The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-19

| loVe OF IT. w hen the father died the daugh-
ter was equal to the reverses and began Civ
ing painting lessons at $50 a quarter-she
hrst money she ever earned. Then she
went into John Lafarge's studio, virtually
as partneFs-lt was she who assisted him
in decorating the Cornelius Vanderbilt
house and resolved $4,000 for a special
tapestry which she had designed and pat
ented. The next wonderful thing she did
| was to win the competition for the design of
the Trace church memorial windows, and
though they hesitated to give the contract
10 q woman, thinking she would not be
equal TO the mechanical part of the cons
structlon, her design was far and away so su-
perlor to the others that art triumphed over
sex, and these beautiful windows were the
beginning OF many OF this lady's designing
| Il nave studied architecture and civil
engineering, and am now engaged in the
erection OF houses" said Miss Iillinghast,
unrolling plans and elevations before me.
Il employ men as draughtsmen, but make
out my own contracts and specifications
because ind them more satisfactory when
do them myself. This water color is Of a
recently finished house near Philadelphia, in
| Enzabethan style, and pride myself on the
correctness Of it as well as the beauty. That
is a stone church near White Plains, with
several memorial windows, and this hex
gonal elevation Is a white marble mauso-
| leum lined with rose Numidian marble. 1t
has five memorial windows, and | not only
design the buildings and carvings, but do
the stained glass work as well. That comes
| OF being an artist as well as architect.
| when l build house also decorate and
furnish it il the owner desires me to do so,
| something men architects do not count on
| in their work. Last winter and this have
been very busy remodeling and decorating
famous ball rooms in New York and Wash
| ington; Just now am superintending the
/ all fF4ur Nf kha lrrST 49, ox,A L
gan houses in the latter city. In the Nor
gan house changed the whole interior by
| inclostng veranda, walling up certain
doors and opening Others, and now the
| ground floor can be thrown into one mag
| nifcent suite of rooms. The coloring work
In this house received special attention; l
l got up on the scaffolding myself and
painted for hours at q time to get the
effect wanted. They say a woman has
| l3stle staying power, but when tell you |
that have done ceiling work for eight con-
| secutive hours You will be able to oonfute
that story.
MEMBER OF NEW YORK REAL ESTATE RX
CHANGE.
Agnes Murphy Mulligau is the only
| woman member Of the New York Real
Estate Exchange, and was taken In as a
| member because of her extraordinary sales
| of the ANNEXED district"
as an assistant because OF his Ill health, she
explained land after three years appren-
| ticeship assumed entire control Of the bust
ness built this c5zy littls office, as you
| might guess, because 10 looks like reception
room, except for the business like safe and
| tyewriters. like to work, but want TO do
| 80 in as comfortable, artistic surroundings
as possible without detracting from the dig
| nifty of the concern.
There is some knowledge 20 be acquired
before one can safely buy and sell property
with long abstract of title back of Ii, you
know-so while was learning the business
l studied law after office hours. / was the
| first woman to enroll In the law school of
| the University OF New York, and the only
one TO pass the examination last May. In
| this dry as dust routine found the romance
that belongs In every woman's life. In the
! same class with nae was the man have since
| married, and the degree of bachelor of law
was conferred on both at the same time.
| My husband combines his business with
! mine, and nov work is a positive pleasure
| with SO able an associate"
This plucky, wideawake little woman is
| only II years old now, but her success has
| been phenomenal. While other agents
| were speculating on two tracts near the
outskirts of the city she quietly stepped in
and sold one for S10S, 900 and the other for
1 Sll5 600, Just half an hour after the land
|
| When the men found that they had been
oircumvensed by a woman they cheered
| her right heartily and then unanimously
| elected her 30 a membership with them.
The $4,000 tract she afterward subdi-
vided for the purchaser and resold for
| sos, ZOO, so you see she has the true bust
ness grit.
DIAMOND BROKER AND JEwELER.
Mrs T. A Lynch is the woman jeweler
in New York and her big corner building
on Broadway Is q brilliant testimonial TO
one womans knowledge of diamonds-for
that Is the corner-stone OF her success.
| women are proverbialIy fond of the
| sparkling gems" she smiled pleasantly,
land not few Of them put money inbo
| them instead OF banks and bonds. l not
only make money out of their value, bat
pleasure out of their beauty, and you may
| find me in their midst at my store at almost
any time of every day. except Sunday. l
do net care for social life-that 10 the means
OF existence to other women. have a large
family and we are happy within ourselves,
but if there Is any entertaining and keeping
up calling list to be done my children have
TO do IL for me.
"How did / happen TO 60 into the busi-
nesBf Well, my frat venture was In sin
gle diamond that l bought as child with
my spending money. Ny father was
fruit dealer and did not approve Of gew-
gews, but when / sold the gem for twice
what it cost me he sanctioned the trausao-
ton and encouraged my later efforts az
others. 90 abroad and select in person
the gold and silver curios, the carvings set
for jewels and the antique. as well as the
newest patterns In jewelry. They say 1t
takes q Jew to have nose for bargains In
jeweIry, but l am an Irishwomsn from
lin--Americanized, of oourse-and /
have reason to believe that the Irish-Ameri-
can combination of business ability, added
by woman's instinct, is as good one as
can be found for metropolitan use.
EMPLOYS FIFTY MEN.
Mrs e. s. Parsons went 10 work from
necessity and not from choice, but she
doesn't regret the turn her life has taken.
AS a girl she hadn't care in the world, and
when she married wealthy merchant she
supposed that a future of luxurious ease
was assured. Unfortunately, her husbands
close attention to business brought on
paresis, and before they realized that be
was afflicted with softening Of the brain he
had thrown things right aud left and gone
into bankruptcy. After that he had to be
cared for as little child, and somebody
must earn the wherewithal Mrs. Parsons,
being of a scribbling turn Of mind, got
position with an advertising company to do
write-ups, and showed such unusual ability
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