The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-05

elOrs if he had the n, aud another prophe-
1 sizes az wonea's aparUme houses IN ten
{ yclrs WIZ be almost IS numerous as bache-
/ lor buildings. fne truth II the army
/ girl BAG elOrS is constantly increasing, and
/ as not ali o.. them by any means are dspen-
dent on salaries for living, not neon
/ siierable proportion being made up II art.
( mu-ich and medical students with none
/ behind them, and even OF daughters OF
wealthy and fashionable families. tired Of
/ the society whirl, the lodging
/ house with its hopeless vul-
! gari V a ID uncomfortable restrictions becomes
a terror. and the dainty little Dor oth'
| apartments, renting for from $50 10 $40
/ III 1nth, unique IN their decoration and
/ affOrdilg an Independent home life, pat
| ent necessity.
! l have in mind a veritable Bohemian
/ haunt of the girl bachelor high up in a tall
/ apartment building on Wa ,hing5on flights,
/ overlooking tue Hudson, where are mum
! Der OF tiny rooms rented to colony OF
! girls from Wellesley and V4ssar and Am
| Arbor, who camp out il them the year
! round, hglt hearteiiy and artistic lily. s.
| snail are these ab .dI 6 PLACES that when
/ asked one OF their occupants how she liked her
nav quarters she an ,we-ed, not IN the ORR
/ ginal phrase but very APPLY: II call them
! egnthS. they're too snail for quarters"
! The glrl bachelors "eightls" are, perhaps,
| still there is a coy air If co MO in Single
wOman'S Land, whose inhabitants mai tain
| a constant but friendly rivalry in odd and
| original decorations. One room IS rem ark
bic chiefly for the amount of flowers which
| It's Owner coDtrives t. get ilCO it, making it
! appear as if she lived summer al winter
| In a conservatory. The chief orname It of
another is Bagdad curtains and a luxurious
di sipation of cushions of old brocades. A
| third has frieze of palm leaf fans finished
al ernately in Silver and gold. The furnl-
ture in every case is made up of odd bits
| picked up here and there, with swinging
iron lamps and plenty of books, etchings
aud waite cOlors. In every room may
| be seen the inevitable tea cups and many
are the exploring parties fro n tle world
who come to a girl bache RS afterlool tea
or evening ''at home" and pronounce the
! spot complete and artistic, as if fashioned
| for Nine. la Marquise
| These girl bachelors pair off more or less
in couples, but tie attachments which they
form for each other have a somewhat dit
| ferent quality from tle aver tge run of
! sch olgl / alteration. 1t is almost never
! That two occupy the same room. More fre
| q Iently three small roo MS re shared be-
| tween a couple, each having a sleeping
| room and the two a sitting room in COM
mon. Their occupations may be entirely
! diff rent; in one instance kno n to me a
|
partner girl who plays a typewriter by
| day ald studies art IN the evening 1t is
en- irely characJe isti; of this friendship
| which is so close tlat either would almost
! feel as if must have divorce before
she could m lrry that neither, i'll all prob
ability, knows the Icone of the o,her, and
| that they seldom meet except at dinner
time. Each attends strictly 30 her own
business, but reserves rehgiously one hour
| of tho day when, care LAID aside, she sits
| down with her companion to an appetZng
! little meal sent il from outside. aud re-
| lakes after hard work and before more
ork begins.
The girl bachelor is best studied in sum-
mer because so many recruits then enter
the ranks of the fraternity. Many young
women who spend tne winters quietly il the
! boSomS of their families separate from them
when the spring breakup begi is. 1t may
be that father and mother go to the seaside
while the daughter thinks that the air of
| the mountains is what she requires. 1t
may be that one part of the family travels
| while tue young woman who has been
SUI lying or reading assiduously prefers a
few weeks quiet rest in a country place
before undertaking the confusion and rout
| OF watering place tour. For whatever
reason the girl bachelor is i'll August abroad
in the ltnd, | know at least four cottages
IN the Catskils which are not only owned
D'AO "Sl ouiip AOA OcI OlG ue
signs of you G women. There it a cottage
at Averne which is he sum ner )me of a
| girl of p who takes to it a big dog aAd ca
ter,alnS IN it a succession OF girl friends
There is a cottage at Watch Hill and an
other at Atlantic Highlands whose 10 iants
are independent, lalghterloving girl bach
eorS. There Is a group Of three or four
young college girls who go every year to
Martha's Vineyard and set up their Lares
aud Pelates in an old house some niles
from Cottage City, where they ruSticate
and Bohemialize with none 10 c)nplail
There is a country hous up the Hudson
which is invariably vacated at the begin
ming of July by NADIA ne aud monsieur lUs
lawful owners, who be5ake themselves for a
month or more elsewhere, while malamois-
ellie their daughter asks in two other Young
women mor3 misc ievOus than herself and
together they picnic merrily. There is a
you * woman who is an artist who has a
rustic lodge of three rooms on the Long
Island shore to which She retireS for July
ald August ever season and paints there
in solitude assiduously. Sucl is the free
d )m of our summer life and such the uni
bachelor to take care Of herself at least as
succe Sfully as anyone can tlke care of her,
that i'll case of girls Of 20 or older the pro-
priety Of the thing is never questioned he
gil bachelor has asserted ner freed IN and
the co ..man sense and justice of according
, it to her are not denie l.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.