The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30
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TIE SOUTHERN WOMAN.
The Way She Succeeds in Business in the
Professions and I'm the North.


The Way She Succeeds in Business in the
Professions and I'm the North.
From the n. T. Graphic
One evening recently the writer listened to
conversation between southerner and north
erncr on the women OF tho two sections Each was
partisan and the eoutherner claimed that the
women OF his section softer gentler in short,
as he understood the words, feminine than
their northern sisters. The other did not particu-
larry attack this position but he commended that In
more Municipalities of energy practically business
sense and success the women Of the north left out
ofsight the women Of the south. And the southern
man did not particularly confute the assertion.
Each was talking according TO HIS preferences and
preiudlces and with very little reference 70 any
thing else 1t did not to either TO look around
and see what southern women are like aud arc do
Ing. biefsurYey OF the field reveals surprising
number OF southern women prominent in New
York In every sort of business that women are
known In.
Tho question of the comparative manners and
charms Ia one Of opinion, aud one that most people
will decide in harmony with their preconceiyed
notions, and without It's making any difference
whether they ever saw specimen from the other
sectiors or not. But the business ability of the
southern woman Is subject TO demonstration We
don't even need TO go down &c esS what che has
done at home. There Is one southern Invasion that
has been eminently successful, and that is the
she has headed for the conquest Of al bTeadwin-
ming occupations in this great city. Tho southern
woman has usually been brought up in n eouserva-
tive way; she usually remains, in "a manner; con
servaiiye She is not prominent In womans' rights
movements; she does not take to bloomers in the
interest OF dress reform; she may have views
garding universal peace or prohibition, or the veg
etariSD diet. Perhaps II Is partly In the resultant
concentration Of forces that her lies She has
no advanced views. II her original environment
had not changed she would have gone ON in
her old fashioned way attending to old-fashioned
duties; but faced with the immediate necessity OF
earning her living. for her own sake and for the
sake Of her dear Ones she has done what her hand
found to do, and more than that she has been al
mighty smart inihaving her hand find something,
and then she has done 1t with her might II Ia
amazing to really observe what place the southern
women does take up. Tho largest salary paid In
New York 10 a woman is received by Mrs. Mary Il.
Bryan, editor for Munroe, the publisher sMrs Bryan
IL as southern as the palmetto itself She pretty
sotspoken, dark-eyed, little lady with her south
ern drgwl and all her litto southern accents and
turns as pure and uncorruptod from this northern
world as hshe had never surrendered She seems
when you meet her about as much like a business
woman she does like tho grand sultan of all the
Turks. But ishe manages to do the business ell
the same.
The girls school In New York most popular
among the old and ars,ocratc families is
kept by the Misses Graham, two Virginia spinsters
OF the old school, so gentle, so proper, utterly
lady-like, that they manage TO run big and pros
petous institution Just rs thoroughly and systemat,
ically and successfully as II they wore short hair
and divided skirts
Another teacher OF note is Miss Eugee of South
Carolina, who came here as partner in Mrs. Reids
fashionable school, but who now hvs set up on her
own account
Miss Mary Tucker Magil is relative Of the
Misses Graham also Virginia woman, who has
come 10 New YORK in late middle life and despite
has Cal Fasa
as writer and an olocutionist. Her character
sketches appear In Harper's magazine fre-
quently and they often heard heard
afterwards in well known drawing rooms, read by
herself with ininitablc dialect accent and rollick
Ing humor.
Among the southern newspaper women are Miss
Bessie Blsand, OF the World; Mrs. Collins Williams,
of the Commercial Advertiser. and Miss Matte
Sheridan, of the society column OF who knows how
many papers and of syndicate letter fame for how
many more.
Miss Bisland is something of belle as well as
journalist She is beautiful, fond of society an adj
mirablo Rlker and las gained an excellent profess
sonal position since coming here from New Orlean,
only three years ago or go Her name is seen fire..
Quently in the magazines
Mrs Collins Williams has been here even shorter
time. and has also established herself beyond her
peradventure She made her first money with her
pen in the weekly story papers, and might have
gone on indefinitely and successfully In that field
but though IL brought money, the work was not
wholly eongenial and two summers ago she struck
for the book reviews TO do during that Of season at
the Commercial Advertiser office. She got them,
and by the time the regular critics had finished their
vacations she had made herself too useful in too
many departments to be spared She is uncommon
ly witty and her fun, particularly negro sketches
and jokes, anonymously enliyens the comic week.
lies continually.
On Ee stage 1t is not only the great Mary that has
come nom the south. number of successful
aetresses-for instance. Virginia Dreher and Selma
Feller come between Mss Anderson and Days
newest novice the pretty little Tennessee girl Kitty
Cheatham. In literature well in literature these
days. the southern women, headed by Mrs AIurfee
and Mrs, barnet, seems to lie sweeping all before
her. Perhaps. some one would say headed by Mrs.
Amelie .Riyes-Chanler, and certainly Mrs. Chan
les Is no incouspicus figure In the conQuering band
Tnen There is Mrs Piatt a poet whose work will
continue to be more and more appreciated tor
years TO come. Aud OF tho very recent Southern
feminine writer's even Glider, the editor OF the
Century, says they come so fast he can't keep mp
with them Never safe for twenty-four hours nom
anew one" he says, 'and am striking good ones
tDo"