The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

hold twenty fortunates under its shelter
ing tents and log huts.
George Vanderbilt is able easily to put
up half hundred guests at Biitmore, il
is true but he rarely taxes his great cha
teau to its utmost, while Mrs. Waller
Webb, al Scarborough, Mrs. William d,
Sloan, at Lenox. Mrs. Twombly, at Nor
ristown, ana Mrs. ThOrne a Millbrook,
Keep their twenty guest rooms apiece cas-
Ly full all the season through.
Mrs. George Gould can do as well as any
of these hostesses by her friends in her
great house at Lakewood, and since our
miilionaires have begun in the English
fashion to erect well appointed palaces
In huge private parks. the fashionable
seaside resorts have suffered tt is now
considered a far more distinguished
honor TO be asked on round of country
house parties than air ones gowns on
Bellevue avenue a far more notable thing
to possess a house with forty guest
rooms and fifty acres of lawn than a
splendid jewel box affair perched on a
cliff. and all this proves that our sociai
ideas are rapidly changing until baronial
halls and deer-haunted parks will be as
much the acme of good taste and splendor
here as on the other side
Fashionable Breadwinners.
When riches slip out at the window orr
poverty to come in at the door. If YOU
have the interest just pick up the bust
ness directory and find how assiduouslv
and proitably dame industry has been
cultivated by men and women who began
life in the lap of luxury The success
with which they do this is the result of
the modern tendency for educating even
the wealthiest boys and girls to learn a
trade, or an art that at any moment could
be turned into a profession
In the list of fashionable bread winners
we find milliners. dressmakers, landscape
gardeners, designers, caterers and restau-
rant keepers.
1t was a woman who had her living to
get who turned to landscape gardening
when necessity arose, and Miss Beatrix
Jones put considerable money in her pock-
ct and valuable reputation to her credit
by beautifully laying out Mr. John Ken
nedy's place at Bar Harbor and assisting
in designing of the great gardens at Bit
more.
So soon as Ill luck crossed her fathers
path Miss Florence Lauterbach decided
to put her shoulder to the family wheel
After graduating from a New York law
school she entered her fathers office to
work like a clerk, with dreams of one
day being taken into his firm to sustain
her in her drudgery.
There was a tide of ill-fortune that fore
ed MISS kitty .McLane to look about her,
so she put away her ball gowns made up
some big check aprons. and now she has
the biggest pigeon run on Long Island
1t took her two years to make it pay for
itself, but now it pays her handsomely
just as Miss Elizabeth Marbury earns $40. =
900 year as an agent for foreign play
writer's and Mrs. John Bloodgood and
Miss Elsie de Wolf keep their homes up
from their salaries on the stage. 1t took
Vet 1r,Trr
the loss of her fortune TO set up a dress
making business that asked favors of no
body, bat now keeps sixteen sewing ma
chimes running the season through Mrs.
Leslie Cotton puts 500 in her pocket for
every portrait she paints, and her orders
are anything but few and far between.
These are all women who wholly support
themselves by their own exeFtiOns, and a
dozen more could be named who from the
veriest butterflies have at need metamor-
phosed themselves into the busiest Of
honey gathering bees. Emily Holt