The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-03

always the serious side to her nature. and
so II wesnt hong before she tired of IA life
all play and no work. and started two
schools for poor children in different parts
of the city. These schools were her special
charge and the stormiest day was not
enough TO keep her from making her daily
visits 10 them.
The schools were carried on for some
time, and were given up when Miss Schley
determined 10 turn her back upon The
world and enter a convent. She had be-
come Interested in a beautiful little Italian
child whom she had picked up In the slums
while working in her schools, and this
child she took 10 her own home the family
adopting ii as a beloved plaything. When
its foster mother determined 10 become
a nun The question of what to do with the
chid came up, but II was placed in an
asylum and later turned over to its real
mother while Miss Schley went on to
the Convent Of the Sacred Heart near Al
bany n. Y. Unfortunately for her relig-
ious ambitions, she was taken IN within
Two or three weeks after her entrance aud
forced 10 return home to recuperate IL
isn't the custom for this order to allow
a second trial for a novltate, but after
a year or two al home Miss Schley secured
the privilege of making a new trial, and
this time entered the Convent of the La
dies Of the Sacred Heart at 81. Louis, ia
time taking the white veil Again her
health gave way, and she retired from the
community before making her final VOWS.
This was IN 1876. A little later Miss
Schley determined to open a home for
working girls, having ideas Of her own as
to The restricted life which the working
girl leads who labors IN office or factory
ali day and spends her evenings IN a cheer
less boarding house. She believed that
girls who worked for a living needed fun
and social life as much, If not more, than
the girls who remained al home and she
took a tolerant view OF beaux and sweet
hearts, and even encouraged both when
she eventually had an opportunity 10 do
so in a general way. But Miss Schloy
had no money with which to start such
home and so she taught for several years,
saving part OF her income as a nucleus for
the work Her school was somewhere In
Minnesota, and naturally when the time
was ripe for opening the home she went
on 10 ST. Paul TO secure the patronage Of
philanthropists who could help her Arch
bishop Ireland took an active interest IN
ner plans and Il was TO his support as
much as to anything else that her success
in opening the home was due. Two houses
were rented and furnished and quarters
were provided for sixty-five girls.
There never was any difficulty IN keeping
the house filed for the board was so low
and The general tone OF tho home so allur-
ing that there were applications ahead
and I'm The course Of the ten years or so
that the home was conducted by Miss
Schley a thousand girls enjoyed its COM
forts. They were jolly days for the work
ing women of 81. Paul, for once a week
there was dancing party at the home, 10
which the sweethearts were expressly in
Vited and every once IN a while there was
a pretty wedding In the parors, Miss
schley giving away the bride, and the
other girls and their sweethearts being the
guests.
The home for working women was nom
scctarian, for though all her life Miss
Schley has been a Roman Catholic, she
has not tried TO influence others to that
belief, but has worked for all sects This
was shown not only in the home and the
schools she provided, but also in her later
work among the poor Of Milwaukee, for
whose benefit, after the panic OF 1893, she
established soup kitchens, feeding thous-
ands and, II issaid. doing much 10 avert
the bread riots that were feared at one
time. A year before this, during the dis
tress that followed the great fire that
swept through part Of the city, render
ing hundreds Of families homeless, Miss
Schley had been among the first to open
headquarters for clothing and feeding the
needy
But philanthropy and religion were nor
the only subjects that had engrossed Miss
Schley's mind. When only a young girl
she wrote novel called Fanny Daven-
port" a title smacking of the fOotlights
though there was nothing theatrical about
the heroine a very conventional girl who
lived in the unromantic village OF Nc
Farland a little sta ton on the railroad be-
tween here and Madison. The story shift
ed from Mcfarland to Milwaukee, New
York, the Atlantic ocean, Paris and other
places with delightful vagueness, and the
characters took good many pages IN
which TO do a good many commonplace
things. Sun, considering the age OF the
author, the story was rather a creditable
one, though Miss Schley's father Is said
10 have held a contrary opinion. having
bought up the entire first edition In order
TO prevent any copies being placed on
sale.
That is probably just one Of the reasons
why the world has never heard a great
deal about the novel written by Commo-
dore Schley's cousin though the author
did her best 10 rescue il from oblivion by
resurrecting II at a time when she needed
some funds for the ST. Paul home. The
book was published IN a thin volume with
small, poor type and sentences that were
pages long. In the preface Miss Schley
sweetly thanked 'all those who have help
ed to dispose Of the first edition"
OF late years Miss Schley has been
studying art in Paris. She has always
shown a talent for painting, but until she
went abroad the criticism oftenest heard
was that while she knew how to paint,
she did not know how to draw. She