The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-19
Interesting Personalities from Here
There and All Around the Field.

been entertaining for few days bright
little lady who crossed the stormy Atlantic
on shorter notice than the average woman
requires to get ready for a matinee. A
| young girl who was to meet her brother iu
America applied to the London Lady Guide
Association for a courier maid. The maid
was duly provided, but within an hour or
two OF the sailing Of the Cunarder declined
| for some reason to go on board the young
| girl appealed in distress to the lady guides,
and there being not a moment TO lose in
| sending out for another courier, Mrs. Hal,
who is one Of the two ladies who year ago
founded the association, put on her hat
| caught up her warmest wrap, and rather
than the facilities of the institution should
be impeached, announced her willingness to
! sail as chaperon.
Mrs. Hall, who remained only week in
| the city, waiting the return Of the Etruria
was entertained at a reception by the two
ladies who are introducing in New York
the experiment of lady guides. She told
! the Sorosis women, and others who met her
that in London new and remunerative
occupation had been opened for gentle
women without means, the very class
brought up to no money-making employ
ment, for which our bustling civilization
finds it hardest to provide.
The London association occupies four
story house in Cockspur street, painted
chocolate color, with its signs out in green
characters. Its business is large enough to
enable it to employ eight lady guides on
salaries, in addition to those whose names it
registers and sends for on occasion. 1t gives
its guides first, second or third-class certifi-
| Gates, according to their qualifications
| Those who pass the best examination in
history, science and art are f1rst-class
! guides, and are detailed TO attend tourists
to Westminster, St. Paul's, the British
museum, the tower, the palaces, and gal
lerieS, Other guides have special quahfica-
tions as shoppers, or couriers for travellers
or children.
Each guide wears bracelet, and Mrs.
| Hal showed hers with a genuine pride in
the badge To say the truth it was very ugly,
being much like the leather affairs in which
a season ago so many women carried their
watches, but it bore the name of the asso-
citation, and when observed by a London
| shopkeeper insures immediate and very re-
spectful attention to the party it conveys,
it being largely at the guides option to
bring her party there or take them to a
| rival establishment on any future expe-
| dition. London women have accepted the
guides as popular institution, and feel at
liberty to accost any woman who wears the
bracelet if they get bewildered, or want a
direction.
| L6 dSSDCldLlOu 1bS DI1uCu6u Oub HUH lJs
original intent in many ways, one of its
most original ideas being the furnishing of
| dressing rooms to women, who come from
the suburbs to attend, for instance, a ball.
| The evening toilet is sent in advance and
the lady VINO has no friends house to which
to betake herself, exchanges travelling for
dancing costume in a prettily appointed
apartment, adding the final beauty touches
| in perfect peace of mind
| cvDaoiolrxy ic fha of
women as professional dinner givers to take
the responsibility of entertaining off the
| shoulders of women who want to repay social
obligations but don't feel quite up to the de-
| tails of menus, music, decorations and other
fashionable etceteras. 1t provides reading
room and other club life conveniences, and
supplies women with attendants to concerts
| and theaters.
! One of the newest novelties is the sending
out of small parties of tourists for travel
| feature which the New York bureau will
| copy in all probability. One thing it does
is not yet talked of in this country; it pro-
vides chaperones for women who vote at
municipal elections-a concession of the new
regime to the old which sounds comical.
Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Ober, who are trying
| to naturalize the institution of lady guides
in America, have sent out an appeal to all
the women's clubs in the country to help
them establish this new means of self
support for women of education and refine
ment without incomes.
The New York Athletic Club has just
ornamented its rooms with relief in
bronze, fencer of the period of Louis
Quatorze, the work of Miss Louise Lawson,
tue sculptor, whose "Rhodian Boy" exhib-
tied year or two ago at Tiffany's, "Aya-
canora,n and other works, have ELECTED
much favorable criticism. The model who
posed for the work was, l believe, a young
reporter, who is an excellent fencer and a
model Of muscular development. Miss
| Lawson herself is an enthusiast with the
foils and went at the task con 0nlore. The
work is one Of spirit and boldness, and at
the same time of much delicacy.
Another woman sculptor, Mrs Josepha
| North, has just completed bust of Mrs.
Lille Devereaux Blake, which is a fine Dor
trait of the woman suffrage leader. Mrs.
North is now modelling the head and should
ers of one of the most blooming Of New
York's young society bellies.
1t is confidently expected that when Mrs
| Annie Jenness Miller gets her beauty school
fairly started, month or 50 from now, we
shall receive more definite information than
we even yet possess on the cultiva ion Of a
pretty figure and its suitable enwrapment in
q pretty gown. 4NTS. MllleTS slSUeT, MISS
Mabel Jenness, who is perhaps more devoted
than Mrs. Miller herself to the lovely gown
per se-beauty, you know, is its own excuse
for being, Independent of reform-never
shows herself in New York without show
ing also a toilet worth gazing on. There
was designed for her wardrobe recently an
empire gown of a deep rich yellow mousse
line de sole exquisitely embroidered in yell
low silks of a still deeper shade. The waist
was girdled by wide sash Of yellow crepe
de Chine worked with the rich tints used by
eastern needle-women. Another dress
recently finished for Miss Jenness
was a Greek gown of sapphire
blue cloth, the collar, revers and sleeves of
which were covered with delicate but
warm-hued Oriental tracery. With this
toilet goes large hat of sapphire blue felt,
trimmed with mass Of nodding feathers
and ostrich plumes. The band across the
front is q gold passementerie of Greek de-
sign. 1t will be a fine thing, won't it,
independent of gowns, if we ever evolve
the secret of taking a girl in hand while
she's little and plastic and so feeding and
exercising her as to turn her out beauty
when grownl Somebody revived the other
day the old query, is a woman ever really
happy who is not fair to look onl
a New York paper sent ont the other
dav woman reporter with Instructions TO
interview on a given topic sixty-hve
women, members of the ex-Four Hu 1dred.