Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
FOR WOMEN WHO
LITE ALlNE.
Bah Practically Discusses Workers
With Pen, Pencil, Brush and Voice.

WITH Itl, ItuUll, DIUSu duu FUIUt'
HOPEFUL DOLLY BRIGHTNESS
AND HER NEW SURROUNDINGS
FROM COUNTRY TO CITY LIFE
AVOIDING TEMPTATIONS - CLAY
ARTISTS AND CARPET DESIGN
WEAVERS-WOlIEN ARCHITECTS
A FUTURE MODEL HOME FOR
UNPROTECTED YOUNG WOMEN
THE HUMANE CLUB THAT IS TO
BE CONDUCTED BY GIBL-WOMEN
HELPING TO SUPPORT THE FAM
ILY-WOMEN WHO TAKE CARE
OF WORTHLESS lIEN-LEARN-
ING TO WORK WELL.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
New York. February 12.-Another
woman letter. But it is to that girl
woman who is doing the work of man,
and getting we'll, she gets encourage
ment from her woman friends, and she
has the somewhat doubtful pleasure Of
hoping for gratitude in the hereafter.
[ don :, know how many there are-l
am always oil where numbers are con-
carned-but leaving out the girls in the
shops and the girls i'm The big factor
les. there are hundreds of girls in New
York either earning their living or
studying to make their living with a
pen. a pencil, of the paint brush. ON the
violin. on the banjo, or with that most
beautiful of all instruments, the hui
man 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 it is nearly all work and very little
play That pretty girl who lived in a
small town. we'll, we viii call her Dolly
Brightness. developed remarkable abil-
Try 10 sketch everybody she saw; her
.ictures were the delight of the neigh
bOraa2d: she caricatured all the vii
layers from the preacher in the pulpit
10 the funny old doctor and to the
small boys i'm the back pew. who went
TO sleep and Caricatured them good
naturedlv. Then she painted flowers
so well that the ncighbOrs declared YOU
could not tell her roses from the real
ones. Little by little. enough money
was saved for her to come to New
I York and study.
THE GIRL FROM THE COUNTRY.
She landed at one of the big sta
tions with a bunch of golden rod, her
/ bag and two bundles. and for the first
going TO be a stranger i'm a strange
/ land. The cable car took her to the
house where board had been engaged
for her, the place that was to be her
future home; a hall bed room on the
fourth floor. The windows were half
the size of those on the floor below.
and only one belonged to her room.
/ There was a folding bed. why. 7 don't
know, as nobody younger than DOlly's
grandfather would have been allowed
i'm her room. and even her grandfather
would have had TO have brought a GER
| tificate proving his relationship to sat
isfy the landlady, since her idea was
| always 90 believe the wrong about q
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 it had gotten dis
gusted with the smell Of1stale water
There was one chair. but as the land
lady gleefully said. "This room. Miss.
is heated A gloomy looking register
suggested that fact Brt when the day
came that suggested that a Whit OF
warm air would be desirable. Dolly
opened the register and got. not heat
but the accumulated smells of the var
ious 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 So for her expenses.
And Dolly, bye-the-bve. had much more
than the average girl The parlor.
which reminded one Of cemetery
vault had q little sign on the door.
which said, ladies are expected to
receive their friends here The gas is
put out at 10 o'clock" Why il was
called the parlor puzzled Dolly. for she
never heard anybody talk there all
that long winter; when anybody did
go i'm. they spoke in whispers and be-
T. haved as if there was wonder as to the
corner in which the coffin stood
While she was working it was all
very we'll.
But DOLLY WAS ONLY HUMAN.
/ and she wanted a little play. She
couldn't have il there. 1t IS true. once
In a while some of the other girls
climbed up the stairs and visited her In
the hall room, but thai was not a com
Portable visit, since Dolly has to lex the
ped 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 believed her desire
10 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 WHIT viii become Of
Dolly if she does that? Ny friend. do
YOU know what T wonder? It is this:
Thai more girls do NOT so TO the devil.
straight. tt IS beautiful tribute 10
their innate goodness thar 50 many of
them can look into their mothers faces.
and by that look convince them of their
purity and their goodness. But this
&c All 1p97ir,o- nm n qnOf her sorry When