The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-10

especial safeguards around girls by keeping
open a free board directory on whose regis
ter tho stranger in strange city can lind
a list OF families known aud approved as
suitable households for innocent and gnor-
ant girls - be dOwiciled in. That directory
was consulted nearly 1900 times last year.
The ASSOCIATION finds, so tar as | was able 70
learn, comparatively few occasions to put
& rls on their guard. OF every fifty girls
who leave home to WORK In the city forty
nine connect themselves within a nOutA
with soma churcn, busy themselves even
rs with lectures or class studies Of scme
sort, turn their hall bedrooms into cosy and
no elike apartments and f4d no more
temptation in the city than surrounded
them in the village at home. A girl with
out moral stamina would be reached by
vice anywhere, a pure minded girl was
nowhere exposed. Ii all depended on the
girl.
tried some Of the big dry goods houses.
| The SUPERINTENDENT of one store employing
not far from 2, 900 hands, told me that ia
many years Of business he had never
known a case of scandal growing out of the
association of men and women in daily
work. The women who had gone wrong
he could think Of only UwO-had made the
acquaintance Of their tempters away from
the establishment, he thought in their own
homes. At a second dry goods house | was
employees entrance at closing hour were
warned off or arrested, and that no case Of
scandal had ever occurred.
Climb up under the skyllght of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, where
hundreds Of women work at the clicking in
struments side by side with men. They have
never seen harm result from it there and
| never EXPECT to.
THE misery Of it is" said woman ply
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poorest of working women, the lack for
50 many thousand of any hope or ambition.
The streets are full Of the palaces of men
who have been laborers, but there are no
great houses to tell the tenement sweated
drudge Of the east side that any woman of
her class and opportunity has ever risen
above want to competency, much less above
that to wealth For her there Is only the
possibility of an UNFINISHED lodging and
scant clothing and sCanter meals, the same
yesterday and to-day and tomorrow. That
women under these circumstances work on,
asking no charity, preserving their purity
patiently doing their daily duty, lllustrat S
to me as nothing else has ever done the an
gelic IN wumanhOpd."
When one gets down to such unfortunates
as three whom I have known of recently
who are trying to sustain life on earnings
Of 27, 20 and SO cents q day respectively then
the moralist had best BIO modest in his
teachings
Nothing has ever done so much good, :"
said a girl enthusiast Of a recently formed
labor union, "as the benefit associations Of
the women's unions. When a friendless girl
gets out of work she gets discouraged, If
she can borrow s. to $40 or Sl5 of her union
to tide her over the crisis it saves her. If
she has to so hungry dependency may
break down many barriers
- If is plIS of slow or unOeVplODed brains
whose escapes are narrowest," said the
matron of a benevolent institution. "a
young Dutch girl who has been in the couu-
try no long time came to me yesterday in
perfect ecstasy of happiness. She had
met on the street a good-looking young fel.
low who insisted that her face was like
| his sisters asked her name and protested
that he was her distant cousin. She gave
him leave to call upon her all unsusr ect-
ingly.",
| their own sex as from men, y was the phrase
! used by a woman OF much experience.
| Every girl who is duped becomes decoy
to attract others. An instance came to my
notice recently where a pretty shop girl
went 10 live with a member of the d emf
| monde She bio somed into 4 luxurious eX-
Isl ence aud took t. visiting the store where
she had been employed TO tempt her former
| companions by her fine clothes and abund-
ant p )ckeJ money"
| III depends on the woman sums up the
conclusion Of all persons spoken to. The
strong girl stands anywhere, the weak girl
falls everywhere. The city is as safe as a
farmhouse 10 the girl of ri-ht principles.
| The farmhouse is as dangerous as the city
to girl OF weak ones. Metropolitan life is
rough, cruel, a most excellent thing to keep
out Of If girl will adventure her life o1
its hurrying current, she is sure Of a stormy
voyage, but she may come into port with
treasure at last. The list of women success
ful in business, successful in the professions,
successful on the stage, succe sful in litera-
ture successful in the arts is constantly
growing The every day association with
men which the industrial upheaval is pro-
ducirg strength MS the girPs common sense,
teaches her to study every day hist ~
througl the newspapers, makes her wise
while leaving her womanly aud turns her
out The most perfect sort of girl the world
has yet seen. if she seeks her fcrtu Ia in New
York, here's h ping she mag find it.
suhsc he myself a devO ed admirer of
the business girl.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.