The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-22

in the cap Of one of them when she sue
ceeded in getting permission to decorate
several rooms IN a hotel in which her hus-
hand was a stakeholder. She makes a
speciality Of the French school. while the
other devotes her talents to the Italian
renaissance. One of them has decorated
her own house in the Italian style. but as
there are few ordinary New York homes
suited to such a period she ia longing for
hotels and rich mems palaces TO conquer.
Both these women have husbands n
children and do not neglect their duties
toward them Thai is another phase
OF the new desire OF women TO have some
thing that they can do. They seem to he
just as efficient with these other duties on
their hands. They AVE even come to
sHeak sIightingly Of women who think OF
nothing but society. r
THE hardest worked woman l know in
a painter who leaves q beautiful home early
in the morning 10 spend half the day in her
studio working on portraits, She never
soils any of them, as she has not yet reached
the point at which they would be good
enough. and her husband probably would
not allow her TO IL she wanted to dispose
Of them in that way. Her ambition is
not TO make money but to develop a talent
which artists have assured her that she
Possesses. Two years before she tool
her own studio she went as regularly to
the league and to other classes as il she
had been dependent on her success for
her daily bread. Another hard worker
in my acquaintance. and a rich girl at that.
makes beautiful book bindings. She went
abroad last summer to take a 81 ecial course
of instruction under a well known teacher
in Paris and stayed all during July and
August alone in the city 70 complete the
course she wanted to take"
100 works are scarcely to DO claased
as a part of this new movement, but the
missions in Chinatown, the various Girls
FTiendlies as they are called. and similar
organizations occupy the time of many
women who do not feel that they are gifted
in artistic ways. Those who are anxious
20 do something in the musical OF literary
field struggle at the piano or write and
rewrite the short stories which they hope
will put them in the productive class ever
Il it does not make them famous. PerhaI Q
The literary ambition has consumed more
women than any other, but that passion
IL also too historic To be counted as a sign
Of the times. This new inclination is,
however, RESPONSIBLE for the increase In
the number Of women who read or pretend
to read serious works.
Il know a girl who used to think OF moth
ing but her husband, her baby and her
hunters" said the same woman who had
been telling THE Sun about the other women
workers in society. Nowadays sha still
loves her husband and her babies, but she
has given up the hunters for Ibsen. She
has taken up Ib7sn With the same enthu-
siasm that twenty years ago one discussed
the plays OF tho dramatist. The reason Of
that is the present tendency for all women
to be serious. The discussions over Ibsen
we're confined formerly to women who
thought. Nowadays every woman has to
pretend TO think whether she does or not,
and they are going in for serious reading
and thinking after they get 20 a certain age.
-Sometimes the efforts OF women To get
in among the workers when they have
no particular qualification for IL is almost
pathetic. The other day l met a Girl who
had always heen popular among her friends
and had passed the first days Of her en-
joyment OF social life. She told me that
she had Just organized a hat sale which
was TO a place twice n year according
TO her plans. | asked her what in the world
had put such an idea into her head.
r'Icannot work. you see. with my BRAINS