Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
A HOME IN AFRICA.
The Long Journey Ahead of
Miss Nellie F.0'Sullivan.
A LIFE GIVEN TO CHARITY.
Future of a Young. Beautiful and
Accomplished Lady.
A TYPEWRITER HER COMPANION

Farewells are now being said to Siste
Marie Therese, of the Sisters of the Poor
formerly Miss Nellie F. O'Sullivan, a fai
Pittsburger, and daughter of the late j
E. O'Sullivan, a prominent iron dealer o
this city. The young lady will leave fo
Baltimore on Thursday evening on her way
to France to complete her novitiate In tht
mother house Of the order at Latour. 1t ii
said she will be sent to Africa when she j!
professed.
YOUNG AND ACCOMPLISHED.
Miss O'Sullivan resioed on Ross street
and is a noble type of American woman
hoo6-voluntarily sacrificing life of pleas
ure and enjoyment to labor among the aged
Door in distant land. She is in her 18th
year, and is an accomplished musician, a
fluent speaker of English, French and Ger
man, and a perfect mistress of the art OF
stenography, being formerly engaged as
stenographer with the w. Devices Wood
Company. She will take with her a type
writer, which she expects will be useful
companion on many occasions, when she is
shut out from the world.
On October 13 Miss 0'Sullivan entered
the Penn avenue house of the Little Sisters.
Mention was made of it in THE DISPATCH
at the time on account of the
lively disposition of the young lady,
the fact that she chose the life of recruit
caused many of her friends to wonder in
amazement, especially as she had deter
mined to Join the Order of the Little Sisters,
as that is considered the hardest one in con-
vent life.
THOUGHT HER IN JEST.
When she asked the consent of her
mother to become a nun, it was given
readily, as Mrs. O'Sullivan thought her
daughter in Jest, and if she readily complied
with the request, the daughter would not
want to go. This she found out afterward
was incorrect, and the young lady grew
eager for the day. She has been an
inmates of the Penn avenue house since that
time and has proven herself to be such an
apt pupil that she was ordered to sail for
France on the Sth inst. Very few young
ladies get through the novitiate in this coun-
try in less than eight or ten months. Miss
O'SullIvan has learned to speak French
quite fluently during her short stay in the
branch house and made herself a general
favorite with The old folks who were under
her care.
Miss O'Sullivan is the only one who has
gone from this city within the past three
years and is only the third Pittsburg girl
who ever Joined the order. She will leave
for Baltimore on Thursday night and will
be Joined by five other postulants. The
latter will come from different parts of the
United States.
TO SAIL ON SATURDAY.
The party will sail on Saturday and will
arrive at Havre about the 10th. From there
they will go to the mother house at Latour,
where they will complete their novitiate.
If the Pittsburg young lad continues at
her present rapid rate of progression she
will be professed in about two years.
Her friends say that she will likely be
sent to Africa and will in ali probability be
located in Algiers. The order has no
house in that country and recruits are
wanted TO 20 there and open one. When a
novice is professed she never knows where
she will be sent and her orders generally
land her the farthest point away from home.
This is done to prevent old associations rom
influencing the young ladies after they
have been professed and are actively en-
gagged in the profession they have chosen.
ALL THE ORDERS PROPERTY.
Miss O'Sullivan does not know now what
date she will leave on her journey to France.
and the information will no: be given her
for several days yet. Everything she takes
with her becomes the property of the order
The typewriter she will take along is the
same machine she had been using for over
year
1t is reported that Miss Jennie Hopper,
sister of Hopper Bros, the furniture deal
ers, who was the last Pittsburg girl to JOIN
this order, is now in Baltimore, at the house
there. She sailed for France about three
years ago. and had been in that country
since that time.