The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-10
So the night goes. Who wouldn't be q
woman on election EVENING"

woman on election EVENING"
81 don't owe anybody anything" protest
ed one young woman physician TO another,
when gratitude 70 the older women who
first ventured into the thorny path of medi-
cine was suggested. 81 paid my fees, took
my course, I got my diploma and no thanks
70 any body" This is the kind Of Individual
who ought TO sat at the feet Of gentle Lucy
Stone and listen to some of her "reminiscences
OF the last half century. When Mary Lyon
came 10 the little Massachusetts, town
where Mrs. Stone was brought up she
found all the women and girls making
shirts for the Young Mems Educational
Society. The boys must go to school, but
who thought Of the girlsl The boys could
earn dollar a day. the girls a dollar
a week, when they taught school,
and Mrs. Stone dropped her thimble, rea-
sonlng very justly that the boys could
look out for themselves. When Harriet
Hosmer wanted instruction in anatomy to
help her In sculpture she went from medi-
cal college TO medical college throughout
the east and wandered as far as st. Louis
before any school agreed to take her in.
''She Doctors was the pleasant little term
applied TO the first women who practiced
medicine. When Abby Kelly went on the
lecture platform TO speak for the slave, a
preacher who noticed her sitting in his audi
ence, took as his text, This Jezebel is come
among u.s." and when Lucy Stone was to
speak for anti-slavery in Maiden, Mass, the
clergyman who announced the address did
1t after this wise: Il have been requested
by Mr.. Morey to say that at the town hall
at 3 o'clock this afternoon, a hen will try to
crow like cock. All who would like to
hear that kind of music will no doubt be ON
hand" lt is doubtful if the younger
women ever can appreciate through what
80 g.
action has been bought for them, but one
comes nearest to such understanding when
listening 10 one like Mrs. Stone, to whom
hepast is still present in mind and wildly
real.
The tendency of fashion seems setting
more strongly than ever toward the CLASH
cal revival, and as one result jewels are be-
ginning to be worn in masses as in the days
OF the splendors Of the empire, when to
please the grotesque taste of Josephine
women wore gold chains twining six and
seven times round the neck earrings with
three pendants, three or four bracelet on
each arm, rings on every finger, long gold
pins and lockets covered with diamonds.
jewelers. are entering, as might be
expected, heartily INTO the re-
VlVal and coronets, shoulder clasps and
girdles, canoes, medallions and brooches
are introduced with eclat to the fashionable
world. Pearls and diamonds are the favor
lite gems and gold chains hold the draperies
or the gown in graceful folds. just at
present the fancy in diamonds is TO have
them used as a setting for the exquisite
porcelain and enamel faces now SO pop
ular In designs copied after the court
jewels of the Louis XIV. and XIV. period,
or to employ them as a setting for other
stones. In other countries and other pc
RODS diamonds have been confined to
women OF some age and position. but in
free and independent America, in this year
or grace, S9, diamonds button the baby's
layette, shine on the dimpled fingers of the
toddling child, and pin the bonnet. buckle
the shoe, clasp the garter and fasten the
glrdle OF the debutante in her teens.
A few rules to govern the wearing
may not, therefore, be out of order.
With street costumes no diamonds are
allowable except for obviously useful pur-
poses. They may button the collar, fasten
the cuff, pin the hat in place, but may not
shine from the ears or flash from the cor
sage in any purely ornamental design. For
evening dress, Sinbad the Sailor never
dreamed of such glory in his valley of
diamonds as the stars, pendants and
quantity fashioned pins which make what
seems like a complete corsage of gems on
the gown of a fashionable woman.
Olive Thorne Miller the nature ritter, says
that one result of the depopulation of parts
OF New England is that the birds are grow
ing less familiar. In her summer vacation
In quiet part of the Berkshires she found
1t hard to study the habits of the feathered
folk she had come to watch, because instead
of building about houses as formerly, they
had withdrawn as civilization drew
away from them into the woods, and spe-
cies easily tanned and accustomed to men
had become wild and shy. Mrs. Miller
spends her winters In Brooklyn and is
member of Laura G. Holioway's Seldl
Society, by which was originated the letter
sent to Mayor Grant last week signed by
representatives of all the principal organi-
zations Of women in New York and Brook
Ign asking for the reappointment of Mrs.
Agnew and Miss Dodge on the School
Board.
A simple device for money making is
often more successful than an ambitious
scheme. A fragile young widow who has
barely kept body and soul together has run
upon streak of luck this fall because it
occurred to her to utilize common hemp
braided in fine strands and dyed in colors
for fancy work. She wove it into round
mats edged with a fringe. These are
caught with ribbons into baskets and hats
for holding jewels or feminine odds
and ends. They are so simple that child
can master the mystery Of the making, but
she was first in the field and made money.
Other women are making and selling the
English "melon" pillows. We cannot, of
course. put these to their proper use over
here, the end and aim of their existence in
the land of their nativity being an apology
for a head rest in the uncomfortable En-
glish railway cars, but we can and do manu-
facture them of bright-hued silks and
shaped like musk melon. for couches and
divans, and the first women who took them
to the fancy work counters were rewarded
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