St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-09-08
the PUjJHI .SiOrY.

young women. They are ever represent
ed ~ ii9htin9 alone 4 terrible battle with
want, clinning to their virtue until hum
Ger ike @aunt wolf at the door has rem
dercd them desperate, ami yiclding to
their fate only when utter mi-ery ANA
| dcstitulinn left them no other alternative
| but death. In the story they are always
cha.tc, rc~oiuie AMI accomplished. For
-akcn of friends, they become brides of
the needle, and toll by day and far into
the watches OF the night Tor the mcrcst
pittancr--c;irccly enough, when it comes
without interruption, 10 keep soul ;ml
body together; AMI when it fails, through
a few days sickness, leaving them Who'll
ly without Resources 10 tlr mcrclrS, uses
OF an unpilyin. worlI. This oft-rcpcat-
cd story may have been true in 4 single
instanr, or it may have been wrought
at iir-t wholly ont Of the imagination Of
some fallen one rs a palliation of her
Guilt but in either case it has no gencr-
al application in truth to the class thus
represented. |. Ii designed 10 call forth
our pity iur tha wretched ones who have
thrown themselves upon the town, it is
wholly needless, since the depth OF their
draralation Is itself the most stirring ap-
peal - our charity; and it generally
hinlrlS wcll meant efforts for their relief,
since our. brncvolencc Is ever taking Il
wrong direction, and thus fails to dis
cover and remove the temptation that
Ia, lurel them to cvll.
1t l. fact that ~ young woman III
cool health, skilled in any womanly ac-
compli>hmcnt, need fail OF remunorativc
employment, or he driven from this cause
to surrender what should be as precious
to her IL life. There Is both in city and
country a constant, untailing demand
for w"manly service. We speak not
now wholly, OF chiefly, of the need OF
such all in ordinary houScworh. Tie
! Kitchen i much more dreaded by many
youug womrn, native born, than many
dem"ralizing cmploymentS which serve
too often ~ gateways 10 the house OF
prostitution. And this is not, as Il re
cent writer of that sen has asserted with
80 much emphasis, ''bycau-c the mistress
ut the household does not treat her do
mcstirs with the consideration which the
mcanc-t Of human beings fairly deserves"
On the contrary there i not Il dependent
of either sex as tendcrly and carefully
treated outside Of these conditions a- the
cook and chambermaid. There is no
"entlcmrn'> son in bank or cGuntin@
house in this city that dare7 Ia put on
such airs rs are daily assumed III our
kitchens. Bridget or Dinah will 1--WE
warning ur in most eases leave with
ont warning, for a tenth ot TIE rating or
fuult-lnding which the best accountants
or clerks have to take withOut "rumbling
almost every day OF their lives. Ii your
youmg man in the store or office does not
suit in his work you tell him plainly 10
alter it. and lac Is dad cnourh if you do
it kindly: your wife is fortunate in her
hc Up ii ~hr larcS repeat tl.at experiment
in the Same tone and temper with the
best naturrd Girl in the house, We a~k
our fair author WHO insists that ''house-
hold drul"rS are - sunk in misery and
wrrtchcdness from the ill-trcatmrnt OF
@irl can he found to take their place."
where she will find any other class in
service Of any sort, lncudin" the best OF
American boy, whose ''irrlin"-' are -
carefully considered
But we are not HOW plcadn" for the
kitchen or laundry. We assume the
conditions sol the pitlful story at the
outset To he true, viz. that the young
"irl Is IN accomplished nrcllc-woman,
and j. thrown upon her own resources
for Il living. There i even here a Great
want of wlllin", trustworthy help. We
do not speak oi the country, where a
-camstress OF any description of work
can hardly ht had for love or money,
but of our Great city, where the mythical
young girl, expert in this womanly az
compli>hmcnt, tolls in a garrct for few
shIllIngs a week until the roses fade from
her check, lines OF sorrow are written
across her face, starvation Is at the door,
and ~hc sinks into vice and crime rs the
only rcfugc. There l. not a word Cf
truth in any such representation. Girls
who can do even plain SEWN" are want
cI hy respectable employers all the year
round, and when one is once proved, the
demand for her Is 50 treat that her Gus
TONERS ioStlc each other in their efforts
TO secure her services. Those who can
fit dresses, or even take old dresses and
rcIuvcnatc them, can 90 out nearly every
day in the wear into IA GOOD family at
from II 80 to - day, and three GOOD
meals thrown in with the price, return
ln% every night ii they choose to their
own boarding house or well furnished
apartments. We know lady who, a
few days since, even in midsummer, tried
To hire Il %irl to do PLAIN sewing at ;
day, her meals 10 hc taken in the house
at the same table with her employer,
and who went to more than half Il dozen
recommended TO her before she could
find one disenga%cd, and then secured
her for only part Of the needed time, be-
cause shc had 80 many other calls. n
smart young Girl. who l. only skilled in
plain SEWN" upon linen and muslin m
dcrm mllmcntS "Ocs out with or without
her SEWN. machine ut - day, and a
friend at our elbow has been waiting for
several weeks 10 secure Il turn at her ser
vice.
This is not n choice betwoca starva-
lion in a garrct. or the lie of harot
whatever be said of places for men, an
intelligent, active girl who will work for
II living, is wanted everywhere, not in
kitchens only, but in the family parlor,
where she may sit beside her cmnloyer.