Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-25
THINGS SOME WOMEN DO.
GIRLS WHO AMUSE OTHERS IN
AMUSING THEMSELVES.

AMUSING THEMSELVES.
Some of Them Write for Newspapers and
Are Not Encouraged-Butso to Her
saddle--Uses of the Handbag What AN
Observer Notices in New York.
A late fad Of the New York girls is jour
nalsm. 1t is difficult to find young woman
in need of little pin money who does not
make a note Of every peculiar incident that
she is the observer of, with the view of send
ing it in to some newspaper, hoping wildly
that it will be printed and comfortable lit
tie check be returned in acknowledgment
The entertaining feature Of this freshest fem
mime excitement is that every girl who in
dulges in it is utterly sanguine that each
word she writes viii be eagerly accepted by
the spellbound editors, and that fame is rush
ing toward her with the speed of a well
equipped locomotive Unlike men, these as
pirants for journalistic laurels regard the
task of composing available newspaper read
ing about as seriously as they would that of
sewing on their buttons. In truth, / believe
they go about the literary exercise even more
ligh5ly than the domestic one. Journalism
with them is not n profession, but a pastime.
They are sure that they came into the world
fully equipped for it, and that it can be taken
up and enjoyed like a new novel.
DECLINED WITH THANKS"
met a girl the other day who has recently
been reduced TO a rather impecunious posi-
ton in the world
"oh, I'm all right" she said, ~ shall make
plenty of money!
When she was asked what baY, t,lo,, ,uoO fo,
enriching herself, she replied 81 am going
to begin writing for the newspapers next
week"
With q truly sublime faith, this girl is now
sending in manuscripts to all the newspaper
offices in New York. Ten days of toll have
brought in nothing. But her example, If it
could be held up before the hundreds of other
amateurs who are smothering the editors in
the unavailable pearls of their young fancies,
would not deter a single struggler from her
endeavor to reach the pinnacle of fortune and
fame
1t was at a reception in the rooms of a we'll
known litterateur the other night that rosy
bud of tempting sweetness, in a snowy gown,
dashed up to the editor Of a morning paper
who was present, and exclaimed: "Oh, Pm so
glad you are going to print my article to-
morrow"
''Have we something of yours9" asked the
editor.
eyes, indeed, replied the girl 81 mailed
it yesterday
The editor smiled and changed the subject;
but for some unexplained cause the beauty's
effusion did not see the light of the next day.
At her breakfast table she found an ominous
looking envelope, for which the servants told
her there was six cents extra postage to be
paid Tearing open the massive thing, that
most depressing of all inanmate objects, a
rejected manuscript, was laid stark and
awful before her. On little detached sin
that fluttered into her lap the most horrible
of all words to the young newspaper worker
burned into her eyes: "Declned with thanks. -
Still our girls persist in making their fortunes
as newspaper writers.
Equestrennes afoot have become common
sight in New York city, and they are to be
seen, in their variations of the conventional
horseback costume, walking to and from the
stables around Central park. They look like
those heroines which old fashioned noveists
and dramatsts used to put in their romances,
and who were ever being saved from deadly
perils by the opportune heroes. But these
New York maidens of the saddle are more
utilitarian. One of them was on a fractions
horse, and the beast pranced, SHE'D, reared,
plunged and seemed determined to throw her
off. She kept her seat in a most determined
manner At length the beast gave unmis-
taxable evidence that he was going to lie
down and roll over
"Helpl help" the girl cried, showing for
the first time any fright.
1t was no pale and poetic young man who
responded, but a burly park policeman, who
I,.,Y ola
the rein: "Get off, miss Why don't you get
OFF,"
She seemed strongly fixed in the saddle, and
even when she and the horse both lay fiat she
was inseparable from her seat.
"Are you glued fast9" the officer asked, as
he tugged at her arms
"No-not glued" she gasped, "only but
toned ON
And indeed she was. Determined not to be
thrown by her spirited steod, she had devised
a scheme of fastening herself to the saddle
But hereafter she will use it only ON a horse
that cayorts without lying down.
THE HANDY HANDBAG.
On the anniversary of your natal day some
one gives you handbag You never have
carried one, and you always thought that
you never would. 1t is weak, feminine fail
since this one has been given to you, You
think you will try it; it will hold your hand
kerchief-one's pocket does get out of the way
sometimes; and it is n good thing to have
ones handkerchief promptly available Then
the bag becomes handy for car fare. 1t is
embarrassing to poke and pry and struggle
and exclaim over trying to get at one s purse
usually stranded, like McGnty, in the bottom
of the hole your dressmater calls pocket
Besides change is bother in a pocketbook.
1t is easier just to make practice of drop
ping small money loose in the handbag, so
that you will have It handy and can gener-
ally bc sure of finding stray five cent piece
or penny there.
Presently the advantages of the bag for
holding an extra handkerchief and "another
pair of gloves occur to you Is is so handy,
If you mako up your mind suddenly to go to
matinee, TO have decent gloves ready and IA
nice clean handkerchief. 1t viii really be a
great idea to make habit of keeping an ex-
ira pair of gloves in the handbag. BY ar.
by you get in the way of dropping small bun
dies into the bag. The few yards of ruching
that you feel SO mean about having sent
you can really take without inconvenience to
yourself by just dropping it into the bag;
likewise the little book you would not have
bought except that your bag is $50 handy for
small thingsn and really holds so much with
out getting full. Dear mel You don't know
what you would do without it, though you
must get over the habit of putting your half
pound of candy in it. 1t spoils ones gloves so
to go fishing around a bag for a stray cent
and getting ones fingers all over candy