The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-31
ENGLISHW OMEN'S DOINGS
WHAT THE WORLD FEMININE
TALKS OFOVER THE SEA.

TALKS OFOVER THE SEA.
Some of the Peculiar Manners of the
British Matron-aospital Saturday in
London-A Woman stock Broker.
The Women's University Settlement
in South London.
CCopyrigAt)
LONDON, Aug. 2O.-Other chimes, other
manners, some of them interesting. A
month ago in the Isle of Man it surprised
me to see the women of a party OF English
tourists living en- pension come down TO
breakfast in their stockinged feet, PICK up
their shoes, cleaned by the 'bo)ss," from
the table in the nall, fetch them into the
dining room and pat them on in public,
elevating their fest upon chairs while they
bent over to fas en- the buttons. They were
very estimable ladies who thus pat their
toilet operations en- evidence, and this same
fralkneSs runs through much of English
life AID sometimes accOmp lisdes more than
me thOds of indlrection.
Hospital Saturday in London, for exam
ole, Is one of the Cit s most cha acteristic
spec1aclcs. The collection of funds Is in the
hand, of women, and iusteai of putting out
boxes as il New York, vine the charlta-
bly, disposed may drop their offerings, the
Lo Idol girls themselves turn out in Dattal-
ions. From early morniag until sunset
they fill the streets. There are thuusa DIS
of them. Each woman has a little table By
the curbstoue OF on corner. In Picca-
dllly or the Strand you may pass three
tables on q single block. each made CAV
with potte plants or touque.s of field pop
pies ana daisies. The girls who tent the
tables puC on white frocks ana engaging
smiles. They rattle their little re boxes in
he face of every pasSer, aud 1t costs a man
from SIX pence TO shilling - get to his
place of business, at the rate Of penny
for each pretty collector. There
are many devices for making The tables
enticiug. Perched on one sits a chubby
2-year-old munchlng bread and butter,
while she shakes gleefully her box half full
If copper. Toddling about another is a
small boy in sailor toys, who catches you
10y the knees, and, without toll VIII not let
you go by. At the next sits a group of
young womel at their embr idery, a ba--
terJ few can pass unscathed. Every time
your 'Dus tops box Is held up to 1t AMI a
nail of small coin jingles dow As the
af ernOol advances you see the in efa-i-
gable collectors lighting spirit lamps and
maiUng tea for themselves. pouring il iuUo
quaint little cups of decorated china. all in
the o en- air, and who could resist such all
day devotion!
The Euglishwoman who goes into bust
ness does with the same push and straight
forward energy. Some of the gentle Women
who piece out their incomes by trade snow
rare Intelligence III their methods Two
restaurants tor womel-thlngs often talked
OF in Nav York but never attarned-haVe
resulted from the efforts of Nine. Isabel to
provide attractive food at low rates for
her employees. Nine. Isabel is Mrs Cooper
Oakley, the GirUon girl who went into mil
linery and whatever may be said of her
b0nnels, her restaurants are very creditable
results OF university training. So pretty
are they and so dainty that, instead of look
ing fo' their patr mage wholly t. apprea-
tees aud imp overs" the I'D )rothiesn have
become tavorite resor Of shoppers, even
for Carriage" patrons with deep purses.
The larger of the Dorothies is in Oxford
street ana devotes its front shop to the sale
of reaches piled high on beds of fern fronds
apricots, grapes aud punches of golien rod !,
asters and heather. Behind this are the
parlors. where gentlemen are admitted
after O'Clock" where the decorations are
japanese Oh a warm red background, aud
where one may have o .e's choice of two or
three descriptions Of meat, nicely served by
blooming girls in white muslin aprons. with
vegetables, c0tfes and br ad for eightpence,
making simple meal, but one tnat would
be appreciated in any city where there is a
large body Of women who work for their
bread and who are repelled by the cheap
restaurants, which give them badly cooked
food, yet at prices higher than they can we'll
afford to pay.
The serving of luncheon is a bold device
Tor obtaining custom invented some time
ago by London dresslnakers and mllIners
This season the women artists have adopted
it. After couple Of hours of weGrisome
shopping your eye chances upon the well
come sign Of afternoon tea in the window
of Il pretty looking studio. You 60 in AID
find perhaps a charming little picture
gallery who o u sluaIhtly attired child,
whom YOU at onc9 set down for a model
dol g extra duty, Is han ii g about delight
full old-rasalOned glass pateS with cake
and b cad ard butter ami cream.
which you proceed to discuss, paving
for them trife, AID Wishing, it must
be confessed, that little variety
cOull be tr Jdu 3ed into tie biscuits aud
lea that Lo d >ners appear to dad so satisfy
ing, while you look at the water colors and
pastals, the painted photos and fire screens
with which You are surrounded, your visit
ending very probably IL n purchase, winch
it never would nave occurred TO YOU to make
had not your eve been al ured to lie surely
inspection during the progress of your me al
The English haven't tIth' of the French
genius or making people comforla bic, but
in ih3 interests of free trade the women are
advancing by rapid steps in that direction.
So far as range and varie y Of employ
ments are concerned America is still in
advance Of England, bu Englishw0men
hold tne Outpo51s tbev have taken with
wonderful vig)r and deer nation. Oily
eighty-eight women have taken medical de-
grees In Great Britain as against the
thousands in ne United States, aid women
are ly besilning t. find their say into
daily journalism; but | made. the other
DAY, the acquaintance of yellow CURED
individual who looks az if she might be a
young art student CT lndSc.a1, but who
spends her DAYS instead wa chlng the rise
and fall of stocks and shares in the London
exchange. Mss Amy L. Bell has bsen in
business az a stock uroxer for two .ars,
and they tell me at the Pail Mall Gazette
office tnat she l. a vert fairly successful one
Like 50 many OF the women who are
iuarse lily successful 10 the actlcal walks
of life, she is q university woman, though
her studies at Ne hnham we're cut short by
the illness of relative, to nurse whom she
gave up the scholarship 5 g b II woa.
Miss bell IS young and far, With rOund9i
features that show 40 traces # wo ny over
the state of the marke. Her office Is very
conf 'rtaoe sort of a sanctum, wiJh good
showing of paper litter q III bulky volumes
A clerk of her own sex writes i the outer
room, and the inner ne she Id me she
was born IN Sian, whore her father and
mo,he' both died, leaving her TO be sent