The morning news., 1888-12-16

wears Greek gowns with bangles on her arms.
She eats candy at all times and in all places,
and is said to believe in astrology and to
hunt up queer people in dingy streets to
draw her horoscope She is almost as &C.
centric as Amelie Rives Chanler. Laura
Daintry is undeniably clever and when
''Fedor,n - her new novel, comes out one may
hope it will hold the mirror up to a
cleaner variety of nature.
Literary New York delights in Nine.
Alice lie Plongeon, the famous Yucatan ex-
plorer, who has been living for some little
time in Bro JElyn and who, with her hus-
band, Augustus lie Plongeon, the savant, is
trying to interest Americans in proofs sought
for during many years of hardships that
Yucatan contains the relics of the Oldest
civilization on the globe. Nine lie Plon-
geon, who has few if any equals in archeo-
logical knowledge in her own field, is not
vet 80 years old. She was girl in her
teens when she made a romantic marriage
NJ LIE Plongeon, during Il visit to London,
found a slight dark girl poring over Mexi-
can antiquities in the British Museum
They compared opinions on the collections
from Uxmal, fell in love, sailed away to the
Fl Dorado of ruins in company, where they
stayed fourteen years. Mme LIE Plongeon
has had yellow fever three times and nursed
HilQ NdCGlHdGSu b"O VI JDIcb HkllNc maya
hamlets through smallpox. She is a charm
ingly modest little person and the most
sprightly of conversationalists. She speaks
Spanish and the Central American Indian
dialects, and has pored over ruined cities,
statues and temples till she is a very enthu-
siast. Amateur photographers recognize
her as one of the cleverest of their recruits.
A white-haired, ringleted woman who
knew Edgar Poe, Is Mrs. Vincenza Botta.
who was the poetess Anna Lynch in her
youth and who holds in her age the largest,
most interesting and most informal of all
the literary salons. The newspaper people
gather about her and the Italians about her
husband A gentle little woman with sill
very hair and quiet ways is Mrs. Martha J.
Lamb, the woman historian and magaZinist,
who was i'll so long after a reckless driver
ran her down on Broadway, and whose
house, could its walls speak would discourse
"reminiscences of New York of the past and
great folk who have passed into history,
so many tales have been told in it week
after week by the charming old men and
women who gather there on Sundays.
Aunt Fannie Barrows' friends group
themselves round her regularly, and among
theatrical folk little Kitty Cheatham, not
yet fairly launched, is collecting a set
Marion Harland receives on Mondays. The
tall. slight Mrs. Custer, with her dark hair and
fragile, highbred beauty, always in black
for the yellow haired Chief" woman
who makes friends at first sight, has small
but very pleasant gatherings. Kate San
born's friends are clever folk like herself
and conversation is cultivated as a fine art
at their assemblings. Mrs. Harriet Webb,
the dramatic reader, receives on Wednes-
days, Mrs. Frank Leslie on Thursday, and
Miss Mary L. Booth on Saturday evenings
Grace Greenwood has her regular days and
so do Mrs. Candace Wheeler and her
daughter, Miss Dora Wheeler, the artist,
Mrs. Stednlan, wife of the banker poet,
and many scores more.
One of the most original of next years
calendars will be the calendar of the college
girls. 1t is to be issued by Kappa Kappa
Gamma one of seven Greek letter sororities
maintained in the colleges open to women
and probably the largest. having from
eighteen to twenty chapters and member
ship of 200 or more. Kappa Kappa Gamma
was founded at Monmouth College, Illinois.
in 1870 1t has chapters in the East at Boston
University, Syracuse University and St.
Lawrence University. In the west tho
Kappa girls are organized at the Universities
of California, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Missouri, at the Ohio Wes-
levan, Illinois Wesleyan and North
western Universities, at Buchtel
College, Adrian College, Hills1ale
College and number OF places more 1t is
regularly organized on the plan of the
Greek letter fraternities of the mems col
leges, having its executive power lodged in
grand council composed of four members
representing the four provinces into which
he fraternity is divided geographically.
Once year the fraternity meets in IL
yention as the guests Of some one of the
chapters. The Kappa girls wear jAweIed
ksy IN light and dark blue enamel es & badge
and they support quarterly magazine Of
forty pages or thereabouts which bears the
name of the Golden Key and is their official
organ. They have published & song book
Of Kappa melodies and now thev are setting
the fashion of college girls calendar. The
idea originated with the Rao chapter of
Boston University, and the calendar may
be supposed to be full to the brim OF wise
savings, seeing that its notices for the days
of the year are quotations from the bright
remarks Of kappa girls. II is very pret-
ty affair, just as dainty as any of its rivals
for 1889.
1t is pity to Put wee tots of children
into mourning, but you may see them any
where now. They toddle about the stree
and tilt along the parkways mites of g years
and under, a little less cheerful than rnutes.
with their black badges of SORROW Black
felt hats tied with black ribbons, kilt
Skirkts of black flannel or broadcloth, black
coat, black Stockings: hlack gloves. Poor
little souls, why teach them thus early the
brevity of existence! The passion for ex-
cessive mourning increases, and it needs
check as much as any one social custom.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
FIVE FIRST PRIZES.
That's the Record of the Morning New