The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23

Miss Annie Laurens Dawes, the daughter
OF the Massachusetts senator, has condu ted
tue wednesday Morning Club, of which she
Is president through bout the summer as
usual at Pittsfed. This club, to belong to
which is one Of the towns principal social
honors, is perhaps the only organization
managed by women which recognizes pune
tuality as the chiefest virtue. Its sessions
begin st II o'clock a. m. promptly, aud kind
friends Of any lady who has secured an in
vitation always warn her that if she cannot
be on time she must, even with her hand on
the knob of the door. turn away. for
a Peri at the gate of Paradise is happier
than a Peri admitted to find her co npa l.
ions frowning because the hour mad struck
aud she interrupted their celestial joys.
Miss Dawes. who has done some valuable
historical writing, is power in Pittsfield
and GO suited with regard to every impor-
tant move.
Mrs. Charlotte T. Wilbour will be one of
the members of New York's literary circle
this winter. She was president of Sorosis
from 1869 to 1874 and parent of the scheme
which resulted in the formation Of the
Association for the Advancement of Wom-
e )" whic holds "Women's Congress- an
nually. In 1874 she went abroad, and has
Siace resided in Paris, passi her winters
in Egypt, Cairo or Alexa dria While her
husband has made reputation as an
Egyptnlogist she has devoted much time to
a stuiy of the conditions under which the
women of the Nile are living, and may
emb)dy the results of her Investigations in
some perma rent literary form. She will
remain in this country for some months
certainly, and Sorcsis is planning lunches
and other demonstrations in her honor.
IL e Foy-
of domestic economy, of which 1t is said
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Whitney will
become join patronesses, calls the attention
to the invesUiga ion of the troubles Of DOM
este service which the VasSar girls have
had for some time under way. At Vassar
the comfort of the home is considered
branch of social economy as impor ant
for study as the branches of outside labor
in the work hops and factories, and with
view of coming at the root of the difficult
ties under which SO many housekeepsrs and
homemakers labor three sets Of schedules
ere sent out last winter containing ques-
tons to be answered by mistreSSes, by
maids, and by schools in which manual
training is a part of the curriculum. To
these blanks others are now added aud
statistics from 1000 or 5000 American
households are desired. The question of
wages is one point, of course, knowledge
Of which is necessary. Are cooks, house
maids, laundresses, chambermaids and
mattresses paid less than shop girls or
hands in factories? Does the money question
enter into the servant girl problema The
statistics al eady collected at
Vsssar are said to show that the wage
issue is not an important factor.
Several ques ions on W ic stress Is laid
are addressed to mistresses and are meant
to bring out the number of h )urs per day
required of servants, the accommodations
given them as to separate rooms or b IDS
and sitting rooms in which to receive visi-
tors. Servants are asked whether they
would or would not be inclined to seek other
occupations if equal wages offered, the
average length of service in q place and
other similar questions. The lack of any
definite agreement as to the length of the
working day is the chief grievance thus
far brought out on the servants 81 le. The
girls say that if any number of hours dur
ing which they should work, leaving a
fixed period, however small, free, could be
fixed on they would be better satisfied to re-
main in our kitchens. 1t caunot be doubted
t at ventii .tion of the question is good
thing. ana any woman who is willing to
help in the accumul 4tion Of statistics can
get the schedules by writing to the depart
ment Of history ct Vassar.
Rose Terry Cook, the we'll known writer,
is ill at her home in Pittsfeld. She is able
TO ride out occasionally, but is confined the
greater part of the time to her room. She
is allowed to do We y little literary work,
but now and then receives a visitor whose
friendly face brightens the sick room. Save
for this, she lives in retirement, debating,
when she is in the mood for it, one of her
bright stories or essays.
Miss Emily Faithful is one Of the women
who may be present at the first annual
convention of the Women's Council of
America, to be held in Washington next
April. Miss Faithful is much Interested
in projects which have beeA formed from
time to time of colonizing some of Brita1n's
superfiuous women in the western states
and territories, and one of the objects of
her proposed visit is lid to be to look into
the promise Of such a scheme by examining
personally the market for women's labor
One party of women whom sac and her
friends helped to reach California year or
or two ago disappointed the matronS of the
Golden State by refusing to bring order
out Of choss in their kitchens,
for work other than domestic
SERVICE" and into the fortunes of
this party Miss Faithful will inquire partic-
| ularly. She will probably speak on the l.
OuSUEldl OUTLOOK LOT women az Tue cOlYen-
ton. Miss Faithful has lived since her re-
turn five years ago from her wanderings in
Colorado and California in an unpretending
tenement in depressing street of Plymouth
Grove, one of the least pretentious suburbs
| Of Manchester. Charlotte Robinson, who
is home art decorator by special appoint
ment to the queen, is her houseuate and
| has carefully planned the coy study which
is combinatlo of library and drawing
room. Miss Faithful, who spends eight
| hours of every day at her writing desk, is
very susceptible to noise, and 50 an unusual
ly thick carpet insures quiet. The tllel
fireplace has cream-colored owe" mantel
laden with old china, the book cases are full
of servceable volumes, and there are pretty
racks for newspapers and magazine. Koko,
the fo1terrier, and Graded, the dachshund
stretch thems Ives on the ''dog lounges. -
There is a palm grove in one corner Just
where tie eye rests naturally when it lances
| up from the writing table. The walls are
terra Gotta colorld, showing off the family
portraits. Whe l called on her last sum
mer sne was suffering much from asthma
and did not expect to make another Ameri-
can visit, but she is now looking forward
with considerable pleasure to the tour
which is planned but not definitely decided
on. Her voice, even when ill, is singularly
soft and melodious, in striking contrast to
the tones of many platform women.