The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-20

Of the ladies of quality who run them.
But more than this, says the Chicago
Chronicle, there is a ladies' shirtmak-
er's firm in London the members of
which are all women of birth and po-
sition. Their shirtwaists have made
a great hit. They fit so we'll that the
firm is swamped with orders.
Another woman, Miss Cockerell,
whose engagement is announced to the
son of Lady Auguset Noel. has been in
the jewelry business. She has made
a reputation for her necklaces and
chains of uncut stones. Half the smart
set of London thronged her atelier at
Albert Hall mansions, South Kensing- g.
ton. with commissions.
For some time Partisan women have
been wearing ankle bracelets. They
are clasped just little above the shoe
top and are about as rational as the
jeweltrimmed garters which some wo-
men pride themselves on hiding from
public view. French women joy in
the touch of coquetry to be found in
thus wearing where it ought not to be
displayed piece of costly jewelry that
would arouse the curiosity of specta-
tors aware of it's existence. There Is
a self-conscious strut about the owner
of jeweled anklets that almost inva-
riably betrays the delicate secret and
stirs speculation in regard to it's kind
and quality. 1t is not likely that sem
Sible American women will take up the
fad. 1t savors too much of the odal-
isque and the Orient. Its novelty gives
it charm in France. Were il not for
the fact that most French women fear
TO call attention to the proportion of
their noses they would probably try
the wearing of nose rings.
Earrings have been popular for some
time. They clasp over the flesh, and so
the ear need not be pierced. The wear
ing of many finger rings is a la mode,
and so, too, is that of bracelets. There
must be an individuality about the con-
| tents of the jewel box nowadays to
make it worth exploiting.
| If there is one thing on earth that |
| care for from the very bottom of my
SOUL says Dorothy Dix in the New
| Orleans Picayune, it is the working
| woman. There is not an ambitious
young girl f1uttering her wings against
the cage of narrow circumstances who
| has not my entire sympathy. There is
| not an old woman eating the bitter
bread of dependence and vainly long
| ing to help herself whom l do not
| yearn to aid. More than that, do not
see in these times why any woman
| should any more sit down and fold her
|
wanting money, without trying to earn
| it, than l see why man should do
| such a thing. The world needs wo-
| mans work just as much as it does
mans, and is just as willing to pay
| for it.
The only trouble has been that wo-
| men have steadfastly refused to recog-
nize the fact that there is an inexorr
able law of supply and demand, and
| x4rho
| want to buy if you expect to sell. 1t
is conceivable that you couldn't sell
| man diamonds at ten cents a dozen if
| he was starving and saw beefsteaks
just ahead of him. Yet that is pre-
| csely what women are always trying
to do. They are never willing to give
the world the kind of work it wants
and is willing to pay for. The whole
! expanse of civilization is clamoring
for good cooks, good dressmakers,
good boarding houses. and millions of
half starved women are trying to palm
off on us instead dauby water colors
and dinky china plates and slushy
poetry that nobody wants.
Right there you have the whole
problem of women's failure in nut
she'll They won't do what they can
do, and they can't do what they want
to do.
L
able failures as artists, and who if they
lived as long as the Wandering Jew
would never be able to paint a picture
that you would exchange a newspaper
supplement Autograph for yet they
have the artistic instinct. They know
something about lines and color, and
have wondered, time out of number,
why they didn't put their knowledge
and talent into good, practical, paying
work by being milliners or dressmak-
ers If they lacked the necessary skill
with needle and scissors to execute
their ideas, they might go into partner
ship with some seamStress, and my
word for it, they would make for
tune. For there isn't woman of us
who wouldn't cheerfully pay down her
last dollar for gown that has that in
tangible something that makes the diff
ference between a plain dress" and a
| CONNECTION"
There are few other occupations
| which offer a woman such lucrative
| returns as artistic dressmaking, and
surely none in which there is so little
competition. Not one dressmaker or
milliner in a hundred has the slight
est idea of line and form, or has any
but the crudest knowledge of color
combination. Go to one to make you
a frock and she will say that such and
| such a thing is the style this year,
and forthwith she slaps it on you
without any reference as to your age,
or color, or height, or fitness.
There is more money in poultry than
there is in poetry, and in Louisiana
at least, with its possibilities in early
vegetables and fruits and flowers,
there is no excuse for any woman be-
ing short on pin money. / know one
woman who dresses herself and pays
for all her little treats off the profits
of her violet bed, and a Tennessee
woman told me a few weeks ago that
she cleared 5000 last season off of her
onion crop.
A woman, to whom 1 once made the
poultry suggestion, and who was vain
ly trying to find work in town, said to
me:
"Oh, but that is such hard work. If
you raise chickens you have to see
about them in all sorts of weather and
give them almost your entire time and
attention"
well" / made answer, land have
you discovered any other kind of work
that people will pay you to do when
you feel like it, and leave off when
you don't?" but / didn't convince her.
Let us trust that a rational day is
dawning when women will cease to
talk of careers and get down to work,
and when they will realize that there
is not only piety, but profit, in needing
the Biblical injunction. Whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do, that do with
all thy might