Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-13
WOMAN AND HOME.
ADVICE TO COUNTRY GIRLS WHO
SEEK THE CITY.

How to Keep MISUNDERSTANDING
Terribly overwhelmingly Lamp.
Women Growing Larger-Care of Babies
Dish Towels-Household Hints
To the strong and healthy country maiden
who seeks not only self support, but greater
excitement, every large city. with its wealth
OF trade and glittering show seems q Eline
ready to yield its rich ore. All kinds OF girls
steady, earnes, workers and giddy. thought
less and dissatisfied village oelles-throng the
railway and steamboat stations, utterly mex
perienced. often nearly penniless. alone and
strangers. What do they mean TO dos Uui-
versally the answer is. ''Get work. as If it
were 70 be had for the first asking. To OBJ
tain board NEAR by.' or 20 WORK for board,
seems TO their simple experience very easy TO
manage But what are the factsi Arriving
in the hurried. rushing crowd, no one meets
them, no one notices the bewildered. fright
Sned amazemeut at so many people, no one
directs TO the safe shelter Of some Young
" omans Christian association or lodging
house. All, yesl here are one or two 10
notice. this policeman or this hackmaa, with
the badge OF authority on his cap, comes
politely to the comedy maiden and offers to
show her respectable boarding house, kept
by a Kind iandlady, at very cheap prices
And the unsuspecting girl gratefully accom-
panies her guide, admiring the wonderful
machinery of a great government, to--a
house worse than death, from which she can
never go out pure, honest woman And
the hackman or policeman pockets 500 for
his half hours trouble.
This is painfully, terribly true So true,
that Christian women, slowly waking to the
dreadful facts, have begun oleir work of OPP
position In Boston, the Young Travellers
Aid society provides for the distribution, on
incoming trains and steamboats, of a printed
slip, bearing the words: Important Notice
to Wonleni" telling OF the lodging houses on
Berkeley and Warrenton streets, connected
With the Young Women's Christian associa-
ton, warning the travellers to beware OF in
formation received from unreliable sources"
And 10 lind at the wharf lady authorized
to give information, wearing a blue badge,
marked Boston Y IL C. A"
Every night these workers return with
girls who otherwise would have nowhere to
go. Think of the riskI Better than all will
it be, when farmers daughters and village
girls will stay III theT own safe homes, in
stead of yenturing into the abyss OF city
filth. which even under favorable surround
ingseis miserable struggle for daily bread.
The competition Is already SO great that
for every opening there are dozens of appli-
cations The wages are SO low that women
who can keep from starving outright, never
theess lose health and courage IT. after a
steady grind, the young girl longs for rec
reation and fun, where can she find it. I'm
less she is happy enough to belong TO Miss
Dodge's clubs, the Young Women's Chris
tian association or some hearty social church,
she must leave her cramped, cold bedroom TO
find her companions on the street or in the
dance hall And such companions! -'ot the
steady industrious men, for they will not be
found there, but those only whose pleasure it
will be to lure her from the virtue which has
been her only. protection. Is this hfei Is
this the excitement and freedom you long
for. country friendsf Oh, stay al home where
your individuality is not lost, where your
health and youth can be Kept for many years
and where love surrounds you. The work is
harder in the city, the love Is wanting, and
youth and beauty fly from tired, weary
faces. Stay at homel-W Woman.