The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-06
WOMEE's CLUBS.
An Instance Iof Chauncey Depew's
Diplomacy.

woMEN's CLUBS.
An Instance Lof Chauncey Depew'
Diplomacy.
BROOKLYN, n. r., March 5.-What
the use of women's c!udss% aman asks. sd
they meet for Improvement o., to talk abou
their husbands and their friendsi IL is sal
that Sorosis was founded out of spite ant
that all the rest Of these societies have fol
lowed the example of their leaders,"
have had some experience in club life
and up to date have not heard any woman
talk about their husbands except TO praise
them. We all near a great deal of this be
cause every woman who has really gooc
husband is very fond Of him and is anxious
for her friends to know it. There may b.
those who whisper in corners and abuse
their acquaintance among women as well a.
their husbands, but | have never been
/ asked to listen.
Some ladies may join clubs TO improve
their minds. / became a club member for
purposes Of enjoy mont 1t is grea
pleasure to see 8 number of wide-awake
intellectual and tastefully dressed womer
together. 1t is an inspiration to meeI
women who are working aud achieving
women from all the professions, womer
without professions. just plain wives anc
mothers who know enough to turn their
hacks on the monotony and drudgery oil
their lives, and come in touch with other
women who are in totally different condi-
tons
l wish there could be q club Of wives and
mothers in every city aud town in tnii
country, aud | wish these organizations
would meet every week and that they woule
take UP conscienu ,usly and religiously tht
training and educati Jn~of children and tbs
training IT servants II such societies could
be foI mel, life would be very different
thing ten years from date. Wives, though
mothers, would know how to e5joY theGu
selves.
If Sorosis was founded on SPITE" spite has
made a splendid under pinning. but cur
correspondent has been misinformed.
Sorosis exists because few women of level
heads saw great opportunity for Intellect
ual growth and social enjoyment. This
club has accomplished oil 1t proposed to do
and great deal more. 1t would be strange
if all the members of so large an orgauiza.
ton were faultless or devoid If Jealousy. but
put the Union League Club Of New York
by the side of Sorosis, and see which has the
most rows. Not the woman's club by any
means.
When Carmencita, tie Spanish dancer
kicked up with her temper in the Casino
wings on the occasion Of the reception Of
the Women'S Press Club, it was our silver
tongued Chauncey who spoke to her IN hel
native tongue and told her s-story, and j
was not a chestnut, either. Is is reported
that there is a deadly feud between LILLIAN
Russell and Carmencta-on Carnencitay' q
part-aud the Spanish vixen would moi
humiliate herself by using Miss RUSSELL:
dressing room. II will go away" said the
dancer, II will not stay. | have bean in
suited. What care for these ladiesr'
No diplomat at her majesty's court could
have been more tender, more insistent, more
thoroughly at his ease, more sure of con.
quest, as he cast his soft blue eyes upon The
flashing black ones OF his companion than
was Mr.. Depew.
He is said to have remarked as follows
but whether 1t is the literal truth or not dc
not know: my dear Carmencita, you are
quite mistaken about the dressing room. Mir
Russell never saw it. much less ever entered
it. As came into the Casino, my charming
young lady, | heard soma one ask at the
box Office Is Mr.. Depew to speakp"
Yes, madame, was the respcnee.
JIG Carmencita TO dancer
Yes, madame
Then give me the best box in the house,
said the lady"
30, you are too sweet, senor,n said tHt
dancer. II will appear for you" And she
did.
l have been asked by numerous CORE
spondents to state what chances ere given
women for playwriting by our metropolitan
managers, and whether their production,
are read as carefully as these of men play.
wrtghts. Most emphatlcally yes, is my an
swer.
A woman need not necessarily have a lit
erary reputation to have a play read by
managers, for work possessing merit will
be critically and promptly examined.
That women are more successful as dra-
matjs.s tnen ever before is shown by Mar
tina Morton's success in ''The Merchant" al
the Madison Square theater. This play Is
still making money for the author on the
road, and she has q new one almost ready
for New York theater. Mrs. Henderson,
Philip Herne" originally produced at the
Fifth Avenue theater has also made fame
and money for the talented woman who
wrote it, and now Mr.. Richard Mansfield
has given woman, Miss Emma Sheridan
chance to dramatic and adapt Samuel
Warren's famous novel Ten Thousand G
Year. The success of this adaptation was
instant, Richard Mansfield adding another
triumph to his repertoire, as Tittlebat Tit
mouse, and Mr.. Markins making decided
hit as "Oily Cannon" Such work shows
that women are not only up to the mark in
original dramatic composition, but they
can adapt as well.
Trade, like dress and morals, has become
aesthetic. Our grocers. wholesale and re-
tail, are having their heightened public ex.
hibits in mammoth halls where flower;
bloom and fountains play, and the finest
orchestras discourse the sweetest music,
Our oat meal. our wheat gluten, our soups
and chocolates, our favorite brands of flour,
our crackers and what not, are so pervaded
with tho atmos phere which the combination
Of these spiritual elements diffuses that our
bread and our coffee for weeks after these
visits leave a poetic taste in our mouths.
Think Of samplin2 buckwheet cakes right
off the griddse to the strains Of TannhauSer
or partaking of warm melt-in-your- mouth
rolls at the elegant booth of these great
manufacturers, while 1.-THE Invitation &c
Waltz" makes both our feet and our jaws
keep time to the glorious rythm. Think OF
watching the deft white-capped cooks mix
these buckwheat cakes-which they do
every three hours-te the quick tempo OF q
a wedding march. Verify, we have fallen
upon evolutionary times. Every thing is in
process Of standardization, even TO the bread
we eat as well as the clothes we wear.
ELEANOR KIRK.