The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-01
BUSY WOMEN.
Prominent In Society, They Yet Find
Time for Practical Duties.


rom the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
IF any one fancies the life Of woman
Oh wealth is a bed Of roses I wish he or
she could try it just for one day." said
the woman of social experience as she
paused in her work of sending out an
nouneements TO the good girls of her set
that the Busy Bee Lenten Sewing Class
would come out of its chrysalis on such
ana such a date. The mere entertaining
of ones friends takes so much time, in
genuity and strength that one would sup
pose that the average woman would be
content with giving dinners and balls,
! paying calls and attending the theater
But she IS not, nor will she be until her
| father ceases to bequeath to her the
= brains and industry which brought him
wealth, or her mother the pride and am
bition which enable the American woman,
even of lowly birth and breeding to scale
| social nights and hold her own with mod
| esty and dignity.
| Among the wealthy women who busy
themselves with farm and garden are Mrs.
/ Levi p Morton and Miss Beatrix Jones,
| Mrs. Oelrichs and her sister, Miss Fair.
| The Morton farm at ElersHe has blooded
| stock and reputation for butter milk
| and eggs which is the proud delight of its
| mistress. Mrs. Morton is a busines-like,
energetic woman, and when at her coun-
! try home superintends the work of dairy
| and farm as well as house and garden.
| The butter and eggs are sold at fancy
| prices, and all the milk not used by the
| inmates of the household is sent to restau-
| rant in New York, where the flying bust
| ness man enjoys it with his quick lunch.
/ ri baS Ia
| scape gardening. and undertakes contracts
/ to lay out the grounds of country places
| and plan beautiful gardens for the sea-
| shore palaces of her wealthy clients. She
| has designed several private parks at Bar
/ Harbor at LenoX and on the shores of
| the Hudson, and her friends think her
| equal to Frederick Law Olmsted.
| Mrs. Oelrchs and Miss Fair are en-
| thusiastic rose culturists. The Bancroft
| place at Newport, which they occupied
| for several seasons, had a famous rose
| garden planted by the historian himself
| ana here the two Calfornians perhaps be-
came interested in the growing Of La
| France. Marie Antoinette, Nine. Cusin and
| Gabrielle Luizets. Their new house in
| Fifty-seVenth street has a large conserVa-
| tory. Most of the pOsies reared by Miss
| Fair are sent off to the sick and the poor
as soon as they burst into blossom. Speak
ing of this costlness of the hobby, a
whimsical woman remarked that all of
the Fair fortune came out of the earth,
and now some of it is going back to it.
Then there is Mrs. Richard Irwin, with
whom philanthropy is a profession Mrs.
| Irwin, who was a Miss Morris has money,
| social position and hosts of friends. She
| use them all to further the cause of the
poor and sick. Sick children are her spe-
cial care, and the annual charity ball, the
| Waldorf-Astoria children's ballet and the
1. l.
tails and summer homes are usually due
TO the energy the executive ability and the
enterprise of Ms. Irwin. ''To see Mrs. r.
win come into a ball room" said the man
ager of the establishment where most of
the charity entertainments are given, lis
an inspiration 10 the LATEST workman.
have seen her transform this room, which,
as you see, is pink and gold and as French
as decorations can make it, into a Nene-
tan place in less than an hour. group
/ of young girls assisted her, and she or
dered them about with the ease and as
surance of an experienced director"
Miss Grace E. Dodge is another woman
+ who inherts her brains and industry. She
goes into society only on the rarest occa-
sions, spending all her time writing, work
ing and speaking for the working girls
clubs Even in the summer, when she
leaves town for her place at Riverdale,
she comes down to the city every Tues
day to spend the evening end give one of
her friendly talks 10 the girls of the
Thirty-eighth Street Club.
Literature music and art have follow
ers IN the circles where women do not
have to toll or spin Miss Emily Wander
bilt Sloane Miss Adele Sloane. now Mrs.
William F. Burden, Jr; the Misses puer,
Mrs. Di Zerega have all dropped into
verse" even as did Silas Wegg. Miss
Sloane's verses are of a religious charac-
ter while the Misses Duer are inclined
TO humor and sometimes are even frivo-
lous Mrs. Di Zerega translated "Gyp'
before "Gyp' got so tiresome that there
was no demand for her nonsense to be
Anglicized. Mrs. Burton Harrison and
Julien Gordon" (Mrs. Stephen Van Rem
sselaer Cruger) are notable society wo-
men who work for the love of art and
work Mrs. Cruger gets her literary gifts
from her ancestor, Washington Irving.