The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-26

ana contempt Tor the towards confession
which the act implies.
Well, let's change the subject.
HOW many girls are there In Providence
VINO average $40 a week? How many
average sSf Who of those who receive q
per week support themselvesf IL SO, how
DO they occupy the proverbial hall bed
room take their meals at some board
Ing house? / was reading an article in q
new YORK paper upon this subject the
other day and some OF the fair CORE
spondents had 1t all figured out. Two
girls who received rs each managed very
nicely. They hired a room, furnished II
upon the tnstalment plan, cooked their
own breakfast and supper and obtained a
lunch down town and kept within their
income. The average shop girl or girl
VIC works in q store in this city In q
large majority Of cases lives at home and
knows nothing about the fight for exist
ence on small pay the girls of our big
who are supporting themselves entirely
upon ~ a week it might be interesting to
others who are struggling to learn how it
Is done. A few letters upon this subject,
addressed in care of this column, would
not come amiss. Send along a few.
A man pointed out a young man to me
the other day or rather in the evening
who had just reeled out Of q liquor saloon.
There's a pitiful case" he remarked.
There is a fine young fellow who has been
making his fathers heart glad by the way
he was attending TO the extensive bust
ness in which he is engaged. For four
years he has been strictly temperate hay-
Ing aiken the cure, but there he goes. old
John ~Barleycorn has got the better ofhim
up?"
That's so. IL a man will Just stick right
to rum he'll soon be on the ~toboggan. II
IL no more pitiful in the case Of 1.-THE we'll
dressed young man referred to than IL Is
Tor the habitual hummer who sacrifices
everything even food and q place to sleep
that he may appease his appetite, only i'm
the former case q large circle of friends
and well wishers to say nothing about a
respectable family have to suffer the dis
grace.
The best cure / know of for drunkenness
Ii to let the first glass alone.
How are your shoesf Have they lost
their shape, or are they worn SO thew do
not look respectable? Henley q Sullivan
have reduced the price on their Russia
leather, calf and pigskin shoes to less
do they do it? They wish to make room
for fall goods, and clean out this seasons
STOCK by turning IL into money. Ready
money talks with business men, and the
hrm above referred to know tue value of
obtaining all the discounts and other ad-
Vantages In order to successfully compete
with those in the trade. That Is the rea-
son the present clearance sale is going on
at y Westminster street, and the
standard goods Of Henley & Sullivan
are having such an effect upon
sensible buyers. They realize that they
OBTAIN their moneys worth. Then there
Is a line OF glove tennis shoes for men and
boys for 90 cents. An incident worth |
mentioning In regard to these shoes is
That q shoe proprietor up the street came |
In the other day and bought several pair
he knew that 90 cents was way below
me market price and SO he took advan-
tage OF the sale himself. They are stan
dard goods in the season ana he will
make q good profit on them.
notice that Mr.. Debs is c~oncoctine n
scheme to have q universal labor associa-
ION which shall be in the order Of a sort
Of L.. Y. Il. A. Club, touch one, touch ali.
Debs will doubtless realize some tims
before he Is numbered with the great
majority, that he Is on the wrong track
that because an employee has a real or
Iancied grievance in Chicago another en-
Dloye in New York who is quite Satisfied
y aho "a Nv VIII nOt. as he SIM 4
poses, Join forces to club the capitalist into
objection.
about that whale you told OF in The
hopkins OF the Central Hotel. al remem-
,er IL just as well as 1 remember hen
nat elevator was put in that leads to the
U sleeping rooms upstairs. It was under
tent down at Hills wharf. My wife and
went down to see 1t and we were de-
lghted, as all the people were who, like
nrselves, were taken in. So IL was a
axe, was 1t ? Well, IL you see Mr.. Engle-
God one."
Did you ever look over the papers and
ote any advertisement which Won had
zen Tor years. call one Il mind now.
Is headed, Nothing succeeds like sue
sss." The reader almost knows to whom
refer: Doctors come and doctors 20, but q,
l2s Friendship street for 20 years has !
located the Office of DIR. Lewis. 4
ct the doctor yesterday. / knew the d.
thcr very well. He was q nice old gem :
eman. The son Is a chip OF the old {
ock, and has a fine practice, making n =
'ccialty OF acute and chronic ailments. =
10 meeting with marked success I'm their =
No inconsiderable portion of a
doctors business IL done by mail, and /,
9 fact that patients receive speedy re- d
enables the continuance OF the adver. .
'ement In the papers with the heading U
which 1 just now referred, "Nothin9 =
cceeds like success.v am told that N o
unprofessional for doctors to advertise. r
doctors make a speciality of certain all
Pnts and do not claim to be the cure all o
everything, how are they going TO let i.
opie know ii unless they ADVERTISED q
II we will not discuss that feature. DIR. v
wis Ii located at 100 Friendship street =,
d is successful in his practice. y