The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-01


them for the last year or two, aud tw,
or three young women have even ex
perimented with it in Q timid sort o
way, but until within fortnight no on
has seized with any firm grip on tn
opportunity. Within few days, how
ever. a clever Brooklyn woman who's
name 10 Mrs. Hardie. has opened
ladies Guide and Chaperone:Be
at "a Union Square.
II brought my wife with me on m,
trip Isst SPRING" said the head OF
western business house Ia conversation
recently.
I'VE were here fortnight, and wa
busy every day, and occasionally in tn
evening. Molly sat in her room at thu
hotel. and concluded marriage was
failure
II have just had houseful of guest
from Ohio, said the wife OF popula
clergyman.
II knew they were anxious to see thu
city, but my time was all full with pre-
yious engagements and was positivel,
unable TO go about with them. IL
could have found anybody to play host
ess for me l should have been 30 thank
full
The district messenger-boy is the
usual resort of the timid woman from
out Of town. He calls for her at the
hotel and escorts her to the dry goods
stores. That is, he goes skipping along
ahead of her, particularly at crowded
crossings, leaving her TO dodge tn,
horses heads as best she is able, or els'
he loiters behind in cheerful converse
with other messenger boys.
The new idea is TO substitute the lady
guide for the messenger boy. and 50
many women of education and refine
ment are left dependent on their owl
resources, without any business educa
ton 70 help them to livelihood, that
il is thought the evolution OF one more
occupation may prove great gain.
Mrs. Hardie's plan Is to furnish reli-
able and experienced women who are
accustomed to shopping and know the
prices Of goods to attend the young
bride, who has come 10 the city to buy
her trousseau, or the stranger OF any
age or condition who is not posted as to
the places ut which for the least money
10 get the best things. Young house
keepers, both town jewellers and coun
try people. often wish for companion
of artistic tastes to help them choose
furniture and draperies, and the send
ing out of experts to assist IN the selec'
ton of musical Instruments is anoti er
scheme which may bear good fruit be
fore long.
The London bureau has proved com
plstely successful, but an important
part Of its work consists in sending
lady guides with tourists TO all points
Of interest, the guides being engaged
sometimes by the week or fortnight to
take American women to Westminster
St. Paul's, the British Museum, and the
Tower, such palaces and great houses
as are open or can be opened by the
almighty shilling, and TO see that they
do" everything noteworthy III good
style. New York has less to offer IL
this direction. but it is thought that
ladies' with some knowledge Of pictures
can be sent with strangers visiting the
art galleries and museums, while Other
ladies can take out-of-town visitors tt
Bedlos's Island to see the Liberty
statue, to Trinity Church, and 20 such
lions as the city counts among Its at
fractions.
One very practical feature ia to be
the engaging OF rooms at hotels fol
women travelling alone. Some hotels
will not take lone women without
recommendation, and in any case il one
telegraphs one has to take the chance
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plan is to engage seats for concert OF
theatre by telegraph and to provide
chaperones, if desired. to accompany
ladies' 10 places of amusement.
Like the Ladies New York Club just
organized, the comfort AID conven
renee of women is the end sought. and
as they are thrown more and more on
their own resources, the sex feminine
become thoroughly practical as to the
means. Mrs. Hardie is a very brignl
and businsss-Iike woaaa, who viii
carry the project through to success, II
success is possible.
wONAN's PRESS CLUB.
New York IS to have a woman 8 press
club. la point of fact, 1t bas one al
ready. The preliminary meeting at the
house OF Mrs. Croly Jennie june, last
Sunday. settled the matter be
yond peradventure. Some forty news
paper women-most OF them young
women-answered the call. Mrs. Croly
herself has been newspaper writer TO-
a third of a century. and Grace Green
wood is smother pioneer who helped
the younger people organize. Mrs
Mary Mapes Dodge. Nrs. Eliza Archard
Conner, Gertrude Garrison. Fannle B'
Merrill. Miss Helen Watterson, or the
Evsniry Sun; Laura c. Holloway, and
long list OF others are among the orig
naT members. Neat year there Is
TO be a national convention of Wo
mems press clubs, and New hork
newspaper women are anxious that
their city ehould be the place OF meet.
ing. To bring about this object, OF
course, they must have a club OF their
own. The body of new spaper Women
in the city is constantly growing larger
and the new club will be a sort OF lie N
mine edition OF the fellow craft, where
all Of the guild viii seek relaxation
and interchange of ideas. NewspapeI
women are pIODtOiy tbo hV0N e'uS"
of their sex. and the project ID nailed
with consi4 cradle enthusiasm.
INTERESTING LADY ARTIST.
Miss Maria j. G. Beckett, wbose Stu
do is in the Sherwood building, is one
of the most interesting members OF the
artist colony. Miss Beckett has ma
tural Gift FOR rifle-shooting, and keeps
her skill with very little practice. OF
none At all. She is ah enthusiastic ca
noeist end camper also; and though
nowadays she il too much absorbed III
her art for recreation, gan shoot RAPID
in the Adirondacks like . hunter OF
veteran guide. Few painters 81 more
interchangeable. All through last winter
she rose early, went to church. break
tasted, and then painted, without inter
mission. till a o'clock dinner, re
Stunning work afterward, and remain
ing in front NJ the easel until
orr O'Clock In the morning. This
winter she is obliged 10 iDtermit seme'
what her devotion. but can hardly De
coaxed from her work while the light
remains. Her studio is simply fur
nished. Turkish rugs, Perslan EN-