The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-26
How . Young woman Can Live O.
Two Dollars a Week.

All the Year, Dec. II.
4 young lady writes to the Sunday .Her-
e,yy to AK how she shall live on two dol
lare a week, an amount which she Gays
constitutes her whole income and salary
| for attendance as saleswoman in a rstail
store her duties in the store keeping her
| from early morning until night. The Mer-
e,uy has offered no solution Of the problem
presented as yet.
This question of how to live is one
| which, in its various signifcations, occn-
pies the minds and hearts of many people
of all classes
With the shop girl, show to live" on her
wages, is a closer calculation than with the
| factory girl. In this: that, while the fac
| tory girl can go in the piainest or untidiesi
| of dress il she chooses, the sales lady has
no such option. The necessities OF her po-
sition and success of her attempts at sales
| manship demands that che shall be we'll
| dressed, at least, 80 far as outward show
goes. In the case OF the young lady spo-
ken OF, large portion of her wages goes
for room rent, &c, leaving q miserable pit
lance for food. The diet in her case con-
sisting of bread and coffee only once in two
weeks, an indulgence in meat to the extent
Of ten cents worth Of dried beef nothing
left of her wages 10 buy the materials even
for dress; and, az she is constantly occu-
pied in her store duties, NO time to make q
dress if the goods could be bought Ready
made dresses, however cheap they may be
sold now 10 those who have the money, are
it il scarcely worth while 10 raw, ont of the
, reach Of girl who receives hut TWO dollars
per week for all her vaults.
No- .b,Ia IT,, ,,ono, all IL -
man how she can live any better on two
dollars a week, or suggest any mode where
by she could even extract the common COM
forts Of life from this meagre income, We
do think We can suggest remedy for her
troubles and of others like her. 1t this
young woman wishes to live IN comfort and
also have her two dollars FER week, We can
enlighten her as 10 how to do it.
Let the young women who now crowd
into cur stores and factories to starve on
long hours and short pay sink a little OF
their false pride and try another charne! Of
employment.
"Biddy,' with her confident ignorance Of
all that belongs to decent and comfortable
housekeeping, has so long swayed it over
the muct-enduring housekeeper, and so
thoroughly upset the good old style of
comfort In housekeeping and cooking, that
there are thousands OF families who would
hail with delight a change to intelligent
and understanding servants, help if you
like it better
In m ,ny families OF the middle class the
educated intelligent girl would be made one
Of the family, not only in working, but in
association, and even in those fs.nilies
whose taste or whose prejudicial pride, if
you choose to call it so, forbade the admit
lance OF the friendly relation.
How would her position be any less re-
spectacle than behind the counter OF Sec
end or third class store, subject to the peev-
i-h and oppressive exactions Of an ill-bred
or ill-tempered master to say nothing OF
the insolent observations and looks of the
graceless men, and supercilious imperri-
nencss OF the fault finding female custom.
ers.
Sink your weak vanity young women and
try the change from two dollars or less =
week to starve on, to two dollars or more a
week and full rstions besides Chamber
maid or shop girl the work makes no.differ-
ence in responsibility, unless, in favor Of the
former, perhaps.