Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-07
TOWN AIRS AND GRACES.
Women Editors Middle-Aged and Full OF
Common Sense, Not Girl Alumni.
Few Occupations Offer More Lucrative Field
Than Feminine Hotel Keeping-Wash
for the Hair-Hints
Copyrighted.

Written for the Gazette
The simmerin@ heat makes the wise
fee the city for the humid lawns of New
port or the cool Maine coast. The light
est of light raiment hangs sedHctiveIy in
the shop windows. Lace is heating for
all its open mesh, and one had sooner
wear a tennis shirt of cambric-wool than
a wool or silk lace bodice high in the
throat. So the coolest looking thing out
this morning is a blouse OF white washing
silk with pale blue lines, belted and worn
with a plain tie of the same silk in bow
at the collar. The waist was simplicity
itself-no tucks, no shocking, with
turn down collar and gathered at
the belt; but for hot weather, nothing
suits like the linen shirt-waist, such as
Miss Mary Booth used to wear at her ed
itoriaI desk in the Bazars office, where
she grew gray in five 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 little
sadly to go into the familiar rooms and
find newcomers in the chairs where
long. Mrs. Sangster, the new editor of
the Bazaar, known so long by her re-
ligious poems in the weekly papers, is
fair, matronly lady, well and rather
richly dressed, with suave manner, re-
Winding one of Helen Hunt Jackson.
Mrs. Sangster is trying to give the
Bazaar a more popular tone than it has
borne; for many years it has been the
standard Of fashionable society. Editors
of women s journals and women s de-
partments seem rather out of material to
keep up the interest they want. They
can have plenty of smart, sensational
articles from women s pens, but they are
not to be depended OH for facts, and peo-
pie grow tired of reading iridescent col
umns of paragraphs without foundation.
One who wrote dozen years ago or more
can remember very well how the corps
of women correspondents used to pass
around the charge of their managing
editors, which always was, "Be ac-
curate; get the facts right. Be brilliant
as you can, but state the facts cor
rectlv - Now it seems as if the word
was, "Get US up d good readable article
and let the facts take care of them
selves - Still it is the middleaged
women, and net the girl alumni, who are
the
sTANDBYs OF NEWSPAPER WORK.
A gratifying recognition of conscien-
tiOus talent is the accession Of Mrs. Celia
Logan Connolly TO the editorship of Bel
ford s magazine since Mr.. John Piatt s
The main charge of the
magazine has for months been in Celia
Logan s hands, whose long and arduOus
training in journalism has been the best
possible school for editing. She did fine
work on the Washington Capital under
Mr. Piatt, and the lines of her keen,
trenchant pen, signed or unsigned, dis
tingaish themselves from the common
run of newspaper work. The force and
finish of English culture is 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 10 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 teachers say Olive was
one of her very best scholars land a girl
of such serious views that the last, thing
to be expected of her was gong on the
stage. Celia was extraordinarily beau
tifui, in fine points OF figure and eX-
Iuisite color, of the antique Venus type.
Unfortunately TO this she added sensi-
Dility and taste for which the stage Of
tered poor cherishing. She is, beside, a
woman of the most generous heart and
hand, whose faithful kindness many a
me in difficulties among the authors
md actors guilds has reason devoutlY to
and it gladdens me to see
Ter looking once more fair and COM
portable in the Office chair she can
i'll better than most men. Mr.. Robert
8elford, the publisher himself, now
heads the magazine, which has hitherto
catered specially TO Western and South
,rn tastes. MIR. Bedford expresses him
elf decidedly that the public appreciate
/ higher order of literary style than they
Ire commonly treated to, and he is on
he lookout for work at once brilliant
md enduring. Nothing wears so well or
,ays better in the end than a clear liter
Try style food writing, not fine writing
Is generally known, but vigOr, freedom
nd picturesqueness combined.
FEMININE HOTEL KEEPING.
The smart women seem to be running
ummer hotels on the Jersey coast or in
he mountains, and we may expect to see
female hotel keepers organization
presently, Win clam DaheS ana eXCur-
ions at the end of the season. Really
where a woman has husband who can
10 the carving, and look after the
ervants when, she ism t around, few oc-
upations offer a more lucrative field.
People must live, and eat and be shell |
cred, and there isn't a boarding house
,eeper who half knows her business who |
sn I making at least good livelihood |
Y it. know one woman in a |
ouse with eleven rooms in a plain |
eighborhOod, who has a nice class |
+ people the year round, and says she |
an clear one thousand or one thousand |
wO hundred dollars a year above ex-
enses, and another who began in New |
ork four years since, little used to the |
usiness, and is now negotiating for |
ouse of fifty rooms to accommodate her |
Oarders. l also know a young society |
correspondent who grew tired of spending |
II his salary to pay his board at Long |
'ranCh hotels through the'season to have |
Dmething to write about, and took two
ouSes at Asbury park, hired a corps. of
5rvants, overlooked them himself and i
lade a thousand dollars above expeuses,k
three months. The best of it was he
ad no trouble with his heIp-the Irish
-ttties and Norahs knew they had to
lind their fine young employer, and the
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