The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-30


Wood and coal 80. Observation-Disclosures. 40
One pouud oatmeal. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 05
Three luaves bread "a
0ne-half pound sleeps liver ................ 04
One-half pound sausage .,.....'.'''.'. .... 90
One beef bone ... go. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Sc. .i2
0ne-quarter pound butter. ............. .O6
One-haf pound sugar. ........,.......... ~
One-ouarter pound tea OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IA
salt .......' .......''''-.'.'' w
kerosene ...'..'..''''''''.' '''.'''''''' 70
Car fare. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. o5
Total. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81 Is
In this expense list the beef bone and peas
stand for soup, which was the dinner staple
for three DAYS Oatmeal was main break
fast dish and tea and bread the standby the
week through.
There remained Sic, as a reserve against
sickness or slack work and a fund from
which to buy clothes. 1t is easy to reckon
the number of weeks saving represented by
q pair of shoes. This seamstresS is tOrtu-
nate above many of her kind in that she
is intelligent enough to make a little
money buy great deal, and unfortunate
inthat she has no children to add to her
earnings.
HAVE KNOWN TWO RoMANCEs
in real life. De is the tale Of a man who
was dray driver in New York and who is
a college professor; the other is a career of a
woman who was a street waif and is an
artist. Between forty and fifty years ago
torger was sent to the British penal settle
ments in Australia. By good conduct he
was in course of time advanced to the dig
nifty of ticket-of-leave man, married and
had a family His youngest daughter had
adventurous blood in her veins, and smart
ing under punishment for a piece of girl
roguery, ran away from home, shipped on
IJcl cd
thestewardeSS, when it was too late to put
her on shore, to give her food in return for
help with the work. The child traveller
didn't like the look of Liverpool and boarded
a vessel bound for New York, in the guiSe
of peddler She was carried off just as she
meant to be, while disposing of her apples in
the Storage. and worked her way to Ameri-
ga, as she had done to England. She was
Il years old when she deserted the ship in
New York
The little street gamin, as she then became,
had a rough life of it for few years. She
peddled papers, she ran errands, she picked
I'D pennies dancing in beer saloons There
was an old woman who sold papers at the
ferries who sheltered her much of the time
COnfScating all her earnings in return; but
there were nights that she passed cJrled up
in hogshead under the protection of high
brewery wall. She was a bright child and
she could have TO nd employment as a cash
girl more than once, but she preferred the
freedom of the streets aud by and by ar
rived at the dignity of a small-a very small
news stand of her own She picked up
little education from her papers and she
found out that she liked to draw She
saved her money after that and became by
degrees uewSdealer on a more important
scale When she got fairly started in her
twenties she was running newspaper,
stationery and notion store She was max
lug an income she could live OH, and she
was doing crude but clever sketching with
or without teaChers-mOstly without. She
had some little help from artists who saw
promise in her, and she found her way into
illustrative work for different periodicals
thatenabled her in time to shut up the store.
She is somewhat past 30 now, and is quiet,
retiCent, sngularly attractive woman whom
many people like, but whose history not
bali dozen people know. She has done
within two years work with much strength,
If less refinement in it, and has thrown up a
situation in which she was earning $1,000 to
go abroad for further art study. She sailed
ten days ago, and venture the prophecy
that she will be better known before she
comes back
IN SPITE OF THE LIMITED RANGE
OF occupations open to them women
neglect some obvious business chances at
which man would jump. Take the dress
reform movement, for example. Pretty
Annie Jenness Miller has really made some
thing of an impression by her preaching of
artistic dress in New York. Her magazine,
Dress, appears to be gaining a steady foot
ing, and well-known society women as well
as girls from the Century Office, and bust
ness women of all descriptions whose work
demands comfortable and healthful attire,
openly confess themselves interested in her
plans. 1T gowns of the graceful lines and
DAINTY fabrics in which Mrs Miller appears
herself could be had in the market there is a
large contingent of the most intelligent
women i'll the city who would take a long step
toward immediate emancipation from the
dress burdens under which the whole sex
labors But, except for tea gowns, one
can't buy them, and there is not a single
IreSSmaker who can or will make them.
Women with brains enough and faith enough
III e common sense OF other women to
make gowns according to the gospel hat
mrs, Miller breaches, gowns that are pref
uer Than anything worn now and that do
not require the constant attendance of man
save to pick up every article dropped, or
me services of a maid to push in every HAIR
pun that starts out, would find clover field
upto date unoccupiel. As things now
are the only practicable dress reform
scheme yet promulgated is between hay and
grass, as 1t were; it has got a little beyond
Sle theoretical age, but has not emerged
into the practical
MRS. GEORGE GOULD
mas grown distinctly more piquant and vi
vaclous looking since she began to curl her
gang One can now see what pretty fore
mead she has. She used to wear her HAIR in
straight heavy mass, falling almost to her
eyebrows, but has appeared FOR few weeks
}.as5 With it cut shorter and olinging in
1lttie fluffy rings about the parting and the
temples
BY the way, since Mrs. Gould has shown
an inclination to take up the Greek dress, it
may be thai that artistic gown, which has
ueen struggling on the threshold for recog
hlClon these two seasons back, may yet find
LaVor IN the eyes of mondaines. gown
sent home for Mrs Gould few days since
n clever modification of the Greek idea.
~ naN a petticoat of white plush. with a
IpIeeh iret embroidered in gold about the
lotion. Above this is an upper garment
' VI pale blue game shot with threads Of
koa; This is cut close-fthng in the back,
s ny IN front It falls loose and full on the LIT
sue IN shawl folds. free Of the lining. On