The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-26
THE DoINas OF WOMEN FOLKS
Some of Their Curious Notions Which
Attract Attention.

Some of Their Curious Notions Which
Attract Attention.
New YORK, March 4.-"Forty dollars
for a spring bonnetl Not l. Nor $50 either.
Money is worth too much for that. |
haven't spent over so and not often more
than So for bonnet since l was married
This have on cost me just 81 81"
And thought it was French. How can
you look imported when you are really
| homemade"
| ''Oh. but Pm not homemade I'm just
as French as if | came from Paris in my
| little cousins big trunk. That's the beauty
| of the thing" said one woman to anothe'
! in one of our fine new ladies' restaurants in
the shopping districts the other day My
| bonnet was made to order by a bona fide
| Frelch milllner and one of the clevereSt in
the city too. Yes, If course there is little
scheme. There were d zen of us who
passed a unanimous resolution that bonnets
for US, individually and collectively, had got
| TO come down. We shook hands upon 1t
aud exchanged pledges of bonnet pins
| While we were discussing ways and means
we heard that one of Mime. IS assistants
was out of place. Our course was clear
Nile. Julie should work for us. We in
quired every one Of Us am Ong our acquain-
tances and found plenty of women " no
jumped at the chance of having their hats
and bonnets provided for by milliner who
would come to the house. She comes,
that's all. She works by the day or the
half day or even by the hour. She charges
So day. She has more work than she can
attend to and talks of hunting up partner.
She makes more money than she did as one
of Nine. IS designers. And as for u.s.
we're going TO the country this summer on
our savings. We are paving for material
and good wages for skilled labor now; moth
ing more And really it is new way Of
self-support for women, you see."
NINE. DE BARRIOs, THE WIDOW
of the Guatemalan Dictator, who has been
one Of the most extensively dressed women
in society this winter. introduced the Reca-
mier gown to New FORK before Adele Grant
posed in it or the fame of Bernhardt's or
the sight of Davenports LA Tosca" cos
TUNES had given popular fancy a twist that
way. Nine. de Barrios has appeared at
the opera on one or two occasions in q deli
cate blue Indian crepe, trimmed, without
tOurnure or trimming, the short waist end
ing just below the bust The loose sleeves
of crepe fell only to the elbow. Around
the shoulders was thrown a scarf of cream
white crepe de chine. heavily fringed and
embroidered with gold at the ends. The
cloak worn with this gown was of deep red
velvet, lined with swans down, with the
standing Directoire collar reaching the
ears, and embroidered heavily in gold
Miss Rosalie Flagg, Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt's pretty yellow-haired niece, had
luncheon gown of the Recamier order sent
from Paris not long ago. 1t was a cream
white smooth cloth falling In curving grace
full lines The waist was ella ped by very
broad Josephine balt of blue plush and a
redingote of blue cloth lined with blue
surah covered the back and sides. The
actresses and society leaders between
them have settled it. A Recamier season is
ahead.
STEAK, said an habitue of the Astor
House yesterday at the lunch hour, point
ing to couple of quiet, bright-eyed women,
busy with knife and fork.
"Steak. Do you know what that
meansl You won't find a more singnfi
cant token in a days walk of the sub
stantial progress of the working women of
the city"
1t is true that there has been revolution
in working women's luncheons Five years
ago women took tin boxes or baskets or
paper parcels with them from home to the
offices where they were employed At the
noon hour they ate bread and butter or
sandwiches and fruit without stirring from
their desks or their type writing machines.
Many do this STILL but the number grows
fewer every day. With regularity i'm bust
Eess habits and ten hours good hard work
daily has come the sensible habit of eating
substantial food at noon. Susan King, the
woman real estate speculater has the repu-
tation of being the first of herse who ven
tured into the business mems restaurants
down town. 1t is a matter-of-course for
women to be seen in them in numbers now.
They order chops or steak with a cup of
tea. Sometimes piece of pie follows, but
substantials are the rule, though the guam
titles are smaller with them as with the
men. Women whose time is limited are oc-
casionally seen standing up at the scramble
counters, boiling things in true business
style. The Aston House is frequented by n
number of women from offices in Park row
and lower Broadway. These are women
who spend from 40 to zoe. for lunch.
Further up Broadway, from Eighth to
Twelfth street, and on Fourteenth street
there are restaurants among whose regular
customers are working women who spend
25c., or, maybe, BIC. at noon. Many of the
big Office buildings contain luncheon
rooms, where bread, coffee ami pie are sold
cheap. Uptown milliners, dressmakers,
women physicians and Others get dainty,
well-cooked food at the lunch rooms of the
Woman's Exchange, on Fifth avenue. The
laSbOi - Wei kpuCt hhNt
into the way of sending out for their noon
edlbles, though they run less to meat and
more to sweets. Among working women of
all grades the question of what sort of a
lunch one eats is coming to be i'll some sort
Il test of ones ability to earn good wages
All who can afford it get breath of fresh
air and bite CT something hot at noon, and
their health is better and ability TO do work
greater in consequence. The working girls
brigade morning and night in the city
streets is a handsome one, and the better
lunch is one of the reasons why.
THE NEWEST THING IN Wells
is a strip of fine wire gauze. 1t is as deli
cate as the dainty silk affairs which women
persist in pulling down over their noses
and much less injurious to the eyes than
dotted or figured net so common upon the
street In appearance it does not differ at
all from the ordinary veil, except perhaps
it may be thought less flexible The wire
gauze veil is not in the market, but women
have brought flew from England, where
they are beginning to be used. chiefly be
cause they are better respirators than silk,
which PIE. sists in choking ones breath. and
plastering itself down upon the face, if the
air is ever 80 little damp. A veil of silver
thread is very ornamental
Elizabeth Cady stanton has altered very
little during her somewhat prolonged stay
abroad. She is still a noticeably fine-look-
ing 0tm1n with great ma ,ses of white hair