The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-05-01


Club. They were not in search of
what is commonly known as Women's
Rights; they were not troubled about
the election franchise: but they longed
for social intercourse with those whose
feelings and tastes were akin to their
own. They were very poor; the ne
cessities of their daily life, with each
succeeding Saturday night swallowed
up the proceeds Of the week as soon
as it was earned. The outlook was
gloomy, but sad and disheartened as
they were, they concluded to meet
again. They did so-oshers came in
and at the meeting of the City Assoca-
tions last winter they numbered
tw ,nty-two furnishing societies, with
"A membership of several thousand.
In all parts Of the city are comfortable
rooms where young girls can meet
their girl friends. and have a social
time. Innocent games of various
kinds are allowed; good books and
magazines abound, and these origina.
tions have lightened the load of lite
for these poor toilers, and made their
condition more tolerable than 1T ever
was before. One Of the most interest
ing papers read during the Convention,
was that read by Bishop Potter's
daughters. "How shall we spend our
summer holiday" Misc Potter prac-
tically solved that question by helping
t1 erect Seaside Home on Long Is.
land. There a working girl can enjoy
her two weeks vacation with all the
pleasures of country life, sea bathing,
good food, pure air from the ocean.
well ventilated rooms and very reason
able comfort included. for three dol
lars per week. This Is practical Chris
tianity, and hundreds of poor girls
profited by it last year. The present
convention was marked by sound COM
mon sense all through, and harmony
not often found in convention of
men every one from the least to the
greatest seemed anxious to do all the
good they could. 1t marks al era in
woman's advancement: every year sees
her taking step forward, and her
persistent helpfulness appeals to the
manhood Of her brothers to see that
she makes no step backward. A finer
or brighter looking body of women.
has never been assembled in the
Metropolitan Opera House.
Coming out from the meeting Of the
Working Girls, passed IA Hall where
about eight hundred striking csrpen-
ters and masons wers holding a meet
ing; they had quit work on several
buildings, not for any grievance Of
their own, hut because a responsible
firm in Brooklyn would not let a
Waking Delegate run their business.
| The saloon on the corner had been
well patronized and the bad whiskey
aud beer had told on the strikers
many Of them were foreigners who
could not speak our language they
we're chattering and gesticulatirg like
so many madmen. 1t was soddened
drunken looking heery crowd, and |
said to myself, is this the kind of polit.
ical timber that decides our elections
and makes our lawsl Their | thought
Of the decent, sober, orderly conven-
ton that left behind me aud | could
not help feeling that the fate of our
beloved country would be safer in the
hands of such women as composed the
Working Girls Convention. than with
all the strikers between Maine and
San Francisco.
All the electric miracles with which
Edison the Electric Wizard astonished
the frog eaters of Paris and millions
of foreign visitors besides, we have
now in full blast at the Lennox Ly-
ceum on Madison avenue in aid OF the
Women's Exchange; another of the
womens helpful institutions. The
miracles of electricity are everywhere,
one of the wonders of the exhibition
being the long distance telephone be-
tween here and Boston. Whot the
possibilities of this wonderful instru'
lnent are is yet unfathomed, but from
the rapid development of long distance
telephoning, it is not impossible that
with the next decade, by means of the
ocean cable, We may be able to con.
verse with our cousins in London,
Vienna, Paris, or Berlin, and when
the electric circuit is completed whip a
| maesaoa around the olobe in less time