The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
HOW THEY SPEND SUNDAY.

How. should working women spend
the Sabbath day? is a question that
has often been asked by those interest
ed in the welfare of this class. Clergy
men, of course, insist that their first
duty is to attend services at the church
At a gathering of girls representing
various classes Of workers recently the
question was asked: what do you do
on Sunday" One was a stenographer,
one a newspaper woman, one a book
keeper in her fathers office and the
fifth a home" girl. It was the first
who questioned and the last who an
swered first.
Sunday" queried she. "Why, 1 go
to church, of course, as all good people
should. Don't your she asked, turn
ing to the stenogra pher.
81 used to-" returned the latter, slow
ly, but since 1 became a wage-earner
l am so glad to stay home one day In
the week that don't go to church very
often. The first thing 1 think of on
Sunday morning when 1 awake is, oh,
this long, lovely day to stay home in,
to lounge, to rest, to read, to walk, to
write, to do as 1 please in And that's
just what l do"
80 do l." chimed in the bookkeeper,
whose home is out of town. Sunday is
like an oasis in the desert to me, and l
can tell you / make the most of it, ac-
cording to my little light. Oh, the lux
ury of coming down to breakfast late,
in a dainty negligee, just one day in
the week; the bliss of not having to
break my neck to catch an old train;
the JOY of a morning along the creek,
with the birds and the flowers, the &C.
stacy of an afternoon with a book in
a cool, quiet room; and later an hour
with music and mother in the twilight,
before tea: Why, girls, SIMPLY could
MT get through the rest of the week
without my Sunday at home. What do
you do?"
Darn my stockings" promptly an
swered the scribbler, run ribbons
through my undergarments, wash my
hair and do up the odd jobs 1 don't
get time for through the week, includ-
ing letter writing and novel reading.
1 have to get on without the home and
mothers comforts some of you have, "
she added, grimly, land a boarding
house isn't the most luxurious place in
which to spend the day, but, neverthe-
less, I'm not sorry to stay there just
one day in seven, and if L hear the rain
pattering down when ] wake, so much
the better, say l, for then l shall have
no callers, and shall be able to do all
my little tasks in peace"
Now, what do you do?' they put in
chorus to the girl who had first asked
the question.
"Well, she said, eff I say first of all
that 1 do sometimes go to church,
ought to add that as a rule have Sat-
urday for the sort of things you have
been talking of. I can understand why
our little home girl here is faithful to
her church-going, and l can under
stand, too, why you girls, who have got
to dress and go out six days a week,
are not anxious to dress on the seventh
day also and sit through a long service.
You simply must have one day to rest
and prepare for the coming week-al-
though l am not sure you all choose the
wisest recreation" and she smiled at
the scribbler.
81 wish, though" put in the ste
nographer, earnestly, that people
the people we care for, at least-would
believe that it isn't lack of love or rev.
erence that keeps a business woman
home from church. If ever the weekly
grind lets up. so that we can have Sat
urday to rest and recreate in, We shall
march to church on Sunday as man
fully as anybody. Shant we?"
Nobody dissented and the home girl
looked as if she had gotten some new
ideas of the question, why don't bus
mess women go to church,"