Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-04
BIB IN CITY LIFE.
The Ever Moving Panorama on the
Streets Of a Gotham.

Streets Oh G0tlan.
WHY GIRLS AGE PREMATURELY IN
THE RUSH AND WORRY OF a HARD
LIFE-HOW THE OTHER HALE
TS-COMPARISONS ON THE
PROMENADE-MY LADY AND HER
POODLE SINCE PUGS ARE OUT OF
FAsHION-AFTERNO TEAS ON
FIFTH AVENUE AND TETE-A-
TETEs IN PARADISE ALLEY-AP-
PROBATION OF sINCERITY-HoW
HAPPINESS MAKES SOME FOLKS
SELFISH.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 3.-We pay out our
good money to see some wonderful panora
ma or whatever a succession OF scenes
may be called, and never stop TO think
that, in any one of the great cities. there
is a never-ceasing panorama, but an ever
changing panorama. y panorama of
comedy and of tragedy, of life and Of
death, and a panorama in which, some
time, we ourselves constitute the moving
figures. Where is it? on the streets OF u
great city. Get up early some morning
and see it moving. It's half-past seven
O'Clock, and taking your stand in one OF
the well known streets, you wonder, first
Of all, where all the women are coming
from. They crowd the sidewalks. Some
walk quickly, while some drag along as II
all life were WEAKNESS Most of them are
young, too young to have such tired faces.
They are the busy bees In the hive. They
are the hundreds OF girls who live-God
knows how-and who hurry every morn
ing with the horrible fear of being too late
TO take their places behind the counters
or at the desks in the great shops. It does
seem as if, for little while at least,
LIFE SHOULD BE A PLEASURE
to these women. 1 ought TO say, these
young girls" But what female thing stays
young when it has TO solve the riddle of
earning its bread and butter? Look at
them as they 90 by, think of the long,
wearisome hours, think of the few pleas
ures. and then think, with great wonder,
how it is that they manage TO look as hope
ful as they do.
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trict at nine o'clo . and go to the fash
ionable avenue. There you meet the school
girls, hundreds Of them: some walking
alone, others in merry groups. and others,
the daughters Of the very wealthy and
very careful are accompanied by maids
for fear even the sunshine might stare Of
fensively at these small girls. Then, the
housekeepers are coming out. The busy,
wise women who propose TO select for
themselves the dainties that will appear
upon their tables. At this time you will
meet the bright, handsome girl who knows
that a walk IN the early morning hours
brings the roses TO her cheeks, increases
the brightness of her eye. and makes the
Doctors bill a very slight item in her
yearly expenses. Behind her walks
stately collie>o or a French poodle with his
curls fashionably trimmed. or a queer
looking duchshund. but never. under ana
circumstances. pug. since they are quite
out of fashion, as they deserve to be.
Eleven o'clock and prcttily dressed women
are here, there and everywhere, busy shop
ping, while those who are not interested
in the very latest fashion are, Il is more |
than possible. looking after some pet char
ity. Some free kindergarten
FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR. !
Some nursery where, for penny or two, a
baby is cared for the whole long day while /
it's mother has an opportunity to earn her I
livelihood, and these are the char. les that !
take up part Of the morning Fashionable |
women manage their charities well. They
see that the milk and bread served TO the
.. II.
that which is afforded to the small people
in their own nurseries They look over
the accounts, and many a one gives up
her morning shopping so that she may be
kept from temptation. so that the money
which would have been spent for the pref
test bonnet that ever came from Paris
may go for little gowns or comfortable |
frocks to be worn in houses where Paris
ian bonnets were never heard OF.
Very soon it's one o'clock, and half the
feminine population is rushing for its
luncheon. Some go home, some to the big |
restaurants, and many more |
to the quiet
LITTLE PLACES IN SIDE STREETS |
where, for a very small sum OF money, |
enough to at least satisfy hunger may be |
gotten. Some of the Pharisees go to |
famous restaurant that was founded for |
the benefit OF working women. Here a |
good luncheon. almost amounting TO a |
dinner, is served for twenty-five cents, and |
Madame Hypocrite takes advantage of |
this opportunity and saves her money |
She and her kind crowd up to the tables |
and keep away the women for whom the |
Louisa Home, and places like II. |
were founded. I wonder at what table |
the Hypocrites, these female Hypocrites, |
will sit in the future? Three o'clock and |
the Avenue is gay with carriages, laden |
with elegantly dressed women, starting out |
to pay visits. There are more-many more |
on the sidewalk in costumes so bright !
that, looking from a window. you think |
this panorama is one Of many-colored |
flowers
FOR THE WOMEN OF SOCIETY,
during the afternoon. there are teas and |
teas. and no end of teas, and possibly |
there's a special entertainment Of music |