Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-05-02
WORKING GIRLS.
Comments on the Recent Convention
of Working Girls Clubs.

IIblIl lit' .NtW lbIh illllfNs
The newspapers have contained
no reading matter for the past few
days pleasanter or more edifying
than the reports Of the convention
of working girls clubs. 1t is only
six years since these clubs began to
he heard of in this country, and
anybody who has not paid partlcu-
lar attention to their rise ard pro-
gress must have been astonished to
find, on reading the reports Of their
convention, how numerous, active
and widely dillused they are. Now
that they have been started and are
ilourishing, the wonder is that they
were not started long ago They
have naturally more affinity with
such organizations as the young
mems Christian associations than
with clubs proper in the masculine
sense of the word, and there is real
ly more need for them for the work
crs of the weaker than of the strong
er sex. The temptations that beset
working women who live alone are
in some respects different from those
that beset working men, but they
are not less strong. After day of
monotonous labor the cravings for
something more cheerful and eNcit-
ing is os strong i'm one sex as in the
other, and If it be not supplied in an
innocent fashion there is danger
that 1t will find more questionable
forms of satisfaction.
Anything that tends to improve
the condition of working women
aud to make their lives, which at
the best cannot bv too easy, more
attractive aud more human, is Il
public benefit of the very first inn
portaucc, Nobody but misan-
thrope or II misogynist can fail to
give the movement his hearty sym
pathy, while IL il crcdtably charac-
tcrisuc for the independence of the
working women that sympathy is
all they ask for their clubs from the
male sex. II may be proper to sug-
g,st whether the assistance of
women who are worKing women
only 10y courtesy and in nm amateur
fashion, should not bc rendered
very quietly. The independence Of
tie American working girl is ne
companicd 10y Il jealousy that will
make her particularly shy of a club
with" lady patroncsses.' Already in
the history of working girls clubs
In this country, short as il has been,
This feeling has been rviuccd. On /
he other hard, il is 10 he hoped |
that the most eminent aud best /.
known Of the working women, that .
Il 10 say, ot the women who earn
heir own lvings, viii interest .
themselves couspicuously In this /
movement of their ohscurcr and /
more successful sisters, and will
AXE pains 10 identify themselves
with IT, The duty that Bacon SAYS
very man owes 10 his profession
'ecomes In the ease of working
woman duty 10 her sex.
One of the very best investments
II the city for capitalists is that bus
ness corner of ours 65Nl6i feet, aud
ne of the busiest corners iu town
las u fine two-story brick block Of
hreo store rooms 9lN70 feet, with
'fiices overhead aud other buildings.
4 rents 10 pay 10 per cent. ON the
amount. IL Is the host slto in the
nity tor a Wholesale house aus equal
10 the hest Cor retail trade; beet
bargain in town. salem Land Co. /
pOstOlileo block. dw-u
WARRANTED, Smith 4 Angels
fast black hosiery IL warranted hy
hrldgc~ a hosorth, agents, &C.