The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-09
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ago. sWhat am L to do? She is only Il
and has just left school. There is enough
in the family treasury to keep the thref
of us-my husband, Elizabeth and me
But Elizabeth won't listen TO remain
ing idly at home as she calls it. Her
father and l are heart broken! How car
] dfssuade her?"
Don't try" replied the listener, q
woman who had been left penniless and
~parentless at IN age younger eve than
that of ambitious little Miss Eliza
beth. 'Let her try If she wants to-" but
/ don't want my only child to thrust
herself out in the world like that" tine
mother continued. 1T don't want her to
grasp and tug and -wrestle the way
people do in this business world' She
would soon be nc better than a boarder
in her own fathers house!~
Exactly said the older woman, you
don't want these things, and therefore
you must take the very easiest and most
thorough way of graduating the mania.
1t has become more common among girls
these last few years than anyone who
had not studied the case could imagine.
You see, this Kind of life presents itself
to a girls quick Imagination surrounded
with all the enchantments which distance
and ignorance of the subject can lend
She reads of the brilliant prizes won by
other women In business fields. She sees
only the glory, and passes the endless
hardship. 1t is really remarkable what
hundreds of young gir,s-little more than
children.are resolved upon becoming
professionals when there is no need.
"Give your little enthusiast the
boys call a show Let her have her way
and see how soon she win fly back to her
ONE
Every welQ-bred woman who has ever
had occasion to do business in any
way will agree in one point: That, as a
rule-no matter where her work carried
her. she was treated with the greatest
consideration and kindness by the mas
culine force. Still struggling for the dol
lar and the penny does. mean a real
struggle. 1t means the sacrifice of a
thousand little comforts and private lik-
ings.An enforced actively of mind anu
body and a strain. day in and out.
If the young girl who has these aspi-
rations could but get q few points clearly
In her mind her notions upon the sub
jeet would vanish speedily. In the first
place., why, for PHYS sake should a
sweet, womanly, clever young thing OF
Is speak of s'idiing at homer" Has she
not a small postgraduate course of read
ing to take? Can't she afford to teach
a Sunday sehool class. or a sewing class
of a few little ones for eharity's sake?
Where do her social engagements. Wis
it's. afternoon teas come in? Every girl
needs something of the kind. How about
her gymnasium and her cooking school
exerciseso About home decoration and
amateur millinery and a course in the
first aid to the injured?
Then the other point. Shouldn't the
work be left open for those who need
it? OF course it shout II there is a
comfortable amount in the home treas
1ry, and the parents are willing to sup
port their daughter, why should not the
dauzhter avail herself of the opportu-
nifty? who has a nisht to the ducats il
not she? And why should she take the
bread and butter from the plate of some
young worker who needs it really and
honestly? There's the rub!
But then u daughter will not real
ize these facts until they are demon
strated practically. If she is upon BUSH
ness bent she win satisfy the craving.
she will know all about 1t, and you will.
hear nothing about 1t until the opposite
is demonstrated to her by a mouthful OF
the stuff called experience.
hundred of aspiring young women In
Philadelphia have no real need for bus
mess occupation. But they won't rest com
tent until they have learned that writing
a gradual essay is not earning SO per
week.
"Bnt won't even that little taste of
business make her a bit hard and dis
contented with common things2 de-
handed the anxious mother.
mot a Bit" was the CHEEKY answer.
when the young oma decides to
abandon business, now and forever. you
will be astounded what a marvellous
amount of time and care the quondam
business woman is willing to throw away
en- the silk draperies of her den.
mo woman is more pathetically inter-
tina when gracefully done make her 80
dear in the eyes of those who know her"
THE BRUSH BoarQ OF trace mas re-
Gently issued a circular calling attention
to the necessity of exercising precautions
to prevent domestic boiler explosions. and
the chief engineer of the Manchester
Steam Users Association has issued a
pamphlet giving the causes of these ex-
plosions and the means OF. preventing
them. The points upon which stress is
laid are as follows:-
Kitchen boiler explosions are due to an
accumulation Of pressure in the boiler in
consequence of the outlets being stopped
up while the fire is burning. These ex-
occur during the frost through
the choking up of the pipes with ice.
Sometimes stop taps are placed in the
circulating pipes, and. should these taps
be shut. or should the circulating pipes
become choked with sediment or stopped
up from any other cause, the pressure
would then be bottled up, and an exc
plosion might result ait any time. whether
summer or winter.
To prevent this every boiler should be
fitted with a small reliable safety valve
whether the boiler be copper, steel or
iron. wrough, or cast, ard whether it be
fitted With a copper cylinder or not. A
safety valve OF lightweight construction
is recommended as the most simple. In
the event ot ms outlets becoming choked
II nron:1d re1iev4 any uad1re pressure while