The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-05-14
ONE KIND OF TYPEWRITER.

How the Family Gods Were Set Up
in Little Harlem Flat.
Out on Broadway just now I saw a
little girl that have big respect for.
She is a typewriter, but she is not
much like the kind the newspapers
are always telling stories about.
though, like them, she is pretty
pretty as a picture and as good as
if she were old and ugly. She is 20,
and let me tell you what she has
done.
Six years ago she was the most rag
ged, friendless, ignorant little orphan
you would care to hear of, and she had
four younger sisters, each more ragged
and friendless and ignorant and
orphaned than the other. She went
into a typewriting copying office to
learn the business in return for her
services as office girl. She was such a
bad speller that everybody said she
would never make a typewriter. She
set in to learn to spell. She was SO
shabby. that the head of the office
said ne was ashamed to send her on
errands, but she did her work SO we'll
that he concluded it would pay to
spend a couple of dollars in fixing her
up.
She made herself a skillful operator,
although to begin with she was I'M
commonly clumsy.
The fact was she had something else
on her mind than finding a husband
to support her. She was thinking
about those four little sisters. They
were living around with relatives,
most OF whom were very poor, and
when they were not poor they were
exceptionally cross and cruel to make
up. This little woman, call her Annie
If you wish, had an ambition to be a
mother to those little sisters.
A mother? What she is now is moth
er and father, too!
The first money she could scrape
together from the typewriting she
spent learning stenograDhy. She
could not afford all the lessons she
needed, but she made it up in hard
work by herself. She was not gifted
with the qualities for making the best
stem ographer- best ones are born,
not made-but she did all she could
and came out better than the average
that do office work, and since that
she has had comparatively easy sail
ing.
People had noticed her: she got a
good position: not much money, as
you count money, but enough to start
her in executing q long cherished plan.
She got together those four sisters.
She took little fat uptown. She
gathered them all in and told them
they must live without furniture until
they could buy it, not on the Install
ment plan. In the meanwhile they
would all have plenty of good food
such as they had not had before,
because furniture is g. luxury. but
good food is an investment for work
ing girls. "... mr. ,T.&'
Two Of the girls were learning type
writing in the same way she did, The
two younger ones were in school.
They camped along as best they could
and We're happy. That was a year
and a half ago. Now three of them
are earning good pay, 'as salaries 60
there is a prejudice in that big office
building where Annie is in favor of the
tamil y-one Of the younger ones is
learning the business in the old wav.
Their home is as pretty a little place
in it's modest way as there is in Har-
lem, and their, relatives are more
helpful and kind than ever before-be-
cause nothing succeeds like success.
And I call that young woman's sue
cess worth talking about-New York
Herald,