The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-13
wHlMS OF WOMEN.
A Few OF the Latest Fsds in Parlor
Decorations.

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1t is three or four days only since | callec
on Miriam. run in and see her." heI
brother had said when nearly ran into hin
upon the street, "she has something new tC
show you"
| The house had a deserted look, and the
| parlor maid admitted me with preoccupled
/ air | waited IN the reception room foI
/ Miriam ten or fifteen minutes, ard then
her sister hurried IN. "She's arranging
| her cats, - she cried out of breath: there's a
new lot of them just come So glad you're
| here
"Catsi Did ! under tand YOU, cats"
| put bewildered inquiry into my tone.
Cats yes cats; such adorable cats! and
| there was untold wealth of devotion in the
reply "See, she's opening the door; now you
can come this way
! Sure enough the door was swinging with
that slow solemnity that might invite a
! procession of pilgrims TO a religious cere-
| monial and there, beckoning me to APP
prosch, was my friend Miriam. Behind
her was the parlor maid and IN front Of me
| darted Miriam's sister, all watching my
countenance, waiting for my involuntary
| tribute of admiration when should advance
to the back parlor entrance and behold the
mysterious cat display.
Cats, yes cats, some hundreds OF cats.
llere were chtS Oh every HlAe anu tNtA
make & eat white Persian cats, done very
realistically in china, stretched themselves
in comfortable attitudes before the open
fire A porcelain tabby cat, life size, was
curled up asleep in the DrettleSt rocker. Rut-
fled looking cats with backs arched and
tails twice as big as necessary were perche /
in the window seats, splitting defiance to
imaginary enemies III the yard. A family
of kittens made believe climb up the legs of
the table. A half grown cat was Struggled
into Miriam's workDasket. There waSa cat
apparently walking to and fro on the keys
of the piano. There was whole heap OF
kittens cutting one another down in 60 ner
Three dainty etageres were consplcuously
displayed, whereupon miniature cats OF all
materials and all countries disported them
selves in all attitudes. My eyes passed un-
comprehending from a striped rubber tiger
cat with ribbon about its neck to deli
cate Manx beauty IN Dresden ware and
then sought MiI1am's face. She was wait
ing breathess for my applause.
"Are they not exquisite" she exclaimed,
stretching out her hands as if China cats had
become her gods.
"In the name of sanity, Miriam" | asked
her. what are all these felnesfOr"
"Why. don't you know she answered,
''cats are all the rage, live cats, that is; por-
ceain cats" this very joyously, ARE my
own idea I've bought up all | could get in
town. Lent is coming and the sewing class
is going to meet here for the first afternoon
We've got to be quiet and demure. Wen
all be tabbies, don't you sect There's not
another one in the class who will have such
a brilliant idea"
"They will be interested" ventured
"N eli, should remark they'll be deliri-
GUS. ! shall live for full a month in blaze
of glory"
MAYOR HEwITT's SHARP OLD EYES
have noticed, and his energetic action
called public attention TO, a very mean de
ception pracliced upon young men and
women, but oftenest the latter, by so-called
telegraph schools, or plug factories as the
operators call them. | asked the Superin-
tendeut of the big Western Union operating
room i'll New York about these so.called
schools, and ne denounced them roundly as
swndles
"They hang out a sign" said he, "resem-
bling rs CLOSELY as they dare the signs of
the Western Union Company, and insert
advertisements which are so wOrded as 10
seem to guarantee work to graduates in the
newspapers. Then, when the young women
have finished their course and paid their in
struction money, they find themselves as far
as ever from earning wages. In majority
of instances they don't even know how to
telegraph"
the only school of biography in New
York whose graduates do have a chance at
places on the Western Union wires is that
of the Cooper Union, and it is PROBABLY be-
cause Of his interest in this practically free
scOOl that Mayor Hewitt, whose wife is the
daughter of good old Peter Cooper, took
such a decided stand against the pay schools
which were Turing learners with the bait of
false hopes.
Mr.. Brennan told me that aside from the
Cooper Union operators the New York
office recruits its forces entirely from cable
operators who have already had experience
or from among the little boys and girls
employed as messengers about the build
ing. They pick up the alphabet in nc
time" he said, "and practice on unused
instruments in odd moments, and the
brightest of them usually go on as operators
as soon as they get big enough, If they care
to do sou
1t is very evident that it is not more safe
to trust in the advertised guaranteed
positions" of the telegraphic schools than
in the advertised bargains of all sorts OF
goods at "half cost" that appeal so re-
freshingly to human ignorance and cupid
ity.
1T Is NOT EASY To SEE HOW THE TELE-
GRAPH SCHOOLS
come by their victims. Telegraphy is
not business which holds out any strong
alluremenrs to women nowadays.
| was talking yesterday with one of the
best women telegraphers in the country, q
woman-so far as know the only woman
hereabouts-who exacts equal wages with
the most skilled operators of the other sex,
and who at one time was the best paid oper.
ator man or woman, i'll the Western Union
building; a women whose sex is never dis.
covered from her handling OF her instrn