The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-15
4 SOCIETY WOMAN IN TRADE.
The Reported Business Venture
Of Mrs. Cyrus W. Field, Jr.
Great Stir In Bonnet Lane and Lit
tie Brass Thimble.

| II Is rumored that another society
won an is going into trade to build bon
! nets for her daily toast and chops, to
pay off her husbands debts. educate her
children, &c, &c. &c. Now, rumors fly
with feathers of truth, and Mrs. Cyrus
w Field. jr., is the topic OF CONVEX sa-
ton in Bonnet lane, Miliners' row.
Scrap alley. and Little Brass Thimble,
n Nineteenth street dining-room pat
ronized exclusively by basters, buyers
and trimmers.
Just how many quilts there may be
in the wings Of the report. or whether
II has any wings at all, 1t Is difficult
to say. But this Is the way the story
goes: Mr.. Cyrus W. Field, jr.. was swal-
lowed up in the Field. Lindley, Wiech
ers a Co. crash. When the market
broke and the firm went down there was
nothing left.
the young stock broker had to sell
his seat In the Exchange to get carfare
to reach his home in East Fifty-sixth
street
With the sl9,939.95 change the IL"
ticket seller gave him he paid some
OF the family debts.
Now comes the rumor that has caused
so much talk In thimbe and scissors
circles. Mrs Cyrus W. Field, jr., one
or the most accomplished and gracious
hostesses In New York. is going, It is
reported. to be a milliner. Her friends
are not 81 'prised, so 1t seems, but the
establishment OF the tradespeople liz
immeasurahle.
When the smash came Mrs. Field. ir.
VIZ IN Germany experimenting the edu-
tn" fashion of Miss Letter. Miss lula
Grant and Miss Whitney, is STUDYING
music. language and enough art TO
maj re original designs for her dresses
Mrs. Field was Berkshire Hill beauty
a, MISS Susie Moore Andrews, daughter
or old John Andrews, the bittercst abol.
Zionist in North Adams" he was called
From her father she had an allowance
OF $50 a month for gloves and foreign
missions, and, according to the Cos.
SIPS SIP she ga, saved the 5000 that has been
millinery firm on Fifth avenue.
The little shop is not a great deal big.
f f3am MAN hand-boS It is next door to
and divided with Chanut, the importe1
or gloves and fine lingerie. For ali that
| IL Is very attractive place to shop
| me STYLES are exquisite and exclusive.
has the comfortable assurance that she
VIII not meet duplicate sailing across
houston street or hopping into green
car car bound for the Grand street ferry
waited interior talk cockney, wear crys.
talliIed fnger nails. mahogany hair and
wood violet scent in their eyebrows.
When men folks go in to deliver ex.
press packages they doff their hats 10
| these imperious beauties and saw Yes
M ma am. and No ma'am," In the course
OF conversation. Home made" women
who chance into the shop to ask the
price OF a smart little chip hat that has
an apparent value of 1899 or so don't
remain long
| The icy ,politeness and frigid elegance
with which they are treated would make
a marble copy of Venus Milo SILVER
or course. the clerks are not to blame
| WIN honnets selling. at SIS and walk.
ing hats quoted at Sis, who wants &c
be bothered with equivocal bookkeepers
! for nunder?
At o'clock this morning 20 Fifth ave.
nue. was as quiet as a seashore hotel
The butter-color curtains were down
| The sun dancing on cube of ice-cov.
cred 1t with matchless diamonds and
| opals. A pair of buXom maids in Red
FERNS back stairs were raising a blind
ing dust.
In the ladies' tailor shop absolutely
nothing was known about 1.-THE business
enterprise of young Mrs. Field" AS the
| Redferns build bonnets and tooues tc
go with their costumes, 1t Is not In the
nature of things that they should be
| enthusiastic.
Mrs. Field is still abroad. No society
woman ever made success as II bust
ness woman. and II, as 1t Ia rumored
the new partner Intends to keep hei
| name and her gracious self out OF the
firm it is not at, all likely that the
| the benefits that the free advertisinf
Will give the Curtis Company.