Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-05-04
To be Seen Almost Any Day on the Main
 Street of the Metropolis.

Street of the Metropolis.
 There are 1Aree distinct sorts of women to be seen on Broadway, which divides itself into three distinct streams of females, streams which flow within definite limits and rarely encroach on each others terri tory. Women begin to be seen in num- bers on Broadway at about Forty-fifth street. These women are New Workers pur ct simple On them are to be seen what are distinctly New York styles This is the ground that fashion writers haunt for hints as to the styles of the coming season. They are slim, clean Gmbed, with hair as smooth as satin and cut in little pointed bangs that are never curled and never have hair out of place. They wear very rich and very simple clothes, with a fit and finish that speaks of Paris, Lon don and the very best dressmakers and tailors of this city. They never admit any eccentricities of dress, and are so severely costumed that they considerably resemble each other and would scarcely be called beautiful so much as chic. This stream flows down to Sixteenth street and there it stops, absolutely and at once, and one never sees single woman of it below that part of town.
 At Fourteenth begins a crowd of stran- gers. All along that thoroughfare the strangers are mostly from the small towns about New York, and provincialism has marked them for its own. Their clothes are echoes of past fashions, their bangs arc flamboyant, they carry little hand sachels and cluster about the shop win dows At home against their own back ground they are very attractive looking, but against the radiant freshness and fine grooming of the New York girl they look not quite well kept.
 After turning the Fourteenth street corner one begins to see the western and southern girls, who wear expensive mate rials that are well made but lack in style. This autumn one recognizes these women by the heliotrope gowns that New York abandoned last spring. They are, as a rule, extremely pretty in a picturesque, individual fashion. Particularly is this true of the middle aged women, who re- tain the beauty of their figures wonder fully, and who have, many of them, big, soft dark eyes and thick gray curls around their brows. They are neither so fair nor so rosy as New York women.
 Below Eighth street the crowd changes for a third time and are native New Workers again. These are the women who work for their living, and may be seen ln groups Of two and three going home anywhere between 4 and ' o'clock These women have good looking sprink ling of elderly, meager females in dingy black, with anxious faces and little black bags in which they carry their lunch to the offices where they work Many of them are pretty and many young. Their clothes arc evidently selected with an eye to wear, the purchases evidently being had in mind whether the material would show spots and dust and whether it was the same on both sides, so that it would ''turn." Their general appearance shows that they have been hard at work all day and have had meager toilet appliances to repair damages before coming out on the street. Many of them walk arm in arm with little independent half mascuIint air that they have insensibly picked up from their employers, and jostle through the hurrying throngs of men without mo- ticing them. They are pretty and lady like, as rule.-New York World