Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14

who cannot support her. She may have so
hs.r -zratnnsd with thanks on her family's
hands. like a rejected essay from the popular
MAGAZINE Office. She may be single, ana
mast 30 or s.. The position and social stand
ing Of the family require that she should
have as many costumes per year as the
girls her more youthful sisters, who are now
taking their first society headers but some
body must pay for the merchandise. She
can't She cannot earn so much as a bread
and water living. Somebody grumbles be
hind the scenes, and the poor surplus girl
must hear this grumbling, and must Cear II,
because her W pride and the family pride
and all oftbe azure tinted blood Of the Amer
lean CaSars demand that she must dress up
10 regulation rules, visit tho summer water
inc place, and move first lass IN every
direction. Perhaps the misery OF oOlisatiOh'
Of dependence, and Of a splendid helpless
ness is in cases greater than that OF the my
paid and oyerwoTked waiter or factory gHI'
who NAV have the satisfaction OF feetng that
her own hands and brain bring her own
money.
There is one type here OF surplus girl who
saws openly that she will marry anything
or ANYBODY" young or old, handsome or
ugly, providing the thing has money
former lsndlafy of min h-%S~U GlrlS OF Iais
49, - u:-ssrT intent. | thlnk that IN
such declaration they meant business. Lie
with them had always been a hard, meager,
stunted AFFAIR." mixture from their youth
M Of hard work, hurry, debt and anxiety.
they had seen mostly the back door and
kitchen side Of it They waited on the table.
psrfomed the chamber work and in leisure
intervals sat in the windows 20 watch with
enyious and cOvetOuS eyes the spring. Sun-
mer and fall dr-SSeSg 20 by which they cou!dnOt
AFFORD: 20 see their wealthy sisters roll by IN
their carriages. rolling in a world they could
never reach. SO had they sat for years. 50
had combined n and desperation grown
on them amt over them. Little wonder.
They slept in the attic and lived in the kitch-
en-. for the best rooms must Be reserved for
others: were snubbed by the bOarjers and
weighted down by q shiftlesS mother who was
ever in debt, ever borrowing in advance from
the dodgers, and ever tearing down with her
gossiping tongue whatever luck or good Will
from others her spaSmOdic and lily regulated
industry had built up for herself.
4 story current here runs thus: y young
woman, bred in a circle Of wealth and refine
ment, Is suddenly reduced to poverty. She
i obliged To explore for herself that unknown
world whero a living must be earned. She
must look for something TO do She oilers
at last 70 stand behind the counters Of q
wealthy retail merchant before which in her
day Of prosperity she had so often stood and
Inade expensive purchases. How much
would she receive per week. -Four dollars
was the answer. Four dollars, She was I'M
pleasantly astOnisheL This was her first
view Of the wide chasn between the world OF
work and the world Of leisure 10 which she
hal been accustomed.
But how an l TO pay room rent, board,
car fares and dress myself out Of Siper weekF
she managed at last 10 ask.
Il don't know" was the merchants reply.
i have nothing TO do with that; you must
do as the rest do
l find this an oft-told story in Boston,
and also find that the Interpretation given
the claus, doing as the rest do" to be an
unsayory one. Ihaye heard also this same
story applied 10 two well known merchants
here For such reason take the liberty Of
doubling the story as told with its most un-
favorable application, and at the same time
believing in the event hat gave 1t a founda-
ton. Tue story involves q phase Of life that
belongs 70 its own time. Ii will in one sense
apply 70 hundreds Of stores and places Of
business. II Is the embodiment Of n ruling
sentiment here-thc sentiment Of getting Us
much as possible, and giving for labor. in-
tellIgcncc, skill or material a. little - Dos
siblC. But common sense and SCif-IuterCSt
would deter any business man from giving
such n reply 10 a young woman under the
circumstances, in its lower application. Aud
again, it Is sometimes an unfortunate ten
denCy in some people TO ferret out the lower
application and motive in the words where
such spirit was never intended. And vet
the story may bo true-awI It NAV not.
PRENTICE MILFORD.