The evening world., 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 of her husbands debts educate her
children, &c, &C., &c. Now, rumors fy
with feathers of truth, and Mrs. Cyrus
w Field jr.. is the topic Of converse
ton in Bonnet lane. Mllliners' row,
Scrap alley, and Little Brass Thimble,
a Nineteenth street dinlng-room pat
ronzed exclusively by basters. buyers
and trimmers.
Just how many quilts there may be
in the wings of the report. or whether
1t has any wings at all. It 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 IL 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 Sl9,93995 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 thimble and scissors
circles. Mrs. Cyrus w. Field. jr., one
Of the most accomplished and gracious
hostesses In New York, is going, It is
reported, to be a miliner. Her friends
are not 81 'prised, SO 1t seems. but the
establishment of the tradespeople Ia
| Unreasonable.
When the smash came Mrs. Field, jr.,
WIS In Germany experimenting the edu-
t iht i.s Of little daughter. who, after
drant ana Miss Nj M Wh heter Miss Ids
music, language and enough art to
make original designs for her dresses
Mrs Field was Berkshire Hill beauty
a Miss Susie Moore Andrews daughte,
or old John Andrews. the bitterest abol
Zionist IN North Adams" he was called
from her father she had an allowance
OF 80 month for. gloves and foreign
missions and. according to the Cos
SIPS, she saved the 5000 that has beer
put into the w. II. Curtis Company, q
millinery firm on Fifth avenue,
ct The little shop is not. a great deal big
ger than band-box. 1t is next door t
Deimonico's In Redfern's basement
az ana i,,d divided with Gthanut. the Importer
Il Is very attractive place to shop
me STYLES are exquisite and exclusive.
| woman who gets a Curtis bonnie
mas MAJ; the comfortable assurance that sh,
|
Houston street or hopping into a greer
car bound for the Grand street Ferry
Inc saleswomen In this pretty, IL abbre
| vlated. interior talk cockney wear crys
.ailized niger nails, mahogany hair ant
WOOD violet scent In their eyebrows.
| When men folks go IN to deliver ex
press packages they doff their hats tc
these imperions beauties and say yes
ma am" and No, mann" in the cours,
who chance into the shop to ask tn,
price of smart little chip hat that ha,
an apparent value of S359 or so don
remain long.
The icy ,po!teness and frigid eleganc,
marble copy of Venus Milo shiyer
of course. the clerks are not to blame
with bonnets selling at SIS and walk
ing ba hats quoted at sl5 who wants t
wives and garrulous typewriter girls on
for plunder?
At O'Clock this morning 2lO Fifth ave
nue. was as quiet as a seashore hotel
Ihe butter-color curtains were down
| The sun dancing on a cube OF ice-cov
cred 1t with matchless diamonds anc
opals A pair of buxom maids In Red
FERNS back stairs were raising a blind
Ing dust.
In the ladies' tailor shop absolutel,
nothing was known about 1.-THE bushes,
enterprise OF young Mrs Field" AS thu
Redferns build bonnets and todues I,
go with their costumes, II Is not in tn
nature of things that they should b.
enthusiastic.
Mrs, Field is still abroad. No societ,
woman ever made a success az bust
ness woman, and IT, as II IL rumored
the new partner intends TO keep he
name and her gracious self out Of tn
firm 1t is not at all likely that 9Th
the benefits that the free advertiser
Will give the Curtis Company.