New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-02

selves beyond the means Of the working girls
! believe It requires more character for girls in
stores 10 keep straight than for any other class
OF workers They brought IN contact with
every change in style. They all the time
handling the beautiful fabrics and seeing the mag
niheenty gowned women. This seems a very
petty and sordd reason. doubt But when We
see how women are judged by their clothes and
treated according 10 their dress it is not sr0ris-
ing that weak minds affected by IL II you
through big store some day and see what at
Ny own opinion IS that the so-called country
gin IN New-Hork Is not especially likely to go
one who lives in a crowded tenement. where she
les $50. nT PL!s I ana 40 co1[T I, agencies ro-
girls The girls already in take their friends
AT certain seasons We have demands for factory
serven+s tIf there Is one Class ~ women cor
stantly coming 70 New-York for whom there IS
a noe neople antinr such positions right here
IN NewYork than there are places for. Homes
for the friendless are fun OF such women mere
such h places And .comranions How many calls
we have had from broken down gertewomen who
wanted 70 De companions. Lntrr ,. no sLca .h'ilf
as a som Panl9 on IA n ne e sl 5 5lsL
c9pes such a position sometimes. and who il in
2 peculiarly miserable situation because she is
in neither the servant class the mistress class.
CANADIAN GUMPTION.
There IS one class OF country girls constantly
coming 10 NeU-York ard doing well They are
nurses The hospital training schools fan of
them and they ali make splendid nurses. and stay
here and do well have never heard any explana-
ton Of ny Canadian girls take 10 this profession
as they do.
.One reason why so few girls come from farms
and small villages 70 New-York Is that the big
clothing manufacturers are extending their bust
ness more and more tuto the country. Every year
they build factories IN little villages There
girls viii work for 8 week who get s. IN New
York. Some firms send wagons out among the
farmhouses once week. leaving work and collect
ing that finished. I knew one Isolated farmhouse
where a wagon left Office coats all summer The
mother and daughters got four cents apiece for
had no farm work 70 do. Naturally. when they
have Their home 20 live IN and can raise good
when work is brought 70 Inc door
on that table adj ana fairly ooapse she vas from
! village IN Indiana anc was ~ the end OF her
got four or I'VE for herself while she was here II
/ was her APPEARANCE Any one would take her on
place. The root Of the whole matter was that she
had had "a year ~ 90 e2f. ana her mead was
one ever appreciated her. or treated her with suf
hcent Tsspec, Sh+ cot p.~ r AeT , p 3hH 81
/ against every other girl IN the place They were
Fertlaiiy thew kept The other girls and 1T Ter 20
She got one position as telephone sirl. anoth IN
1 was the mos unadaptabIe creature I ever saw
College have sG5 to saT rs we" eat as
/ snap what they know. II is only what they can DO
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| BARRED ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR
| u knew a refined coIored woman who came from
| Boston and almost starved. through fault OF
| her own She was one Of the most competent
| women I ever saw. She tyDesetter. proof
reader and a stenographer. and good at all three
| She was almost white, but still she refused
che was taken into the Office OF a medical publ
/ cation. where she did excellent work. and got very
good pay. She was the only woman II the once
! which the ;hcy could take her III.
| When they wanted u employ another woman they
| managed 10 find an educated Italian girl. who had
no prejudice, and the octoroon EetaIeo het Pidoe;
| decided so country where she would
| not be hampeFed by her race
tion with the ordinary coored people and by preJu-
| dice from associating with white Americans she
| had found congenial conpanionship only with
! Spanish people IN New-fork- she nad learned
I Spanish. and she decided 70 go 20 Cuba There
! she has held SOS a week position FOR the last
! three years stenographer- 1 was turned out or
! 3 restaurant where was eating with that girl
| once and she was as pretty and well behaved and
| ladyifke a girl would wish TO see.
/ walton in New-York one entirely through her
| fault the other through fault OF her own But
! they were both exceptional cases Generally speak
ing the girl who comes here Is not any more help
! ioss than the girl born here. excepting that she
nav get short OF funds. and have no home to live
IN INF she hnds work. Then it's case OF charity
- bome FOR the friendless or something CORE
/ sDo1dinR But IL she is adaptable and willing TO
/ 4ska what she can get we can generally ma her
! something unless It is IN the midst OF the dull
se as1 -.rsmpls OF how much It depends on the
xri h,-Sslf II the fact that although this employ
rnent bureau is affiliated with the Association OF
TFC-i-f1e Girls Clubs and was originally estab-
Iished Tor their benefit. IL never has TO get club
ri lob club members are never out OF q Job.
| .obs and never have 10 come to US for help"
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