The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-15

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xrw YORK, June 14.-'Well, what do
there. anyhow is the question that
- men in every ten and three women in
sir ask when the name of Sorosis is
mentioned
7, the first place, you walk bravely in at
49,. Fifth avenue entrance to Delmonico's
and board the elevator. To the miId-man-
-sred Young man who seems to expect that
mark from you, you say, 'Sorosis floor, if
you please.
few minutes past noon.
Landing above, you find yourself among
,-,ots of women IN visiting dress, gloved
"a honneted Some have roses or punches
- white and fragrant syringa or blue
S.obelors' buttons at their belts or in their
Ids All are moving without haste UP
- down the broad corridors and in a d
a OF of doarways. Groups form, dissolve
I'D reform, for everybody is going away
sor the summer, and good-byes are being
sid aud plans talked over. There are many
a-,ests and YOU catch the phrases of intro
49, friend. Miss -, who is or "who
bss done" aud then follows an allusion
70 Miss IS last poem, play, pleasing
ricture. Pretty soon you get into a corner
with a delightful woman who isn't
caIebritv-this kind is so nice to talk to
and tell her that you think the best thing
in modern life is women's pleasure IN other
women's efforts
lasted for about an hour there Is a leisurely
mounting to the floor above, where long
table is laid in the middle of long room,
and small tables seating four each are
RANGED about the sides, and other tables
seating seven or eight are dotted in adjoin-
inc APARTMENTS. On some of the tables
there are flowers, and the Hveliest sort of
chat begins as the walters fly about serving
Sorosls lunch, which differs from other
lnnches in at least one particular.
First, there is bouillon, served in cups,
with rolls and butter. Then there is, per-
haps, a crab and an oyster pattle. Then
there is a chicken salad and croquette.
Then this is the original featurel there is
coffee, and after the coffee the ices.
II is a very dainty little lunch, and all
the time the June breeze is drifting through
| the lace curtains at your window, and some
body to your right is saying: my dear,
thew we're engaged, and they studied the
| tfreek Testament together evenings"
And it is a happy marriage"
1.-THE engagement was broken"
Indeed, it deserved to be-"
At your left you hear: "And yon sail
next week2 Take one or two of George
Meredith's books to read on the passage
Thackeray and other writer's of his epoch
rather overshadowed him, but if you don't
object to a certain almost German quaint
ness in his style, you will find his acquainU-
ance we'll worth cHltivating."
There is talk CT preachers. 1t would seem
that Robert Collyer and Edward Everett
Hale are leaders and teachers to most of
those who sit about you, and that many of
them were brought up on New England
Unitarianism, and saw many Of the phases
and vagaries of vegetarianism. A dear
white-haired lady speaks Of the Rev. Minot
Savage of Boston as "a promising young
man. and she adds, shut I've passed the
age when | pin my faith to the words
of young men. They've seen less of life
than II
There is little talk of Horace Mann and
of the wife of Hawthorne and of Catherine
Beecaer's strange book about Della Bacon,
which Henry Ward Beecher suppressed SO
quickly that very few copies got into circu-
lstion. Catherine was cracked, says the
white-haired lady, "else she wouldn't have
gone about such a washing Of milk pans"
Have you read the 'Kreutzer Scnatann
queries SOMEBODY DenlnQ.
II have read nothing of Tolstoi's but My
Religion and that comes as the work Of a
man in middle life who has found christian
ity after the excuses of his youth and halls
his discovery as almost original, something
that he can interpret newly"
"a friend of mine spent a day with
Tolstoi last summer" adds third lady.
Ike says the Russian novelist is such poor
eobeler that in that peasant labor of his he
ibotches his shoemaking. My friend found
on Ioistol's table just one pamphlet in En-
gsa; it was the manifesto of the Lebanon
Shakers"
II bought Shaker cloak at Lebanon last
1al," SO the talk rambles on, land when
wore 1t through the streets in Paris people
followed it. thlnk they tried to sketch it,
and hnally some friends tried to get copies.
But nobody can make those hoods. They've
tried to manufacture Shaker cloaks in New
YORK, put the hood part is always too much
. for them
In Edinburgh this past winter" you
near above the murmur of voices, "a pub
Isner was showing me his different styles
OF olndlngs. The richest he had, beautiful
Gark red leather. was 'for your great Amer
lean novelist Crawford. ,"
II have gone back to reading Scott"
vanity Fair is really the finest novel"
@ I'm experimenting with the modern
spanish story-tellers. They are wonder
July interesting"
/. And the walters have beads Of perspira-
uon on their foreheads, and the daisies
tucked into dainty bodies begin to droop
ana the black fan that hangs by q fan
Inaln about Mrs. M. Louise Thomas's waist
Kept f1uttering. Mrs. Thomas, by the
way Is wearing pink daisies. Did you ever
See any?
ARD BY and by everybody rises and goes
TTEIWyn-stalrs again to the famous ball room.
tuis Is three-quarters full of chairs and the
ouairS are arranged in arcs about table at
one end. Beside the table is a little dias
SGtered With rug. Mrs Croly pounds
y; I'm ~ ner gavel with some emphasis. There
Is Illness In Mrs. Ella Dietz CIymer's family
q dT she IS absent. Then there is a roll call
. " olneh's clubs always call the roll. Then
orste Is little music and recitation. Then
mo"ered-taced girl-tbere are not many
Souug girls i'll Sorosis, but some Of them
NJ No GSIlnctly decorative-tells how Julia
mdiu howe kissed her on both cheeks
mI9n she presented on behalf of the club
4 ship. "a
dis lnen thS topic of the day is presented for
4 So 3oUsSlon Two papers are read on each
4 tntF three speakers are pitted against
orla Sree and then the question is thrown
So Cach speaker amounts the little plat
e. eIl IN 4: and faces her audience. Sometimes
rs - smiling. and sometimes, if she is new
a tGliloer and it is her first experience, her
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