The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-05

sisters In a little New nglnnd town. The
oldest had passed the age Of good looks.
but tho younger three were all beautiful
girls though that did them little good in
a country where the ratio of women to men
was worse than 10 to /. Two Of the sisters
were dressmak ers, the third was a clerk
In a dry goods store and the youngest was
in the high school They had inherited the
old family residence they lived in and their
social position was OF course, very different
| from what il would be in New York, for
instance. But still their life was monotonous
and ninlike to degree unimaginable by one
who does not know the environment.
when the youngest OF the four reached
the self-supporting Gge she decided. that
she wanted to sec something OF the world.
After graduating from the high school she
learned stonogrRphy, came TO New York
and got place with manufacturer in
| city close by. Within year she married
| her employer. l saw her the other day.
She bad on Russian sable cloak which
must have cost $1,000. and that delicate,
intellectual, New England type Of beauty
she had always had. set OF by plutocratio
trappings, had become positively patrician.
AS soon as she was married she sent for
the next older sister to live with her This
sister was even prettier, and she has made
an oven better marriage than the other
Il expect that, between them, they will
place tho next older sister before long.
These girls had the universal passport Of
beauty. All they needed was an environ
ment In which there were few men 10
appreciate 1t.
"A few years ago wealthy woman In
Denver had housemaid who attracted
the attention, Of such Of her callers as had
an eye to soc, by her refinement and good
breeding After a while she disappeared,
and her former employer was strictly nom
oommittal as TO her whereabouts saying
nothing except to speak In the highest
terms Of her qualities. The facts of the
story came into my possession. and they
were very interesting.
The girl had been graduated from one OF
the big Eastern colleges for women. She
had taken the course at the expense Of
strenuous sacrifices on the part of her
family and was exceedingly anxious to
become an Garner at once upon her gradua-
ton. She was we'll fitted 10 step at once
into good pedagogio position.
But at the very moment of graduation,
coming under the care Of n physician, he
told her the sad news that her lungs were
in very poor co ndition. They were not
diseased he said, and IL she could go
directly to a proper climate and live in it
for some yenrs they would in all proba-
bity become perfectly sound, but that by
remaining where she was for the next few
years she risked tuberculosis, There were
tendencies to tuberculosis in her family,
and she took the advice TO heart.
"She started straight for Colorado, hop
ing to get school. But just at that time
there was a serious agitation in that State
over the risk to children of employing SO
many Eastern consumpiyes in the schools.
In response TO the searching questions of
each board Of education 10 which she APP
piled, her story would come out and she
could get no school Rather than remain
a burden upon her family for another day,
shs took place as second girl
1t was Il pretty sad time for her. Al
the time Of graduation she had been en-
gagged to a young college man. He had
his start in life to make, and also owed
something TO his family III the way % help
ing 10 educate younger childcn &c was
impossible for them to marry for few
years When she took the place 4
servant she wrote releasing him from the
engagement. The man, however who was
u thoroughbred, refused lhe release. lie
wrote her, ~ hold on, 10 get "a much out
door life as possible, build up her health
and eventually they would work out the
problem Two years later he stepped into
"A professors berth in n college in the Middle
West. The pay was not plutocratic. but 1t
enabled them 10 marry, and the house
maid became a professors wife.
d" But tile most curious marriage that
has come under my observation among
the women ! write policies for, concluded
the insurance woman, occurred right here
in Now ork only few weeks ago Not
many years ago newspaper woman came
from an inland city TO try her luck IN the
big city. She was intensely Interested in
the foreign quarters OF New YORK, espe-
cialy the Italian quarter, and almost from
the first began TO write and sell stories
about the latter Finding that it would
be useful TO know ltalian, with thrifty
eye TO saving money and acquiring material
at the same time, she cast about Tor an
educated Italinn with whom she could
exchange lessons in English for his own
language.
There are Italian university graduates
scattered all through the colony, come TO
America to seek their fortunes, and she
soon had more offers OF lessons than she
could accept 1t WIS her policy to change
of frequently so "a to keep for instructor
some man who knew no English whateyer,
since "a soon as they knew any English
Mt all they would practise il on her all the
time In the course of this procedure
abe met n young officer OF an Italian mer-
can't @ ship which had just arrived in port
His boat was 20 be here two or three weeks
and when a friend OF his invited him TO call
on an American lady who was Interested
in green Italians he was quite willing,
BY the time the ship was ready TO leave
he had decided that he would resign and
see II he could get a job in America. He
got the job and they were married this
winter.