Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-09
FEMININE BACHELORS.
Women who Live by Themselves an,
are Very Independent.

FEMININE BACHELORS.
Women who Live by Themselves and
are Very Independent.
From the New York Mail and Express
The feminine bachelor is one Of the most In
teresting features of life in an American sum-
mer. She ID the young woman who, on the
first night Of 1.-THE Burglar" at the Madison
Square theater, walked quietly, in g neat but
not conspicuous warm weather toilet, all alone
down to an isle seat In the front row Of orches-
ira chairs. She is the young woman who, when
she is invited to . hop at Nsrragansett Pier at
Atlantic City, rings your cottage bell modestly
but unabashed, party bag on arm. without
SO much as q lady's maid or q messenger boy
as escort to impress the servant who opens the
door, She is the young woman who tramps,
detective camera in hand, up and down the
mountain roads Of the Catskills and whom the
natives speak of with wonder and respect as the
'pretty girl from the city who has taken the
Hills of the Sky lodge and lives in it by her
| self" She is the young woman who, when in
New York, composedly takes her place at
French or Italian table dhote Of good class and
expects and receives every consideration,
though no male creature vouches for her re-
spectability, if she finds herself down town al /
| the young woman who says to you, keep your
seat sir; I've been seated all day." when you
rise to give her your place in horse car or ele-
waited train, and she says it SO simply, so po-
itely and withal in such a matter-of-course
tone that you waste no time urging her, but
settle back and open your newspaper.
her AVERAGE AGE.
The feminine bachelor is anywhere from nine
tesn years old to thirty-fve. She is at her best
| at about twenty-si1 to twenty-seven. She
usually dresses faultlessly, looks her prettiest
Is eminently social and companionable, has q
pleasant girlish voice and does not firt or ogle
or sigh or peacock herself when in mems COM
pany. She is like man in two things-frst
she dresses at home and never appears to think
of her clothes again until she changes them;
| second, she regards men as they do one another,
| in perfect equality and with perfect confidence
| She tells you of the talk she had yesterday on
the Long Branch steamer with that charming
young fellow Brown, and you know that to-
morrow she will be telling elderly and clever
Robinson Of her chat with you. She is always
interested in something and her combination
of femininity and business, womanhood and
earnestness, gentleness and strong purpose 10 .
very potent one.
THEY SOMETIMES PArR OFF.
These girl bachelors pair OF more or less in
| couples, but the attachments which they form
| for each other have a somewhat different quail
ton. 1t is almost never that two occupy the
same room. More frequently three small rooms
are shared between o couple, each having @
sleeping room and the two q sitting room in
common. Their occupations may be entirely
different; in one instance o small blonde news
paper reporter has for partner girl who plays
typewriter by day and studies art in the eve
ning 1t is entirely characteristic of this friend
ship, which is SO close that either would almost
feel as il she must have . divorce before she
could marry. that neither, in all probability,
knows the income of the other, and that they sell
dom meet except ct dinner time. Each attends
| strictly to her own business, but reserves re-
igiously one hour Of the day when, care laid
aside, she sits down with her companion to an
appetizing little meal sent in from outside, and
relaxes after hard work and before more work
begins.
The girl bachelor 10
BEST STUDIED IN SUMNER
because 90 many recruits then enter the ranks
Of the fraternity. Many young women who
spend the winters quietly in the bosoms Of
| their families separate from them when the
spring breakup begins. 1t may be that father
and mother 90 to the seaside while the daugh-
ter thinks that the air of the mountains il
what she requires; 1t may be that one part Of
the family travels while the young woman,
who has been studying or reading assiduously,
prefers few weeks rest in o country place be-
fore undertaking the confusion and rout Of Q
watering-place tour. For Whatever reason the
girl bachelor is in August abroad in the land
know at least four cottages in the Catskills
which are not only owned but were built espe-
cially for and after the designs of young
women. There is a cottage ut Averne which is
the summer home Of q girl OF twenty-five,
a succession Of girl friends. There is q cottage
at Watch Hill and another at Atlantic High
lands, whose tenants are independent laughter
loving girl bachelors. There 10 Q group Of
three or four young college girls who 60 every
year to Martha's Vineyard and set mp their
lares and penates In an old house some miles
from Cottage City, where they rusticate and
Bohemianize, with none to complain. There
il a country house up the Hudson which il in
variably vacated at the beginning Of July by
madame and monsieur its lawful owners, who
betake themselves for Q month or more else
where, while mademoiselle their daughter asks
in two other young women more mischievous
than herself and together they picnic merrily.
There is q young woman, who ID an artist,
who hiss . rustic lodge of three rooms on the
Long Island shore, TO which she retires for
July and August every season and paints there
in solitude assiduously. Such 10 the freedom
of our summer life and such the universal con-
fidence in the ability Of the girl bachelor to
any one can take care Of her, that in case Of
girls of twenty or older the propriety of the
thing 10 never questioned. The girl bachelor
has asserted her freedom and the common
denied
Cheap Travel for Grand Army Men.
In Milwaukee, Wis, there b jubilant feel
ing ct encsmpment headquarters owing 10 the
fact that the 800" road has made rate which
win capture all delegations coming from vest
Of 81 Paul, unless other roads mako . cut Il
Il hoped this win precipitass war that win
lead to the 1-cent rate.
The work Of laying out camps has been be-
gun and tents viii be pitched on Camp Badger,
which d TO comprise tract Of several acres
adjacent 70 upper Grand avenue. Wednesdays
mail was the heaviest yet received ct head
quarters, and consisted Of request. for accom-