The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-07

OCCUPATIONS found practicable for women.
She has three dainty rooms in the last place
you would dream Of, over stable. De-
ightfully pretty rooms they are, where
orlc-a-brac picked up in all manner of odd
places, summer sketches and winter studies,
old plaster casts and new panels, inexpen-
s1Se hangings with sudden flashes of color
in scarlet ribbons, stained floors and Koula
rugs make one forget that such thines as
turkey carpets, silken divans, LOUIS XVI.
chairs and old Sevres china were ever by
anybody deemed desirable. Gray-eyed
Dolly is wholly salf-dependent She has
supported herself since she was Is. She
dreary atmosphere Of the average city
boarding house. She does like her own
little nest Of a stable home where she has
cat and an open fire and can follow the
innocent inclinations of her own sweet will.
| have known her, when a caller went
away, to offer him a cigar.
There are girl bachelors who write, who
palnt, who act, who are shorthand writers
and typewriters, all living by themselves.
or, if prosperous, indulging in the society of
a maid. One of the pleasantest of these
new establishments belongs to woman in
her mid-twenties who earns 81 800 a year
as buyer in the children's cloak department
OF big dry goods house and takes liz two
other girls on smaller wages to share in her
y.
don't women keeps itself free from scandal.
Ten years ago their life would have been
impossible Now it is scarcely commented
| on. All hail to the young old maid.
One Of the interesting things about the
new education ard new occupations of
women is the way in which these things
often brighten the life of woman who is
no longer young l cannot get out of my
eyes the picture Of woman whom / meet
on the ferryboats between New York and
Brooklyn. She is on her way to daily study {;
and her face, from morning to morning,
from month to month--it is two or three
years since l began to notice her-always
wears the same happy, forward-looking.
| alInos teager expression that haunts one
with lingering JOY that
The world, that knows itself too sad,
Is proud to keep some faces glad
as Owen Meredith sings. She is always in
| hurry; some important exaction from with
out or controlling impulse within pulling
or pushing her to the end of her Journey
| She never notices her fellow passengers /;
her eyes look into the distance as if some
| fixed object, invisible to others, were before
her. Sometimes as she gazes upon it her
| lips part and she smiles. She is of medium
stature. rounded, erect figure, and her hair
| is white as snow. Her face is the face of
woman well advanced in middle life but
| it has in it the aspiration, the expectation,
the confidence in the day to come that be
| longs to girl.
She is the wife Of physician. She has
| brought up a family of children. Her
youngest son is married and in practice.
She was resigning herself to an empty nest
! The young birds had flown. She was de
| pressed, oUjectless. Her husband proposed
to her to study medicine, offered to take
her into partnership. She refused. She
was too old. She was too blue. He urged
her till she consented to study for a time
simply to crafty him. She tainted at the
first operation in the dissecting room. But
! in spite of herself she was interested. Her
| courage grew. Her acquiescence became
enthusiasm. She wed in devotion with the
young girls. With every piece of knowl-
| edge mastered she became exultaut as if
somebody had given her diamond She
saw something still in life TO look forward
t.. Ia June she will graduate. She is
going to Germany Immediately after to
walk the hospitals for year. When she
comes back she will praciice-she and her
husband. He was wise man. She is a
very happy woman.
Miss Mary A. Brigham. who has been
oh sen president of Mount Halyoke, sarpi,
nary and co4ege, may Jhake as tpronIfneM 4
| figure in the educational world as did Alice
Freeman, who resigned, the presidency of
Wellesley to marry Prof. Palmer. Miss
Brigham, who has been for many years
associate principal Of one of the best girls
schools in Brooklyn, tine venerable Prof
Vests Brooklyn flights seminary ID the
ideal woman TO presi 10 over the modern
fortunes Of the Oldest school for the higher
education Of women in New Ensla
Rather tall and finely proportloned in fig
ure. with fresh complexion, large kindly
brown eyes aud dark hair she is one to
whom girls instinctively turn and in whom
men and women iavoluntarily place conf
dence. A woman Of large, generous judg-
ment, unusual intelligence and wide culture,
thn ,shinL Mar.r- .I-aasl