The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-11
GOT ENOUGH OF CITY LIFE
Young Girl Tries 1t and Finds it Full of
SHARES and Deceits

| Cleveland, o., April 10.-The WileS
and snares of big city that 50 glibly
reach out for the innocent and unso-
! phisticared have made a. lasting i'm
| preston on the mind OF Miss Lydia
CARTS. an attractive young woman of
cam or1dgeboro, Pa After six weeks
of bitter hardship, during which time
guided offers of friendship were received
and rejected, leaving her to the mercy
or strangers and the subsequent s1ings
of poverty, Miss CARTS has fallen into
the hands of good Samaritans.
The girl claims she is the daughter of
| a Cambridgeboro hardware merchant
whose family is eninently respected by
the community. The girls innocent
appearance, together with a refined de-
ineanor and polished attachments, go
to corrcborate her story of respecta-
bic environment. An attractive face
and figure, however, which she knew
she possessed, had a tendency to origf-
nate wild fdeals, and Lydia, becoming
dissatisfied with life in quiet village,
decided to see something of the world
She had heard a great deal of Cleve-
land and decided to go there, where her
exalted ideas pictured life Of continual
pleasure among the worthy and refined,
in whose circles she proposed TO enter.
by viture of her family connections.
A few days after her arrival in this
city she began TO realize that the best
circles were somewhat exclusive and
the tender mercies Of the charitable
were fairy tales. Her money gradually
dwindled 10 a few dollars, but proud
Spirit rebelled against writing for as
Sistance, and she decided to secure a
position and earn enough to take her
back to her Pennsylvania home.
After a weary tramptng of the streets
and repeated requests for employment
Lydia was given work in a restaurant
on Court place Here She made the &C
quaintance of waitress. The latter
has had more or less experience ln bat
Ting for a livelihood and her advice
went far to ease the anxiety which ap-
preaching poverty had begun to pro-
duCe in Lydia.
1t seems that Lydfa's new found
friend was not ovescrupulous in the
company she kept and the girl had a
number of unpleasant experiences. In
the meantime Lydia boarded her meag-
er wages which she hid in a remote re-
cess of her quarters, a humble room her
friend had shown her on Bolivar street.
"A few days ago when Miss GarriS
awolze she found her compaion gone to-
reached the desired amount. One mis-
fortune followed another and Miss
Garris was discharged owing to mex
perience and an overabundance of help.
Monday morning Lydia spent her last
cent for food. The remainder of the day
was spent in tramping the streets look
ing for work, and for something TO
stave off the pangs of hunger. Unable
to abtain either, the girl, brokenheart-
ed, returned b her room on Bolivar
street, and cried herself to sleep. Yes
terday was a repetition of Mon day and
as a last resort Lydia. having had
nothing TO eat for forty-eighS hours,
herself into the Central station,
where she told her story. Patrolman
Douglass. impressed with the girls sad
plight, took her to the Associated Chari-
ties. where she was fed and given
nights lodging. The authorities offered
to purchase a ticket to Cambridgeboro,
which Lydia agreed TO accept providing
they would give her work to pay for the
same. Latter Patrolman Douglass
found her employment and in two
weeks time the girl will be once more
esta blished in the home Of her child
hood, with early dreams of the city all
dispelled.