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Uncle Sans census shar ps in' their last
report. in 1900, credit New York city with
more than a quarter of a million. or 70 ba
exact, 3oI AL, swp men wage ,earners. The
number has Been greatly Increased since
then and has gone .Iven beyond half a
million, consers ative estimates say. What
vast body oESwsmeK Workers these figures
represent may he imagined when it is
remembered that me sarne authorities
place the number of women workers in
the whole United States at less than
5000 600.
Tho New York woman worker, further
more, - engaged in n great variety ot rlr-
suitt. In her efforts n support herself
Nand. others and in bearing the general
= burden of the community she is enrolled
in almost all the occupations in which men
are engaged. The Government recognizes
about three hundred gainful occupations
( which she may pursue, and in nearly all
Of them New York is represented. r "
or agriculturists there are 40, which,
? OF course, includes the dairymaids of the
To- boroughs of Richmond and Queens, a. well
as the women who till vacant uptown lots.
and the girl who gets up early in the morn
ing to gather mushrooms in The Bronx
woods. New York has. too, a woman
miner and quarry worker, and since the
time of the census taker has acquired two
mining engineers of the gentler sex and
has some girls who are studying the same
profession. or women clergymen New
York has 3O1, but not all who are enrolled
in this class are at present occupying pull
pits; in fact less thar a-third Of the number
are preaching.
Dentistry had on it's rolls seventy-three
women, but this number has increased.
and the indications are that the next census
will shov more than a hundred women
dentists in New York. There are. too, sew
eral women veterinary surgeons, but this
profession shows no more new adherents
b. among women than among men. Tn
trouble has all been charged TO the auto
mobile. But there are a number of women
ohauGeurs hat are registered at the different
Offices in the city.
OF undertakers New York has 81 women
on the list. Several trades are only sparsely
represented. for there are but 10 women
= blackbmiths' and only S plasterers, but
there are ~ carpenters and 81 masons.
New York has no women policemen or
municipal fremen or any feminine repre-
b sentative in the army, navy or marine
corps. The law has selhshly protected
smen in these occupations. But Ala women
are recorded as wstehmen.- The city has
not followed the example Of Munich, for
'-tbere are only. 3 women designated as street
p' railway employees and there are no female
street cleaners. in which tho metropolis
J. differs from some of the Western towns.
7 In the column ~ steam boiler makers,
: slate roofers and lumber rafters New York
> women draw blanks.
o. Laborious occupations, al understood in
Europe, with long hours of toll and poor
pay, do not fall to the lot of the New York
ewo rking women. Even the sweatshops,
which draw most Of their help from the for
eigh element OF the city population, and the
Hsunsanitary and unhealthy factory, are being
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furnish their own food for just so long
and for, alackaday, no longer.
1t wa at the end of this time, therefore.
that the emperor of epigrams, going to
the door Of his wife's room, found il on
the latch, opened it stealtbily and came
to the discovery that she was gone.
On the self same evening in search OF
sympathy and food he frequented the
bohemian resorts of his bachelor days of
beloved memory. His friends were there.
They gathered about him with their old
time joyousness. Seeing the sadness Of his
oountenance, they at first refrained from
questioning, but by and by, since he con-
Iinued to remain in this state OF subdued
melancholy. they put a question relative
to the whereabouts Of his young wife.
-She is gone" he answered.
Exchanging furtive glances which served
to reveal the fact that they we're partially
onto the reason why she had concluded TO
60, they put the question verbally.
The emperor blew smoke rings from
his cigarette. He raised his sad eyes CELL
ingward.
"Epigrams furnish omelets for one he
said in soft tones, but not for two.
They beamed upon him with their old
time love and admiration.
He'll not grieve for long" they said
among themselves. "SoOn he'll be himself
aRain, this emperor of ours. Did you hear
that? Why. it was one of his best cpl
Rrama."
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gulp and m looking up observed that tho
man behind the bar was st nj x at me with
interest. Suddenly the welcome wor"s
came to my ear: Won't you have another
As | couldn't pay for the first ! though
l might as well be in for a pound az a penny.
| drank that and still the man kept q
looking at me-, At last he blprted out.
you do2'
1T was now my turn to stare.
You dont know me?' continued the
man.
Il didn't. hadn't the slightest idea who
this angel might be.
Why, he smiled. L was your steward
on board ship when you came out from Eng
LAND some eighteen months ago
Then l recognized him and shook hands
You're not going on tonight, are your
and go on tomorrow. We can give you
excellent accommodation
4 don't know what made me acqulesC'
in his arrangement. At all events the tram
steamed on, and after a cold bath ] found
myself sitting, down to a good dinner. !
was too tired that night to talk to my savior
but the next morning after breakfa>'
made up my mind that the crisis had arrive.
only knows how much my l'I
amounted TO. | met my erstwhlle ste wdri
presently.
"'Er-how much I began, putting my
hand into my empty pocket and vita 80
much hauteur as l could summon up, 10
l owe your
"OWe me2' said he with astonishment.
why, nothing. Of course. | meant you 10
be my guest
If any one had told me at that moner'
had come into a fortune my joy could r''
have been greater. l grasped him by h'''
nands, blurted out my story, borrowed Eve
rupees from him, and took the inCorlrS
train to Tombay, where ! met mr. friend~
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PROKE IN THE
HEART OF INDIA.
Bot the Little Man Found a Good
Angel, Even There.

Talk about being broke in o%utlandish
places" said a little man as he kindly &C
cepted the hospitality OF a chance ac-
quaintance. Il wa or a train in the middle
of India between Calcutta and Bombay
once on a time without penny in my pocket.
/ certainly had friends IN Bombay, but l
had no money to send a telegram, and in
those days-just thirty years ago-such a
thing as sending a message c. o.. d. had
never been heard Of.
Il had been a kind Of assistant superin-
tendent in the Bombay Burma Timber
C~ompany's yard at Dallah, which is over
the river from Rangoon in Burma. Three
months Of this work sufficed to convince
me that I was not fitted for it. l told the
manager so. fancy he wa rather pleased.
At all events. on my saying that l wanted
to get to Bombay and was afraid ] hadn't
enough money he Immediately offered
10 lend me the necessary expenses. / took
him at his word, pocketed'the money and
took the next boat for Calcutta.
-On my arrival at Calcutta l very sensibIy
bought my railroad ticket for Bombay,
a three days terribly hot journey, ny the
way. Then with a literary ardor that
! regret to say has never fOrsaken me
! betook mysetI To the various newspaper
Offices, gave them my impressions OF Bur-
ma and its timber yards and was invited
TO have a jolly good time. I had IL. Two
days afterward ] found myself on the train
for Bombay with what in our money
would he about $3.50 in my pocket. Tho
morey did not last long. In fact. when
exactly haf tic journey was finished I
found myself TenIiless. Tho train came
10 a standstill for half an hour at some biz
station | really have forgotten the name
but | know there was a hote,, and a res
iEursnt ATTACHED to 1t and that TIE town
was a military one.
Il was Lot, dusty. and ch. so thirsty,
! gave up a lev minutes to thinking what
] should do. ] couldn't telegraph on 10
friends I rad in Bombay, az I haJnt An
anna 4 left tho train, walked lnso thu
restaurant and boldly called for 4 brandy
and soda. II was brought. drLnk h al 4
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wiped out by favorable labor legislation.
Employers of female labor are taking moro
pains to secure proper quarters for their
help and are furnishing rest rooms and
aid in case Of injury and sickness.
These conditions nave not a little to do,
no doubt. with giving the New York work.
ing girl that characteristic with which she
is credited. an individuality quite az marked
as that which distinguishes the New York
working men from those Of other cities,
even in America. A Frenchman upon his
return to Paris recently wrote that the
working girl of New York appeared to him
to be the brightest and most alert that he
had EVER seen, and that he was struck not
only with her self reliance and competence
but with the lightheartedness with which
she seemed to bear the burden Of life.
THE girl that works for a living in New
York, generally speaking, gives value re-
ceived for her services and she has her
troubles-don't you forget" said the pretty
typewriter. -She may not have TO carry
hay on her head or tend a threshing machine
as the German peasant woman does, but
some time, when a stock that the boss IL
interested in drops from 9S to 81 in A day.
or when Trustem & Co., that owed the firm
a quarter Of a million, fail-well, we have
our share Of trials.
"Of course we can't all go TO farming here
in New York. The commissioner don't
want Central Park ~ploughed up and we
can't all turn shepherdesses to look after
the flock that feeds on the green. No woman
that l know of wants to sweep the street
and drive the poor White Wings out Of their
jobs OF carry mortar or drive a street car
or make an express wagon of herself. The
Italian women carry home bags Of kindling
wood or rags on their heads, but they didn't
lea IN that in this country.
Il remember a Swede girl that lugged
her trunk on her head when she got of the
Ellis Island ferrybOat, but when she went
TO meet her sister three months afterward
she had a dozen roses and a S. SO plume on
her hat-and that is about the effect that
New York has on those peasant girls from
Europe. I'm glad women don't have TO
work in this country as they do in some
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members Of other professions where years
of special preparation and study are neces-
sary. We nave several engineers, civil,
mechanical and electrical. Women libra
rians, proofreaders, newspaper workers,
artists and musicians are all here dong their
best to make their mark.
One Of the great fields Of work for women
is what il called the stitching industry.
in which the sewing machine is employed
But woman seems to rave one backward
here, as she has all over the country. N the
line to which n would think she is most
fitted, for there are pr~oportionately fewer
seamstresses. tailoresses and dressmakerS
now than there were in the decade preceed-
ing the last census. Man has been en-
croaching and has been drawing some Of
the best prizes. New York, though, still
has an excellent representation, for the
seamstresses are put down at almost 1900.
while men engaged in similar work are said
to be but about 200.
New York. as the centre Of the theatrical
business of the country. has a psrticu-
lsriy good raj resentation in number of
actresses. We are tredited with about
200 at the last Official count. But anv
enter, rising theatrical manager will tell
you that these figures were undoubtedly
collected in an of season. for he himself
had more actresses than that, great society
girls OF reigning bellies, in his office in one
day looking for a place in his latest pro-
duction.
The chorus girl is included in that csti-
mate, but in what proportion it is not stated.
IF it's the beginning Of the season and tho
show is to remain in town" said a theatrical
agent, Il would say the number Of New York
chorus girls is about 10000. but if you want
some girls 20 go on the road | would say that
the number is about 23."
In spite of the fact that upon her form
rests the burden Of many musical comedie-,
the chorus girl likes New York. 1t is a fruit
full and pleasing field of labor from which
she reaps in salary all the way from so 10
s35 a week. Il have been told by the ltal-
ians in the grand opera chorus how women
work in the old country, but none for mine,
said a footlight favorite of many years ser
vice, 1T makes you old and they say the
women there are aged and haggard before
30. Why. l know girls in the first line VIII"
are grandmothe-s, so if a day. and vet
you couldn't tell them from me whu Wa
only 10 last June. Little Of M York for
mine. It's h working goils' paradise,
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seemed. When one is well OF, then to
change the current by committing nat
rimony! Many shook their heads and
sighed, but unfortunately for the emperor
of epigrams their signs were destined not
to end just here.
IL was natural after the great event
for bohemians To feast their emperor and
his empress for a time right royalty, but
when there are twol Well, when there are
two it is a little different from the times
when there was n only. So that at
length when the two appeared night after
night and waited smilingly while their
friends Of bohemia settled bills for them
and tipped the walters, the thing grew
irksome; so irksome, as a matter Of fact,
that a scattering of the forces was dis
tinctly observable in the course Of u couple
OF weeks or so.
A decided scarcity was observable in
three weeks; and at the end Of four bo-
hemians in the immediate vicinity of their
emperor anywhere about mealtime were
just about as scarce. IL the truth must be
told, as the teeth OF hens. 1t was then
that the emperor Of epigrams resorted
to his old method Of settling bills with the
proprietors Of the pink ink tables d'hote
in thai neighborhood. He tried it once.
High headsdly as Of old he walked in with
his young wife in hls wake and ordered
dinner, flung epigIams at the lowering
walters and essayed, as ordinarily, TO walk
out.
There was nothing doing.
The rude proprietor stopped him per-
emptorily. Furthermore, he coaIs Gly de-
manded the coin Of the realm in payment
for the dinner for two and scorned the epi-
gram. In despair the emperor of OPT
grams offered him two cpigrams. Still
nothing doing.
Then, IN a spasm Of despair. the emperor
did a thing unprecedented. Drawing an
ancient unused checkbook from his pocket
he wrote out a check for the amount. in
Guiding a tip for the waiter. and walked oct,
fastening h%urrio1ly. however, To the houee
Of n frienn from whom he borrowed suf-
fcisnt funds for tho checks covering.
Hard times befell the emperor then, hard
times and bitter. II became necessary for
the two "a dine ut home. hut what upon?
That was the question. Could butcher,
baker. icemAn and candlestick maker he
paid through the evRnescent medium Of the
epixFaml
Not on your tintypel In all the world
J Ihere are no more hard hearted souls than
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these, non so radically impervious to the
wIles of words or epgram.
Added to the growing terror following
upon the discovery OF this fact the young
wife showed signs Of unreasonableness.
She demanded money,
The emperor flung her his best epigram.
Money" cried she.
But l have none," the emperor sighed,
at his wits end for. once.
Work commanded she, and make it,"
But what shall ! do?" he asked her in
despair.
Make epigrams and sell them she
returned with ~sternness, -or II you can
find nothing better to do, make poetry
With that she locked him in a room and
barred the windows and hid the key, and
he sat wild eyed there before the bars en-
deavoring TO make poetry-endeavoring
and failing, for every one who knows any
thing at all about poetry, and few there
are. knows it is an i~mpossibility to grind
il out. It must come Of its own accord
or stay away.
Thus coerced, therefore, not only the
thought Of poetry fled far from the brain
Of the emperor Of epigrams but the
thought Of epigrams a. well. 1t seemed
in other words that the emperor was quite
at the end of his tether.
When At the end of long. sad. drearydays
his young wife let him out no ghost of cpl
gram or poem had he to show for his in
generation.
Thsn she locked herself in her own o
and fell to weeping. for, lacking epig-ams
and poems, what OF her dinner? What 81 tho
ice man? What Of the butcher2 OF the
baker?
Alas for those gay. debonair. insouoiant
devil may care days into which not once had
drifted for the emperor Of epigrams thought
Of ioeman, butcherman, candlestick maker
or bakerl
Seeing traces Of tears on the red cheek
of his young wife. the emperor. who really
loved her we'll. shut himself in his room
and locked the door and barred the window
and made another try at or igram and oem
hut at the end Of the long day hc once more
walked into the o. en-, e~pigramless and
pOemless.
Il was not in the nature of things that
such "A condition should continue. for NJ
matter how young and strong one Is one
must have food.
U~nhappily for the art Of poesy, We ay
fashioned 30. The tissues Of the body
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rood chambermaid is a jewel worth striv
ing for" said a mar who does the employing
for one of the largest hotels. They are
hard to get and there is no telling how long
they are going to remain after you have got
them. Then there are the laundry help.
the women that look after the linen Of the
house, the scrubwomen and the cashiers.
The last named is the easiest to get. The
nav of the chambermaid is Sli a week and
she generally has from sixteen to twenty
rooms TO look after. Her hours Of work
are sometimes long-those of all hotel
EMPLOYEES are-for We are so much depen-
dent upon the whims and wishes Of the
patrons. The scrubwoman gets sl6 a week.
and she earns it. The wages of other help
vary much with the character Of the work
and the efficiency OF the employee, but the
trouble is not the pay-it's getting the
help"
The problem Of domestic servants is one.
any housewife will tell you, that rests not
upon the employee but upon the employer.
II has been a long wall that has gone up
from many a Nov York home, and as yet
there sscms TO nave been no response.
There are said TO be thousands Of women
for homework, from the cook to the maid
mt eAaCtY WHERE 10 iHhA buO lSiCL OhCo
is the problem that has not been solvel
satisfactorily.
Most of the money received a day in
the great retail business of New York passes
first through the hands Of the girl cashier.
She is a fixture in every big department
store, she presides behind the desk Of every
restaurant, she il in every hotel and in
many offices. She has not gone into the
saloons OF the cafes, although New York
is credited by the census men. with forty
eight women bartenders and several owners
Of saloons. On the other hand she has not
reached the receiving or paying teller
desk in the larger banks. That is an inno-
walton of some smaller places that has not
been adopted in this city. But the New
York woman has hopes, for she feels that
she is equalto it.
Then there is that great army Of women
! teachers who are working 80 hard for the
proper upbringing Of the youthful New
Yorker. Agoodsized little armyo women
carry the heavy burden Of the -s.ckroom
and the wards Of the city hospitals. We
have, too, women doctors, lawyers and
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thar the rest, a proprietor sufficiently
wanting in the milk Of human kindness and
consideration of his kind to express a desire
for remuneration more substantial, seldom
il ever occurred to him.
"A good many of these bohemians owe
me money grumbled one of thess in a
d~isgruntled moment, deep with discomfort,
but tha emperor Of epigrams! He is the
limit. None have ever wed so much as
he, or seemed to have 80 little thought Of
paying
And stranger s~till-yes. this may sound
like fiction, but it is the truth-his tips
thrown 70 the walters, they consisted Of
epigranhs, too. OF epigrams solely.
During the progress of his meal it was his
custom to keep the walters so oonvulsed
with clever sayings that they forgot the
tip.
Yes, forgot the tip, brought him to eat Of
the best in the kitchen, brought him the
cigar and the finger bowl, reached for his
hat when he made motion to depart. his hat
and his cane or his umbrella as the case hap
pened to be. handed them 20 him will deep
bows of admiration, accepted with graft
tude the sulphitic tidbit he deigned to throw
in their direction and watched him out the
door with Smlles' that often deepened into
joyous laughter!
And is there, barring the fact that OF
every possible OCCASION his bohemian
friends clamored for the privilege of paying
for his dinner, a greater test Of epigram-
matte brilliancy than this?
II vas even said by some that he cancelled
his debt 10 his landlord in the selfsame man
ner, there seeming TO be no other explana-
ton of the fact thar for a number OF years IN
succession he had occupied the same small
fat in the same building Of fats. occupied
II without apparently tho desire to depart
therefrom or without the desire 81 his land
lord that he shoulddrp1rt therefrom, which
amounts To the same thing.
! oh. yes; he well desc rvcd TIC title which
a proud and admiri1g bohemia had he
slowed upon him, did this emperor of cpl
grams Of bohemia.
Nit II you hive tears T. shed prepare 70
shed them now all you who lend a listening
ear 10 the sad tale oSwhat ch1ncsd to hefall
this proud AID brilliant emperor OF cpl
graniSo n bohemia.
Fate overlook the emperor Of epigrams
in that he all at once deliberately and with
malice E~fOrc,hought committed matri-
mony. Why, 10 was impossible to say.
Not even he hifself quite understood II
Ha
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= A. NNALS OF BOHEMIA
~ THE POET.
: Showing That Epigrams VIII! Fur-
no rnish .Omelets for One,
sA.H~ bot Not for Two.

That is the proud name he went by in
bohemia, the emperor OF epigrams. 1t
VA his special talent to toss OF an epigram
the same ease and grace with which
! common mortals give birth to references
20 the weather.
- IL 10 enough to say Of the remarkable
quality Of his wit that for the precious
= privilege OF sitting still and listening there
90 there were those who fawned upon him
bent the knee and in this meek position i'm
plOred the still more precious privilege
Of paying for his dinner-a good thing too.
FOR otherwise the emperor Of epigrams
might now and then ave CHANGED unhap-
PLY to go dinnerless.
And does there exist among people Of
any State or any country or any nation
HEreater or more complete test OF brilllancy.
e~piRrammatic or otherwise. than this?
Added TO his most enviable reputation
OF scintiliating. the emperor Of bohemian
Aopigrams was famous for n certain reckless
disregard for money. combined with what
appeared TO be n rich and rare nonchalance
IN regard to the cost Of things and the
necessity Of paying which AZ worthy
OF deep admiration
As a matter Of fact. with a wave Of the
hand and a slight uplifting Of eyebrow
the emperor Of epigrams dismissed the
subject. II failed TO interest him.
And really. occupied as he was in the
coming OF epigrams. marvellOusly worded
suIphitic past all expectation. for never o
sbromidiOm was the emperor known TO utter
why should he be forced 20 occupy himself
with consideration, however slight, Of Other
and baser coin?
Besides. Il paid.
10 was in this wise that il paid:
u was the custom ~ the emperor H.
ystrids with naughty micn into the precinct
: - some pink ink table d'hots. the host. the
mOet expensive, dine. toss an ep,gram "a
ftts proprietors and walk high ~heade5Iy out
u appeared that tho matter Of otherwis.
e@,tllng the bhi. unless emDhatically brought
70 his A,'sts ton BY s.prOprIetQ more hrhaI