Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1898-12-09
COUNTRY GIRLS comero TOWN
ran of Ambition and Hope. wh;sh
seldom Last.


run of Ambition and Hopes wh;sh
seldom Last.
Autumn is the time when New York
is overrua with promising young PEG.
pie OF bath sexes who graduated with
honors and flowers and essays In June
and have been laying their plans all
summer for capturing the metropolis.
says the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser. Some Of the girls have def
mite aims and come to study at the
Art League or the School Of Applied
Design or the Conservatory Of Muslc
They are ambitious, hard-working and
optimistic and manage to have a pretty
good time, in spite OF long hours in
class, at lessons or practiclng. The
Indefinite, versatile, can-do-anything
type Of young woman is the one to be
pitied. She is more self-conndent than
the girl who really knows something
about a special art or profession. She
is nearly always disconnected coun-
try girl, and as such has always been
a subject for novelists and clergymen;
she Is now one Of the problems OF civ
ilization. She comes to the city be-
cause the farm or the quiet home In
the small town is deadly dull. She
is not often well OF, but in most In
stances has a home where there was
at least enough to eat and wear. She
is not easily convinced that In coming
to town she has made an ill-advised
move and weeps many tears before
she really believes that there was more
demand for unskilled labor In her small
town than there is in the big city,
where the best OF everything is to be
had. She has to dress and It costs far
more In the city than it does in the
country, where little was needed, and
that very little simple. BY and BY
she drifts home again, thankful that
there is home to drift to, and con-
tented with its quiet security after her
experience. If she is very proud and
the home is too small for her wants
and ambitions she does not 20 back;
she battles and struggles, and she is
one OF the fortunate ones of the earth
II she manages to keep anoat long
enough to gain a place Of safety. The
girl who comes to the city to study,
with a sure and regular income. no
matter how small, is quite another
type. while the girl skilled in any spec
ial branch has but to wait her oppor-
tunity. But to the unskilled country
girl who knows a good deal OF Pump
kinville. but whose knowledge Is Meth
er needed nor yearned for In New York.
the wise and experienced ones say:
Stay at home. The dressmaker who
can make a bodice without wrinkles
can make living in any country town;
In New York she would starve. The
girl whose voice astounds the church
folk OF Cohoes would be lost in the
back row Of cheap opera chorus. AMI
the housekeeper who fancies her
housewifely achievements unappreciat-
ed in her own spotless home would fni
knowledge of more than washing and
wheatcakes necessary to the well-paid
menagere Of city household. And
this Is not sermon or highly colored
danger signal. 1t is Just few Of the
things one hears talked about by the
women at the head of the home-hotels.
where ambitious country girls stay
when in search Of lucrative positions.
The women who place" teachers. COM
panions. etc., know something about 1t,
ton