Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-18

taD e or m r. ROBERT BONNER.
 quetry strewn with beautiful trifes for tho toilet in silver and crystal. All the rest of the furniture was of this rich inlay work; the chails and lounges were of the most luxurious sort, and the whole was as rich and dainty as the bedroom of young duchess. It delighted the women. whose imaginations were entirely cap tured by the idea of a silver bed, and one of Mir. Barrett's friends was showing through the place, that tho tragedian carried theso splendid, luxurious tastes of his into every depart ment of life. The ladies were very ap- prcciative of the civilities shown them by the club, for considerable curiosity had been aroused concerning the interior, and tho extreme exclusiveness of the rules has prevented the outside world from seeing anything of it.
 There Is rumor that there was violent opposition on the part of some of the members, headed 1t was said, by Angus tin Daily, to admitting the ladies at all, but those grumblers, who resented the little extra trouble incurred by giving the women this pleasure, werc overruled by the more gallant members, who did their duty manfully the greater part of tho day in the exercise of the most charming hospitality.
 A curious thing observable on this oc- casion was the reluctance of the &C., trcsses to make the acquaintance of the society women present, who showed ex- treme anxiety to meet the dramatic celebrities. "No," said Rose Coghlan, when approached on the subject of being presented to two young women who stood regarding her afar with curious eyes. What have l done that the Four Hundred should be brought down upon mo? You'll have to excuse me, please i; l haven't anythino to say to them nor they to me, and beside see over there an actress 1 haven't met for years and want to talk to her; goodbye"
 Georgia Cayvan was the only one who made any society acquaintances that day and she did it with more an air of sub- hitting to 1t out of suitability than any thing else. II didn't come here to be made peep show of for the Four Hun dred," said another actress. '1 am here to be amused and they don't amuse me. Sorry to be disobliging, but couldn't, really"
 The woman most stared at was Ada Rchan. for not one person in thou sand ever sees her except upon the stage. No ones face Is better known to theatergoers. with ali her tricks of voice and manner, but her photograph Is rarely seen in shops, and very few of all her admirers who frequent Daly's know how she looks without her blond wig and her paint and powder. She Is very tall-taller than most people realize who see her only be. l hind the footlights-and her hair Is not l blond at all, being nut brown. She | looks, on the whole, considerably | younger off the stage than upon 1t. de- | spite the fact that she who Is always | tirer aux Quartre epingles at night looks | In the day time as If she had been dressed with a pitchfork.
 You have heard no doubt of tho expert | ments made among the poor of London | by certain OXonians by which tho ph5si- 1 cal condition of society's outcasts Is to 1 be improved by mental and moral pro- | gress. This social experiment has been 1 much talked of In America. but until the present time has not been acted upon. and after all 1t is the women oolegians 1 who have taken 1t up. The Association | of Collegiate AlumnB has the matter in hand and Is about to start an American 1 roynbee hall in this city. It will be sit
 uated in Livingston street, just above | Grand, and members of the Association | of AlumnR, with their assistants, will go down and live amid the poverty, dirt and
 wretchedness of this neighborhood and l endeavor to prove that existence can be made tolerable even there. The associa- l tion numbers about l .0O0 members. grad | uates of the various colleges admitting
 women, and including college presidents, women doctors, dentists. Journalists and
 magazine writers, and non-professional
 women. They have the approval and aid
 of many powerful men and women, such
 as Rev. Dr. RainsfQrd, of St. Georges
 church; Edward Everett Hale. Miss
 Grace Dodge, influential among the
 working girls clubs and well known as q
 school commissioner; Mrs. Josephint
 Shaw-I,owell, of the state board of charl
 Nes. and Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi 0ree,
 ienerai interest Is felt in the matter hero
 CHARLIE T. BnowA.