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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1891
IN G0LD1D GLORY
The Ladies of the Cabinet Stand Be
holden to the People at Wednes
day's Receptions.
BEAUX AMONG THE STATESMEN.
A Call at Mrs. Wanamaker's Home, Where
the Gay Gallants Get Pnnch of
the Soft Tariety.
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"WASniXGTOjr, Feb. 7.
ENT begins next
"Wcdnesdar, and
Washington soci
ety ior the next 40
days trill, meta
phorically speak
in?, put on sack
cloth, eat fish on
Fridays and squat
in the ashes of re
pentance. The
season has been a
gay one, and din
ners, teas and re
ceptions have
been numerous
and extravagant.
The Cabinet recepbns gave a chance to the
ourists and the bridal couples to see the
noted women of Washington, and the Cab
inet ladies tell me their callers were num
bered by thousands. These Cabinet recep
tions are peculiarly an American institu
tion. . t
All the wives of President Harrisons
counselors are supposed to be at home
every Wednesday during the social season,
and "the doors are thrown open to all. I sup
pose it would be a small estimate to say
that Mrs. Wanamaker has shaken hands
with 20,000 people at her Wednesday recep
tions this season, and you could hardly
crowd the cards she has received into a two
bushel babket.
Calling; on Mrs. Wanamnlcer.
Let us jcin the crowd of tourists and
make a call upon her. The streets are dry,
the day is pleasant and we walk, going past
the "White House, by the Corcoran Gallery,
past the Metropolitan Club, where Count
Arco Valley with his monocle tightly
pinched by the flesh around his left eje,
looks at us and on up to Farragut Square
on the south side cf which is now rising the
cream-colored brick mansion on the ruins of
the fire which caused the death of Mrs.
Sicretary Tracy. At thecorner of Farragut
quare we turn to the right aloug I street
and stop before a big square three-story
mansion of red brick with a sort of a Gre
cian portico over its front door.
The street is filled with carriages and
coachmen and footmen in livery, with bugs
on their hats, sneer at us as they sit stiff and
straight on tne carriages of the nabobs. A
wide awning extends lroni the front door to
the edge of the roadway, and there is a car
pet laid across the sidewalk and up the
steps in order that Dame Fashion may not
soil her feet in coming in. A portly butler
stands at the head of this, and the door has
apparently opened by magic, swinging
noiselessly back on its big brass hinges as
we walk up the steps.
A Cordial Greeting.
He takes our cards on what looks like a
collection plate, and motions us to the right.
We keep on our wraps and go in as our
names are announced in loud tones. A
handsome lady in evening dress stands
near the door. It is Mrs. Wana
maker. She is straight, well formed and
fine looking, and the smile with which she
shakes our bands is a genuine one. She
tjys a wed or so about the beautiful day
tnd then passes us on to the other ladies of
tne reception party who are also dressed
with trains and who are among the distin
guished women of the country.
1 note that one of them is very prcttv and
ttiat her dress is a corn-colored silk and that
another has on a light blue crepe with a
gold girdle and trimmings. This lust lady
is quite young. She has a beautiful form
and her face has strength as well as beauty.
Her name is slurred over as we pass by her
and my friend asks in a Whisper who she
Eidy be.
"Why that," is my reply, "isMiss Jlinnie
Wanamaker. She is the daughter of the
Postmaster General, and she is one of the
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brightest girls in Washington. The diplo
mats are crazy over her and she is one of the
best catches in America, Wanamaker is
worth at least 58,000,000 and he has only
four children."
Some of the Callers.
These vords are whispered and we move
back under a beautiful painting, and I give
""a muning comment on some of the visitors
ns they enter. "That gray-haired lady in
black with the bright eyes and fresh face is
Mrs. General Loean. She is well-to-do
now, and she is just beginning to go into so- .
ciety alter her husband & death, bhc drives
one" of the finest turnouts in Washington,
and there is no more popular woman in the
country. The pretty dark-faced little girl
behind her is Mrs. Major Tucker, and that
tall, fine-looking man is her husband, the
Major.
'Ton see, men call here as well as
women, and the old call as well as the
young. That tall tbin old man who is sow
shaking hands with Mrs. Wanamaker is
Horatio King. He was Postmaster General
over 40 years ago, and when Buchanan was
President and Jeff Davis was a society
beau he had the place that Wanamaker has
now. He is 75 years old, but he is as hright
as a dollar and he especially likes young
girls, and I will give you an introduction it
you want it."
My friend replied that she did not care
to be introduced just then and I went on:
Tears Sit UjUtly on. Her.
"That tall lady with the rosy cheets and
brown hair is Mrs. Senator Sherman. She
is fine-looking, isn't she? She has been in
society here longer than Horatio King, and
she came here with John when he was
elected to Congress away back in 1854."
"Before you were born?"
"VTei, 1 know, but she likes to go calling
as well nowas she did then and this Wash
ington society is a thing that grows on you.
What a lot that woman has seenl She knew
Harriet Lane. She was a noted lady
when Lincoln was P-csident and for four
years she had the si me place that Mrs.
Wanamaker has now when John Sherman
was Secretary of the Treasury. She has
been one of the leaders of the Senatorial
circle for years and years, and she presides
over the Senator's big mansion on K street
That girl with her is her daughter, Mary.
She will probably be as big an heiress as
Minnie Wanamaker, and she is one of the
best-liked girls among the daughters of the
Senators. We seem to have struck the rich
people to-day. That plainly-dressed lady
there who is just coming into the drawing
room is Mrs. Stanford.
Sirs. Stanford's Jewels.
"She don't look like the wife of the
richest man in the country, but you ought
to see her at a big dinner or at a White
House reception. She wears jewels at such
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times that are worth a fortune, and I have
seen her when she had a necklace said to be
worth $100,000 shining out below that char
acteristic chin. She is a woman of great
common sense, and shc believes in dressing
rightly at the proper places. No one makes
afternoon calls except in street dresses, and
you see that all the costumes to-day are
simple in the extreme.
"That white-haired man behind her is an
other Washington character. Note his
jolly Bacchus-like face, his white hair, his
rotund form and his courtlv airs. That is
the greatest old beau in Washington, and
his name is General "Van Yhet. He and
General Sherman are great chums, and they
used to make their calls together. That fine
looking lady behind him is Mrs. Senator
McMillan, who is another rich woman with
bcantifnl daughters, and there is Mrs. Sena
tor Wolcott, who is also rich and pretty.
She is a newcomer in Washiucton, but
seems to be growing very popular."
"Wanaznakcrft Art Gallery.
"But let us go on to the dining-room,"
said my friend. And with that we walked
on through elegantly furnished apartments
into a Ion? room so big that you could turn
a wagon load of hay in it without touching
the walls. This room was lighted from the
lop and its walls were decorated with some
of the finest pictures in the country. The
paper on the walls was of satin good enough
to make a dress and it was of such a tint as
to throw out the pictures.
The Postmaster General has perhaps a
hundred thousand dollars or so invested in
the canvas which is hung on these walls.and
it is the same throughout the other rooms of
the house. The dining-room is also hung
with satin and as we came in here, I saw
General Van Vliet taking a glass of Beth
any punch. As the cool, lenionade-iike
liquid flowed down his throat. I noticed a
spasm of surprise crawling from his chin on
up toward his nose and on until it mantled
his fair brow and reached the roots of his
frosted silver hair. The General, like most
of the army officers, likes punch, but he does
not approve of the article when not made
with the best of Jamaica rum or some other
spirituous liquor.
The Famous Bethany Punch.
"Mrs. Postmaster General Wanamaker is
a temperance woman. She does not permit
wine to be served at her Cabinet dinners
and she has inaugurated this Bethany
punch, which is a combination of lemons
and oranges flavored in some peculiar way
that makes it actually appetizing. Itjhas
become quite popular in Washington and
you find it everywhere now, even though
the Simon-pure intoxication article is served
from a different bowl at the same time.
swe munched over indigestible salted
almonds and took a cup of tea from a piece
of china that was worth its weight in gold, I
asked my friend to take note of a man
standing on the other side of the room. It
was a tall, well-formed, fine-looking man of
pei haps 35.
"I see him," said she in a whisper, "and
who is he?"
"That," replied I, "is the Ward McAllis
ter of Washington. He used to be even
more of an authority on social matters when
Mrs. Cleveland was here than he is now.
He is considered the handsomest man in
Washington and his name is Dr. Ruth. He
has been the best man at M) weddings, and
he is one of the old standhys ol the navy.
He is a bachelor, however, notwithstancl
ing. Mrs. Socrotary Noble's Receptions.
Leaving the Wanamaker mansion and
crossing Farragut square, we next went
past the residence of Senator Stanlnrd and
in a few minutes stood before the big house
of the Secretary of the Interior. It is a red
brick, facing Franklin square, and it has
the same awning and carpet leading out to
the street. There was the same swell butler
at the door, and Mrs. Noble looked not un
like Mrs. Wanamaker at the right of the
hall as we entered. She greeted us just as
cordially, and my friend said she made ex
actly the same remarks about the weather
in the same tones as those wc heard at Mrs.
Wanama Ler's.
The crowd was almost as great as that at
the Postmaster General's, and my friend
seemed surprised at the number of public
men she saw, and asked me who were the
chief beaus among the statesmen.
"Fully one-halt the Senators and Repre
sentatives," said I, "like to be considered
society men. That tall man with the big
head, the beefy shoulders and the face like
a great Chines'e doll is Speaker Eeed. This
is the first time I have seen him out this
season, but he usually goes to the receptions
and hi looks like another man when you see
him in a dress coat.
Tho Korean Minister.
"The Vice President makes the regular
round of calls and nil the naval officers are
fond of society. The diplomats all call,
and they are among the most popular of the
society beaux. The Chinese Minister and
the Korean Minister are among the callers,
and the Korean Minister always brings his
wife with him. I met him last night, and
noting that there was some change in his
clothes I asked him what it meant. He re
plied he was iu mourning.
' 'Oh, said I, 'I suppose you are in
mourning for your little child who died the
other day?'
" 'Oh no, said he. 'I am sorry for my
child, but I do not mourn for her. I mourn
for our Queen Dowager, the greatest woman
in Korea, who died a few months ago.' "
From Secretary Noble's we went to Mrs.
Secietary Proctor's, and thence called upon
Mrs. Busk and Mrs. Attornev General Mil
ler. It was, however, the same thing of
handshaking and chatting about little
nothings, and my friend at the end agreed
with me that it was awfully nice, but that it
must get awfully tiresome.
Cabinet Calling "Will last.
Will Cabinet calling last? Yes, I sup
pose so. Mrs. Secretary Blaine is the only
Cabinet woman who has, so far as I know,
ever objected to it. She will receive none
hut her friends on most Cabinet days, and
callers are told that the wife of the Secre
tary of State is not at home. Why shouldjive
have Cabinet calhs? Why should our Cab
inet officers' wives have to dress up and put
themselves on dress parade to be looked at
by people about whom thev don't care a
cent every Wednesday afternoon?
The expense of the receptions is some
thing. I know of some Cabinet officers who
spend three and fonr times their salaries.
and can't afford to spend once the amount
they receive. I know of others who would
drop Cabinet receptions to-day if tbey could,
and of still others who say they like "them.
The returning of the calls is quite an item
of trouble and expense. Let me tell you
how tliev do it. It used to be that all calls
were returned in person, and the time was
when the President's wile was exnected to
return all calls made upon her. Mrs. Fair
child, who received as many as 8,000 calls
on one day, tried to return all of them. She
found it impossib'e, however, for many ot
the cards had no number upon them, and
upon looking for the names in the directory
they could not be found.
A Squabble Over Rank.
We have in fact a merry war here every
year over who shall call first, and the rank
of the Vice President, the Justices of the
Supreme Court, the Cabinet Ministers and
of the Congressincn'is by no means a settled
one. Mrs. Vice President Morton receives
on the same day as the Cabinet Ministers,
and after leaving Mrs. Busk's we called
upon Mrs. Morton. It was about 5 o'clock
when we entered the immense, many-sided
brick mansion which constitutes the Vice
President's home, and we found that the
Vice President was in the reception room at
the time we were presented to Mrs. Morton.
What a fine-looking couple they arel
Mr. Morton is straight, tall and well-formed.
He has a big head thatched with short
wavy, iron-gray hair, which comes down
upon his forehead in a sort of a Itoscoe
Conkling curl, and his face smooth shaven,
looks as though it might have stepped out
of one of the paintings of the men of our
colonial days, which you find on the walls
of the rotunda of the Capitol. This fare
always wears a smile, and the Vice Presi
dent is considered the prince ot entertainers.
She Trained In l'arls.
The Vice President paid over 5100,000 for
this house, and he bought it from Bell, the
telephone inventor, and this dining room
which he added is said to have cost almost
as much as his entire salary during his
Vice Presidental term. It is the finest din
ing room in Washington, and the dinners
given in it surpass those of the White
Huosc. " Miss Gkuudy, Jb.
A Steam Phaeton.
A steam phaeton has appeared in Paris
resembling an ordinary phaeton. It car
ries under the body of the carriage a boiler
which cannot explode, with a funnel bent
down and discharging smoke under the
back seat.
FAIR WOMEN'S WORLD.
Tho Club Organized at Washington
Recently a Great Success.
J0TTIXGS ON FASHIONS AND PADS.
Feeing Maids of the Hostess and Toints on
Trivate Dinners.
KE17 PAKCIES FOE TI1B E0SEBDDS
Wimodaughsis of Washington is no longer
an experiment. This woman's club was or
ganized last June and is now so prosperous
that it will build its own clubhouse. Anna
F. Shaw is President and Adelaide Johnson
Vice President. Wimodaughsis is organ
ized as a joint stock company and will issue
stock not to exceed 200,000. The first issue
of 5,000 shares at 55 each was immedi ately
placed on the market and 200 shares were at
once subscribed. When 51.000 of these sub
scriptions are paid in Wimodaughsis will at
once put that amount to their credit in the
purchase of a suitable site, where the iuture
home of the club will be built. That building
is the object for which the organization in
tends to work zealously. It is a great idea.and
does credit to the minds that have planned it.
Wimodaughsis wants a building with an
auditorium large enough to accommodate
all the large gatherings which come here
year after year for their annual sessions.
First of all they want a place where the
annual conventions of the National Ameri
can Woman Suffrage Association, the
Woman's Christian Temperance "Union, the
Association of Collegiate Alumna;, the
Woman's Belief Corps, the Woman's Press
A Hat of the Day.
Association, the Bed Cross, labor and Indian
associations, federations of clubs, and all
the other societies of women, can meet for
their stated deliberations. As a purely
business speculation the scheme is a good
one.
In connection with the auditorium there
will be committee rooms for the executive
sessions of the above organizations, where
they mav keep a permanent headquarters.
The building will also contain a library,
reading and reception rooms, an art gallery
and rooms for classes, a thoroughly equipped
gymnasium, a natatorium and nny other
modern facility for instruction or amuse
ment. The parlors and the library may be
come the meeting ground for the members
and theii friends and especially for that
constantly increasing class of working
women who have.no homes of their own nor
suitable accommodations where they live to
talk with their -friends. In fact, Wimo
daughsis wants to provide itself and all
women who care to enjoy its advantages,
whether they are permanent or but transient
residents of Washington, with a headquar
ters where they meet women for mutual im
provement and mutual help, and from which
great ideas lor the lurtherance of all good
projects may be disseminated. .
The club now has its home at 140C G
street. Here the Woman's Suffrage Asso
ciation and the Woman's Christian Temper
ance "Union hold their business sessions and
have a permanent headquarters. These par
lors are rented nearly every night in the
week to some club "or organization. The
Indian Association meets there once a
month, the French Club every Friday night.
A musical club and a literary club have
also nights in every week. Organizations
of women who have laudable purposes in
view and want a chance to discuss them are
welcome to these parlors when they are not
otherwise occupied, and there is no charge if
thev cannot afford it. Wimodaughsis has
already in successful operation a series of
classes in which the following specialties are
taught: Art needlework, French, Spanish,
German, shorthand, typewriting and paint
ing and drawing. The club is a grand suc
cess, and will be a grander one.
Latest advices insist that all boas shall be
flat, somewhat broad and very lonp, reaching
to the hem of the skirt
The model dinner toilet illustrated is of
pink bengaline decorated with embroidery,
says Harper's Bazar. The embroidery
surrounds the edge of the demi-trained
skirt, and is carried upward on the sides.
On the right side is a narrow embroidered
panel edged with deep fringe. The skirt
is drawn up slightly by cross folds
on the hips and hangs in straight folds at
the back. The smooth-fitting short-sleeved
bodice is covered with embroidery. At the
heart-shnped throat is a flaring Medici col
lar of black velvet edged with gold beads.
Folds of pink chiffon are in the neck, and
frills of it hang from the short sleeves, veil
ing the arm to below the elbow.
A question which in these days of strug
gling to do everything according to the ac
cepted form may have puzzled some other
women, perplexed one briefly the other day,
says the New York Tifnet. A guest at a re
ception needed an extra service from the
maid in charge of the dressing room. A
grievous rent required some minutes' labor
to repair. The lady whose gown was torn,
as she stood helpless while the maid worked,
signaled a friend to find her purse for a coin
to bestow, hat the friend promptly vetoed
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the intention. "Never, my dear," she said,
with an air ot authority, "fee a maid in your
hostess' house in these circumstances."
Many mistresses, indeed, forbid a fee to the
servants when a guest of several davs' stand
ing is taking leave. The essence of hospit
ality is undoubtedlr the cause. "I and
mine at thy service," is the Arabic inter
pretation of entertainment. Considerable
difference of opinion and custom prevails
here in the matter. In "England the tip
for the servants' hall amount to a consider
able tax, but they are well-nigh obligatory.
Lady Salisbury's ball has-been the most
talked-of event in the world of fashion says
Miss Mantilini in the rail Mall Budget.
At a lady dressmaker's I was shown several
handsome dresses that were worn there
For a young lady there was a dazzlingly
pretty gown in silver and white brocade.
The skirt was draped over a flounce of
white chiffon, and edged with a silver
fringe, and the fantastic bodice (which was
not very decollete) was trimmed with dew
drop ne't and silver ball fringe. The sleeves
reached to the elbow and were made of
transparent stuff. It was a most fairy-like
costume, and must have looked gorgeous
under the electric light. Another gown, for
a young married woman, was of pearl gray
satin, covered with a veil of beaded net,
and ornamented here and there with tufts of
soft yellow and gray feathers. Satin is the
material most to the fore for expensive ball
dresses this season. ,
All smart gowns, whether for old or young
wearers, are being decorated with ostrich
feathers. It is the most becoming trimming
imaginable. Another gown destined lor the
function jnst mentioned was of dark green
silk, brocaded daintily with bouquets of
pale pink flowers. There was a quantity of
flummery on the bodice feathers, chiffon
velvet and what not, but the skirt was per
fectly plain save for a ruche at the foot. A
dance dress that had been made for a bru
nette beauty to wear at a less important
affair is worlh mentioning. It was of red
bengaline ornamented at the waist with a
garnet girdle. The sleeves were of white
chiffon, and the bodice was more than half
hidden under a diaphanous cloud of the
same stuff.
Egyptian ideas in house decoration are
already talked of. The Egyptian fireplaces
which are shown as huge massive affairs in
which the lotos flower in relief forms a feat
ure of decoration. A new drapery net in
old ivorv tint is also called after the land of
the Nile.
Mrs. Anna C. Fall, who was admitted to
the Suffolk county bar recently, makes the
third lawyer of the fair sex in Boston. The
others are Miss Alice Parker and Mrs. Lelia
Bobinson-Sawtell. Mrs., Fall's husband is
already a member of the bar, and she will
praotice with him. The two will not be in
partnership at the beginning, as the law
does not permit contracts between husband
and wife. But it is their intention to
petition the present Legislature for the
passage of a special act which shall allow
them to form a copartnership.
Pretty dark-eyed Miss Marie Lentilhon
has designed for herself a costume for
Mme. de Barrios' hal masque to-morrow
evening, says a New York exchange,
Pretty Maid of Arcady.
which will make her look like a fair little
maid of Arcady. The petticoat is of shell
pink satin, quilted in diamonds, and the
shepherdess polonaise is of white brocade
flowered in apple blossoms; around the
throat and down the front fall a full fichu
of rose pink chiffon. The back has a
Watteau plait which falls into a graceful
demi-train. The bat is of white crepe
trimmed with apple blossoms and tied un
der the soft, white throat with pink velvet
ribbons. She will carry a white and gold
crook with apple blossoms tied at the end.
Mrs. Flamboyant i n her box at the opera
I tell you, dear, he must be a perfect gentle
man or a perfect blackguard. None other
could stare at one through his glass so im
pudently. A young and blushing bride from Con'
nccticut, with a Yankee husband at her
side, went to Central Park to see the ani
mals the other day, says the New York
Morning Journal. The couple were very
much engrossed in each other, and the ani
mals did not receive the attention to which
they were entitled until the pair strolled
into the elephant house. Old Tippoo Sa
hib, the pouderous five-tonner, seemed to be
quite pleased with the pretty bride. He
ran out his great trunk and was fed barber
pole candy and peanuts by the delicate
fingers of the bride. When the elephant
had eaten all the dainties the visitors had,
the animal wanted more, and the trunk was
persuasively thrust forward again. Just
lor a joke the bride pricked the end of the
sensitive trunt with a pin.
'Twas only a little puncture, hut it made
Tip very angry. Still, he didn't show his
anger. His small eyes twinkled a little
more brightly, and he kept a close watch of
the couple while they remained in his
vicinity. He stopped eating hay, and,
moving over to a big bucket of water which
stood in the corner, he slowly filled his
trunk with its contents. Tne bride had
left her waterproof at home. This was un
fortunate, as Tip elevated his trunk and
blew the water upon the bride with such
force that she would have fallen, but for her
husband's assistance. The torrent struck
the woman lull in the breast and deluged
her. She resembled a dishrag. She gasped
for breath and was carried into the engine
room to dry.
Among the "rosebud" colony of pretty
maids few jewels and but little jewelry of
any kind is worn. Still, the young deb
utante has her jewelcase, and it is usually
filled with unique chic trifles, says the New
York Morning Journal. Tne newest scent
bottle carried by Miss Maude Jaffr.iy is of
ruby glass, after tne form of a hot water jug,
the'stand, neck, spout and handle being of
heavily chased silver. Solid silver spurs,
donned when the demoiselle is upon an
equestrian trip, are dainty trifles, which are
still expensive, costing as high as $70. 'Gold
thimbles, encircled with small brilliants, is
another article that Dame Fashion declares
necessary for a "bud," also a pair of silver
knitting needles. The youngest members of
society are still supposed to do some bit of
fancy work, perhaps for church fair or other
charitable affair.
Safety pins for children hare undergone
inch an evolution that now they can be had
in either gold or silver, enameled, polished
and jeireled with preoioui stones. ,
FIELDS E0R WOMEN.
Their Own Fault if They Submit to
Injustice and Bulldozing.
HOUSEHOLD SERVICE STILL OPEN.
Intelligent Womon Can Bring Dignity to
Any Calling on Earth.
THE SIjATEEI OF LIFE IN EOCIKTT
rWBITTES FOB THE DISPATCU.J
The world is constantly being called upon
to extend sympathy and aid to a class of
working women, many of whom themselves
elect to "endure every form of outrage and
oppression known to workers." By exercise
of their own will they, so to speak, make
their own beds, and tben with a recital of
blood curdling woes they call upon the
world to interfere and compel their employ
ers to give them shorter hours, more wages
and less oppression.
"There must be hearts still, and they'll
see soon, and then things'H be different," is
what one woman pitifully says. These poor
people put their-trust in pity, benevo
lence and symp'athy. But there is no
sentiment in business. They should
be taught to understand v-jat they
evidently do not know, that they have the
remedy in their own hands. What sort of
a woman is she who will sit from morning
till night makiog button holes at 6 cents a
dozen, at which she cannot earn more thau
52 or $3 a week, when she could have her
choice of a dozen places with healthful work
and good pay? The woman wage-worker,
says one, has fallen upon evil days. But it
is uot true. Forty years ago or more
women were restricted to about four trades.
Now the
Doors Are "Wide Open.
They can go into anything they desire, for
which they are capable and fitted. If they
have no taste for housework, they
have the world before them to choose
from subject, of course, to their
brains, their character and their
circumstances. Wow n who have found
small pay and poor promise in teaching
have gone to farming, gardening and ranch
ing. Women in the South who by the hor
rors and sorrows of war were reduced to
poverty, "run" plantations with great suc
cess. They have gardens in which they
cultivate early vegetables and flowers for
the Northern markets. They no longer give
their time to society, but find health and
wealth in work.
Women who are getting poor wares at
anything need to do as men do, keep their
eye out for something better. If they have
the spirit of independence in thei 'make
up" they put their pride iu thi " oocket
and lake the best pay going for anything
thev can do. and tben do it well.
Years ago in New England when factory
work paid better that any other, and yet
was considered pretty low down the spunky
girls of New England went into it, and so
dignified the position by their aptitude and
intelligence, that the women of the Lowell
factories became famous.
The Factors' Her Alma Mater.
Mrs. Bobinson, one of the newspaper
writers of Boston, tells how she went into
the factory when a slip of a girl and worked
14 hours a day. She gradnated there, and
considers the factory her alma mater. As
far back as 1841 a number of the girls formed
an organization for "the purpose of improv
ing their gilts from God." They estab
lished a magazine. This society was the
first woman's club of New England. Among
the notable members was Lucy Larcom,
so well known now as a writer. Another
was Harriet Farley, whose father was a
minister and whose relatives were among
the best people of New England. She tells
how from the age of 14, she had to work for
her living. She plaited straw for hats,
bound shoes, taught school, sewed at tailor
work and worked in the factory, which he
liked better than anything else. She was
the chosen editor of the magazine estab
lished by the factory girls, assisted by Miss
Curtis, another of the operatives.
The contributions to this work of "Mind
Among the Spindles" were written alter
factory hours by the workers, whodid not
spend their leisure hours parading the
streets and making "mashes" as a recent
report tells us the girls of the
factories do nowadays. Miss Farley says
she took up her work in the factory in oppo
sition to her friends, and in defiance of the
idei that she would lose caste. She received
good waees, as compared with teaching. By
economyin dress she assisted in giving her
brother a liberal education, and endeavored
to reconcile her. relatives by devoting ber
spare earnings to them and their interests.
She becme the editor and proprietor of the
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The contributors and workers upon this
magazine thought out their articles while
working 14 hours a day attending to their
looms. "They started with no lance or spear
to hgnt battles, not even their own. Their
aim, as announced,, was to elevate the
humble and show that good could
come out of Nazareth." They had taken a
low position as then thought to make
money, and manyflf tbem achieved fame a?
well." Their energy and enterprise have
furnished examples for others to follow.
The women df to-day have advantages far
beyond those of half a century ago, and it
ill becomes them to sit down by thousands
and tens of thousands in miserable tene
ments and garrets and make shirts for 6
cents apiece. The song of the shirt should
now be a hack number that nobody sings.
A lot of girls in Chicago solved their own
problem, as stated by Mrs. Barry. Thev
worked in a tailoring shop and,
contrary to orders, they attended a
picnic on Labor Day. For this
breach of discipline they were "fired."
Thereupon they set to work and solicited
subscriptions. By considerable effort they
raised 5100. They paid a month's rent in
advance, and in company with a few of the
brethren tbey started a co-operative tailor
shop. Inside of nine months, as the report
goes, those few men and women did $36,000
worth of business at their establishment ou
Fifth avenue, in Chicago.
"Waiting to Marry.
Some girls have gumption enough to
"strike out," but the most of tbem have
"getting married" in view, when, as they
fondly picture to themselves, they will have
a husband to support tbem. But these find
perhaps that
Life's fairest things are thoso which seem
The best is that of which we dream.
They are willing to work along somehow
until marriage opens fur thern the gates
of bliss. But only too often they
have to work harder, and even under
worse conditions than before. Too often
they realize the difference between the sat
isfaction of earning money and bearing their
own dollars jingle in their pockets, and the
humiliation of begging for a quarter for pin
money from a stingy husband.
One writer upon the sufferings of "the
slaves of the slop shops" seems to think that
the remedy lies in a "change of ideals"
in a refusal by people who are "better off"
to own anything that cannot be shared
with then. But he should remember that
this is a very queer world. If a "change of
ideals" would raise wages there might be
something in it. The practice of the Golden
Bute has been the ideal for thousands of
yean, but the inexorable law of supply and
demand is still in full effect and
likely to be until Bellamy's "Utopia has
been established by course of evolution. If
the good ladies who are so arduously en
gaged in toiling for the heathen in foreign
lands, and who are everlastingly sending
millions of money out of the country iu
their behalf, would devote their brains to a
study of the industrial question, they might
do a vast deal for the enlightenment and
improvement of these slaves at home. Con
template in comparison with the heathen
the amount of prayer and fasting and end
less effort it will take to convert the most
pious of business men and the straightcst
of deacons to the idea that competition
should give way to co-operation and an
equal share of the dividends.
Other Hard-Worked Women.
There is a .class of wording women who
receive even less consideration than the slop
shop slaves, thonzh tbey are continually
claiming it. These are they who are driven
by the demands of society. Like the others,
they have the remedy in their own hands,
but are subjugated and held by an intang
ible force to spend their time in the la
borious pursuit of keeping tally with calls,
and "doing" receptions and dinners and
other fashionable affairs. That they have to
work, and work hard, is very plain to see.
With a house to keep, a nursery to see after,
a lot of incapable servants to manage, with
butchers and bakers and candlestick makers
to bother with, with shopping to do, dress
makers and milliners on hand, with a half
dozen or more social engagements every day,
to say nothing of their soul-saving church
duties, it is no wonder they keep always say
ing they have hardly a minute to themselves.
The working-women have no time to train
their children. These must be given up to
the care of others, who may or may not be
up to the mark in morals. Society women
have no time to stay at home. Every even
ing is full of operas, and dances, and recep
tions and "goings on" that are usually more
ot a bore than a pleasure. They have no en
joyment of the delights of home because
thoy are called to be ever on the "gad."
How Society Bores.
"I always mate calls upon a pleasant day
when I can, said one of these desperately
driven sisters, because I usually find so few
at home I can get through 20 or 30 people in
an afternoon, and get them off my mind."
Some of the most perfect moments of ex
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declared that his health required the waters of Carls
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istence are described by a famous author it
sitting at home by the fireside with a book,
with the curtains drawn, and just enough
wind outside to make a suitable accompani
ment to indoors comfort. But few of these
halcyon seasons are ever enjoyed by the
working women of society. Emersonsays
"the domestic man who loves no musio so
well as that of his own kitchen clock?, and
the airs whicli the logs sing to him as they
burn upon the hearth, has solaces which
others never dream of."
But these have no music for the fashion'
able working women. They mnst be off to
the opera, ostensibly to take in the barbari
ties of Wagner, or the slush of Sullivan,
but really to be a part of the show as to
decollete dress and diamonds or to the ball
at the Blanks to exchange inanities per
haps scandalous whispers with their fellow
workers in vanities. The most wordly, tho
most senseless, the most objectionable of
men and women are the workers in tha
treadmill of society, says a learned doctor of
divinity. Society "women work hard, but to
what intelligent aim or useful end the)
heavens above only know.
A letter tells me I am hard upon the
working women, who, in doference to their
prejudices, submit to oppressions. They
have been brought up with them and can
not easily east them off, says the writer.
True enough, and all the more reason that
these fool notions should he preached and
pounded out of existence as soon as pos
sible. No honest work is degrading. A
sensible and independent woman would no
more sit down and make button holes at &
cents a dozen and work 14 honrs a day for.
52 a week and submit to bulldozing by a '
brute of a foreman than she would make an
endeavor to fly to the moon. She would
rather go out and break stones on the road
at f 1 SO a day as did some women in Eastern
Pennsylvania or submit to the dire iai
dignity of receiving wages for doing house ',
work. Bessie Bramble.
A Sketch "Wound Up.
Harper's Bazar.
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"Ha! Now for a little action, and tht;
effect will be simply immense."
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