The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-25
What One Woman SECS

''Ah! but one meets with queer people in
vanity Fair, she said. as she dropped into the
opposite seat at a luncheon recently. she was
reporter on a weekly. says the Chicago Aelos,
whose columns contain mora balderdash than
did the Court Circular IN the days of Thacke-
ray. These are busy and trying days" she
continued Busy because the fashionable
hours are filed 70 Overlooking with weddings,
receptions. pink teas. yellow mncheons and
green dinners. Trying. because the ranks Of
upper-tendom are crowded with people utterly
barren Of courtesy. and because l have bsen
alternately chilled by the outer air and par
boiled in overhead rooms
Ny first visit was to Mrs. Jabsz Bobtaii's.
where parlor ENTERTAINMENT was in pro ress
for the benefit Of the Home for Decayed Spin-
sters. The sunshine streamed through lace and
silken draperies and lighted up rare pictures
ami br1c-e~brac; the foot sunk deep down Into
velvet carpets, and everywhere was such luxury
that 1t seemed TO me even l would become
charitable In such an abode. The mistress of it
all, with my card in her hand. came forward
scraRgy, faded dowdy in a snuff colored
gown. Why will women with antique oak faces
wear snuff color? Raising her glasses she sur
Veyed me with an lmpertinence that was sub
lime, considering that it is less tnan fifteen
years since her husband made his great deal in
junk, and she used to do her own work.
dislike very much figuring in newspapers,
SAID She. 1t gives one such cheap notoriety.
However, you may write this up, only don't
de scribe it as fashionable reception. 1t is Just
Tor charity, Of which this will give you full
explanation
then added And take your card back. don't
want it. IL will do for some one else
Regaining the street tore the card into tiny
bits as savagely as though it were Mrs. Bobtail
In person, and after making note 70 the effect
that this charming and philanthropic woman
had thrown open her elegant parlors for tue
benefit OF noble charity, ETC., hurried to the
scene Of the Cnimney-Potr nuptials.
There l was turned over to Miss FitzZrum-
BILE, whose position in the house l could not
quite determine, but who favored me with the
details of the bridal gown presents and break
fast; also with the fact that she was an English
woman and the possessor OF a large-sizsd griev-
ance. The caterer locked up everything that
was left after serving the guests, she informed
me; so that none of the servants caught even a
glimpse Of the wedding cake; neither did they
receive as much as a thimbleful Of
wine, in which to drink the brides
health. Nor had the coachman, who had
driven the bridal party to the station, received
tip, and yet the groom came of family
whose reputation was national, Such thing
woUldl6e unheardof at home, she said From my
account in the Kodak the general impression
will be that the bride O vision OF loneliness.
and that the whole anair was one of elegant
hospitality. Curiosity will, no doubt, be rife as
to what constituted the library ornament
whice was gift to the bride from woman
worth millions 1t was only a leather bound
calendar, ordinary enough TO be hung upon the
walls OF even my apartment"