The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-03
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Women OF New York Who Labor u Screen
Their Poverty From Fashions rye.
"one half the people In New York Ike,
said philosopher the other day, and tee
other half pretend to live This is truef
than most people suspect. The number OF
persons who give their lives TO making an
appearance is astonishing, and the deyic,
10 which they resort to 10 be thought gen,
1eel and 10 avoid working for a living
would astonish the world II fully expt std
One OF the most interesting eases OF shah.
by genteel will be found a, the Family
hoIel. Every one of these establishments
has one or more dodgers who live In the ton
ot the house IN the cheapest apartments,
next 10 the servants, who take their meals
AT cheap restaurants or beer saloons, hut
who dress we'll, and use monogram note
paper, and receive their company IN the
motel parior and generally assume the
style and airs of retired well.to-do people.
In one case recently brought to the at
tention OF the writer, lady and her two
daughters occupied rooms at one OF the
most fashionable hotels in the city Tor two
wears, Her daughters furnished the income
by very hard work, one OF them rs COPY.
lst, and the other in large
Geographic house. But no one in the
hotel ever suspected that they depended
upon their labor for their income. The
young ladies made together about 50 OF
$50 week, and on this sum they man,
aged, by the most pinching economy in
eating, to dress well and move in a certain
circle. But the ar of disdain with which
they spoke OF people who were compelled to
work, and the poetic references they con
stantly made To their blood and ancestry
produced the most respectful treatment
IRON all who came IN contact with them
A young lady aud her father, who lived
NJ the Westminster for some time. and
passed as belle in certain sets, worked In
u book'bnder's establishment in Nassau
street, and actually supported her father in
his genteel airs. In this case IL came to tn,
knowledge of the writer that this youn,
lady, on more than one occasion, went sup
PEERLESS to bed because she had to pay tor
coupe.
Another form of pretentious gentility is
found IN those families that hire houses ant
then sublet all but couple OF rooms, re
tanning the use OF the parior for to make
show, and always turning up their noses a
people who are compelled to live in flats.
70, We" they always say, couldn't be re
stricleu to Hat, you know. Ii may do fo
people who have never had.the freedom o
whole house, but we must have our owr
establishment" Ii they live In base
ment house they have to put up sometimes
with doctor or dentist, but they com
promise by calling his room the lbaary
when they have party.
There are hundreds of genteel peopl,
living on Lexington avenue, who for tn,
sake OF making it appear that the,
occupy whole house themselves, are con
tent TO bunk in the garnet and cook will
the oil stove. But they make enough of
| their wages TO dress well and have a coach
and livery take them to the park in tn,
atiernood.
1t is said, by those who know, that tn,
| gay cavalcade to be seen on a pleasan
afternoon on the avenue is made up in un
equal proportions of millonares and beg
gafs, who, so far as dress is concerned, car
not be distinguished from each other.
| In the ranks OF the op.r | YES who live oil
the east side 1t is strange to know that
Goa h is the sign ofgentility. To be able I,
hire coach is the weakness OF hundreds o
girls who work by the weel
downtown, and IL is Tor thi
reason, perhaps, that in the poorer classe
funerals have become sort OF evidence G
gentility, the condition OF the family bein
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scores of girls who give music lessons VIII
spend nearly all they make ut the liver
able. They are driven to their pupil.
houses in ooupe,, and they are very parlcu
lar about the livery.
The superintendent ola large enyelop,
factory In this city said that some year
ago faintlng epidemic broke out anon,
his girls. Without any premonilion what
ever an operator wonld suddenly fall owe
as If dead, and was in the habit sometim
OF calling carriage aud sending the invs
nd home. But when the thing grew (
effect the whole factory, he turned one o
his rooms intoa hospital and he hired
doctor 10 apply restoratives, from which
moment not a girl tainted. II was not I'll
some time after that he discovered by acc
dent that IL was the ride home In the coac
that had brought on the epidemic Ne'
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