographs were really pictures, and being
caught lnstantaneously preserved all the
spirit and action and freshness of life. An
artist friend saw them one day and to her
surprise offered to buy half dozen Of the
best for suggestions for studio work Two
OF three days dwelling upon the idea thus
gwen her bore fruit. she was i'll want of
money and resolved to turn what had
oeen play into work. She and her camera
are out every sunny morning, from 10
O'Clock until 3 nowadays, and an hour in
the dark room" of an evening brings out
come of the characteristic scenes of city
me transferred to her negatives and ready
10 be transformed into cash. Her work has
qulte vogue among the studios and clever
suggestions are often taken from it, She
MOS her best u1arket for fpurA piecas an