The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-23
TIE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
New Manifestations Curious and In
teresting ofthe Ewig Weibliche.

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New Manifestations Curious and In
teresting of the Ewi9 Weibliche.
NEW YORK, March 22.-Since the in
1usnza gripped her almost at the moment
of her arrival in this country, Miss Amelia
B. Edwards has been very careful Of her
throat, and has made the journey from
hotel to lecture hall in every town in which
she has filled an engagement in q close car
riage, and wrapped in mantleS and mufflsrs
until, to casual observer, she bore no
small RESEMBLANCE to one of her favorite
mummies. During the pluckv campaign
she has made for the last two or three weeks
she has not removed all of her wrappings
on the stage, but has lectured with the folds
of an India shawl hiding the left arm,
which is carried in a sling. To speak
| night after night, making long railroad
journeys by day in spite of the pain of knit
ting bones is piece of heroism few women
| would be equal to, and lunch which was
| offered Miss Edwards in Brooklyn was
meant quite as much as q tribute to her
| courage as a farewell to the distinguished
Egyptian scholar. The taole was spread
| with white silk, embroidered with lotus
flowers in gold. In the middle was placed
| large bronze vase with a delicate band of
hieroglyphics about the lip. but filled with
| nothing more ancient or musty than daffo-
dis. The little sister of the hostess wore an
eastern-looking dress of rose-colored silk
| with an over garment of olive in which
you might have easily imagined her walk
ing yelled on a terraced roof amid a flock of
pigeons. Miss Edwards proved herself a
| capital raconteur and said she was going
away more than ever impressed with the
opportunities for new development of
womanhood set before the American girl.
Lent always brings something novel in
tha yav of lunchas The SWalinst t3avalOr,-
ment this season has Teen a white lunch at
a country house just up the Hudson at
which Mrs. CLEVELAND was the guest Of
honor. No frillS or frivols in the way of
silk or lace were seen on the dining table
Instead, the cloth was of the snowies5 linen
manufactured with wide border of cut
work embroidery, through which showed
the mahogany. \ great crystal bowl in
the middle OF the table was filed to over
flowing with Easter lilies. BY each plate
lay three or four sprigs of lily of the
valley tied with white ribbons. This
was all. Overplus of decoration has made
elegance possible for refined women only in
a resolute return to simplicity. The table
service was white Seyres, undecTated, but
so delicate and transparent that it was like
eating from white rose leaves The hostess
wore a princess gown of delicate green ben.
galine over a white undergown. There have
been a number of pussy willow lunches and
Will NC LllOIC Az bAle pr SOlSSb lOI5 -ueCkel
jugs of vivid orange yellow were filled with
tbs soft gray twigs of the willow, while the
tablecloth was a delicate gray linen en-
broidered with arabesques in orange.
Emily Faithful in all probability will
give up her visit to this country. Her
health is not robust and she breads the voy-
age. In private letter to a friend IN New
York she says that she hoped to be in
America by April or May at the latest, as
she wanted to spend the summer studying
the labor conditions of women in the cities,
and especially the opportunities, if any,
open in the west to English women depen-
dent on themseles and tempted to try ranch
ing rather than struggle along from hand
to mouth in Great Britain. But the effort
is likely to prove more than she feels equal
to.
Miss Alice c. Fletcher, who is connected
with the Museum of American Archa )logy
| at Harvard, and who has done so much t.
civilize the Omaha Indians, passes through
New York now and then. She is as interest
ing woman in conversation as one meets
in long succession of days She is below
medium hight, rather stout and slightly
lame, but her head is finely formed and
large, and her regular features give an i'm
preston of kindliness. energy and reserve
power. She wears simple black gowns,
coils her brown hair into heavy twist al
the nape of her neck and makes you feel at
once that she is a bright, busy woman who
knows the value of her time.
Some of the best interviewing in the Sun
is done by Miss Laura Stevens, who is a
bright girl from northern New York who
: has been in the city only two or three yea1 $.
/, Miss Stevens is good deal of a favorite
with Mr.. Chester >. Lord, who is quoted as
, saying that she was the first woman he ever
came across who "could write right up with
~ %a1r~ j
: | copy from women. Mrs. Schuyler van
> | Rensselaer,, the well-known writer on archi
lecture, furnishes articles in her specia
= lines and is on Mr.. Dana's pay rol
. as distinguished from the regular
. salary list of the Office. Mrs. Emily
> Battey is the SUMS fashion writer, anC
d should be remembered gratefully as a
woman who will take pity on stranger al
= a swell reception and speak to her withou
. an Introduction. Mrs. Battey is a small
. woman, who dresses in heavy mourning
3 The clever Dab" who is Mrs. Mallon, anc
= one of the wittiest conversationalists among
. women, is frequently called on by the SatI
to write up story. One of the prettiest
newspaper women in the city is Miss Fannie
e Matthews, who is reporter for the Pres.
S and Morning Journal and who has big
|, innocent eyes and light wavy hair. Mrs
o Crandall, who does society news for thu
4 lnofniRg Journal and the Herald, is
|
/ in her quaint Kate Greenaway gowns. Mrs
f Florence Ives of the Press has a quie
o graciousneSs in her bearing which tn,
e Woman's Press Club appreciated when il
t appointed her mistress of ceremonies Mis-
= Helen Watterson OF the EUening Sun i
v making newspaper name for herself as tn
d often-quoted woman About Town. On,
a of the most remarkable newspaper womei
Y of New York is Mrs Florence Finch Kelly
n whose novel, ION the Inside" is making
g just now something of a STIR Mrs. Kelly i
l. slight aad dark enough to be a Spaniard
It and is a woman of great directness anC
= force of character. She is the leading spiri
Q in little coterie of professional women whC
I think they have the pleasanuest club il
g town. Mrs. Julia Hayes-Percy of the JVoric
s is another fineJooking newspaper woman
: Mrs. Edith Sessions Upper is spending thu
a winter in the city aud writing chatty letters
: for out-of-town papers.
a The woman who puts you into mourning
}. is making herself indispensable. She ha
e long existed in England, but we have Only
Q Just imported her. A bereave1 family
o sends telegram. She appears, takes youi
% measures and those of tAe children. She
y procures the stuff for the mourning frock,
a A -, - . A..