The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-31

i--7scu II AZ III. very recently, Miss fT4e4-
rlchs Is dark, slender, large eyed, with ir-
regular but very attractive features, shaded
by wandering rings Of curly hair Though
In some sense pioneer of her sex in LONDON
newspaperdom, $ q Is not English by birth
or education, but a German woman who
spent year or two as a governess in Russia
and who has found her knowledge of the
Continental languages Of the greatest prac-
tlc2l value to ner since she came to London
anG TO the dingy office in Northumberland
street-Euglish papers do not pride them
selves on tile buildings | found her
She was the special correspondent TO- the
PdH Mall Gazette at Berlin at the time of
Blsmarcks resignation, and when the
debates on Heilgola1d began she was sent
OF TO that small but much discussed island
at an hours notice to write up the situation
noticed frequent and very respectful
references to her articles in the arguments
and leaders Of Uotl parties Miss Friedrichs
has been the London correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette, and has written much in
het own language for German papers and
magazines
She tells me that the outlook for women
in f lgllsh newspaperdom is encouraging.
Several women have entered the field as
free lances, though few are regularly
attached staff members. Her own ap-
prentices ip was not an easy one.
for she was not brought up more
than other girls to understand colonial
diff ,uties, EgVptiau debts, Indian fl ances
and such like uucanny subjects; but English
pressmen have held out a brotherly hand b
Ter, showing her the way over the steep
places and sending her home t. tend her tell
hollyhock, her SIX pausy plants, her twelve
Eeranlums and two fern roots in the garden
of her bit of a cottage at Wimbledon with
the feeling that lie Is worth living when
confidence aud friendliness breed confidence
and frlendlineSs in return. For the Est,
her sanctum is just big enough for a table,
two chairs and n picture. and from it goes
out work that will do much to open more
widely the door of her profession to women
The amount of charitable work done
wisely and most unwisely by women in q
country where one person in every thirty
five of tie population is a piuper is as
founding The "Englisnwoman's Year
Book" which is meinly a directory of In-
situations for the benefit of women usually
managed by women is Il bulky volume
East London and South London are fairly
honeyc embed by workers zealously irving
according to their lights, which sometimes
are only pickering rush lights, to ameliorate
the ndi ion of the Ieople. TIE amount of
prying into their affairs which the London
poor will stand, and the meekness with
which they viii be questioned and talked
to, even by the merely curious, out for an
at ernoon's Summing" surprises an
American.
Ten years ago" said lady in converse
ton, they would have thrown stones.
Some of the clergymel who went among
them first found ropes stretched across the
street to trip hem up, and fell victims tc
other such playful eccentricities."
One wonders at the absence at the present
day of such reminders of the ACCESSIBILITY OF
minding ones own business, when one see,
how misery is turned into a tourists specta-
Gle, but the milder manners of Mile End
road, Whitechapel, etc, probably testify G.
the efficacy of the work which the British
matron is carrying out in her own way
Mrs. Humphrey Wards Robert Esmere'
settlement is not doing much as YET it /,
not fairly uuder way. Something sub tan
tial may come of the noveist'S plan or may
not the point is one on which opinion seeml
to be divided
The most interesting work of which
have seen Anything is that Of Miss Cons
who last year received a urge number OF
votes for the office of alderman, who doe
much of the executive work of a college fol-
working men and women, and concert
hall for good, low-priced entertainments al
the Royal Victoria Hall, on the Waterloo
road, and the Women's University settle
ments, of which there are two in the poor
est quarters of London, patterned, like tn
| settlement of the college women in Rlving
ton st Get, New York, somewhat upo,
| TOyubee hall, the original settlement O
waivers tv men
The settlement at which spent yesterda,
morning in Nelson square, Sout wark, S
w, is the joint care or college women from
Oxfo.d and Cambridge; Gir5oid, Newn-
Tam, Lady Margaret Hail and Somervillt
hall being rep resented among the residents
The house is rather quaint old grays,on,
building in little square planted witt
trees, a green oasis III an arid desert Of dir
and gri ding p verify. The streets about il
are narrow alleyways running with fila
aud the taneme IS 50 crowded and 50 desti
tute of tho m st ordinary sanitary pro
visions that only the kindly sum rer climate
of London preserves the inhabitants from
the frig .tful mortality which in the heat
Of an American July or August
would infalnby ensue. The wall:
Of the pretty parlors are lined with
books belonging to the settlements' library
and upsta rs in the simply furnished morn
ing rooms | found three or four tall
blonde, b-own1ared, rosy young E1gIish-
Eo nen in residence for the summer season.
Miss Filth ". Angles, who was, believe
| Newman student, is the lady warden
ami she told very kind y something of theii
work and pro peco-. Four or five women
are always in residence, others come in &c
he On Saturdays or o. special evenings.
| Every thing that is lone is in the way Of
neighborly fren lliaess euticing the chill
dren to a playroOm opened for their beneit,
taking pariieiof them 10 the mu7eums or
to the parks f r cricke. aud active gam IS,
sord NJ children into the country i'll fresh
air part es, organizing ell bs for winter even
i1gs where boys ani girls draw and learn
wood carving. aud girls sew and Learn dress
making. starting classes in history, in sing
iug and in dancing; arranging lectures,
picture exhibitions, and this summer a
flower show. The children CT the neighbor-
hood were lo"ed to buy 20 ted plants i'll
the Jrng at tue lowest rates at which they
col.d be procured, and these plants tended
thro gholt the summer are shortly TO be
exhibited in competition for prizes at the
show How much go1d the settlement may
DO doing in Southwark nobody even in
Southwark or the settlement could know.
buC the spirit which animates it, of simple
good will, is refreshing after experience OF
the average 'clarity."
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
PRINTING.