The morning news., 1889-03-10
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Items OF Interest Gathered in the
World Dedicated to Femininity.

Items OF Interest Gathered in the
World Dedicated TO Femininity.
New YORK, March 9.-One of the most
interesting movements projected in a long
tims is that which some Of the younger col
lege women are discussing. They propose
to attack some Of our sociological problems
on a very practical side. Their scheme is
nothing more nor less than to hire a house
i D the thick of the slums on the east side
and themselves live in it, and form a colony
of educated women to share the lot of tho
poor and to bring somewhat Of sweetness
| and light into their neignbors lives They
have thought out their project very care
fully. One of tie number must be house
holder, the other Will pay board aud will
go Oh with tine lines Of study they are pur-
suing, 50 as to be supplied with an cccupa-
tiOn and avoid the black looks cast at those
who seem to nave no object but to meddle
AS they become acquainted with the people
| about them they will begin TO gather social
clubs for the boys, the young women, the
mothers, for singing, game playing, practical
talks, amusement aud instruction. This
Ter the evening, charitable work will fill
much Of the day Miss jeanette Gurney
Fine who graduated in 1888 from Smith
college viii be the leader of the settlement,
and will bring 70 it a very intelligent and
practical interest in s0ciOlOgic questions. OF
the practicability and usefulness Of work by
such close and sympathetic contact
Rev Dr. Rainsford and Edward Everett
Hale speak highly, and have promised
their support to the college women who
would ike, if the money for the main
tenance OF the enterprise is forthcoming, to
put their courage 70 the test in a tew
! months time.
The plan suggests Toynbee hall, in East
London, where Oxford pen live among the
poor, only in New York it is college women,
not university men, who will form a com
fuuuity TO carry out the ideals Of sociology
by giving themselves with full devotion to
other peoples needs.
Would you believe it, Some Of the
daintiest housekeepers in America ara ac-
tTes-es
Perhaps you never took tea with Helen
Russell, who was j. NJ. HIPS leading lady
in the short-lived "Philip Hearnen com
pany. Then you don't know that she has
original recipes for an infinite variety Of
salads, and that when she has birthday she
scours the city for hungry family, packs
on the meal already prepared to them, puts
on a bib apron, bobs up her yellow hair in
a mob cap, goes into the kitchen aud pre-
pareS with her own fingers all the courses
for another dinner to set her round, little
white teeth into.
Maybe also You never happened into that
cosy apartment in West Forty-seventh
leading juvenile lady, pretty Georgia Cay
| van. You wouldn't forget the daintiness Of
It, the photographs, the etchings, the bits Of
| china, the odd little tables the delightful
| dining room well looked after by its mis-
tress, If once your eyes had rested on this
| quiet, thoroughly happy home where Miss
| Cayvan and her sister prove that two young
women can keep house in true domestic
| fashion without chaperon or man.
| Maybe you don't know Marie Burroughs,
who OF the stage is called Mrs. Louis
| Massen. If you did you would add to your
| acquaintance a happily married woman,
who IS as proud Of the solid old English oak
| furniture, the silver, the sconces, the guam
| titles of cut glass and other beautiful appur-
| tenances of her dining room, in pretty fat
| in the Albany, as she is of her trIumphs at
| the Madison Square
| Fanny Rice of the Casino, keeps house to
| perfection. Her husband is a dentist and
when the ''Yeomen of the Guardn went on
| the road she aid down the reins of govern
ment with premonitory symptoms of home
sickness Fanny Rice can make soup better
| than she can sing.
| Agnes Booth-Schoeffel lives in brown
stone house that is home. OF the stage
she is a thoroughly domestic woman and her
| suppers are renow red. There is no better
| CHINA in New York than what she keeps IN
the tall china cabinet in her dining room,
and no buffet in which the interest of guests
| is, and with reason, livelier.
Ada Somers has a husband and a red
beaded baby, and you couldn't persuade
any one of tnem to live in a hot9l, not
while Ada makes such picture pouring the
| tea.
Louise Dillon, the sweet pathetic hero
| inc Of IS eet Lavender" is another actress
who won't live IN hotel but insists on hav-
| ing home. Annie Russell, VINO was the
lovely Elaine" in Palmer's adappton Of
| Tennyson's poem, is a dainty woman who
plesldes very cleverly over the apartment
in which she keeps house with Mr.. Presbury,
| her artist husband, In the towering Chelsea
| building. Annie ONeill, of Harrigan's,
lives with her mother, but she looks domei-
| nc enough to set up an establishment of her
| own when she pours tea for callers on
| Thursdays and passes the toasted multi s.
| Kitty Cheatlam Of Days, Is another ac-
tress who lives with her mother
but looks her prettieSt behind tai! samo-
var. Sylvia Gerrish hates hotel life and
makes her fiat with its AZ &c ani Japanese
decorations, its dining room hung with
| photographs of her own taking, one of the
cosiest places in town. Marie Glover lives
at home and duS,s the parlUr for exercise Of
a morning
| A ieweer in New York has been reset
ting brooch which belongs to Mrs Harri-
/ son. l5 is a quaint Old piecs of jewelry
which is an heirloom in the Harrison family,
and lows the miniature OF a woman in COS
tune OF fifty years ago paint in pastel.
| There is faint smile on the shadOwy face,
shining out of a gayish halo and suggesting
the poetry which ought to surround an
ancestreSs more effecCually than our blank
modern photographs viii ever sdcceed.iI
doing. 10 is surrounded by narrow rim
of gold, and outside that come a filigree
setting studded with small pearls and gar
nets or rubies. The whole makes a bro1ch
too large tor preent notions, but FOR a belt
clasp or shoulder medallion, if the dress
makers persuade the Presidents wife into
any Of the recent dress ecceutlicities, it will
bs striking ornament
BOW many times has somebody said that
New York women had made up their minds
TO have clubhouse of their own. Thi,
umo it appears TO be a fact that some #
the wealthy women of the magic circle Of
The Astors have a band in tie project, and
that, very probably, an establishment on or
near Fifth avenue will in 20 very long
time ba running. The ambition of the
women eN ends to the full measure of the
comforts and luxuries enjoyed by club mea.
Reading and reception rooms, "A library
and lunch room ara already talked of. II
is said that considerable sum of money
has been raised towards tho where
a