The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-21
DAILY QUOTATIONS.
THE Do1Nas OF WOMEN FOLK.
In Crisp October, When the Winds
Blow and the Leaves Fall


Blow and the Leaves Fall.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The two Vassar
girls who have been running the Atlantic
Highlands Independent have given up their
journalistic venture. 1t is pity, because
they showed themselves possessed of gem
uine business energy. They bought out the
paper when one of them had year and
the other two years more to remain in
school, and when the sheet was on its last
legs, being the property of a man who got
it out regula rly for a few months at a time
until he had cate and drunk up the cash
subscriptions, when he allowed it to lapse
until he had fresh spasm Of energy and
could get fresh lot of people to subscribe.
I ey conducted it from Vassar, and the one
who sooner received her degree made haste
to sit on the editorial tripod in person t.
deliver the oracles until the other should ar
rive. They put up substantial brick
building, bought improved presses, ran
their own engine and made practical print
ers OF themselves, improving the paper so
materially that the report spread among
the Highlenders that there was plenty OF
money backing the girl editors and that it
wouldn't be of the least use for any body to
start in opposition. In reality Miss Ella
s. Leonard and Miss Caroline T.
| Lingle had no support but their own
| good stead, even when it came to doing
battle with 50 redoubtable a body as the
| Association for the Advancement of
| Women. This excellent organization has
| some unbusinesslike members, and one of
these happened two or three years ago to be
chairman OF committee on printing the
| papers read at the preceding annual con-
| gress The work was offered to the Job
| Office of the collega girls in Jersey, but not
| line of copy was furnished until a month
| after the date ON which 1T mad been stipu-
| lated the bulky published volumes should
be ready for distribution. Nevertheless
the chairman, in apologizing in convention
| for the delay in its issue saw fit to throw
| the blame on the printers and to make
| virtue of having placed the commission
| with "a struggling firm of women" Miss
| Leonard happened to be one of the chair
mans auditors, and much to that lady's sur
| prise very quietly but firmly indicated
| the business reputation of Leonard &
| Lingle The Independent fourished and
was expected to graduate in a year or two
from a weekly into daily, at least during
| the summer season. But Miss Liugle's
| health has been poor of late; she was quite
| i'll and she was obliged to take a long vac h
ton during the summer, and it seemed
best that the partnership should be dis
solved. 1t is pity. When 50 many
| young women are teaching and type-writ-
ing for next to nothing a successful vent
ure in another field was a wholesome ex-
ample.
Some one was saying the other day that
the reason why Harriet Hosmer, who is
now in this country, has produced nothing
noteworthy in sculpture for a long time
| past is that she has given herself over for
| years to the pursuit of something peril
ously like that tgniS f0tuus perpetual
motion. She devoted herself while in Eng
land at the house of Lady Ashburton TO the
invention of some mechanical continuance
which always was to be perfect in the
course of the next week or two. Meeting
Story, the sculptor, one afternoon she told
him that in q fortnight her machine would
be ready for exhibition. The time passed
but her mechanic had disappointed her,
something was not quite as it should be-
| Most of her fortune, this informant sur
missd, was eaten up by the machi O.,
| When Mrs. Hosmer came to America her
machine was to follow by the next steamer.
1t did not come and she took ship again and
| went back after it to England. What has
become of it since was point not eluci-
dated. Miss Hosmer has been staying much
| with Mrs Carr of Boston, who is a daugh-
| ter of the rich Mr.. Crow of st. Louis,
another of whose daughters has now Char
| lotte Cushman's villa.
| w ould 1t not nave Oeen 1unny II John
Lawson Sullivan had been made drawing
room attraction by the elite of Beacon Hill
and the Back Bays Thassame wealthy and
eccentric social leader whose religious en-
thusiams caused her TO do penance last Lent
by driving to church, going down on her
knees and scrubbing the steps and then
driving home, has been using her best eff
forts 70 pare the lions claws, draw hi, teeth
and put him through his tricks in parIor.
1t seems that on one occasion, memorable
| TO the lady, John LIS carriage stopped
| the way. The street was crowded with adj
mirers pressing for a sight Of the champion,
and her carriage was caught in the block
and could not proceed. When Sullivan
| heard that he was ilconveniencing a lady
he left his triunphal car, came 10 her
horses heads and forced n passage by main
strength through the throng. rhe ladyis
fancy was captlrei BY this BIZ OF chivary,
and, being rich enough q do as she pie Asses
without ques ion, she sent forthwith an inyi-
talon ~ her house b the Dig fellow. Snln-
van was puzg Cd a. ~ his line OF action
Perhaps hs felt al equal 10 a drawing room
A. ~ tn- balls u congress, but Boyle O'RsiAy
! iold him not - % aud be ftaid away. N
ms cad be- bal accepted and the blue hIooi
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