Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-06
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TOWN AIRS AND GRACEs.
Something about Women and Topics
that Interest Them.

AOWN AifxS AND OHACES.
Something about Women and Topics
that Interest Them.
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The simmering heat makes the wise Zee the
city for the humid lawns Of Newport or the
cool Maine coast The iightest of light raj
ment hangs seductively in the shop windows.
Lace is heating, for all its open mesh. and one
had sooner wear tennis shirt Of cambric-wool
than wool or silk-lace bodice high in the
throat So the coolest-looking thing out this
morning is blouse Of white washing silk with
pale-blue lines, belted and worn with q plain
tie OF the same silk in bow at the collar The
waist was simplicity itself, no tucks, no
shocking. with a rundown collar and
gathered at the belt; but for hot weather moth
ing suits like the linen shirt-waist, such as
Miss Mary Booth used to wear at her editorial
desk in the Bazaar office, where she grew gray
In nve years. The fresh linen blouse, white
with narrow stripe, seems the thing Of all
Others for Office wear for professional women.
speaking OF the Bazaar, it strikes one not q lit
tie sadly to go into the familiar rooms and find
newcomers In the chairs where friendly we'll
known faces beamed long. Mrs. Sangster
the new editor Of the Bazaar, known 90 long by
her religious poems in the weekly papers, il a
fair matronly lady, well and rather rich dressed,
with suave manner, reminding one of Helen
Hunt jackson.
Mrs Sangster is trying to give the Bazaar
more popular tone than il has borne; for many
years it has been the standard of fashionable
society; Editors Of womens' journals and wo-
mems departments seem rather out of material
to keep up the interest they want. They can
have plenty OF smart, Sensational articles from
womens' pens, but they are not to be depended
on for facts, and people grow tired of reading
irldescent columns Of paragraphs without
years ago or more can remember
very well how the corps OF women correspond
ents used to pass around the charge Of their
managing editors, which always was, s'be &c
curate; get the facts right. Be brilliant as you
can, but state the facts correctly" Now. it
seems as II the word was, ''Get up q good read
able article and let the facts take care Of them
selves" Still, it is the middle-aged women,
and not the girl alumni who are the stand bys
OF newspaper work.
CELIA LOGAN.
gratifying recognition OF conscientious
talent is the accession Of Mrs Celia Logan
Connolly to the editorship of Belfords Maya
zine since MIR. Dom Piatt's resignation. The
main charge Of the magazine has for months
arduous training in journalism has been the
best possible school for editing. She did fine
work on the Washington Capital under Mr. Pratt
and the lines of her keen, trenchant pen. signed
or unsigned, distinguished them from the CON-
mon run of newspaper work. The force and
finish of English culture ia in her, and her
writing really ranks with the best that women
do In the foreign reviews. Her culture and
associations were of no mean sort to begin.
The Logan girls were carefully educated at
one OF the most select private schools at Col
iege hill. near Cincinnati, where have heard
their old teacher say Olive was one of
her very best scholars, and a
girl Of such serious views that the
last thing to be expected Of her was going on
the stage. Celia was extraordinarily beautiful,
In hne points Of figure and exquisite color of
| the antique Venus type. Unfortunately to this
she added sensibility and taste for which the
stage offered poor cherishing. She is besides a
woman OF the most generous heart and hand
whose faithful kindness many a one in Difficult
ties among the authors and actors guilds has
reason devoutly TO remember, and It gladdens
one to see her looking once more fair and
comfortable in the ofhce-chair she can
I'LL better than most men. Mr.. Robert
Belford, the publisher himself, now heads the
magazine, which has hitherto catered specially
to western and souther tastes. Mr. Bedford ex-
presses himself decidedly that the public sp-
preciate higher order of literary style than
they are commonly treated to, and he is on the
lookout for work at once brilliant and enduring
Nothing wears so well or pays better in the
not fine writing as generally known, but vigor,
freedom and picturesqueness combined
FEMININE HOTEL KEEPING.
The smart women seem to be running sum-
mer hotels on the Jersey coast or in the mount
aims, and we may expect to see female hotel
keepers organization presently, with clam
bakes and excursions at the end Of the season.
Really, where . woman has husband who can
do the carving and look after the servants
when she isn't around, few occupations offer a
more lucrative field. People must live and
eat and be sheltered, and there isn't
clearinghouse keeper who half
knows her business who isn't making
at least good livelihood by it. know one
woman in q house with eleven rooms in plain
neighborhood, who has q nice class Of people
the year round. and says she can clear o.. 600 or
81, 200 year above expenses, and another who
began in New York four years since little used
to the business, and IL now negotiating for
house OF fifty rooms to accommodate her board
ers. also know . young society CORE
spondent who grew tired Of spending all
his salary to pay his board at Long Branch
hotels through the season to have Something
to write about, and took two houses at Asbury
Park, hired . corps Of servants, overlooked
them himself and made thousand dollars
above expenses in three months. The best of
1t was be had no trouble with the help; the Kit
ties and Norahs knew they had to mind their
hne young employer, and the guests were taken
care OF ss never before. He had talent for
housekeeping, or l suppose we must call ii ex-
ecutive abilities Of no mean order.
xxPERNENTs IN SUMNER LIVING.
All sorts of experiments in summer living are
going on, but think the incest plan is the
party who club together on Q yacht, coasting
through the season, and having the run Of the
coolest weather and the best entertainments
polo ct Newport, yacht races at New London or
Marblehead, dances at Mount Desert, or camp
meeting at Ocean Grove. 1t isn't as cheap a.
boarding in . farmhouse in the mountains.
but 1t Is cheaper than living at big
hotels. How many canal boats are
fitted up for summer quarters we shall
know by the end Of the season. when their
stories will begin to come out in the magazines.
A very practical plan is that Of q newspaper
writer who wanted fresh air and town facili-
ties beside, and proposed to combine the two
BY taking top rooms down by the Battery,
where the see breeze from the harbor makes it
always pleasant where one don't get the smells
OF the streets and has Q marine view, with city
markets and restaurants to live from, the
libraries within fifteen minutes by the elevated
road, concerts on cool evenings when one
wants TO 60, and the picturesque comfort
Of Q studio home where it 10 most needed.
Breakfast in those quarters 10 . thing TO crave
invitation to-the windows full of flowers,
freshly sprinkled, the cool mattings, Japanese
bamboo portieres and willow furniture in the
spirit Of freshness, engrsvings, music and
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