Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-21

away empty-handed. Not one square foot of soil
could wesee but we could sit or stand on the rocks
and gather the delicious berries to our hearts
content. We were told that fifty people came
some days. We met several coming away with full
buckets, and two women were tllpicking. They
told us they came four miles and had been there
all day. They had apony hitched near where we
left our horse, and they put their load on him and
walked home after nightfalI They told us we
had no need to fear anything from wild animals,
even bears and snakes were too wise to enter there.
One of these woren had already preserved forty
gallons of berries, picked by herself. They were
both educated, intelligent women living in the
mountains because their husbands owned mines
there.
1t seems strange, after our long, tiresome ride
and hard climb, that we had any strength left, but
as soon as we stopped climbing we felt quite fresh
and rested. That is the peculiar experience of all
who visit the mountains. Darkness began to
gather before our buckets were full, but we were
well satisfied to return to the camp, where we found
substantial supper ready for our famous noun
tain appetites.
You Little Rockers, who can hardly walk on the
hot payements without popping the very corns on
your toes will scarcely believe that the goth of
August, we, in the Rocky Mountains, were more
than glad to gather around an immense log fire,
with wool dresses and winter cloaks on, and drink
hot coffee and eat jack rabbit, the latter shot by
one of our party Every good eating for those who
like it, but that is just. what we did, and after
crisp cold night we woke to find heavy white frost
settled all around us.
After hearty breakfast and ramble about the
hills, we left for home tired but happy company.
alfpast pm. found us all safely landed at
Hygiene, where the six Arkansas members of the
party continue to talk over our exploits and wish
that our home friends could have enjoyed with us
that ramble upon the mountain tops. E.
The Importance of working girls societies as an
incentive to industry and pure modes of living
cannot be too highly estimated. New York, Bos-
ton, Brooklyn and Philadelphia seem to be taking
the lead. In the spring of 1888 large house on
Long Island was donated the Brooklyn association
and given the name of Holiday House. The fol-
lowing is from the pamphlet issued by the direct
resses of the institution:
"The object or purpose of these clubs or socic-
ties is to command for working girls opportunities
for education and Improvement. Unjust be borne
in mind that the majority of self-supporting girls
are compelled to begin their career when mere
children; that most of them possess good natural
abilities which need only opportunity to develop,
that the age in which they live compels them to
breathe desire for advancement; that this desire
is not any stronger for financial than mental adj
vancement. They realize-the thinking ones
that education, knowledge, is the steppingsone to
advancement they realize fully that the one who
gets and stays IN front is the one who possesses
that inward power that comes from faculties used
and trained.
"These clubs teach the value of cooperation;
show the power to change conditions; show Its
hepfulness. The members realize that by each
paying a small monthly due they can command
pleasant rooms that are open every night, or as
many nights as they will use them, for educational
and social r,urnoses They realjZa that bV form