Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-13
TWO COUNTRY GIRLS
They Preferred Factory Life and
Poverty to Kitchen Work and
Good Wages.
An Incident That Shows Why Hired
Girls Are Scarce in the
City.
Democratic Speakers Not to Be
Given Benefit Of Republican
Crowds-Comment.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 13.-Two stout,
healthy country girls came to Des
Moines a few days ago and inquired at
a certain public institution for cheap
room. The good woman who presides
over this institution, which is for the
purpose of encouraging and helping the
struggling, though not a charity organ
ization, succeeded in getting these girls
to tell her, as it is a part of her busi-
ness to find out, what they came to the
city for and what they were planning
10 live in town and enjoy the advan-
tages of city life, and how do you sup
pose they We're going TO do it? They
had searched diligently for work and
mad at last found employment in fac
tory at 81 week. On this sum they
We're going to board and clothe them
selves. The matron asked them how
they expected to do it. They replied
that they intended to get a cheap room
and do their own work, get their own
meals and thought they could get along
that way. They We're told that they
could not get enough TO eat, not TO say
anything about clothing, On this pit
tance, and then the matron asked:
can You cooko'
20. yes. we can cook
Then why don't you so and work for
some nice family, where you Will get
twice as much money and your board,
sood board, thrown in, and have q good
| comfortable nome and not have 10 work
nalf as nard as you VIII at the fac
tory
me girls explained that they We're
SISTERS ana wanted to stay together.
lhey dldn want TO go out and be
separated; tnat was why they We're go
| ing TO work IN factory.
Inen know he very place for
you, said the matron. Il know fam
llly that wants a cook and a second girl
II Is small family and they Keep a
coachnan TO do all the heavy work
even WITH the Washing 50 It IS a very
easy place, and they VIII pay you 81 q
Week eaeh ana you VIII nave a nice
Esoiilioftapie room ana the pest OF FOOD
i9u VIII pe together ana VIII be ever
80 tiuch pettef on thah the way you
are thinking OIL DONG.
1 me slris TOOK the aadfess, put they
/ never vent near tne pace. lheN pre-
1 Asfisu V stdfNe ana scfiilp IN Inc ar
| tst poverty anu discoaiefl ana be
iauits as lhsS TOOK upon ~ Ihls
| lsn oNerdohe at all. IL Is a true iilel-
| aeiit thap oceufreu a lew Gays ago ana
| : pellg enacted an over TINS city. 1T
| Is next 20 lhlposSlple 70 get any sort OF
! lousssWoik cone Many prominent tam
mes are lor weeks ana months without
1 COOKS or any sort OF lemale help. Many
IAiiiilites are dfiven TO poaralng because
] on H. Whlie the stores ana factories are
~ TO " Week How these girls live
ana remain decent is mystery flare
| 70 soiVe. OF course great many OF
them DO not SO 1--we. There IS an insti-
luton IN TINS city called the BUSINESS
i w omen Association, whose business II
IS 10 iurhlsh nome Tor such girls al
the lowest possible cost-ln fact, fan
peioW cost, rms cup mouse takes care
OF iofty or nifty girls, charging then
What they can afford to pay Those who
get very llttie pay accordingly and take
more crowded rooms, while those who
can AFFORD TO pay ~ Or 500 week get
the better rooms But ali have the
eeheht OF the parlors. the home and tht
/ extreme low price of everything. 1t Is
1 Inalhtalnea py an ASSOCIATION OF ladies
VINO devote great deal OF hard work
10 II, managing to make Doth ends
/ meet. Ihey are hampered in theil
WORK by the fact that they must keer
the nome clear OF the name of charity
or the girls VIII nave none OF H. They
must go about quietly and get help, fol
heip they must OF course have Still
theS manage 70 do vast amount OF
snis IN wholesome atmosphere.
y. 10. shaW, OF the stare printing
mouse mas Just returned from the ceie-
bfaton OF the golden Wedding of his
f&ihef ana mother IN llpton. 1t was
reinarkapie atfar IN many ways. They
were lharflea WITHIN Tour DOCKS OF
lhe spot Where the ceiepration was he!e
ana nave iiSed IN that vicinity all theil
IVES mere are out three persons now
ilvliis N lipton VINO We're there
Wheh the weddlng occurred. O
.he sixteen persons outside th'
ianiiS VINO ATTENDED the wedding