The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-01
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
They Grow More Interesting and
Various Day by Day.

tney Grow More Interesting and
Various Day by Day.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-The success of the
Ladies' Guide Association in London has in
duced the starting of similar project in
New York. The matter has been talked
about endlessly in the newspapers and out
OF them for the last year or two, and two
or three young women have even expert
mented with IL in a tlmid sort of way, but
until within fortnight no one has seized
with any firm grip on the opportunity.
Within few days, however, a clever
brooklyn woman, whose name is Mrs
Hardle, has opened a Ladies' Guide and
Cnaperon Bureau" at "a Union Square
II brought my wife with me on my trip
last spring." said the head of a western
business house in conversation recently.
I'VE were here a fortnight, and I was
busy every day and occaSio lally in the
evening. Molly sat in her room at the
hotel. and concluded that marriage was
failure.
81 have just had a houseful of guests
from Ohio" said the wife of a popular
clergyman.
Il knew they were anxious to see the city,
but my time was all full with previous
engagements, and / was positively unable
to go about with them. If 1 could have
found anybody to play hostess for me l
ohOuAu nave DBSn 30 CnauKIuI."
The district messenger boy is the usual
resort of the timid woman from out of
town. He calls for her at the hotel and Is
corts her to the dry goods stores. That is,
he goes skipping along ahead of her, par
tlculariy at crowded crossings, leaving her
to dodge the horses heads as best she is
able, or else he loiters behind in cheerful
converse with other messenger boys.
The new idea is TO substitute the lady
guide for the maSSanoar how and co
women OF education and refinement are
left dependent on their own resources with
out any business education to help them to
livelihood, that it is thought the evolu-
ton OF one more occupation may prove a
great gain.
Mrs. Hardie's plan is to furnish reliable
and experienced women who are accustomed
to shopping and know the prices of goods to
attend the young bride who has come to the
city to buy her trousseau, or the stranger of
any age or condition who is not posted as
to the places at which for the least money
to get the best things Young housekeepers.
both town jewellers and country people,
often wish for companion of artistic tastes
to help them choose furniture and
draperles, and the sending out of experts to
assist in the selection of musical instru-
ments is another scheme which NAV bear
good fruit before long.
The London bureau has proved COM
pletely successful, but an important part of
its work consists in sending lady guides
with tourists TO all points of interest, the
guides being engaged sometimes by the
week or fortnight to take American women
to Westminster, st. Paul's, the British
museum and the tower, such palaces and
great houses as are open or can be opened
by the almighty shilling, and to see that
they do" everything noteworthy in good
style. New York has less to offer in this
direction, but it is thought that ladies with
some knowledge of pictures can be sent
with strangers visiting the art galleries
and museums, while other ladies can take
out-of-town visitors to Bedloe's Island to
see the Liberty statue, to Trinity church
and to such lions as the city counts among
its attractions
One very practical feature is to be the
engaging OF rooms at hotels for women
travelling alone. Some hotels will not take
lone women without a recommendation.
and IN any case, if one telegraphs, one has
TO take the chance of finding the house full.
Another plan is to engage seats for concert
or theater by telegraph and to provide
chaperones, if desired, to accompany ladies
to places of amusement.
Like the Ladies' New York club. lust
organized, the comfort and convenience of
women is the end sought, and as they are
thrown more and more on their own re-
sources, the sex feminine becomes thor
oughly practical as to the means. Mrs.
Hardie is a very bright and business-like
woman, who will carry the project through
to success, If success is possible.
New York is to have a woman,s press
club. In point of fact, it has one already.
The preliminary meeting at the house of
Mrs. CrOlY (,JeQnie ,Junal last Sunday cat