The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-05
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK
Who Work and Play in the First DAYS
of the BUSY New Year.

THE DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK
VINO Work and Play in the First Days
of the Busy New Year.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4-One of the most
gorgeous gowns seen on the New York
stage this season is worn by Ada Rehan in
LAS You Like It, when "Rosalind" makes
her first appearance on the stage. It is a
combination Of soft pale blue crepe and
magnificent brocade, embroidered on the
left side from the shoulder to the ground
with gems that CLEAN at every
motion like sapphires, rubies and
diamonds. From each shoulder there
falls behind long graceful
drapery of blue plush that rests on the
heavy train. There is not one woman in a
thousand, no, not in ten thousand, who can
manage a train like Ada Rehan and her
exquisite grace makes picture fair to look
on. How many beautiful women-Mary
Anderson, Adelaide Nelson, Mrs. Langtry,
Modjeska. Rose Coghlan, and Margaret
Mather-have played ''RosalInd," and as
regards each of them we have asked in tur
how does she look in doublet and
hose! Ada Rehan wears a brown tunic
and brown silk fieshlings in the forest Of
Arden without laced boots or leggins, and
to say truth, the boyish role is not quite in
her line. Ada makes up better as a girl,
and above all girl in a lovely gown. 1t is
one of her duties in life, since women must
wear petticoats, to teach them to handle
skirts with thai chic that delightful charm,
that piquancy which she displays. Ada
Rehan was born for gowns.
The family skeleton has burst out of the
closet this winter aud establis led himself as
the chief ornament of the drawing room.
Have we read Ibsen until we have all grown
pessimistic, or why are those odious little
skull and croSsbones pigmies as common
about our apartments as teacups and sugar
bowls! put the question to a young man
in bric-a-brac shop yesterday, who was
selling assorted sizes as fast as RELAYS of
women could find counter position ''They're
to make merry with" he answered philo-
Sophically, and indeed we seem to have come
around againin the cycles of time to demand
the skeleton at the feast to urge on our low
for it is not many days since the coffee cup
which my hostess handed me at an seven
ing'' had one of the miserable little trayes-
ties of the end of humanity astride it's
edge, while another sat crossleggsd on my
cake and a third rolled out of my napkin.
Is it eat drink and be merry, for after us
comes the deluge, or when women take up
fashion is there no Significance beyond
the chase for novelty to be attached to
the whims Why, | saw diminutiye
skel eton on the top Of a Christmas tree.
The Woman's Press Club discussed the
qualities which go to make good re porter
the other afternoon. Jenny June put the
question, and Mrs. Frank Leslie, who sat
next her, replied, Hard work and orioi-
nality," as she looked up brightly with
smile; whereat pretty young girl over In
the corner, not year in the business, gazsd
on the pearls in Mrs. Leslie's ears and the
bracelets on her wrists, and wished half
audibly that all hard work might
meet with as much success and
sighed. Mrs. Leslie smiled again as if in
answer, and said that women made the
best reporters, because they had tact and
knew how to ask difficult questions. Then
rebelhous b off in another corner whis-
pered that if she had known women were
such superior beings she would have mar
ried one instead of man. This provoked
laugh from the unregenerate and Bah.
when Mrs. Croly looked inquiringly in her
direction, suggested innocenuly that a good
newspaper report ought to be like good
salad dressing, containing vinegar, but
with the sharpness smoothed by the oil
Miss Mary +. Seymour thought that a
reporter, to make success, must keep up
with the march of the times, to which Mrs.
Croly rejoined that rebellion against the
times was often necessary to self-respect.
for the times moved Just st D esent in SEN
view, she said, was an abomination. like
nothing so much as lot of knots in rope:
when you had been at the labor of untying
you had the rope for your pains.
Some one made the familiar remark that
women were more consci ntious in their
work than men. Bah with difficulty re-
strained herself, and Margaret Manton said
that women reporters often let their svn-
pathles run away with them, instancing a
murder trial in which woman's report
gave wholly d tferent color to case from
that presented in all other newspapers.
The question was raised of the value of
reporting as training for literary work,
and the prevailing opinion Stoned to be
that the blue pencil made it impossible TO
learn much beyond colorless brevity
That's the first requisite OF success said
a magazine editor, ITO conquer the vice of
expansion
YES" pouted the same little girl, under
her breath. who had admired Mrs. Leslie's
lewelry; "but we're the horny-handed
daughters Of toll over in this corner. we
write on space, and if We don't expand
where'U we get any butter, let alone iamm
We can't really collect our souls, said
Mrs. Croiy, a. tho i formal chat ended
until we have some tea
ID you know" said Bah, as the night
swallowed her up, 81 believe in mengn
What kind of piano lamp do YOU like |
best? 1t seems to me that the lamp is fast |
becoming overwhelming. | can't feel |
myself thoroughly at ease with its yellow |
silk and black lace petticoats dancing a |
pallet IN my face and its huge corsage |