The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-31
4s HAS EDUCATED MANY GIRLS.
George w. Childs Says Ho Practices Sci
flshness, Not Gcnerosity,

ueorSe W. ohyS no PRACTICES Sci
flshness, Not Generosity.
Girls, rs n rule, respond more quickly to
the destinations of study than do BOYS, and
l have always felt that they deserved as
many chances
SO far rs my personal experiences are
concerned, gratitude has been the rule in
almost every case where have sought bv
the means within my power to make it nos
siblc for girls to acquire practical training.
have up to this time educated, or rather
been the means of educating, between three
or four hundred girls, and in every case
have been rewarded by their gratitude.
their aptitude, their general excellence i'm
behavior. and their more than general suc-
cess III their chosen careers The girls IL
whom have been especially interested and
who always feel have first claims upon
me are the daughters of journalists-the
men and women of my own profession nrc
always nearest my heart. After them come
the daughters OF clergymcn. AS rule the
children OF newspaper men are quick and
ready to grasp opportunities, and it has
therefore been with particular pleasure that
have afforded them opportunities to help
themselves.
these girls have come from almost every
state i'll the Union. They have been brought
to my notice through their friends, through
my friends and through strangers. One
young girl came all tho way from n small
town i'll Norway to my Office in Philatel-
phia.
Of these girls, strange to say, not one has
entered the newspaper profession. There
have been several lawyers and doctors
many teachers, artists, bookkeepers, ac-
countants, cashiers and secretaries, trained
nurses and elocutionists, and several as
pirants for the lyric and dramatic stage
The teachers have without exception
been successful; so have the graduates of
law and medicine and of the nurses train
ing school. Tho girls who had ambitions
for public careers have met with only ordi-
nary success Probably those trained for
elocutionsts have made the most money.
The girls of musical and artistic capa-
bllltles have been given every advantage
| possible in the way of home and foreign
| training. Several of them have been edll-
| Gated i'll Paris, several in Berlin and others
| In Vienna. In the selection of schools and
| teachers there has been no general rule;
| sometimes l have selected both ut other
| times the girls or their friends have made
| the choice. In all cases only the best of
either have been employed. For one young
| girl who seemed especially endowed with a
| voice Mime. Christine Nilsson was request
| cd to select the teacher. The salaries re-
ceived by these girls have averaged from
| $500 to several thousand dollars II year: one
| received rs high rs 5000.
All the girls have become self support
| ing; most of them have married. and all Il
| think am safe in saying this have made
| good wives. All of thc:n have deferred to
my request that tie rly;i of their choice
| should be honest and VIZ able TO take care
| of them, and so far as l.rn~ not one of
them has found IL husband who has pre-
sumed upon his wifcs ability to earn
money TO expect her TO contribute to his
support.
1t is not generosity that has made me
helpful in this respect to girls 1t is i'll part
! seliishness. want to see where my money
| goes. / want to know That it is circulate
ing-that it is doing good | sometimes
feel that the only money have is that
which have given away. The rest is just
waiting. The money that have spent upon
other people has been that which have
most enjoyed. Many rich men have done
as much; many have done more i think
Mr.. DrcXel has done the noblcst work of
all by founding his School of Industrial
Art.-George w. Childs in Ladies' Home
| Journal.