Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-12
WOMEN At THE HELM.
The Fair Sex Predominates at Every Turn in
the Worlds Fair City.

CnicAGo, May lin Chicago, more
than anywhere else, it is honorable and ad-
mirable for women to work and be ndepen-
dent of the men, but not even his master
the Sultan, can introduce the smallest
wedge toward making Turks of them.
Levy, the right eye of the sun, told his ac-
qualntances that the American girls were as
tractable as the children of the harems ~
home. and far more easy to please. 81
will dress them like masters favorites," he
said, "their trousers shall be wider AMI
finer than those of Mahomets beloved"
The acquaintance of the right bower of
the Sublime Ruler of the Faithful repeated
bis wsrds to the maidens who sold violetta
TO the virgins who bartered otter of rose,
for shekels to the moon-faced daughters of
the other bazaars. But when his words
were repeated to the girls of the bazaars
they simply clenched their teeth and said
Wen strike, We can strike as well as
the walters, and if he hires Mabel Jenness.
or any other woman in the bloomers, we'll
hold her down and tie skirt around her
and send her back where she belongs"
1t is not at all remarkable that Suleiman
Ben Levy should have hired Chicago
women to sell his Turkish goods. There
seem to be as many women at work in Chi
caeo as there are women staying at home
in Allegheny. You cannot buy anything
outside of the gin mills-wthout finding a
girl clerk TO serve you and a girl cashier to
take your money, or both together. II yon
ride on the elevated you buy your ticket of
a woman. When you get a stamp at the
postoiiice it is girl who serves you. The
clerks in the newspaper offices are AS apt
to be girls as men.
At the headquarters of the Worlds Fair
and in all the department offices girls
seemed in the majority. The hum of their
voices and the swish of their skirts fill the
air They are also in the public Offices in
the City hall. In all the hotels, down in
the lobbies, crowded with men and rank
with tobacco smoke, telegraph counters,
jewelry stands, theatre and railroad ticket
stands and telephone otfices--all are man
aged by girls.
The word girls" is used advisedly
Women of 35 or over are few beside the
z rls of from l. to 25 who are serving the
public. 1t is queer sensation for man in
a hotel to call out. Come in, in response
to a knock on his bedroom door, and then
to see pretty lady like girl walk in with
the remark, ''You are the man am to do
stenographic work for, suppose
If the kingdom coming for women is one
of varied industry, independence, and the
right to work as hard as the men. then
Chicago is the nucleus and starting point
Pittsburger who has lived there for
year of more was asked what he thought OF
the revolution.
''It is good for the women" said he,
but it is hard for the men. The women
have more liberty, more money, and ability
to take care of themselves in all the emer-
gencies of life. They aim at marriage, the
same as other women door should-but
they have time and opportunity to wait and
we'd sbrewdly-so shrewdly often, that
think Chicago will found new race of be-
ings, sharper in trade than Hebrews. born
of sharp mothers, who have chosen sharp
husbands. But it is hard on the men. The
romance is leaving the romantic sex. The
physical charms are more. but mentally and
morally the women who deal with the pub
lie grow angular, selfish and mercenary."