The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
THE Do1NGs OF WOMEN FOLK.

leaders of the select four hundred only
serves to bring into greater prominence the
bright faces above the simple little gowns
of the business girls. Yesterday afternoon
between 5 and 6 o'clock, when stiff breeze
was blowing the tree tops in Trinity church
yard, bringing tonic whiffs of salt air from
river and bay, it was an interesting sight to
watch She hundreds, yes, thousands of
women moving simultaneously east and
west toward the ferries from Broadway.
They were a progressing lot of girls, neatly
booted and gloved, rOsy-cheekod, plump
and bright eyed, and, seen from behind
many one carried herself in way that
would have made YOU think her reveling
in the consciousness # the proud descent
that might belong to the daughter of hun
dred earls; but looked at eye to eye it ap-
peared that it was happy confidence in her
own breast winning Independence and not
hauteur that raised her head SO high. The
business girls moved along steadily, swiftly
and smoothly, not mnc!ng ike bread and
butter misses just out of boarding school,
and when a dandy glancel at one of them
with intent to get side look in return he
was apt to receive full firm glance that
astonished him so much it required min
ute and half for his face to relapse into
its normal vacuity again.
If you had heard one OF these women
rural trick i'll her tongue, for the city girls
take the horse cars and the elevated rail
roads, while many of these travellers were
going as far north as Sing Sing, as far
south and west as the Amboys and New
Brunswick, as far east as Flushing and
Garden City on Long Island. Nobody
would think of calling them prisoners of
poverty; the tall, slender blonde Gro ,ture in
pretty black and white lawn frock was the
buyer for the hardware department of a
big store; the girl with her was a confiden-
tial secretary and the bruno behind a clever
stenograpner and typewriter whose wages
run up to $50 weekly. There were cashiers
among them, telegraph and telephone opera
tors, clerks, heads of departments in the
great drygoods houses women who pay from
$75 to $3.50 year for Communication tickets
10 their homes in country towns. Tney
come of excellent families many of them,
and the golden rod and cardinal flowers
and wild caraway blossoms in their button
holes, and the whortleberfies, if you could
see them in their lunch boxes, speak elo-
quently Of the upland and meadow on which
their eyes look out night and morning
They are wholesome, well paid, happy
hearted girls who are revOlutionlZing
the down town district of counting rooms and
offices, and small wonder it is, under exist
ing conditions, that when the society girls
come home in the autumn they are apt to
find some hundreds of the pretty bust
ness girls buying trOussaaux and their own
fences hopelessly down. Young Edwin,
we'll hborn, well educated, with fine tastes
and habits, doesn't follow Angelina to
Saratoga, because he can't spare the time if
he is to look forward, by and by, to taking
on himself the responsibility of provid
ing those Empire gowns and Directory hats
which enhance the loneliness of the iore1
one in such an innocent but expensive de-
gree. Young Edwin leads a bachelors
summer life at the club and in his lodgings
waiting for his income to reach $1,000
year, and meanwhile he notes that Phyllis,
who was not brought up on Fifth avenue in
a mansion where luxurieS are necessities and
necessities luxuries, has fresh complex
ion, and when she's not too busy posting her
books, chats in pr ctlcal womanly way.
On the Saturday half-holiday he takes her
to see THE Burglar" or for a sail to Long
Branch or Manhattan, and by September
he finds he has turned Corydon and thinks
of Angelina no more.
The business girls are not apt to grow
into old maids, but pick out the smartest of
the men about them for husbands, fact
which speaks we'll for Edwin, even if it
leaves only the emptyheads or bad eggs
for Angelina, for the business girl is too
able bodied and too alert and confident to
enter into any alliance that does not prom
1856 Unusually we'll. ne DuSlu6SS RlIl is
wise and will not give up lightly the earn
ing of her own pea-porrldge. So take care,
Angelina, for the higher qualities Edwin
possesses the more likely will he be to find
favor in her eyes.
A summer luncheon given to Julia Mar
low, tie young actress, took place in a
house newly built overlooking the Hudson
above Riverside, which illus rates admir-
ably the tendency of the moment to revert
in arc mcclure and furnishings to the old
medlBval fortresses or colonial govern
ment mansions. Looking up at it as the
steamer sweeps by on the river one sees fine
old oaks and chestnuts browning a green
slope and half hiding mullioned windows
empowered IN ivy, and a round tower-like
facade recalling an Elizabethan baronial
dwelling. Climbing the winding road from
the landing, one is ushered into an oak
celled hall, with wooden rafters, high
backed wooden settees, brass bound chests
with hon-head handles, quaint pieces OF
armor, antiers and heads OF deer. Beyond
THIS is a huge reception room with mahog-
any woodwork and dark-stained yellow
walls, with high latticed windows and
heavy antique furniture that formed the
bridal outfit of the great grandmother of
the lady who gave the luncheon. The old
English fireplace with its high wooden man
wa NoA NCo WIFI dCunUuuS ldU llS DIdSS li6-
dogs hoaped with sweet fer1 and bay-1erry
and other scented greens. Quantity patterned
rugs from tie Orient we're strewn on the
polished floors, and the lunch was served on
small drop-leaf tables Of antique mahogany
black with age, about which the guests sat
IN nlgh-bacGed chairs, leaning their elbows
on howered chintZ cushions. Silver salvers
and long 1ecked ewers flashed from a last
century sideboard, and from a narrow
wooden shelf were taken down rows of old
time blue willow patterned platters.
The women of 1889 who sauntered in
from among the cinnamon roses and the
boys love and the bachelors buttons and
the old-fashioned garden flowers which we
aHect just now, in their scant clinging
skirts, with kerchiefs and long lace scarfs
Drawn about the shoulders and tied across
the bosom, with their silk sashes tied be-
tween the shoulder blades behind, their hair
colled simply on the back of the neck, their
Chree- button gloves their oval brooches and
grandmothers' reticules suspended from the
waist, If they were not Puritanic enough to
poe for those stifiiy starcheG DANES their
ancestresses, might at least have been the
beauties of the court of the English Georges
One table was decked with asters, one with
brilliant phloxes, one with bush hollyhocks
and one with sweet peas. The fantastic
music of The mandolin, flute, guitar and
harp sounded through the house and the
IaVors were thy miniatures If Marie An
ttolnette Charlotte Corday, Marie d. All
Jou, Mme. Recamier and a dozen other