Telegram-herald., 1890-03-14
DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK.
Affairs that Claim Attention of
the Feminine World
nrs- MAY Z. BEy4E's sO0thsr1 -
GsrssE-E4shieEs - silver 4Aa ss.-
sfsasry 1ks Arts 4Ea Arttness
Tk4k are pIoysd IN spss4..


efrand taxes ms - Cherry - sss a.
tie fog els the air aad tAe pavement
slippery nitb aud and forth u dlspof
themselves IN ne aim As0s of u
blinking gas lamps come Sln knd out.
@ad Innocence aal Poverty 4nd Cell-
hood. l4m bling 0at of the tai Ga rock
egies th2t line tAe street on elite
hand 70 form before TIE eyes pano
rama "a varied Gs = As. aerAde a.d -
SAL - that i gay.
berry streeI Is born IN misery under
tie dark arches Of he bridge and runs
through s4ualor and vice aud an ooess-
ionsl touch Of happiness, snatebet vita
oitcalty ffcm untoward circumstances,
till II dies in The dark vortex OF the
last River. It's course IS typical OF the
lives OF the "barmAids" who frequent
the dives Just north Of the corner Of
New Cham bers street Tie wheeling
Of an AsthmatIc violin from behind one
green baize swinging door completes
with a dreSry piano behind the next.
Once in while woman with dull
eyes, expressionless face, tumbled hair
and rOuged cheeks stands in q doorway,
peering out into the mist and the night
Looking past her, through the door
half ajar, one sees men and women
drinking together, not merrily but sui
lenly, even II 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 compaD-
ION at her heels:
Did 20 break the windows?"
Yep"
How many2"
There is ring OF real enjoyment in
the tone What gloriocs thing II IS
to be in very small and modest way 4
tough" Little girls sprawl on the
pavement regardless OF the slime al
most inch deep. Half the men one
meets are fighting drunk or maudlin
with Vinous affection. Yet drunken
woman is rarely seen. Cherry street in
this cannot compare with the sights l
have seen in the London slums.
Here in dirty doorway are huddled
toge ther a dozen hatless and bedraggled
women in neigbOrly chat. In the next.
saGdest sight OF all, lover and his
lass, rain-sodden and qualid, but OBJ
livious of all about them, look into
each othor's eyes and say just about
what a. the very moment some Prince
Fortunatus and his Princess are saying
in a gilded drawing room uptown.
Beyond, an angry woman's voice is
shrieking out maledictions against
some half-grown girls who are playing
on truck before her door. and as you
pass beyond sound of her cuTsings you
come 10 a slightly more respectable
quarter, where two we'll dressed women
are entering with the air of being Al
home at last, tenement only slightly
less wretchad than those behind, and
then there dawns upon you the dis
agreeable fact that in New York, peo-
pie who could in 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 command comfortable quarters
with rents at their metropolitan atti-
tudes.
The errand is done. Let's get away
as quic kly as possible. It's pleasanter
uptown.
How many pretty things there are for
the woman with SO. 900 a year and
carriage. Take spoons. Its in no way
necessary TO be born with one even OF
tie most precious metal, in your mouth,
but II one could only be sure OF having,
say coffee spoon, with handle sur
mounted by daisy enamelled in colors
to put into ones mouth after one was
born.
spoons are assuming individuality.
People who are fastidious are beginning
70 discriminate between them according
TO their decorations for different courses
at table almost as carefully as they do
between their chinas. The soup ladle
is apt this winter 10 have for it's bowl
the semblance Of futed sholl or
fairy boat OF the inverted back OF tur-
tie. Sometimes it has designs OF round.
nodding tomatoes etched on the handle
Bonbon spoons, ice cream spoons and
coffee spoons are the duchesses and
countesses Of the court OF spoondon.
The bonbon spoons affects the ANTIQUE.
II has large. circular and almost fat
bowl. with ashort handle expanded into
a large. fat and quantity fashioned
top. sometimes reprod uced exactly from
medieval French and English models.
and always With a wealth o. curious de-
tail work expended on its wreathing
and twisting patterns. To be dainty
and lavishly costly is the object n life
OF the tiny coffee spoon. These ends
are accomplished by turning the
handles into flower stems. each sur
mounted By different posy. In set
just finished for wealthy lady. the
bowls are - antique silver set in a
narro9 gold rim The buttercup. the
dandelion. the field sstor. the violet
the daisy. pink and other native flow
ers. are mounted On the handles. and
enanclled in colOrs. Goid and silver
are twisted together 20 form the stems
The cream ladie corresponding has iss
bovl fashioned ia the shaps OF avid
rose
Cofee spoons with miniature monkeys
for heads after the uo % ~ tie oid
Apostle spoons are favorltes iust at
present a. she afternoon tea spreads of
tothsm e bachelor.
sugsr touSs are being n sds 90 initiate
terseys claws
There are spoons desi 4noa 40 ciassi-
calv taat You sss rq4r sop STA one
decorated wlth Neaas born of ere sea.
who IS drawn ia hef she'll BY ioirhlns
.at up 7oar rasst Fith a knife or esicb
Hercnies ia captasinF see sid boar.