Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-04-20
THREE SORTS OF WOMEN
To be s;een Almost Any Day on the Main
 Street of the Metropolis.

To be k;een Almost Any Day on the Main
 Street of the Metropolis.
 There are tAree distinct sorts of women to be seen on Broadway, which divides itself into t, ,lree distinct streams of females, streams which flow within definite limits and rarely ellcroach on each others terri tory. Women begin to be seen in num- bers on Broadway at about FOrty-fifth street. These women are New Workers pur ct simple On them are to be seen what are distirCisy New York styles. This is the ground tha fashion writers haunt for hints as to the styles of the coming season. They are slim, clean Gmbed, with hair as smooth as satin and cut in little pointed bangs that are ne2er curled and never have 8 hair ont of place. They wear very rich aad very simple clothes, with a fit and finish that speaks oS Paris, Lon- don and the very best dres,sDakers and tailors of this city. They never admit any eccentricities Of dress, and are so severely costumed that they considerably resemble each other and would scarcely be called beautiful so much as chic. This stream flows down to Sixteenth street and there it stops, absolutely and at once, and one never sees single woman of it below that part of town.
 AL HOAlliccutu CIOWu OI gers All along that thoroughfare tho strangers are mostly from the small tow us about New York, and provincialism has marked them for its own. Their clothes are echoes of past fashions, their bangs are f1amboyant, they carry little hand sachels and cluster about the shop win dows. At home against their own back ground they are very attractive looking, but against the radiant freshness and fine grooming of the New York girl they look not quite well kept. n
 After turning the Fourteenth street corner one begins to see the western and southern girls, who wear expensive mate- | rials that are well made but lack in style. l This autumn one recognizes these women l by the hehotrope gowns that New York | abandoned last spring. They are, as a | rule, extremely pretty in a picturesque, | individual fashion. Particularly is this | true of the middle aged women, who re- | tain the beauty of their figures wonder | fully, and who have, many of them, big, | soft dark eyes and thick gray curls around | their brows. They are neither so fair nor | so rosy as New York women.
 Below Eighth street the crowd changes | for a third time and are native New | Workers again. These are the women | who work for their living, and may be | seen in groups of two and three going | home anywhere between and 2 o'clock. l These women have a good looking sprink- | ling of elderly, meager females in dingy | black, with anxious faces and little black | bags in which they carry their lunch to the offices where they work. Many of | them are pretty and many young. Their | clothes are evidently selected with an eye | to wear, the purchases evidently being | had in mind whether the material would | show spots and dust and whether it was the same on both sides, so that it would | turn" Their general appearance shows that they have been hard at work all day | and have had meager toilet appliances to repair damages before coming out on the street. Many of them walk arm in arm. with little independent half masculint air that they have insensibly picked up from their employers, and jostle through the hurrying throngs of men without no- ticing them. They are pretty and lady like, as rule.-New York World