The morning call., 1890-05-09
GIRLS FRIENDS.
Something About Four Weil-Known, In
terestng Women.

Something About Four WelI-Known, In
terest'ng Women.
Editor WomdnPs Column AforntRg Call:
There is great sewing of sheets aud stitching
Of pillow cases going on at every odd minute
among the toilers in factories and behind
counters, for the bedrooms OF the holiday
houses owned by the working girls societies are
being put in summer trim. There is nothing
pleasanter or more promising in tine city than
this busy happy cooperation and the success OF
the co-opefatOrS in having together what they
could not have separately. The tact and iudg-
ment which Miss Grace Dodge has displayed In
thus showing the workingg girls how to help
themselves is worthy OF notice, because IL is un-
usual. There are humber OF homes" at lhe
seaside and among the mountains now set up for
people who cannot afford 10 spend much for
summer Vacations but for the most part they
give point 10 the sigh Mr.. HowelIs put in The
mouth Of Annie kilburn, That only the poor
seem 10 know how 10 help the poor" Some OF
the houses opened Tor The benefit of the girls
friendly societies had empty rooms all last sum
mer, and do not know of one of those Tor teach
ers aud professional women which was not
stunned. The board Is usually as much as "a a
week. which Will secure woman board on terms
OF perfect equality IN plenty OF farnl-houses.
Why, then, should she be a beneficiary al a
home"
The Seidl Society has common sense about
such matters. This big organization, whose
head is Laura e. Holloway, proposes 10 take a
great many poor women 10 Brighton Beach this
summer. But instead OF having a committee aud
W.
Will simply distribute tickets TO It's members,
who Will use them when they invite women In
need OF days outing TO go 10 lie beach with
them as their guests in all privacy aud with due
honor.
Mrs. Robert Hoe had graceful way OF vaea
ton giving last year. She had cottage at Sea
CHI and Invited now a teacher, now all invalid
TO come aud visit her. For work In the city
have heard OF nothing which has touched inc
more IMAM the devotion OF little woman, with
out much money, who moved from comfortable
quarters and gave up bread-winning occupa-
ton tc be among tue tenement people aud opened
Tor neglected urchlns free Kindergarten. She
mas boy OF her own, lovely child, and 1t Is
picture Tor painter 10 see him rise from his sup
per In the plainly furnished, bare looking room
bread and moasses In hand but with the air of a
proud gentleman, TO point out to a visitor the
drawings on llllle blaek board as made by the
to give anything. This woman has also given
her child.
FOUR INTERESTING WOMEN.
Henrietta Russell, lie Delsartean, carries her
art notions so far as TO advocate inviting dinner
guests OF barnoniZing compilations so as TO be
able 10 spread the table with a cloth which shall
She was celebrating this plan 10 a foreign lady
OF rank the other evening Indeed" said her
listener, " in this democratic country l shan't
rest satisfied until Eve eaten oil the top Of
barrel without any cloth al all"
"A newspaper really makes the best CLOTH" re-
un il and ts Wacb 1o saw w ana
even Delsartean is not incapable OF comforta-
bic Bohemanism
l<ouioo LAWSUITS lD6 OTiglH Oh the
Harp" attracted considerable attention at the
Ienox Lyceum exhibit in aid of lie New York
Woman's Exchange. Miss Lawson's father was
long time professor In the Ohio Medical College
al Cincinnati, and she herself Is a young aud
promising artist whose studio in East Fifty.
ninth street Is rendezvous of art-lovlug people.
FrlD. Ida Bottle. laIe art instructor at Wellesley
and who sailed from New York last week To
marry German Baron III Posen, is very at
tracl1ve and viYacious woman who will be missed
AZ Inc giris' college. She painted fine portrait
oil Mrs. Lucy Stone. Vassar professors seem
susceptible 10 tile darts Of Cupid. There was
MISS Num-, the professor OF biology, of whom
II uxley piopbesied great things. She married a
Harvard professor. Then Alice Freeman mar
ried another, and now Erin. Bottle Will become
The Baroness Won Voss Of Posen.
Speaking OF college professors brings up DIR.
Emily Gregory, the one woman Instructor at
Barnard College, who is u slender. brown haired