The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-12
DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK.
THEY ARE INTERESTING ALWAYS,
AND ESPECIALLY NOW,

Bloom-Jenny Juae's sunday Even
ings-Virginia Penny's Recent Work,
and juliet Corson's Magazine.
New YoRK, Jan. l1-Mauy Of the
brightest women in the city rendezvous at
Jenny Juns's Sunday evenings. The
hostess. in her simple black lace gown,
looks Younger than her 81 years as she
stands under the p0rtiers between the par
lors with a smile for each who enters and
CLASH Of the hand. It Is more than gen
Grafton now since she began her newspaper
work in New York, paving the way for
other women, AMI her unfaiing kindness to
younger and struggling aspirantsl has
rallied about her a body guard that IS royal
as to a ousen. She has possessed always
the supreme grace of a woman, that OF
making friends.
It's Kate Sanborn whom she is greeting,
q gracious and wOmanly figure, warm
toned blonde, vellow-halred. Inc exponent
OF the wit and wisdom Of woman wac
Possesses 50 large a share OF botn herself IN
keeDing the circle about her in a ripple Of
laughter by her ta.e of the hapless chickens
10 whom she resigned her own bed when
she nursed them back to life on her farm.
Her go7Ynl When shall we be civilized
enough not to inquire, when ia woman's
name is mentioned. wh did she have onf
hiss Saa born wears black brocadsd silk and
lace with train.
She crosses the room to speak to Mrs.
Olive Thorne Miller, the student Of bird
life 1t always pleases me to fancy that
when tie coming woman appears the
woman 70 whose advent we look forward,
who shall be tall, strong, eep-bosomed,
clear-eved, the wholes0mely hea! by woman
evenly developed, 1t pleases my fancy to
imagine that sue VIII look not unlike Mrs.
Miller, whose white hair is pushed back
from eyes that are kindly aud straightfor-
ward, and from a face that should Of itself
be a tonic to the nervous or morbid
Mary Kyle Dallas comes IN quietly; a
woman who has written 5000 short so les,
most of them for the Ledger. Her hair is
white and curls ia rings about her forehead,
but her face is fresh and youthful, and her
figure. in its black silk frock, trim. Mrs.
Frank Leslie is a little late. She has had la
grippe ike all the rest Of US, and is still
almost too hoarse for conve satlon. Her
gown is white silk aud lace run with
ribbons, aud the pearls about her neck and
in her ears set of her piquant, almost
foreign beauty.
~ like to watch your daughter, she is so
pretty" somebody says to Mrs. Croly, as
round-cheeked Hebe with brown hair,
merry eyes, and a glow on her skin moves
through the rooms With tray of lemonade.
That is Vida Croly, who has been for a year
or two on the stage
The Soross women gather in little knots
TO discuss club questions Sometimes two
lntlmates introduce 10 one another their |
husbands; for it IS possible to applaud your
best friends best essays for half dozen
seasons without realizing that she possesses |
a marital appendage. The bright little |
woman in black is DIR. Emma Hgley, who
is a graduate, / believe, OF three medical |
schools, and has studied In most of the for |
eign dispensaries and hospitals. Sue is
going to give drawing room talks on art |
and literature when the annual Lenten
plunge into the deep waters of self-improve-
nent IS taken by women. Mrs Leon Har-
vier, who Is a bright and chatty writer, is
a vivacious conversationalis. also But.
hushl there is a blue-eyed young lady
from Ireland who is going TO sing, and |
after that Nettie Hooper will give us a reci-
tation.
Virginia Penny is woman who has de-
served better of the world than she has re-
ceived. A quarter of century ago 1.-THE |
Employnents Of Women" made something
of a sensation. 1t was the first book to dis. |
cuss extensively and intelligently sub
ject that has since engaged SO many pens.
AT the time of its pubhca ion there were |
women in the United States, and Miss |
Penny had spent her entire private fortune |
in investigating nearly 500 others which il |
seemed 70 her practicable and desirable for |
them TO pursue. Horace Greeley was
attracted by the volume, and gave
1t in the Tribune high praise. The |
press Of the country took up the |
theme and many women found the shaking |
of the bread-fruit tree directly facilitated |
by the discussions which we're aroused. |
Miss Penny was not a theorist. She had |
dropped her own employment to 90 about |
personally observing the work of men in
factories, workshops, stores, ETC., that she
might see what branches were light enough
to offer chances to their sisters dexterous
fingers. Her task was well accomplished
and made her widely known, but it brought |
her no money and 1t had swallowed her |
entire patrimony. More than that, it had
broken her health and threw her an Invalid
into the struggle which drained the best
e.oerges of the strong.
Miss Penny is living in New York this |
winter in strai,ened circumstances. bur
her OLD interest in tae work of her sex has
rot disappeared. She has written an article
on novel and unusual occupations of women
which will appear in the Annual Cyclo- |
pedid for 1890, aud which in a sense b inps
to date and supplements her former labors.
Many prominent New Workers, men and
women, are interesting themselves to obtain
for her place in the occupations depart
rnent of the census bureau at WASHINGTON
for though at an age when rest and fireside
comforts are the ortion of most women.
Miss Penny is without relatives, without a
home, in delicate health ard anxious for
nothing so much as suitable work, at which
she can provide herself maintenance.
About the failure of Lucy Hooper's plav.
"Helen's Inheritance" there may vet be
two opinions Mrs. Hooper's daughter
Nettie, who carried the title role on it's
81 1gle New York presentation, says that
Sc veral people want it, ana that she spends
b ar days cabling for instructions at a rate
so wild and reckless that if she had not the
freedom OF the wires she should sink all The
profits in transatlantic messages.
Miss Hooper is a success, whatever the
fnte of her mothers play. New York has
sten few prettier girls. Brought up largely
abroad, she speaks French as perfectly as |
English, but in face and manner she is
typically American. To be at once child |
Ii Ike and true woman of the world. to be |
cs9quettishly saucy and most sweetly court |
eous, TO alternate witty nothings with most |
stlge and sober periods, to be all things to !
al people, and most winsome Young |
thing the while, to lose self-possesSio1 |
never and 10 captivate always, these are |
not the character istics of the jeltpe de- |
TlotSette- If such a thing were possible |
Hiss Hooper combines the fresh blithesome |