The Dickinson press., 1888-08-25
WOMAN AND HOME.
ADVICE TO COUNTRY GIRLS WHO
SEEK THE CITY.

How to Keep a MISUNDERSTANDING
Terribly Observation-Disclosures Lamp.
Women Growing L,rgcr-Carc Of Babies.
Dish Tnwcis-HouschoId Hints.
TO tho 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 a mine
ready TO yield its rich ore. All kinds of girls
steady, earnest workers and giddy, thought
less aud dissatisfied village bellcs-throng the
railway and steamboat stations, utterly mex
perleuced. often nearly pennilcss, alone and
strangers. What do they mean to do! Uni
vcrsally the answer is. Get work" as if it
were to be had for the first asking. TO OBJ
tain board meal by" orto "wor for board"
seems to their simple experience very easy to
manage. BIT what are the facts. Arriving
i'll the hurried. rushing crowd, no one meets
them. no one notices the bewildercd, fright.
ened alnazemcnt at so many people, no one
directs to the safe shelter of some Young
Womcn's Christian association or lodging
house. All, yes! here are one or two to
notice. this policeman or this hackman, with
the badge OF authority OH his CAP, comes
politely to the comedy maiden and offers to
show her Il respectable boarding house, kept
by a kind laiidllly, at very cheap prices.
And the ursuspcr1inS girl gratefully accom-
panics her guide, admirins the wonderful
machinery of Il great government, to-a
house worse than death. from which she can
never =" out Il pure. honest woman. And
the h,'krnan or policeman pockets $500 for
his inii hours trouble.
Ini> Is painfully. terribly true. So true,
thn, christian women, slowly waking to tho
dIca'itul facts, have begun their work of OPP
p%usiln'u In Boston, the Young Travellers
.AIL ,rriciy provides for the distribution, on
incoming. trains and steamboats,, of a printed
slip bearing the words: Important Notice
to Murienl' telling of the lodging houses OH
Berkeley and Warlpntun streets, connected
with the Young Wonlen's Christian associt
ton, warning the travellers to beware of i'll
formation received from unreliable sources"
And To find at the wharf n lady authorized
to give information, wearing n blue badge,
maIScd Boston Y Nj. Z. a."
Every night these workers return with
girls who Otherwise would have nowhere to
20 THINK OF the riskl Better than all will
it lie, when farmers daughters and village
girls viii Stay in their own safe homes, iD
stead OF venturinS into tie abyss OF city
filth. wlcl. even under favorable surround
lnSs. Is a miserable StrliSSlc Tor daily bread.
The competition is already SO great that
for every olcmlns there are dozens of appli-
cations. The wages are so low that women
who can keep from starving outright. never
thelcss lose health and courage. If, after a
steady grind. the young girl longs for rec
leDtlon and fun. where can she find it. Un-
less .he is happy enough to belong to Miss
hodges clubs, the Young Wonen's Chris
tan ASSOCIATION or solnc hearty social church,
she must leave her cIamped, cold bedroom to
find her companions on the street or in the
dance hall. And such compartment Not tho
steady industrious men, for they will not he
found there, but those only whose pleasure it
will lie to lure her from the virtue which has
been her only protection. Is this life? Is
this the excitement and freedom you long
for. country friends Oh, stay ut 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 ut home!-Woman.