The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-29
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
Scattered Notes Here and There in the
Feminine World.

NEW YORK, April So.-ln truth py ner
gloves you shall know her. A woman has
no more characteristic bit of attire. You
may read her past, present and future in
her hand. The occasions of glove wearing
multiply. The glove is Indispensable now
even for the most informal of occasions in
doors. A woman scarcely removes them
even when the soup course is served
Woman is become gloved animal. She
lives, moves and has her being in gloves
You may make her acquaintance, know her
history, pet her children, smile at her joys,
sympathize in her griefs, humor her hobbies
and join in her charities, become her dear
est friend and never see her bare hand. The
hand is a sacred object not to be lightly I'M
| covered.
Study the glove and you have the woman.
1t is small vanity and an ignorant one to
wear gloves too small. They strain across
the hand, cramp it and make it look wooden
| and ill-shaped at that. 1t shows a lack of
discernment to buy gloves with fingers too
short The longer finger is better looking
and higher bred Some women's gloves are
masculine and some are essentially femi-
nine. That goes by cut, and ornamental
ton and color. There is no end of individ-
uality in gloves. Make out a woman's
style and you may identity her by a glance
at her hand
MIS-. Jeanette Thurber wears gloves that
are business-like, executive. They have an
object in life and they go about it steadily.
They are of firm kid, fitting smoothly but
not too closely, they have broad rows of
stitching on the back, they are neat, re-
solved varieties of gloves.
Mrs Annie Louise Cary Raymond wears
comfortable, good-natured gloves. They
are always big enough, sometimes half a
size too big, fitting almost as easily as her
loose sealskin sacque.
Ada Rehan wears trim, trig, swell gloves,
matching her costume to nicely, always
fresh, always handsome. always fitting to
the last degree of exactitude. You couldn't
imagine her the least bit out in gloves they
seem to grow on her-a new pair for each
new occasion.
Ellen Terry is careless of gloves and
quite as often seen without any at all. She
has such a firm, nervous, vigorous hand that
it would be pity to hide it more.
Agnes Booth wears dark gloves-black
very trequently--put on with a touch of
genius, as are all her clothes.
Mrs. Steele Mackaye indicates by the ex-
tent and variety of her glove wardrobe the
buoyancy of her husbands fortunes this
winter.
Margaret Mather has fancy for long
embroidered, lace-trimmed gloves and
must spend no inconsiderable sums of money
for the works of art in that direction which
are drawn up over her arms.
Gloves are idols and the glove box a
shrine Whsn women begin to bow do wn
before them there is no telling where the
worship will end. It's a fancy of some of
the dear creatures, whose pocketbooks are
deep, to v ear no gloves more than once,
even if dark colored and used for street or
calling service only, and this particularly
foots up neat little bill in course of
year.
Mrs. Margaret J. Sangster, the poet and
reader for the Harpers, is a woman above
medium height, gentle-maunered, smooth
proved, unluiiied; very pleasant to look
upon. You wou call her at first glance
well-balanced, and repeat the phrase when
you knew her better.
A woman who has made her mark as one
of the keenest observe of social conditions
of the day is Mrs. Gildersleeve Longstreet,
whose lie ters of Debutante in New
York Society," as they appeared in the
New York Home journal were widely read
in and out OF the city. Mrs. Longstreet is a
slight, dark-haired woman, with bright
eyes, low voice and quiet ways, whose
talk is shrewd but kindly, and whose
glance takes in everything passing before
her.
Mrs Lizzie W. Champney. the author of
"Three Vassar Girls" and the wife of Mr.
j. Wells Champney, the artist, is another of
New York'S literary woman, who is as
pleasant to the eyes as her books are bright.
She is brOwn-haIred slender and rather deli
cate-looking, with grave face. Did l say
grave! Well, wait till she smiles and quite
another adjective is wanted to complete the
description.
Mrs Kate Epson Clarke, author and
journalist, is one Of the women who have
the courage to complain openly of the our
dens of modern dress. To wear a reception
costume for an afternoon or evening means
with her, she says, to feel the effects of it
for week. Florine Tnayer McCray, the
novelist, is equally outspoken, but directs
her complaints squareiy against the chief
offend +, the hustle. Anything else may be
endured, but to shop or walk or receive in
hustle is fatigue and torture. Kate San
born directed the arrows of her wit against
the hustle long ago.
The floating stories of Ella Wheeler Will
cox's first poem, early discouragements and
beginnings Of success have not included the
tale of her first introduction to New York.
1t was Lisle Lester, who knows everybody
especially everybody dramatic-who |
stood her sponsor, bringing her out at re-
ception in her honor some here up toward |
Harlem. Very few people went, say
dozen, but Celia Logan whistled and Ella |
Wheeler danced the cancan. Nowadays |
Mrs. Wilcox brings out people who have, |
she thinks, chance for a future before |
them herself. The story of Mrs. Wi!cox's |
charities is a pretty one and will bear tell |
ing. Like the practical little woman that |
she is, she spends considerable sums in hard |
cash, distributing it among poor girls who |
have hard work 10 get along. There are |
women in New YORK who have received, on !
more occasions than one, bank bills from |
Mrs. Wilcox, with the private request TO |
give them TO any young girls they might |
know who needed help. The passionate |
poetess is the soul Of generosity.
Maria Mitchell writes that she is "com- |
fortably feeble' i'll her sisters home in
Lynn, to which she went on leaving Vassar
College. She is having an observatory
erected in the yard in which she may mount
the telescope she was using when called to
the girls college almost twenty-five years
ago, and go back to the study of double
stars In spite Of her devotion TO Vassar, it
will always be something of regret 10 nor
that so much Of her life work was done in
a school for girls exclusively. She is Il warm
81 dvocata of co-adupati and aside frotn |