The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
FAVORED SPINSTERS.
WOMEN WON FORTUNE WITHOUT
HUSBANDS.
bachelors of Uncertain Age-NIiss
Harriet HOsmer, the Sculptures,
sixty Years sfngIe-Miss Field and
Miss Anthony.

/ the question which vexes and perplexes
| every woman ct some time in her career,
/ and must be answered yes or nay. 1t
I used 70 be the fashion, and until re-
/ Gently. 40 style unmarried ladies' past a
/ certain age as old maids. Now they de-
I sire 10 be called women bachelors. wheth-
I er they be . or IS. Certain it is, a glance
/ over the list Of feminine bachelors. shows
that many women have earned fame and
fortune unfettered or unaided by hus-
bands. Here are a few interesting sam
pies which tell their own story:
Miss Harriet G. Hosmer is the fore
most woman sculptor OF America. She
is the daughter Of well known physi-
clan. and was born IN Massachusetts,
sixty years ago. Fer forty years she
has been resident Of Rome going there
in 1852 with her father and her friend,
Charlotte Cushman. Some of her cele-
brated works have, been the Beatrice
CencL" in the ST. Louis Public Library,
and the ideal figures, 'Zenobla," Puck"
Sleeping Faun" and the "pompeiian SEN
tinel.' Miss Hosmer has carved out a
future with her chisel, and she was paid
for one piece of work $4,000, the figure
Of Queen Isabella for the worlds fair.
Rosa Bonheur is another Of the old
maids born to poverty as the sparks are
to fly upward. and who has gained q
generous future by the cunning of her
fingers in representing the animals she
loves so well.
Miss Adele NJ. Fielde a great traveller.
u HRr Il a-fe
devoted much of her time to amelorat-
ing the condition of her sex. She has
worked hard and earnestly for political
/ equality, and finds her greatest rest
and relaxation In the housewives arts
particularly cooking and sewing
Miss Grace Dodge is so young and good
to look upon that it is difficult TO dlstn-
guish her from one OF her girls. She is
wrapped up heart, and soul in the cause
/ OF the working girl and what she has ac-
/ complished for them no one will ever
know. She lives with her mother in quiet
but elegant style on Madison avenue. Her
/ life is very busy one for she fulflls
many social obligations, besides presiding
over the working girls clubs and being
their confidant and adviser.
Miss Anna Leary f. the oldest of the
socially prominent spinstcrs in New York
society. Half of her enormous income
goes in well considered and deserving
rial chapel to her brother Arthur Leary,
who was about the most popular man in
! New York society. The chapel is for the
use of the patients of Bellevue hospital.
There is TO be no fixed creed, but every
denomination will be welcomed alike. Miss
Leary lives in a picturesquetold house way
down IN Fifth avenue with her surviving
bachelor brother. Charles Leary.
Kate Field is wen known over two con
tineAts as a brilliant, fearless writer ana
a bold, convincing lecturer. Her great
am Is to combat what she argues are
! the fdHacies of prohibition and her serv-
ices are in constant demand all over the
land.
Susan b. Anthony is as energetic IN the
crusade of woman suffrage as when in the
early SOS she began to make her demand
for equal rights for men and for women.
She is well into the reventies, but her I'M
usual mind seems TO gather fresh vigor
with every birthday. 1t is always pleas
ure when this modest looking little woman
with her smoothly parted hair and earn
est, winning face rises TO speak. for she
always has something well worth the tell
ing. and tells It rightgworthiiy.
Ada Rehan and Georgia Cayvan are the
bachelor girls among the theatrical stars
since Mary Anderson took upon herself
the responsibilities of home-making and
housekeeper.
In literature the Est Of the unmarried
Is long one. Amid the noted names are
Nora Perry. Miss Rose, Elizabeth Cleve-
land, sister of the PRESIDENT; Ouida, Jean
Ingelow, Rosa Nouchette Cary, Anna
Dickinson, Florence Nightingale, who has
gained fame as writer since she retired
as nurse; Grace DEMO Litchfeld, Edith
Thomas and Susan Coolidge.
Miss Katherine Draper, who is still
| handsome and healthy, though past so, had
the honor to be photographed at the Uni
versity of New York IN 1871. Miss Dra-
per was then a young lady in. society, and
the fact that sun" pictures had been
made of her was widely discussed by the
bellies and beaux. The picture, which was
/ the first of its kind ever taken, was sent
to England to Sir William Herschel, from
whose son it was procured for the worlds
fair, Miss Draper remembers the process
wildly, and enjoys telling all about it.
| Miss Sarah Orne Jewett occa sionally
writes sketches of 5000 or 1000 words in
| a single day. This is, of course, excep-
! tional, and her faVorite way of writing
/ is to work steadily during five or six
weeks and then to step for a period of
| time.
Miss Frances E Willard is one of the
most interesting woman bachelors. She
! is in London now. the guest of Lady
/ Henry Somerset. Distressing news has
lately come across the seas to the effect
that after many years of freedom ana
| emancipation Miss Willard may marry
an Englishfnan. He is vaguely described
! as of rank, fortune. and heart and soul
! devoted to the principles for which Miss
Willard has spent the best part of her
life. The name of the sutton has not been
mentioned, though some of Miss Wizards
| intimate friends have admitted that
stranger things than this. have happened.
Rev. Phoebe Hannaford, a prominent
member of Sorosis, has the honor of be-
ing the first woman minister ordained in
America. At the time of DIR. Hannaford's
ordination only three women besides her
self in the world had received orders. She
is busily engaged in preparing a book of
her early experiences.
Miss Mamie Dickens, the eldest daugh-
ter of the great novelist. makes her home
at quaint old Dunton rectory in the town
of Brentwood in Essex, England. The
love OF flowers, which with her amounts
to a passion, is fully grati1ed in this beau
tiful country. Her real life-work consists
in ministering to the poor and sick and
needy. She was born in FurnvaA's Inn,
in March, 1888, when Charles Dickens
was past 26 years old and father and
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