The Forrest City times., 1891-06-12
ONE KIND OF TYPEWRITER.
How the Family Gods Were Get Up
 in a Little Harlem Flat.

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 22, and let me tell you what she has done.
 Six years ago she was the ,nvs- 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 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 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 well that he concluded 1t would pay to spend couple of dollars in fixing her up.
 She made herself skilful operator, although to begin with she was un- commonly clumsy.
 The fact was she had something else on here mind than finding 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 snow is moth CT and father, too.
 The first money she could scrape together from the typewriting she spent learning stenography. She could not afford all the lessons she needed, but she made 1t up in hard work by herself She was not gifted with the qualities for making the best sten ographer-th 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 a long cherished plan. She got together those four sisters. 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 a luxury, but good food IS an investment for work ing girls
 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 were happy. That was a year and half ago. Now three of them are earning good pay, as salaries go-- there is prejudice in that big office building where Annie Is in favor of the family-one of the younger ones is learning the business in the old way. Their home is as pretty a little place in it's modest way as there is in liar lem, and their relatives are more helpful and kind than ever beiore-be- cause nothing succeeds like success.
 And l call that young woman's sue cess worth talking about-New York Herald