The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-16

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ter Eut II IS 90 that eirl-Vcu1an Vho IS
s..-- ..s work ~ man. ana getting
wM sha GETS enco-rs z=r=1t trom hey
-.cmsn friends and she has tGs s"ne~ Rat
doubtful plea sure cf hoPiHc for ei zu'ure
in the hereafter 3 aouf hu"V iow mans
there are-I sm sIuas- off where numbers
are ,oncerued-but leaving out ihe girls
in the shops. and the girls In the big fac
tories. there are hundreds of girls in New
York either earning their living or study
ing 10 make their living with pen, a
pencil or the paint brush, or the violin or
the piano. or with that most beautiful of
all instruments. the human voice. And
usually. these girls are alone They come
fIocking in by the hundreds, hoping as
only a girl-woman can hope. with bright
eyes and glowing cheeks. for success. Then
they start TO work, only TO discover that
il is nearly all work and very little play
That pretty girl who lived in small
town, wen. we viii call her Dolly Bright
ness. developed remarkable ability to
sketch everybody she saw; her pictures
were the delight of the neighbOrhood, she
caricatured all the villagers from the
preacher in the pulpit to the funny old
doctor and to the small boys in the back
pew, who went TO sleep, and caricatured
them good-naturedly. Then she painted
flowers so well that the neighbors declared
that you could not tell her roses from
the real ones. Little by little. enough
money was saved for her to come to New
York and study.
She landed at one of the big stations with
a bunch Of golden rod. her bag and two
bundles and for the first time she began
TO realize that she was going 10 be a
stranger in a strange land. The cable car
took her to the house where board had
been engaged for her. the place that was
10 be her future home; a han bedroom on
the fourth floor. The windows were hall
the size Of those on the floor below, and
only one belonged to her room There was
folding bed, why, don Know, as mo-
body younger than Dolly grandfather
would have been allowed in her room, and
even her grandfather would have had TO
have brought a certificate proving his re-
lationship to satisfy the landlady, since
her Idea was always to believe the wrong
about a young girl. Then there was a
rattley old bureau with keyholes but no
keys, a tiny basin big enough for the bath
of a small kitten, but not for that OF a
well-grown girl, while the jug had its nose
broken as if il had gotten Disguised with
the smell of stale water. There was one
chair, but as the landlady gleefully said,
This room, Miss, is heated A gloomy
looking register suggested that fact. But
when the day came that suggested that "A
Whit of warm air would be desirable, Dol
~ opened the register and got. not heat
but the accumulated smells of the various
dishes that had been cooked In that house
for the last seven years For this room
there was paid 81 a week. which left Dolly
with 50 for her expenses and Dolly
bye-and-bye had much more than the
average girl. The parlor, which reminded
one of a cemetery vault, had little Sign
on the door, which said. Ladies are OK
pected TO receive their friends here The
gas is put out at 10 o'clock Why, 1t was
called the parlor puzzled Dolly, for she
never heard anybody talk there all that
long winter; when anybody did go in, they
spoke in whispers and behaved as if there
was wonder as TO the corner in which the
coffin stood
While she was working it was all very
well. but Dolly was only human, and she
wanted little play. She couldn't have
1t there. IL is true, once in while some
of the other girls climbed up the stairs
and visited her in the hall room, but
that was not a comfortable visit, since
Dolly had TO let the bed down so that
her guests might have something to sit
on, and that left no room in which TO be
sociable. once she told me that she be-
heved her desire to enjoy herself would
get the better of her some night, and that
she would walk out on the streets and
look In the shop windows. What viii be-
come of Dolly if she does that2 My
friend, do you know what | wonder? 1t
is this: That more girls DO not go TO the
devil straight. 1T is a beautiful tribute
TO their innate goodness that so many
of them can look into their mothers
faces, and by that look convince them of
their purity and their goodness. But this
Is all leading up TO another story. When
woman Is Old and rich, and ugly, it
seems as if nature intended her for
philanthropist. But when she is young
and handsome and rich, and doesn't call
herself a philanthropist, but does the
work of a real one, then she is-what?
Yes, you have said tia gift of God.
When the New York School of Technical
Design was started by Mrs. Dunlap Hop
kins, her friends laughed and thought it
the fad of pretty woman tired of so
ciety; but time proved that is this was
a fad, fads were good things. since 1t
resulted in a school where, for com
parauVely small sum, a girl may learn
TO do work with her pencil, or her brush,
or with clay, To do work that viii sell
Not such work as we, too often, see anna
teurish TO the last degree, and sold by
that kindly woman, who doesn't realize
the harm she is doing the real workers,
but who, because somebody needs it, gets
$25 for a painted PLAGUE, that deserves
TO be thrown in the fire.
The philanthropy of Mrs. Hopkins work
consisted in making girls understand that
their work was only worth what it would
fetch in the market, and not the sum Civ
en- by their friends, or at church rallies.
Well, year after year the school grew,
until now 1t stands a monument to the
wonderful brain and loving heart of one
woman.
1t is free of debt. From it has come
forth the brightest women architects in
this country From II, every week, are
sold at the best prices they will bring de-
signs for carpet weaving, designs for
wall paper and designs for book covers.
The girl who draws carpet designs has
tically; she knows how the thread works
through the loom for a certain kind of
carpet, and she knows the colors and
patterns that are most salable and upon
which the greatest profit Will be made.
So it is through every department. Each
girl knows that her work win be judged
absolutely according to its merit; conse-
Quently she works, not only to be an
artist, but to be a money maker. The
girl artist in the past has, 1 am sorry 10
say, too often been money beggar, in
asmuch as she expected to get many times
the value of her picture, because she
was a woman. 1 believe in every consId-
Grafton being shown to women by men,
but when a mans work and a woman's
work stand side by side, let the buyer for
get which was the woman's and which. the
mans and buy that which is the best.
But TO return to the school There is also
IN this building a lunch room where, for
a small price the worker can get what
the worker always needs, hot meal in
the middle Of the day.
lap Hopkins get out of all this? Moth
ing That IS, nothing in the worldly
Lgcy. ffr,1n a nd hpr