Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-20
WOMEN WHO LIVE ALONE
Hopeful Dolly Brightness and
Her New Surroundings.
FROM COUNTRY TO CITY LIFE
The Clay Artists and Carpet
Design Weavers.
A Future Model Home For Unprotected
Young wOmen-1hr Humane club That
Is TO Be Conducted by Girl women
Helping To support The Family.

pecialCorrespondence OF Gazette ana journal
New York, Feb. a. Another woman
letter. But it is to that girl woman
who is doing the work of man, and
getting-well, she gets encouragement
from her woman friends, and she has
the somewhat doubtful pleasure of hop
ing for gratitude in the hereafter. |
don't know how many there are---l am
always off where numbers are concerned
but leaving out the girls in the shops
and the girls in the big factories, there
are hundreds of girls in New York
either earning their living or studying
10 make their living with pen, a
pencil, or the paint brush, on the
violin, on the piano, or with that most
beautiful of all instruments, the human
voice. And usually these girls are
alone. They come ilocking in by the
hundreds, hoping as only girl woman
can hope, with bright eyes and glow
ing 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 small
town, well, we will call her Dolly
Brightness, developed remarkable
ability to sketch everybody she saw !:
her pictures were the delight Of the
neighborhood she carricatured all the
villagers from the preacher in the pul.
pit to the funny old doctor and to the
small boys in the back pow, who went
to sleep, and carricatured them good
naturedly Then she painted flowers
so well that the neighbors declared you
could not tell her roses from the real
ones. Little by little. enough money
was saved fer her to come to Now York
and study.
THE GIRL FROM THE COUNTRY.
She landed at one of the big stations
with bunch of golden rod. her bag
and two bundles and for the first time
she began to realize that she was going
10 be stranger in a strange land. The
cable car took her to tho house where
board had been engaged for her, the
place that was to be her future home;
q hall bedroom on the fourth floor
The windows were half the size of
those on the floor below, and only ono
belonged to her room. There was
folding bed, why, | don't know as
nobody younger than Dolly's grand
father would have been allowed in her
room, and even her grandfather would
have had to have brought certificate
proving his relationship to satisfy the
landlady, since her idea was always to
believe the wrcng about Young girl,
lhen there vas 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 weIl-grown girl,
while the jug had its nose broken as If
1t hac gotten disgusted with the smell
OF stale water. There was one chair.
but as the landlady gleefullv said,
Ihls room, Miss, is heated. I" A
gloomy looking register suggested that
tact. But when the day came that sue-
gested that Whit of warm air would
be desirable, Dolly 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
" for her expenses. And Dolly. hv
the-by, had much more than the
average girl. The parlor which re
minded one OF the cemetery vault, had
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 it was called the parlor
puzzled Dolly, for she never heard any
body talk there all that long winter:
when anybody did 90 in they smoke 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 have it there. 1t is true once in
while some Of tho other girls climbed
up the stairs and visited her in the
hall room, but that was not a cnmforta
bic visit, since Dolly has TO let the bed
down so that her guest might have
something TO sit on, and that left no
room IN which to be socable. Once she
told me that she believed 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 will become Of
Dolly II she does that: My friend. do
YOU know what | wonder? IL is this:
lhat moro girls do not q to the devil
straight. 1t is beautiful tribute to
their innate goodness that so MANY of
them can look into their mothers faces,
and by that look convince them of
thelr purity and their goodness. But
ms is all leading zip 10 another story
Nhen woman is old, and rich, and
ugly, u seems as If nature intended her
Tor phllanthropist. But when she is
young and handsome and rich, and
doesn t call herself phianthropist.
but does the work of a real one, thcn
she ls what? les, YOU have said it,
"a gift OF God. When the New York
School of Technical Design was started
by Mrs Dunlap Hopkins, her friends
laughed and thought it the fad Of 4
pretty woman tired Of snciety hut
tlme proved that il this was a fad, fads
We're good things, since it resulted in
school where, for a comparatively
small sum, girl may learn to do work
WIN her pencil, or her brush. or with
Gay 70 do work that will sell
Not such work as We, too often. sre
amateursh to the last degree, and sold
ny some kindly woman Who docsp i
reaiiHe the harm she is doing the real
workers but, who, because somrhoIy
needs 1t, get9 SO for painted PLAQUE,
that deserves to be thrown in the fire.
woMAN's PRACTICAL HELP.
The philanthropy Of Mrs Horsins'
work consisted in making pirls ilnfler-
stand that their work was 0nly ,ynrtb
what 1t would fetch in the marker. AMI
not me sum given by thnir friends ar
al church rallies. Wel, year after VA
the school grew, until now il Stands a,
monument TO the wonderful brain anil
loving hpart Of one woman.
VI Is free of DELFT, From il has con,e
i9t'h the brightest Women architerta III
mus county, From Ii, every w,rl
a, aiG H"'.i IT, the he7. wtee4 they viii
.rll's .'"sl&hs ipr aa4rt weaving, do
S'SRS ''r wall payer ana designs for
'i.,;,.' I'D rpSerS. ,iheg'rI who draws carpet
"'sl gus mas learned ltpr work artisti.