The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16
THE DoINes OF WOMEN FOLK.
Summer Notions of Clover and Whim-
steal Bundles of Femininity.

devices adopted by clever girls to earn
living and leave the girl with the camera
ont of account. Her latest happy thought
Is picturing the doings of children She
tbe particular girl with camera to whom
tbis paragraph refers-malkes of herself
yeripatetlc baby taker. She spends an hour
q half day, whole day with a child, and
nv dint of successive shots at propitious mo-
,9ients with the handy little detective look
ing for all the world like lady's shopping
bag. which she uses, she secures one picture,
two pictures, twenty pictures of the urchin
in unconstrained attitudes about its play.
The doting mother sends the small boy and
the girl with the camera to the park. The
GIRL enjoys a mornings outing and returns
eeIimpses of master boy riding in the goat
wagon, skipping stones, rolling heels over
head on the grass, smiling up at you over
handful of daisies, peeping through the bars
of Mr.. Crowley's cage. The doting mother
engages the girl with the camera to preserve
for her chronicle from sunrise to shutdown
nj baby's day. The girl comes to the nur-
serv, watches baby, catches baby splashing
in her bath, catches her again rolling in
nlump infantile nakedness ON the floor,
chewing her toes, laughing so as to show
her first tooth, clutching at the rattle shak
en- in her face, screaming in collie pangs,
dressed for turn in the perambulator and
laid away asleep in her crib. The doting
mother sends post haste for the girl with the
camera the day boys long curls are to come
off. The girl photographs baby in her first
short dress and boy in his first knee trousers.
She photographs baby and boy together
paby riding about the nursery on boys
back. 1t is profitable work, for the girl
she is the only one | know who does it
charges from So to 81 a day for her time,
besides the price of the finished photographs.
She is seldom without engagements, usually
her time occupied for week or more ahead
The pocketbooks of women are at her mer-
CIV. for her pictures, showing urchins in ordi-
nary dress and about their ordinary roguery
are spirited and life-like, and mothers
like to make souvenir albums of them, as
records of growth to preserve for other
days.
had the pleasure of having tooth filled
by girl dentist the other day. The word
Measure is used to some extent advisedly, for
there were pleasant things about it. She
was very pleasant to look at, with brown
eyes and brown curly hair, for one thing.
She was very pleasant spoken and she had
small fingers that went easily in the mouth.
She was a sympathetic creature too, and
had all manner of ingenious contrivances
for making the unpleasant process as
little unpleasant as possible. She had
very tastefuly furnished parlors for receiv-
ing unfortunates, and she didn't leave Puck
or Judge or anything else oppreSsively fun
ny about, to remind them of their doom.
There were fine pictures on the wall and
some new books, there were art portieres
and there was the girl dentist
herself. She used to be a clerk for an i'm
porting house, believe, writing the French
and German letters for the firm. She
clerked it till she satisfied herself there was
no future in that, then she went TO dental
college and now she is establishing herself
in the city She says she likes her business
and feels thoroughly at home in it, and her
business 80 far, seems to like her. 1t is her
testimony that even in a dentists chair
man can't resist the temptation to try to tiirt,
and that she has had big eyes enough made
at her from big white napkin to shake any
nerves not thoroughly steady. And what
do you do in such cases9" was the query:
Let him proceed till l get well started at
work, and then he usually has something
else to think of. A man can't flirt with
drill getting in its fine work in a sensitive
cavity. But most of my patients are wo-
men and children" she concluded There
are not more than two or three women den
fist in New York. There was only one a
year ago.
A somewhat novel occupation is that of a
kVFeIu WIZ HAS luIl6u lIOIll RONtTLlCSS III
particular to governeSS in general. Mis-
tress Madge comes from Colorado. She is
the handsome daughter of a western judge
and she earned fair wages as a kindergart-
ner till 1t occurred to her to try her fortune
IN New York. In those attitudes $50
month and her board meant. so she found,
four children twenty-four hours in the day,
seven days in the week, with six hours off
tortnightly. She ate with the children,
~ fhn Oh ,rrAN rF,A
sewed for the children without
relief from the continuous strain. Now she
has notion which she considers worth
t1ree or four of that. She has chosen her
summer resort, a Catskill village which
receives hundreds of New Workers, and there
she proposes to spend the cheated term" A
good proportion of the summer families will
take up their summer quarters unprovided
with governess or maid for the children.
The exigencies of summer board have
taught them before now to keep their fami-
lies down. Here is the opportunity of the
Eoverness in general. Mistress Madge will
cause 1t to be known that at moderate fixed
rates per hour she will take children off
their parents hands. She will take party of
youngsters to walk so many afternoons
week, giving them lessons in botany or
teaching them the ways of birds or insects,
or things worth knowing about brooks or
IN the hammock and help her fad the
names of flowers and their colors. She will
Glg out turtle eggs with Master Rob and
nave microscope ready to show him p mos
qmtos sting or the young of pond snail.
Sne VIII be an out-of-door providence to all
The children whose mammas want to go on
excursions or sit on piazZas and do fancy
work. She has tried the plan in the city
this spring taking groups Of children to walk
IN the park, and has made pleasant living
oy 1t thus far, her work keeping her busy
nearly every pleasant day.
One of the successful dress designers of
the city is woman not yet so. She was tell
ing me some days ago how her work is done.
one supplies large number of the fashion
sketches issued with the fashion sheet of a
Dig pattern house and she earns sos a week
at her trade. ut is something, " she began,
mat only few women and not half
uozen men can do. There are the ladies
tailors of course, but they repeat themselves
IN essentially the same designs. Outside of
tailor work practically all the new dress
ueSlgns gotten up in the city are from
sketches made by women. 1t is very sell
Gon that man tries his hand at it who
aoes not fail. For me, often walk the
streets till get my idea In an hour on
broadway or Fifth avenue, | catch hint
from the draping of skirt that suggests
something to me, or ] see a combination of
c'lors, or a novel use Of some fabric that
sets my mind working in new direction
men go home and make a wash drawing