The evening world., 1894-01-06

going to the houses OF wealthy patrons
to get them interested in unfortunate
servants L nave been impressed by the
and plants displayed in the living rooms.
Now. all these things are evidences
or more than comfortable circumstances,
In the demand for common domestic SER
vice. 49,
,"~.Laundresses. for example. who are
able to earn "A good living report in
and intense hardship. Family washes
are literally cut in two People who
formerly kept a lady's maid come to US
for II visiting maid to whom they pay
more than the regular wages In the end.
The keep that the family would never
miss Is saved and the ladies' maids suf-
FER In consequence for suitable food and
comfortable ~urrOundingB
Then, too, many housemaids and second
girls have been thrown out OF employ
ment and house-cleaners engaged to 40
about $3.50 a week; desirable help for
two days will cost 50. The mistress saves
81 a month. loses the services of a trust
worthy girl and the laborer is thrown
out of employment and exposed to the
evils OF enforced idleness.
1T Is a wonder to me that in the
women's clubs of this city the obliga-
tions Of the independent woman to her
dependent sister, as a topic of discussion,
has not been considered.
1T Is a subject on which some .gravely
interesting tnlnpS COulu ne said, But
then, perhaps, no good would come OF
1t. So many clubs of progressive women
are all talk; was thinking, about the
Ladies' Health Protective Society yester-
day as | walked. up Tenth avenue and
across Fifty-third street, two thorough
fares Astounding In filth and swarming
with neglected children.
u thought II the ladies ave the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES people n lea ,e OF alb
sence and went cross town and did some
such work as the college settlement Is
doing In Rivington street II would be n
great re~lief-for the butchers on the east
side, and the. residents and helpless, wo-
men and children on the west side.
IT would cost money to hire the idle
pavements and to make the children
tidy enough to go to school, but the
butchers are generous. they might like a
chance to return patronage for .persecu-
entail.
There Is a church club in town, COM
posed largely OF clergymen and profess
c ceiIcnt S Work for q'a men mas and H9nf bo s9ms along en,
the lines Of self help. l have in mind
fifteen superior women, wives of bishops.
rectors and ministers; These ladies, in a
to The. other. could do more, to. better the
condition of the servants, iaundrcsses and
charwomen han the united efforts Of
church and charity organiza ton.
What is needed is domestic employ
ment, either as Members of the household
or day laborers. There are thousands OF
women who would willingly go out for
a dollar a day or less. IL employed four
or Ave times a week.
During her residence In 'the marble
palace uptown, Mrs. A. r. Stewart did
the particular Kind of benevolent work
that is needed now so sadly. She gave
employment to a staff of day laborers,
men and women. who did housecleaning
five days in the week at wages ranging
from 81 so to 81. Men cleaned windows.
mirrors, marble, &c; a couple of old
artists kept the statutory free from
dust; the women were given lighter tasks
and given II from a sense of duty.
What the women of this country
need more than anything else is woman's
influence" NELL NELSON.