The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-15


morning II L were to hurry with your err
rsnds, don't you think it would be good
thing for me to go to the park for the dayF'
&Then, when his point has been gained,
OH ne goes with another boy, and sails his
catamaran on the lake, and runs and
whcops, and stays until long after dark,
and rides home on the top Of Fifth avenue
stage In blissful forgetfulneSs of editorial
cares.
Tello doesn't use the editorial Eve" His
mother didn't notice it in the Sunny Hours
first number, but letters began to pour in,
asking the why's and wherefores
II can't say 'we,'" said Tello, "because [
haven't got any partner, and don't want
to lay the blame on any other fellow for
my blunders.n
The Sunny Hour is a sixtean-page paper
with pretty yellow cover and about 1900
paying subscribers, though Tello sometimes
prints as many as 5000 copies to send to
people to interest them in hunting up shoes
ana stockings. His mother thinks it will
grow to be great magazine and Tello says,
with much gravity, that the charity it
represents will be his ''life work. If YOU
knew the persistence of the boy you might
think SO, too. Already it is well enough
known so that Tello sometimes gets two
dozen letters of a morning, and some of
them are addressed simply to 'Tello
y
more explicit directions
ktThe other day heard a newspaper man
say: IF | controlled a New York daily |
would open youths department, and get
Tello to edit it, and it would be bigger
success than Mrs Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett's syndicate columns"
Barnard college, though but two months
open, has taken at once its rightful position
no ha md Of h., Ho,-
the higher education of women in New
York. The house at 343 Madison avenue,
which it occupies, is but few blocks from
Columbia, and is four-story and basement
brown-stoce front, admirably adapted to
its purposes There is no dormitory sys-
tenn, but the girl students who come from
homes in the city, from Brooklyn,
Newark, East Orange, Elizabeth and
other places have a cosy sitting
room on the second floor with
big oak study table and oak mantel, rows
of book-shelves, pictures of literary and
learned worthless on the walls, and rich
dark rugs under foot, partly covering the
stained floor. Here at any hour of the
morning or afternoon you will find groups
of blue-eyed or brown-eyed freshwomen,
of whom the youngest is 16 and the oldest
%, and in whom it would be impossible to
trace any likeness to the popular idea of a
woman who goes to college. Not one of
them looks as if she fed on Greek
roots for dinner and extract of logarithms
for tea, and dragged her hair back
from her forehead and pinned it in a severe
knot with sharp-pointed lead pencils and
wore blue stockings and bad gowns, and
talked only transcendental theories and
esoteric problems. These girls, on the con-
trary, are fresh-faced and brigh 5-eyed, and
the sound of their laughter comes ripping
out at the open door so merrily that, unless
you listen for, "Did the iodine color your
starch grainsg' and Eyes, mine came out
beautifully all inside the cell walls" you
needn't suspect them of anything more
''unfeminine" than curly bangs and cakes
and bouillon.
The college has admitted only freshman
| class, as Smith College did at its opening,
| and the girls who had begun the Columbia
course for women, dozen of them or
| thereabouts, are going forward with it,
without regard to Barnard. There are
about twenty students this term, and the
college has money enough pledged to pay
| its running expenses for two years. The
| house has been leased for five years. and it
| is hoped to raise a fund for its purchase.
| Indeed, the interest which the college
| awakens is SO great, even at its mod
| est beginning, that it seems in every way
probable that before its complement of
classes is full, it will fairly compel gifts of
money, etc., which shall properly endow it
| and place the Columbia annex on a secure
| footing. 1t was only last March that the
women who have pressed the project really
| secured permission from Columbia, and
| yet the college is open and has received the
/ gift of fine botanical laboratory, which is
| now in running order, and the offer of a
| chemical laboratory, which, without doubt
| will be accepted. There is no chemical
| laboratory in New York open to women
| and in this one much advanced work will
be done, for Barnard college hopes
| to enlarge its bounds on the Johns Hopkins
plan and to give post graduate and special
| courses, and to become in the true sense Of
the word a university for women. The new
| University Club, membership in which il
| limited to college graduates, has rooms IL
the building, and several courses OF lectures
have been planned which will be open tx
| New York women generally and will rally
| them about the girls college.
The Barnard girls have chosen blue and
| white for their class colors, and have com
piled with all college traditions in their clas
organization.
There is a pushing and an elbowing fol
| invitations to the McAllister ball. Witt
twelve tickets to each of the 140 subscrib
ers. the McAllister has eaten his word;
about the 400, and yet with |, $50 chances t.
be disposed of, the envy and heartburnlngs
are something unprecedented. The invita-
tions will not be out before the middle o.
the month, but there are people who would
give five wears of their lives to be sure o.
dancing in the Metropolitan opera house OF
the night of Jan. 2, at the biggest private
ball New York has ever seen.
The Sir Roger de Coverly will be tn
spectacle of the dancing. and with five set
| of twelve couples of the best known New
York people to set the quadrille d'honneur
the centennial ball ought to be thrown
as the McAllister means 1t shall be, quit
into tie shade Two years ago, at Nev
Years ball at Delmonico's, there was a 81
Roger de Coverly which McAlllster lex
with Mrs. William Aston and which wa
very pretty with the stately measures
PAGES of men and women no ionge
. Young. This year the dance VIII b'
on much grander scale aud tn
nicturesuueness Of the winters fashion
will lend it grace and dignity. The ladie
of one set are to wear, understand, oil
English costumes of the period of the Vica
of Wakefield, and with their long lengths o
thick vet soft brocade, recalling the gown
which Ellen Terry wore as Olivia. One
these gowns. which has just been completed
, is of new and wonderfully beauGlluI shad
of heliotrope, brocaded with Engllsh heog
roses and opening over full SKIRT OF plai
, silk of the same shade. The sleeves mare a
the elbow, showing white ruifles OF costi
lace. and lace kerchief is folded partlall