The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-06-11
A COUNTRY MAIDEN.
WANTS TO GO TO THE GREAT CITY
THAT SHE MAY EARN HER BREAD.
What City Paper has 10 Give Her In the
Why OF Advice md Very Good Advice
from the New York SUM-

tFrom the New York SUM-
The letter below comes TO us from q
young woman in pleasant village of
this State:
81 am a young lady 81 years OF age,
and 1t is necessary for me to earn my
own living. have done 80 for the past
four years by country school teaching.
"Now, am very anxious to obtain
employment in the city, as l think l
would have many more advantages for
improvement than 1 have in small
country place.
"Will you advise me what chance /
would have to gain position were to
come to the city and learn type writing
or telegraphy, or il there is any employ.
ment more promising than either OF
these will you please name it :"
A young woman who is able to earn
her living in the country should hesitate
long before coming to New York to
hunt for employment. In fact, it would
be wise for her to abandon the project
at once.
Our correspondent has safe shelter in
the little village where she teaches
school. She probably has about her
friends who are interested in her well
fare, and during the four years in which
she has been engaged in teaching she
ought to have won a reputation which is
valuable to her. She is known and
trusted where she is, and the chances
are that she can earn steady living
there in an employment for which she
is fitted by experience.
II she came to New York she would
have to begin anew; and, moreover, she
proposes to learn new business, and be-
fore she becomes proficient enough in
that TO make her living in the great
city she will be out of pocket for the
cost of her board for weeks. and, per-
haps, months. Even after she has grown
to be an expert type writer or telegrapher,
she will not be 80 well of in the town as
she is now in the country. Though she
may get higher wages, the cost of living
will be greater, and, besides, her life
will be less comfortable and less desirable
for young woman. She will not lie
able to hire any except close quarters,
and may have to take poor fare.
Nor is it at all certain that she will he
able to get steady employment in New
York after she has learned her new
business. She will come into competi.
ton with great number Of other women
who have been longer at the work, and
will he one Of very many novitiates. ShO
will have to make place for herself
against obstacles which may be strong
enough to dishearten her and unfit her
for good work.
Nor is it prudent for this young wom-
mn to give up the shelter and seclusion
she enjoys in the country for the tur-
MOL and publicity and temptations of
the great town. However il NAV be with
a boy, girl should prize the advantages
of a life removed from the fierce strife OF
a populous centre of activity, and cling
to them as necessary to her happiness.
We advise our fair friend to go on
teaching the country school until tho
day comes when she is brought to hei
own home by husband who is charmed
by the simplicity and gentleness of tho
village maiden. She is a fortunate girl
IN compared with thousands of her city
sisters who are struggling against oh.
siacles they are unfit to encounter.