The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
Whimsical and Notable Manifestations
in tho Feminine World.

Whimsical and Notable Manifestations
in tho Feminine World.
NEW York, March 15.--The query, do
nics women smoke, brings up the newest
and prettiest gown for them to smoke in.
DO you object to such ia begging OF the
question: Well, then, let us say the pref
tiest gown in which they may sit In the
smoking room. Women when they smoke
use cigarettes made Of Turk sh tobacco, and
accordingly tho smoking toilet is Turkish
robe. The first one / saw was in--no, I'm
not going TO tell you in whose studio. 1t
was a flowing skirt of dull blue silk worked
all over in gold. The designs were arabesques
With crescents and stars. There was loose
folded waist and a scarf Of white silk twisted
about it and edged with a gold fringe. Then
there was the most "fetchngn little round
JACKET in red also embroidered in gold, and
red cap--a fez-to keep the smoke from
getting into the hair and-yes, there was
cigarette to afford raison d'etre for all
this magnihcence
But do nice women smokel Well, to tell
the truth women who do SO are about as
thick as dandelion blooms in February. If
the winter is mild you find now and then
one. know little boy who gathered four
this year, and you might find as many
smoking women in the same period One
Of the incest women know smokes, but she
doesn't wear Turkish robe during the
operation. Her hair aud eyes are intensely
black and she makes quite a Cuban
picture. What does she do 1t for7
Ii you corner me l don't believe
she does do 1t once IN threa months.
and then she says it quiets her nerves--she
writes novels, and wnen the book is done
and tine proofs are read, and the publishers
have been argued with, the nerves need
quieting. Also she says her husband taught
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this take on her word for it, for though
know her quite intimately, never saw her
smoking. And that's the way with all the
smoking women. When you chase them
to their holes and dig them out you find
that the number Of pipes included in the
bric-a-brac Of the burrow furnishings has
been exaggerated considerably.
There have boon two notable exhibitions
recently Of pictures by women artists. The
first was the loan collection shown by the
Brooklyn Woman's Club on the occasion OF
its twenty-frst anniversary; the second was
the exhibit of the New York Woman's Art
Club at the Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Assoc
citation. The art club is a new organization.
The propriety of bringing together pictures
by women only was Questioned. The weak
nesses, it was claimed, would be accent
uated. and the strength lost, but the result
was such as to justify amply the projectors
Of the undertaking. A painter of high
rank was telling mo yesterday that
he included Rosina Emmett Sherwood
among the three individuals who
ssemed 10 him most thoroughly imbued
with the art spirit in this country. Dora
Wheeler's Penelope" painted last year, is
a wonderfully strong aud graceful compost
ton such women as Amanda Brewster
Sc ell, Ella Condie Lamb, khoda Holmes
Nichols, and Maria H. DIXON are proving
themselves most vigorous figure painters.
Maria Brooks y thoroughly capable expo
nsBt Of the school OF the British royal acad-