Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26
THE WAYS OF WOMEN.
How Some OF Them Make = Livelihood
and Save Money.

and Save Money.
The other day when the working
women, who are trying to organize,
met with some of the organized men
at Pythagoras hall and one of
the latter got up and remarked with
considerable severity that his sex
had suffered from their generous
admission of women into competition
with themselves. he WAS sat upon. A
woman replied in that still small
VolAe with which she sometimes makes
home unbear:tble To her spouse, that
if the men would support their wives
and daughters there would be no COM
petition. Somehow the man couldn't
seem to think of any thing to say. 1t
was like one of these occasions in the
Spoopendyke family when it was so
still Mrs. S. could hear the limburger
cheese scrambling round in the tin box
on the shelf. Women do make such
silly speeches sometimes. But since
the husbands and fathers and brothers
can't or won't support all the women,
some OF them have been driven to queer
shifts to earn their living. Two women
/ know teach whist for a living, and
they live very well. You wouldn't
think at first glance that there were
enough folk in New York to play whist,
or cared enough about it TO take les
sons in the art. but wait till you see
these two rosy, handsome girls, who are
busy as bees all day, and you will come
to the conclusion there is room enough
in New York for any thing and any
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A Boston girl did it first. Then she
got married, and being hearty, gem
erous person. rememb ered on her we'd
ding day that two of her friends had
just been left penniless by the death
of their father. So when the cere-
mony was done and she had given
the groom and the minister both a
kiss. she changed her gown. put on her
bonnet and ran around to the house of
her afflicted friends and gave them her
idea as Il sort of legacy from her maid
enhood. Then she went home and was
in time for the train that carried her
away to her new home and happiness.
The two girls with the secondhand
idea worked hard to perfect themselves
in the science of whist, succeeded to
their friends clients and did well in
Boston. Then they grew ambitious
and came to New York. Here they
have pretty little rooms where people
come to them certain hours of every
day to play the game and be taught all
its mysteries, and certain other hours
they go to the houses of those who do
not wish to come to them. One even
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whist with an old lady and her COM
panion. The old lady knows the game
better than they do and loves it better
than life, but she pays them to come
and be beaten by her or help her beat
the companion, and there is always IL
pretty little tray brought in before they
leave, and over her tea the ancient
party grows garrulous of her young
days and of all the great people, now
dead. whom she had known. These
two women make an excellent living
out of their profession, and are rs
happy and prosperous looking as pos
sible. There is another even odder
case of young woman who goes ev-
erywhere. to the best houses. and is
always extremely well dressed. She
has an exquisite figure-tall, supple
and slim. Any thing looks well OH her.
Added to that her face is pretty and
she has that undefinable quality called
''style" which makes whatever she
wears the infinite envy and desire of
the women who see her. She is very
interchangeable tea goer, is at all the re-
and whenever the day is fine
is en- evidence on the aYenue.-BrOok-