The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-11
ROUND ABOUT GOTHAM
COSBY LETTER FROM THE
GREAT METROPOLIS.

Pretty Shop Cir',-Morc Genuinely Ar's
tocratic than the Snobs of the Iamou'
Four Hupdrcd-T, pical summer Lun
chcoi- Gcauty and Fashion.
l~1ec al Correspondence ofine Tines
NEW YORK. August 1.-The city
pala IS are boiled ana barred. and the
swell summer rock walks the pave
meut no more; but the absence of The
eorgeously .attired leaders of the select
four hundred only serves to bring into
gfcater prominence the bright faces
above the simple little gowns Of the
business girls. Yesterday afternCo on.
between and 'clOOk. when a stiff
little breeze was blowing the tree tops
IN Trinity church-yard. bringing tonic
Wniils Of salt ar from the river and
bav. IT was an interesting sight TO
watch the hundreds. yes. thousands Of
women moving simultaneously east
and west toward the ferries from
ItOadway. They were a progressing
Ut of girls. neatly booted and gloved.
rosy checked, plump and bright
eyed. and seen from be-
hDd many a one carried Der
sell in way that would have made
you think her revealing in the con-
sciousness of proud descent that might
balOng To the daughter of hundred
earls: but looked al eye 10 eye II APP
peaIed that it was a happy confidence
ia her own bread inning Indepen-
deuce. aud not hdu e.i1 that raised her
head so high. The business girls moved
along steadily. swiftly. and smoothly.
not mInciIg like bread-and- butter
misses lust out of a boarding -lcIOol,
ard when a dandy glanced at one of
them with intent TO get side look IN
return he was apt TO receive full, firm
glance that astonished him 80 much It
required minute and half for his |
face to relapse into its normal vaculty I
sgaiu.
II you bad heard one of these women /
speak YOU might possibly have detected .
"a rural trick IN her tongue. for the city .
gifls take the horse cars and the ele-
waited railroads, while many of these
travellers were going ias far North as
Sing Slug, as far South and West as the
AmDOys and New Brunswick. as far
cast as Flushing and Garden City on
Long Island. Nobody would think OF
calling them prisoners of poverty, the
tall slender, blonde creature in pretty
black and white lawn frOck was the
buver for the hardware department Of (
a big store: the girl with her was a con-
fidenlial secretary. and the brunette
bohind a clever stcnOgrapher and type
writer, whose wages run up TO $50
a week. There were cashiers
among them, telegraph and telephone -,
operators, CLERKS and heads of depart
ments IN the great dry goods houses, !,
women who pay from SO 10 $500 year :
for Communication tickets 80 their homes =
ia country towns. They come Of excel !,
lent families many of them. and the !,
golden rod add cardinal flowers and =
" It'd caraway blossoms in their button :
holes and the whortleberfies. if you -
could see them in their lunch boxes, -
speak eloquentiy OF the upland and =,
meadow on which their eyes looked out n
night and morning. =,
The business girls are not apt to grow -
INTO old maids. but pick out the smart -
fsi Of the meu about them Tor husbands,
.or the business girl l. TOO able-bodied -
md too alert and confident 10 enter !,
INTO any alliance that does not promise -
unusually well The business girl is -
wise, anu will not give up lightly the VI ~
az oiog OF her own pea p0rndge. ~
UMMER LUNCHEON TO JULIA MARLOwE. m,
A summer luncheon ven 10 Julia th
iafiO~e. The young actress, took place We
} house newly built overlooking the iu'
I8ds0B. above riverside, VIII ch Illus. a0
ateS admirably The tendency of the tao
omeDt 70 tstTt in Architecture aud MI
:. 4. -. 1
colonial Government mansions. toe