St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-13

home is not half so joyful as they antic-
ipated. Indeed, they have taken their
first lesson in the city'S curriculum.
1t is not from the country proper that
they come, as rule. Most OF them are
quite sure that the girl who can get
around in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago, indianapolis, st. Paul or Denver
will have no difficulty in learning the
may streets of New York, and 1t is not
until a motherly clearinghouse keeper
tells her that there are parts of the city,
and sides of prominent streets on which
it is not proper for her to walk even in
the broad light of midday if she wish
to maintain her reputation, that she be-
gins to comprehend that New York is a
country all by itself and an entirely
queer one.
She is an earnest, thoughtful, BUSH
ness-lke young woman as rule. 1t has
taken her a long time to obtain her
fathers and mothers consent to her
coming to New York, and she knows
that they can barely afford the unusual
expense of paying her board and tuition.
She is rather startled, therefore, to dis
cover morning or two after she has ar
rived and been driven to the hotel her
father had stopped at perhaps twenty
years before, and to which she must,
therefore, go, that it is not an easy thing
to find a boarding place. There
are oceans of rooms and miles
of boarding house tables that
are open to men, be they
blacklegs or not, but the girl who is
alone In New York is suspicious char
acter from the very start in the eyes OF
a boarding house keeper, and many a
time will her cheeks flush red and tears
come to her eyes before she finds
place where she may live at reason
able expense. She VOWS that 1t is
shame-and it is.
room and moderately good table ("Dut
ing her particular vocation, working
hard, economizing. writing hundreds
of letters and wondering why she re-
ceives so few in return. She discovers
that she is not very we'll dressed COM
pared with the girls of the great city,
but she is brave little woman and she
puts up with old clothes and poor llv-
ing and gulps down many sob for the
sake of her father and mother.
At times she gets terribly discouraged.
Her teacher has scolded her, or she has
become respondent because some other
girl who has had better advantages sur
passes her. Or, perhaps, sometimes she
Is forced to the conclusion that. after
ALL she has made mistake, that she
has wasted her fathers money and has
got to return to her home dismal fail
ure.
And she mas queer experiences on the
street. She cannot understand why,
when she Is modestly taking her after
noon walk. men, and some of them men
who look like such perfect gentlemep,
should walk up beside her and speak to
her. Some Of them even catch hold OF
her arm and insist on accompanying
her. But she soon learns the city and
its ways, and it does not take her so very
sion as to whether she is to be sue
cess in her profession or failure.
Then comes the critical period of her
career. If she is confident of her sue
cess she goes on trinmphantly to the
end, earning her laurelS and finding
that they come with much less eXertion
than she had sometimes supposed. But
if she is failure-then the world is a
hard QUE indeed. She goes back to her
home, IL she is one kind of failure,
and eventually marries some solid
souled sort of a fellow, who cares little
for art. and who laughs her out of her
disappointment. She is all the better
mother for hereXperiences in the school
Of the great city Of New York, and, per-
haps, she is happier even than her
more fortunate rival who is successful.
But there Is another kind of failure.
1t is the girl who, too proud or too fool
ish to return to her home or too fond of
the allurements Of the city, remains to
add another page to the dark chapter of
city life. Fortunately, this kind of fail
ure is rare.
Take it all in all, the talented girl has
hard time. To be sure she can at