Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-07

from so TO $50 n month. according to the
rooms. It will be In no sense a "hotel
or home or a clearinghouse" but
each tenant will be as independent OF her
neighbor as II she lived In city block.
Numerous well-known women have en-
gagged these rooms-litcrary women and
artists. business women and number
of high class trained nurses who know
the value OF healthful house. Miss
Lewis will have one OF the pleasantest
suites, and viii practically manage the
business OF the building.
This enterprise shows the number ana
Importance OF the bachelor-women IN
New York.
MISS GLIDER, OF THE CRITIC.
Miss Jeanette Glider. one OF the editors
Of the Critic. is another successful hache-
lor-woman. she does not elect TO i've
entirely alone. but sharing during two
thirds OF the year an interesting old CO.
lonial house in New Rochelle with her
brother CMr. Joseph Glider. Of the Critic
and his wife. She comes daily TO the
city 20 pursue her duties as editor, booK
reviewer, and writer.
Miss Glider Is a sister OF Mr.. Richard
Watson Glider editor OF the Century
Magazine. and OF Colonel William Glider
the Artic explorer. She has a rather
masculine manner and dress, but is the
most feminine and gentle OF women. with
an extremely sympathetic personality.
Her house is filled with choice bits or
antique furniture. and she Is a collector
OF all sorts of art treasures.
ELSIE DE WOLFE AND ELIZABETH
MARBURY.
Miss Elsie De Wolfe and Miss Elizabeth
MarDury are two more successful young
bachelors Miss De Wolfe Is we'll
known actress, and considered one OF
the best dressed women in New YORK,
and IS a member OF the smartest set.
Miss Marbury is a very busy woman
conducting a prosperous business as IL
1ernational agent for French plays ana
translations. She IS the American repre-
sentative OF Sardou and Dumas, and is
business manager for Miss De Wolie'
and was formerly agent and secretary
Of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett She
entirely managed the dramatization OF
Little Lord Fauntleroy," arranging for
its translation and rights in nearly all
countries of the world. She also has trans
| lated and arranged several successful
| plays, among them MERRY Gotham.
| Roth these young women have large
| incomes. and live together in a charm
| ing house i'm Irving Place, hlled win
/ art treasures gathered in Europe. whlther
| they Journey together every summer ;, ,
| Their home is truly "house beautliuh
| filed with Old mahogany, tapestry, Hne
| rugs. end miniatures. Miss De Wolfe Is
an exnert on these matters and her leis-
| ure is occupied in poring over books on
| Tronch epochs In furniture and decora'
| zion. and when in Paris she haunts the
| museums. r.,
she is absolute authority on Sum
| Adam. Sheraton, and Chippendale. i''i
| passion for the stage IS divided Wl'h he'
love for art matters.
Ths home OF these two busy youne
bachelors is filled with corps OF traihSu
servants and is conducted win lhe VIZ
regulated conventionality of any manu-
some establishment -.
| Rachelor girls are apt to be iona oi
"fade" The male bachelor spends hl'
money on the opera, horses, or "aIhli's
sticks. but his feminine counterpaI7
adorcs old silver and mahogany, treasure
from the antique shops and art stores
7 find this is a general trait among ih'
class. 1t is the "home make III her 'iId
,s concentrated and developed by hel
outside work: she Graves to III her pe
loved den" with treasures, ana 10 rev
in rednoments at home, in contrast 10 th'
drudgery and publicity often atlehui"'
the earning of the money she SPENDS
ANOTHER BACHELOR GIRL WITT
AN "EsTABLISHMENT."
Miss Amy Campbell is a striking eK
annie Of a home-making bachelor sni
S,1e lives I'm Cincinnati, and has the nIsn
est social connections. Miss Camppeli n"t
built No a large income. she Is sun
voung woman, but manages schooi y
|, ,bonooraphv where she has four teacH
ers. a large corps Of expert Iepor'eI
and copvists and bureauX III an lhe ~
tells I'm the city All this business .,n
manages thoroughly. She hets hDIu' , 81 -
, ono a wear. and finds time 10 lhdulse ne
love for horses and attend to the htti
etock farm which she has bough'' on
1i,.as With her sister and another woman
fri.rd about six miles from the f,lty' az"
drives herself to her Office each mofIilh
behind two dashing horses with sroon
, 10 take the trap home Her mouse y
. (,airt old mansion. over a hundred year
IA ,vitb wide porches filled with nam
? ,uocks and easy-chairs, ana sa.uO'
with COWS and poultry. Htr hoOpS -
: lave for horses and colt-ralslhs' one -''
stobla of five handsome horses ana
.,,1.or ~ voung colts which she spend
tor ,etsurA time IN breaking. MISS Caihi
,,.e-1red phonography and passed VI
a,o,nination for Harvard only elght yeai
90 since that time she has punt
tbo business Of which slie is the sole hed'
BACHELOR GIRL CHARACTERISTIC
rbora have always been women wn
,,,orl,ed and women who wept' but u
, now edition works willingly, ana II 81
, ,,..ore M all she lets no ore see her.
cha does not usually live in the Dosoi
80 bar family: if she does the Iainlly
generally dependent upon her lor SuPpoi
1Ior life is free from scandal ana Hn
,,nderstandjng. Her work IS as open al
- hoard as a mans, and she VIII H'
allow herself TO be placed IN a lalse po'
TIN The home she makes has flavor II
own. There is all the dohiesuoi'S =, az a.
mIite enough conventionaliiy' put II = 'U
feminine. and without casliroh IuleS 81
! regulations. .. out I'm :,
-, in This sort OF home making. -
Son do more with small materials 'h'
s.ap,s possible. / have seen her give
crpart tea. with one quarter the NUMBER
s,,oona she ought to have. She dld i
49, Them. but she so skilfLlly manage
tbat no one detected the secret.
sbn has little tricks of decking d
tohle and herself so picturesquely that 1
lack of similarity in her emma service 81
silver IS simply charm. 81.
Che seems 10 have an instinct lot TIC
linz the palate. Perhaps the touch
Dohemianism in her life makes her Sc
81 little more originality in her taole. u
che is generally bit OF an eplcure ne
self and is learned in the resources OF l
best grocers - so,
d, ..Appearances" the vital too, she sa!
: ond color is everything, and when :
=, connot serve her dainty cookery from
COSTLY dish she makes 1t interesting
. orbint. odd-patterned plate that see!
/ 70 suit it better. A.,
|, She prides herself on several disI
"expe nsive but heavenly" which she c
. rrcnare ia five minutes by the cloc.
:. There is. for instance, little recipe
4 .after-dinner cheese," which one OF th'
n cookery witches delights her guests wi
"a she mixes before your eyes "A portion
N Rcouefort cheese good Roquetort, u
a for she knows where 10 get the pesp' u
. n little nat Of butter with dish of {
vepre. and slowly moistens 1t win
l. GLASS of dry champagne. she WORKS
4 into q smooth paste with her heaVi
> silver fork on Dresden plate and sprea
II q daintily on toasted water-crack
% and waits for the applause.
n Nothing is more appetizing than the III
9 SINNERS In a bachelor-girls den. L
p no II an humble one in Bohemian fashl'
! or more elaborate with maid 10 SCI
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