New-York tribune., 1906-09-02
AdDenfures of Elizabeth.
German Girls Experiences with Cranks Sanatoriun
Mental Scencs School and Cooperative Colony

abe could earn wages. The doctor, who had been
lie WAS hurt shocked and grieved at Eizabeths
ingrstttude in wishing 20 leave them aIter tliey
ing al winter for nothina AZ Eizabeth mildly
persisted thar II Was necessary for her to earn
Yer vel II you ;, are going d s go So1e ana ,bss
she would have 10 give in and go TO cooking with
out any wages again. But Elizabeth had $40 lott
In 6iermary all sor.s Of institution. are in charge
us decco-e 5 es Elizabeth understood deaconesses
ana she went deasonesses' home for working
girls. They gave her room and board for IS a
''Tlree weeks my SO viii pay for. said Elizabeth
She Isd not The slightest doubt that the employ
,.eni Sgenc, Of Tire home would find her place
Forerness or a gardener; She could teach German
could now cook. and she had learned enough OK
America to know that there was place ai"sSs ~
S'.'s I,aiy. Seeing ina New Few York for 81 week ~
a rarseTer She paii EIzabeih's fare TO her place
wGi. n Nas some hundreds e miles from New York
There EZaoet found = lar2e and handsome house,
with several acres Of ground about t.
But when came there said Elizabeth solemn
~. Il saw what 4 was 10 1--we dirt among,
the house five or SIX weeks accumulation N
soiicd clothing piled on the dining room table With
whole house unwashed. unswept, fun OF cob
the floor. The garbage was never carried away'
the children were never athed and thei5 fIees: ,e,'
OF the house was a mental scientist She had
made ARRANGEMENTS TO turn her big house Into a
teaching She and her family meanwhile retiring 20
little tooihouse Of three rooms IN the GROUNDS TO
live. This fitting accomplished soon after
Elizabeth's arrival. and the house imme .iately
nous nous q9 f9os @s T Th BUSINESS Of the coioHy was to
gather in the big drawing room and listen to
band was as rant a f,l'oWer any of he ST. ani
did the cooking ard cared for the chi dren Will
cl'zabe,h F5ucated well bred. an arectiona,e
wife and fond mother sh" never & comhed her har
mained oblirtous 10 filth which made Eizaheih
the large ard handsome grounds about E"r 2 ace
should he ear@d for ard she had engaged Elizabe h
do ala If M ea so0e hoga e 10 60 orr sdame Ses smiled m
indulgently when she learned he cause ...-
conditions ] was afflicted Just by outer condI-
tions once. but I have risen far above all such
weaknessss Outer conditions are nothing This
But cannot any clean thought get when every
Madam Was perfectly honest and kind She naif
Elizabeihs fare back 10 the ci,y and invited h.r
strong enough TO rise above such trivality crt
Fzaheth's next adventure was With an el!eged
and work: nobody was ever refused, and whatever
was aiTfded equally among ali the WORKERS Put.
al; hough there sixteen persons in the colony
and they seemed 70 work busiiy there see-el
10 ne anything TO divide up The labor - s'N'Ae1
persons with th. management under which they
%9G % only es teF az @ board end o ana
81 Is wonderful" said Elizabeth. how many
chances there ave in America to work FOR ,othng.
Elizabeth was nainfuily rne-cenary u stu seemed
10 her. after ail her eSneriences' mat she wns
worth wages One dav she heard = her surprise
that there were several hu-drea farms riTht or
Manhattan leland eopduc,ed by . ssvsrS . hundsSd s
visited fhis woman. told her tale. showed her
tending eichty-eipht snail formers IN the De witt
Clirton Farm school peid at American rates IN
n on the upper West side the adventures Of Eliza
beth are over.