The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-09
DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK
That CLAIM THE ATTENTION OF
The FEMININE WORLD.


concentrations in Silver and in
stationery-The arts and Articles
that are Employed in Spoons
Woman and Her Name.
CCopyrioht.)
New YORK, March s.-New York for
contrasts!
One night I am watching with unenvious
curiosity the tlszing lights of a fortune in
diamonds upon far, plump neck and the
more beautiful light in sparkling young
eyes; the next some newspaper errand takes
me to Cherry street. asd the fog fills the air
and the pavement is slippery with mud.
and forth to disport themselves in the dim
light of the blinking gas lamps come Sin
aud Youth and Innocence and Poverty and
Childhood. tumbling out.of the tall old
rookeries that line the street on either hand
to form before the eyes a panorama as
varied as masquerade and as sad as that
is gay.
Cherry street is born in misery under the
dark arches of the bridge and runs through
squalor and vice, and an occasional touch
Of happiness, snatched with difficulty from
untoward circumstances, till it dies in the
dark vortex of the East river. Its course
who frequent the dives just north of the
corner of New Chambers street. The
wheezing of an asthmatic violin from be-
hind the green baize swinging door COM
petes with dreary piano behind the next.
Once in while woman with dull eyes,
expressionless face, tumbled hair and rouged
cheeks stands in doorway, peerlng out
into the mist and the night. Looking cast
her, through the door half ajar, one sees
men and women drinking together, not
merrily, but sullenly, even if with noisy
laughter. Some of the girls are scarcely
more than children. One almost as large
brushes past you in the shadow where you
pause. She whispers to a companion at
her heels:
Did ye break the windows!"
''Yepn
chow many!'
There is a ring of real enjoyment in the
tone. What glorious thing it is to be in
very small and modest way tough"
Little girls sprawl on the pavement regard
less of the slime almost inch deep. Half the
men one meets are fighting drunk or
maudlin with vinous affection. Yet a
drunken woman is rarely seen. Cherry
street in this cannot compare with the
sights l have seen in the London slums.
Here in a dirty doorway are huddled to-
gether dozen hatless and bedraggled
women in neighDorly chat. In the next,
saddest sight of all, lover and his lass,
rain-sodden and squalid, but oblIvious of all
about them, look into each Others eyes and
say just about what at the very moment
some Prince Fortunatus and his princess
are saying in a gilded drawing room up
town. Beyond, an angry woman's
voice is shrieking out maledlctions against
some half-grown girls who are play
ing on a truck before her door,
and as you pass beyond sound OF her
cursings you come to a slightly more re-
spectacle quarter, where two well-dressed
women are entering with the air of being at
home at last in tenement only slightly less
wretched than those behind, and then there
Gawns upon you the disagreeable fact that
in New York people who could i'll any other
great city of the world have comfortable
homes are compelled to live in places such
as these. Money can buy good clothes, but
no money they can lay hands on will COM
mand comfortable quarters with rents at
their metropolitan attitudes.
The errand is done. Let's get away as
quickly as possible. It's pleasant uptown.
Although Mrs Mary E. Bryan has be-
come loyal New Yorker, as was her mani
fest duty, seeing that the city has shown
her warm hospitality and that Mr.. George
Munroe, the millionaire publisher, pays her
an exceptionally large salary for editing his
publications yet she forgets not that she
was born in Tallahassee, and in her cosy par
lor she has set up a sou hern corner, which
has become a rendezvous for old friends
from the other side of Mason and Dixon's
line Across this corner is placed couch,
and to its cushions, on any of Mrs. Bryan's
reception Evenings" the steps of dark-eyed
and graceful women from Dixie
involuntarily turn. 1t is withdrawn
little from the pleasant hustle
of conversation, and dropping wreaths of
the gray southern moss which garland the
wall behind it.stretch out their wraith-like
fingers and draw together, from every quar-
ter of the apartment, with unerring GER
tainty, their own. Hung about by the moss
is fine portrait of Jefferson Davis, and
above his heads an oil painting of Henry
w. Grady, just finished, which every south
erner of them all feels bound to inspect and
criticise The pictures of the two leaders
are draped in brown and gold, and about
the sofa beneath them "reminiscences Of
Beauvoir and of the days "befo' de wa" are
constantly exchanged. By many besides
the sofas occupants Mrs. Bryan is voted a
model hostess, for she clings to the pleasant
and hospitable old custom of introduc ng.
and by her merry tact and vivacity puts
each new conner Immediately at ease.
Vivacious is the term that suits both Mrs
Bryan's face and manner. She il of me-
dunn height, slender, and has quick black
eyes, an expressive mouth and a brainy
forehead which you seldom get glimpse Of
because it is covered by a mass of thick
dark hair. She is unc 9nventional. absent
minded, trimming over with warm-heart-
edness and keen sympathies She is a
woman OF strong Individuality, and her
swarmiug occupations never ruffle her
temper or irritate her nerves. do not re-
member that ever saw her when she did
rot wear smile. She conducted the SUNNI
South in Atlanta for ten years before Mum
roe offered her New York position. She
is an effective reciter of her own poems.
Somebody was saying the other day that
Mrs. o. B. Bunce is the only woman in New
York who would be capable of holding a
salon" This is the time of year when the
salon idea always revives. In Lent, for lack
of amusement, we fall back on the alleged
Conversations. Mrs. Bunce is credited with
peculiar tact IN bringing together people
who are congenial More than this, she keeps
a conscientious watch on her guests, and if
man and a woman show symptoms of tir-
ing Of one another's company, she provides
them expelitiously with other partners. In
this way kind of progressive conversation
party is maintained the entire evening.
The same devotion to duty on the part
Of a less tactful woman sometimes re-
suits disastrously. The idea that a
periodic shaking up is good fer
drawing room having once taken