The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
ONE KIND OF rYPEwRrrrR.
How tho Family Gods Were sa+ n.
In a Little Harlem Flat.

In Little Harlem Flat.
Out on Broadway just now l sav.
little girl that l have big respect q.
She is q typewriter, but she ia ~.
much like the kind the newspan,,.
are always telling stories about
though, like them, she is pretty
pretty as a picture and as good :.
if she were old and ugly. She ia %
and let me tell you what she h..
done.
Six years ago she was the most RAJ,
ged, friendless, ignorant little orphan
you would care to hear of, and she baa
four younger sisters, each more rauv.d
and friendless and ignorant and
orphaned than the other. She went
into typewriting copying Office To
learn the business in return for be.
services as Office girl. She was such a
bad speller that everybody said sbs
would never make a typewriter. Sh.
set in to learn to spell. She was a.
shabby that the head OF the off;rs
said ne was ashamed to send her m
errands, but she did her work so well
that he concluded it would nav to
spend couple of dollars in fixing her
up.
She made herself skillful operator
although to begin with she was I'm.
commonly clumsy.
The fact was she had something else
on her mind than finding husband
to support her. She was thinking
about those four little sisters. Tbev
were living around with relatives.
most OF whom were very poor, and
when they were not poor they were
exceptionally cross and cruel to mako
up. This little woman, call her Annie
if you wish, had an ambition to be
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 stenography. She
could not afford all the lessons shs
needed, but she made it up in hard
work by herself. She was not gifted
with the qualities for making the best
stem ographer-the 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
good position: not much money, as
you count money, but enough to start
her in executing long cherished PLAN
She got together those four sisters
She took little flat 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 u 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, TIE
two younger ones were in school.
They camped along as best they could
and were happy. That was a year
anu nan ago. NOW Unree OF Unem
are earning good pay, as salaries 60
there is q 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 Har
lem, and their relatives are more
helpful and kind than ever before-be-
cause nothing succeeds like success.
And | call that young woman's sue
cess worth talking abont-New York
Herald.