The morning call., 1893-07-30
THE GIRL WHO COMES TO TOWN.
A Story With a Moral.

growing agony 10 that young face. Her
case was but simple one. that far. but
with one more rebuff 1t might nave De-
como more complicated.
1t is not really beartlessness that causes
city people to look question: bly, at her and
to require An explanation OF the girl VINO
comes to town. Those who will listen may
be en- tertained or otherwise at almost any
time by her stories and requests. She
comes in squads and slngly, at all hours
and upon every manner and description OF
errand. Oftentimes they are SO widely
erratic, So preposterous. or 40 palpably
evil that the heart becomes hardened and
the brain wearied in thinking OF them.
Well do l remember the 17-year-old girl
who came with a letter Of introduce
ton to me year ago and told mo
appreciation of the greatness of her
mission that she nsd left heC home in
Iowa and came to this coast to~wOrk for
the fallen women of San Francisco! An
other of whom | retain an amused recol-
lection 10 the aspiring young woman VINO
came in from somewhere in the interior.
She would be an authoress; she was will
ing to begin her career in the lowest step
of the journalistic ladder. and as sample
of what she could do she brought me,
written out in neat manuscript the first
two chapters of Mrs. Frances Hodgso1
Burretts Little Lord Faunteroy"!
1t was very soon after that. IL 1 remem-
Der rightly. that still another aspirant for
literary fame honnred me by calling upon
me and telling Inc she had come to town.
She sent up her card one morning when
was very busy. hardly knew how to see
any one but she was a stranger and sent
word that her business was urgent.
Presently she was ushered in, tall.
gaunt maiden OF uncertain age.
Il am stranger to y0u," she said, and
seeing the force of the argument | adj
and in flow of words that l have never
seen eQualed She proceeded to make me
intimately acquainted with her history
from earliest childhood. My head ree!ed
with the multiplicity Of her words. but
comforted myself with the reflection that
any one who talked ne fast as that would
soon have given utterance to all in the
world there Is TO be said. and could then
depart, so l waited. She told me she had
been musician, but having reached the
top of Ter profession and being unable to
go further, her uDsatisfed ambition
yearned for new worlds to conquer. II
thought | would take up literature" she
said ut is grnteei employment and not
much trouble. is it?"
and she then requested me to give her let
tiers Of introduction to the various editors
in the city that she might call upon them.
| gently Infatuated that nothing would
please me m ore than to be on suffisi-n:ly
good footing with these gentlemen to feel
justified ia even recommending my own
immortal wsrks to their favorable conSld-
Grafton. but she waved aside nv scrupies,
saving blandiy:
''Oh, but it would be different with me.
My work would undoubtedly recommend
itself. 1 only require al introduction"
Have you ever done any newspaper
work?" meekly inquired.
"Oh, no. VIZ: her con fdent reply, shut
l suppose Is is easy enough"
only wished it were, but said nothing.
At last l began to fesl anxious to get back
u my pressing tasks. l had suggested
everything that my brain could devise rs
a means Of helping this Impossible young
woman. no announced 10 me that she bad
no money and must have work. but nothing
met her views "a to desirable employment.
At last, my resources exhausted, | gnzed
at her In silence. Then she suddenly I'M
masked her batteries.
Mamma thought" she said, looking
down at her fneertips. that if | came out
to San Francisco l might get married"
sat stunned by the concussiou Of the
idea against my brain, while my visitor
continued: ''Bu' the men l have met out
hero are so very coarse. ! thought if you
could give ms letter Of Introduction to
some wealthy lady she might take me into
her family and marry me off"
After few minutes l recovered nv
breath sufficiently to say, somewhat
.terniy: 'My dear, you say yon can get
music pupils, and ii you can l would
strongly advise you 10 do so. If you go
about talking In that fashion you will soon
get the reputation OF being an adventures,
and ruin any prospects you might other
wise have"
She arose from her chair in great indigna-
ton. My conscience smnte me. j had
waB about to modify my severity when she
said:
well. I'll give you to understand I'm
not going TO hunt for a husband and work
for my living too!'
And she withdrew from my presence,
leaving me in top great a state of bewilder-
meDt even 10 suggest that if size Won ID
work for her living no one would require
ANYTHING further Of her
There are girls who come to town and
for whom the town Is The richer, earnest,
honest. braiDy girls. who know what they
can DO and set about doing it faithfully
with both hands. We cannot have too
many Of these, but to he girl VINO wants
10 come to the city, to leave good home
for poor one, certainly for unceTtsinty,
comfort and good salary iE quiet place
for discomfort and poverty in a noisy one.
merely for the SAKE of livelier times-to
any but the Girl with q steadfast, a. finite
purpose In coming to the city, there can
ba but one honest piece of advi,e-stay
where yon are.