The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04

The Long Day. The True Story of New York Working Girl as told by Herself. A book that is read through with interest that is breathless. The truth shows through every paragraph II is the strongest plea for the good boarding place for working girls. That is a need that is felt through every grade and class of working women from the factory girl to the artist The "up-to-date woman becoming a board ing house keeper has many counter part. Miss Jamison with her "Calim," her Wesley" her "All People;s" houses. the last opposite All Peoples Church" is no exaggeration. Such heterogen- eous mass can be found In the most of the boarding houses, for once start a boarding house in New York and it be- comes a "catch all it takes all sorts to keep the wheels moving. have come upon some Southern women whose cheek the airs of Heaven scarce H4e- feened once now taking in any and all "transients. It is sad, Sadder for the working girl cast into loneliness of that unconEenial mass. Saddest where the girl is only seeking work Truthfully is told the story of what is always the first step toward seeking work answering advertisements. The usual waste of postage and car fare.
 The wonder is that such search brought at length when only two dol- lars were left in the piece work at a box factory. Returning home to rest for the beginning of work on the nor row the Working Girl finds the lodging house burned, the friendly. Mrs. Pringie perished in the flames. Trunk and all earthly possessions gone. The base ment of a house was opened to the ref ugees, coffee and sandwiches sent down by the mistress of tho house, man in. livery carrying the tray. Next morn ing the lady bountiful came among her poor guests, asking after their we'll fare and prospects offering words Of well-meant, if patronizing, advice and suggestion.
 The little colloquy between the lady and the working girl gives fair idea of the charity of the rich. It is one of the most harmful things that can befall the working girl in New York--to fall on to the charity of the rich. It is ruinous. With the rich 1t is: Take what I wish you to have. Be what wish YOU to be with never question from the benefactors of what do you wish? What do you want to be?
 Tn my short experience with work inr women in New York I have seen several lives spoiled by the harmful help of the rich.
 But for the colloquy;
 ''Encouraged by the evident interest which she displayed in my case, ! was prompted to ask her If she might Kno" of any place where I could get work. She looked at me moment out or me clear eyes: You would not go lnto service, I supposeT she asked sloWly [ had never thought of such an altern- otive before but I met it without a moments hesitation. No. I would not care to 20 into service, replied, and as did so the lady's face showed mn . gIed disappointment and disgust. That is too bad she answered. for in that case I'm afraid can do nothing TOT you ,d.h,rs were ahead, was on working Girls savsa For the most stultifying liFa nossibIe is being dragged by the peas If some rich woman's bed ridden body The long days at box making Tn tue i factory of Springer follow.
 Much is learned of the life o' the girl born to the factory, or tneiI l "Pleasure clubs" of "steady fellows of the songs they love, of the literature they devour.
 Tt is noteworthy that the bes: music of purcenichee attracts these girls Ave Maria being the favoriteF. | I wouldn't want anything to eat If could have songs like that all tn time.
 The literature is the yellow backed romances, Little Rosebuds' Lovers woven on Fates' Loom. DepIln yernura; or A Codonet of Shame Poebe the best box maker adds her criticism, Them Stories with two handed names Is nearly always good | I'll buy one that aint was reading a good one last night. It had three | handles to it's name. Doris; or The Pride of Pembertin Mills; or Lost i'I a Fearful Fate's Abyss
 They were ignorant of Dickens of all the classics of childhood. Gullivevs Travels, Baron Munchausen, Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusce ignorant of the conventional Sunday school romances from the facile pens of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, 'Pansy, Amanda M. Douglas. and similar good goody writers for goody-goodly girls. One working girl told the story oi Little Women to her fellow workers their comments are noteworthy why that's no story at all. That: just every day happenings; T don't set what's the use of putting things likt that in books. I'll bet any money that lady that wrote 1t knew all them boys and girls. They just sound like real live people,; and when you was telli 2 about them I can just see them as plain as plain could be-"
 The working girl makes her ex- perience a text for suggestions for i'm proving the conditions of the city'' army of girls at work. From the laS page of the book we extract this as genuine to the types in view:
 The taste for better literature cay be helped along immeasurably If st.} another original minded philanthrop s
 were to make it his business that nC tenement baby should be without it,
 Mother Goose and little later. it:
 Little Women" Robinson Crusoe' land other precious childhood favorites
 As 1t is. the majority know nothing about them"
 It is a grilvous thing that many no
 working girls are allowed to grCv with no knowledge of there classic! and others as good engrasted
 There Is no relieving humor. and n,
 ray of hope to be extracted from tn
 story of the acquaintance of Henriettj
 Manners and Brother Mason"
 Can science and education begin ear | ly enough to shape fairly the career of the "Congenital failures-physicaI
 ly, mentally and morally doomed?' As the book Is written with seri
 ous purpose and is the present study 0
 many serious minded people I will turI again to the final pages of the bool
 where the writer gives prescription for the cure of some of the evils whicl
 she has portrayed:
 l live churcb-