New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-26

quarter TO the theaer and the Sunday ride TO Central
Park which ought to be Of the ordinances of the
day They want knot Of ribbon for their hair and
nice handkerchief for state They must
dollar week at least for future provision. Can they do
this ON week, the price OF hand labor among
womeni The English servant, stad well trained, and
saving lays up pounds every year lower wages than
New-York girls make The Paris grsete sings her
work, and goes trinity Clad picture OF ght-hearted
ness and thrift Onethrd less than the sopsewers Of
Thirdave receive. The goodhumored country asses Of
our own Western States gay crckets they have
Oayear to expeDd on their clothes In the first place
these working girls need to have life made possible in
decent conditions for something not s. week This
already done by institution started in Eizabethst
where clean rooms with free use Of sittngroom Baths
and sewingmachne provided the the
food furnished in the restaurant OF the building for
sum you and call nominal 1t would be felt, however
we restricted allowance for food TO 81 week. Tea
for three cents cup, bread and butter for five cents
plate OF soup for six cents for ten, the prices
at this friendly restaurant The house is well built ana
nearly the plain severely but attractive
with order and that neatness which makes the slightest
touch OF additional furnishing tell the effect strange
TO say the house has been full its opening This
fact alone is comment the spirit OF working women
1t fair that the for the depressing reception
OF many schemes for the benefit OF worklng-women
should be considered found that they involve much
of what people call sentiment 10 will be remembered
that all economy which ngnores this quality sooner or
later falls TO the ground In the first place. these women
want If helped at all, to have broad help something
which appeals their souls with oheerfuness and rest
1t unhankful in them to turn away from the new
thoroughly comfortable institution to the rookery down
RoOseveltst which swaTms with odder humanity than
you and ever saw. But out OF the Bohemian temper Id
every composition, why the old house
the side of the way with the geranums In the
broad hange Of the window seats, and the wharfboys
dropping after Mother Mols jovia supper OF CLANS to
lost lvouc fort 10
the clatter may have claim the workinggrrs heart
beyond that of the tall fresh building on the SIDE street.
There the sunshine does MT freely and there ever
slight hint of the institution arrangement IN the
iron stairs the Offices the rules and roll call Ihese uh
governed creatures feel the slightest restraint and chae
at IL as the Indian fres in corset The only thing 10 do
is 10 be patient with them aud win their confidence
cant plrase-nsensibly By surrounding them win inc
conditions 10 inspire it, Give them all the sunshine that
can pour into the house, and have flowers, possible
for them TO tend BE indulgont to their followers ana
never never feel that they are in any way
separate or remarkable class. wish you could have
looked paror last night said the superintendent
OF such clearinghouse "He said that there couldn't
be better looking class of brought together than
we turned out there" Why should they DO better or
worse than any hundred decent women of any rank.
This idea that they any to be pted or noticed
or looked down on or patronized in any way is offensive
10 the idea Of womanhood. and detrimental to any good
feeling among them. The accident of being working
woman makes girl more answerable to the good
opinion Of Others If the fact that she Is thick or thin
She in the station where IL has pleased God to place
her 1t is no more credtable her be quiet and ami
able than the lady her carriage 1t is just so
much OF an advantage and These morbid poor
women and morbid high need to forget the class
each belongs to- equally. When this is done, when cheer
full homeke boarding houses are found for poor women,
when they can be sociable Of evenings, spontaneously
and not in the dutytobe grateful fashion, when their
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them than cheat literary Of her DUE when ex'
penses are so reduced that they fall within girls in
come by working ten hours day. society may feel
that its duties at end IN that quarter Whatever
else a must be the product Of her skill, not
her right shared with idiots and paupers TO subsistence,
but her prize won by bow and spear she chooses
10 do work Of better quality than ordinary the reward
Will surely come. She may make herself worth what she
will society will pay her price. II the working woman
wants income luxury and place. she must earn them as
the workngman Fortune does not give her favors
she sells them. Unskilled labor viii never command
more than subsistence.
suppose for instance that the desired consummatIon
were brought about, and sewingwomen were paid s.
day for work. Just what bckayers and carpenters re-
eeve Would many women in New-York be found to
pay the sunni There would be an instant end TO much
partygvlng and party gong and employers would stay
at home to make garments themselves. The needle
woman would lose the halloaf at But it unfair
TO compare the Of the with the ephemeral
labors Of seamtress One thing that stands In the
way of improved for work is the want Of com
munication between employers and employed. do now
know Is women on my small list Of acquaintance who
would be only glad TO find seamstresses capable OF
cutting and making common dresses, and who would
work for s. 50 a day and their meals Nobody can call
this less than far price, but there are not women 10 be
found who fill such places There is not boarding
house in NewYOrk City that could not amply support
one or more seamsresses the year ronnd with the work
Audit nFa IA
from Maine to Oregon for house-servants.
cannot pity a who complains that she cannot
support herself while many homes open to those
who are willing to actually work. If the women ~ho
haunt printiDgoces looking for stray scraps OF report
ing or copying would take off their sleeve buttons and
at oace into the laundry and the pastry would
be better them and the world too. II there Is any
subject do understand it is the one am talking about
now. The fatigue. the duties. and the disabilities Of
Homework familiar things TO woman brought up
in the country.
propose no new arrangement OF social order, no
equality Of mistress and maid baptizng drudgery by
new names Of household duty domestic responsibility
Young wanting work cannot do better with
themselves than to into families as servants and any
graduates Of NewYOrk grammar schools unable TO find
secearyshps goyernesspaces, or reporters desks
might give good proof of their fine breeding and capacity
by accepting such work and ennobng it, Three four
girls might apply at the same house and monopoze It's
situations for the sake keeping each other company
Ihave a story to tell which bears on this suggestion
young student at one Of the best schools OF SewEn
gland for some fanced disagreement with her relatives
left their protection, and sought situation as chids
goyerness This could not find but she came across
vacancy in pleasant family, caused by the death oil
the seamstress who had lived there for years
The girl determined TO take the place. and TO the horror
OF friends she packed up Fasquee and Cicero to as
anne low sewipe-char In the nursery OF suburban
house She found pleasant room ready for her. as wen
,,sbsd as the hall rooms in many NewYork boarding