The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-28

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HINTS ABOUT MAKING A LIVING.
How Women OF Various Degrees of Compe.
tency and Wealth Deal with the World.
New York Mail and Express
One who knows much Of women in different
classes finds in himself healthy limitations Of
sympathy for those compelled to make theis
own living rather than the host who want to
make little money. He learns to pass uu-
moved the decorated plaques and albums of the
interesting young lady whose allowance falls
short on long gloves and concert tickets. He
views the carved cabinet or the sketches in oils
by the matron of settled income without a de-
sire to buy and aid her ambitions for a silver
service or summer abroad Rather he feelx
that both might be in better business than
taking the scanty employment from home-
less girls or women whose children have
no home or portion except through their moth
ers earnings. The old-fashioned sentiment
which forbade gentlemen and women of certain
income working for money had its root in the
sound and honorable feeling that it became
those who had enough and to spare to allow the
less favored chance. Those free from cares
for money and livelihood were to give themselves
unpaid to higher interests-to the study of art,
the researches OF science, to charities and the
service of humanity in its broadcast sense. Ii
was theirs to spend generously, yet wisely, like
Mr.. Hope, the English banker, who entertained
royal dukes with an elegance they could not
rival in their own palaces, whose collections and
curios were unequaled and whose char
tiles were as liberal his tastes. yet who
knew every item of his superb house,
keeping to the cost of each plate in his banquetss
A later model is Lord Bulwer. who living at the
rate of $25. 600 year, kept his own household ac-
counts so nicely that he could say not SO much
as a candle was wasted without his knowledge
James Hope Scott could found the beautiful
Rituast College, which was the love of his
youth yet he was capable of walking thirty
miles on tour to save his allowance, or of wear
ing suits three years to send an invalid tutor to
Madeira without encroaching on his other charts
ties Miss Martineau used to protest vigorously
against the housekeeping in many lordly English
families when strawberries and cream were
hardly known in season, and outlets took the
to London to be sold. Yet there was
a noble side to this frugality. The Earl
and his lady daughters would not have painted
picture or written book for money, to compete
with struggling artists and authors, but il mort
cages were to be cleared, or rents ran short in
bad years, they could strip every peach from
their orchards and rose from the conservatories
for city markets, which were never yet over
stocked with flowers or fruit. Such thrift COM
pares creditably with the American habit Of
setting wife or daughter to earn what fches
from their strength OF from the chances OF
women of sorer needs.
We all know of women who are trying to mako
money for small social ambitions or fancied
wants besides those who are driven to make
their living, who must earn their bread before it
is eaten. There is the young woman who, not
content with the income of $4,000
and its opportunities, must have
market, because she wants occupation, and then
must needs try her art by the selling test, for
the sake of feeling her own strength-which
passes for high sentiment in her circle. where il
never occurs to anyone to ask if art is only rec
ogniZed by price, if there are no churches or
hospital walls to be decorated, as noble amateurs
abroad painted the wards of the Princess Alice
Home for Children, or to point out the difference
between her cheques and those for equal work
from women artists whose brush is their for
tune The haggard faces meets i'll studios
where women work for a living the early fading
bloom watch dies there, the anxious blow, the
wreck of nerve, and whispers of scanty patron
age tell heavily against the amateur in fur and
velvet who bids for their best customers
The odds are too heavily in favor of
velvet and sable for any woman of self Prospect
to enter the lists unnecessarily. The way of the
world is to give most to those who need it least.
If the wealthy artist protests against being ex-
cluGed from the same opportunities as poorer
women let her look at the advantages they never
share and the cares from Ehch her fortunate
position protects her, and be content with her
half of the loaf.
Nor women of moderate means exempt
from like sordid efforts Browne and his wife
are young people, well educated, well con-
nected. He a confidential clerk for liberal
firm, with salary of $1,000 a year, and ex-
pectations, on which, as they live at genteel
clearinghouse for $l5 week and have no
claims on them nor ever mean to have ono
would say they might live and save something
without Mrs. Brownies shutting herself up every
day as cashier, and singing in a choir for sal
airy Sundays. In the same house is an orphan
girl who has been trying for place in a choir to
help her mother, who stays with the Ave children
in close fiat all summer, unable to afford q
weeks outing. Mrs Browne is one of the love-
Hest and kindest of women, but it never enters
her head that two-thirds of the places in church
choirs are held by comfortable people, while
well-reared girls and under paid clerks with FAM
lilies wear their hearts out with longing for the
salaries which would mean life and lifted care
for them. There is great want of nice percep-
ton and gentle feeling in such matters as these.
Drown is clever man with salary of So, 900 a
year, beside chances to make money outside his
business 1t should not be necessary for his
wife to drudge at newspaper work while her
babies come and grow, or for his oldest girl to
step from boarding school to the concert stage.
Drown was proud of saying that his wife made
as much as he did by her pen. and of talking
about his daughters career. The ambition OF
all was to secure place in society, and be
quoted in the newspapers as regularly as the
price of lard and bacon. The girl married as
soon as she could to escape the drudgery
of her profession, died in year, and
the mother, broken down while yet a
young woman, complains how much more men
think of the women who keep themselves fresh
and lively than Of the women who wear them
selves out to push their projects. She never
reflects that she was not obliged to work and
make herself sallow and unloyely, or that she
would have made better reputation if she had
written only as refreshment from home duties.
Drown had dissipated clerk, whose wife applied
for work on the daily for which Mrs Drown
wrote. The poor clever woman could have done
half the work, and done it better than
Mrs. Drown. but she had chance be-
side the well-to-do authoress So she
lives in shady sort of way; nobody knows
how. Mrs. Drown would have sent her $50 il
she knew her straits but to give up the chance
of making $50 is something of which only the
finest blood and nature are capable Was it not
Lord Reginald Gowen who left the contest for
university honors that friend might win, to
whom place and honors were of consequence
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