The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22

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hope for them In this world II they refuse
That arc to be derived from the continual
use OF DR.. Pinlterton's Purple Pills, or Sister
sylvester's Soothing Syrup. Isc
And when they advertise for q 'Rsandd
lady, to spend four or Ave hours q day In
pleasant and profitable employment they
want q woman 10 solicit orders for Com
ning's Correct Corset, or Popperton'sP Peer
less Pettiooet. She answered. n advet-
tisement which called for Ladies', phil
a~nthropioally inclined, 10 engage In q special
branch Of church work, and found that
tho work consisted In seeking out likely
victims and persuading them 70 buy .
certain number Of bottles Of o wonderful
elixir that would almost instantly cure
any and all Of the diseases that any woman
could suffer from.
She also found that when O woman adr
vertised for q Cultivated, musical young
lady to act as companion she usually
wanted, for less wages than would be paid
to q general servant. q combination Of COM
panion, lady's maid, seamstress and musical
instructor, and when che advertised for o
'governess," she wanted some one who
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Reginald and Hildegarde, aged s, 3 and 4
year, respectively, take her meals with
the %servants, and have n afternoon q
week of" ,'
Uninviting as these Jobs appeared. Miss
M was willing to take them, at least
such Of them q offered regular salaries.
The only thing she absolutely refused to be
was an agent on commission, for she had
no faith In her powers Of persuasion. But
with the regular salaried places there was
slways some hitch; people always wanted to
employ Experienced persons. She had
never been a lady's companion; oonse-
quently women felt shy Of employing her
and then perhaps she was not expert enough
with her needle or not sufficiently def al
dressing hair.
She could not be q nursery g~overness
because she had never had the care Of
young children; and 90 The fond mamma
preferred to trust little Floyd and Gladys
to the care of an ignorant nursegirl who
had already had charge of a child for three
months. II she tried to get into q publish-
ing house as an office assistant she did not
write well enough or rapidly enough and,
moreover, she had no Experience
One class Of advertisements called for
"a young lady to qualify as secretary to IN
author" These authors who were usu-
ally to be found in downtown offices, turned
out. to be men who were pursuing some
great inventive scheme or writing some
great book that was to make q wonderful
stir IN the world in the course Of a few
bounded. In the meantime, however,
they were not prepared to pay a secretary
any definite" salary; but when success and
share In the profits and glory.
She did get into q publishing house fora
week to address envelopes, butas addreesers
are paid only 81 a thousand and % her in
expert hand could not address more than
500 In o day she earned exactly $3.50 for her
long weeks work, and was informed at
the end Of the week that her services would
not be required after that day, a. they bad
great deal Of work to be done, and 1t did not
pay them to employ allow hands. =.
That night she walked back to her room
from the Office with her a. 80 in her purse,
do now. The streets were thronged With
the usual Q o'clock stream, all hprrying,
all intent on their WI business, Every
man hath business and desire passed
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and the sight OF their hurry and preooou-
patton made her feel more keenly than ever
before the utter emptiness and desolation
Of her position. She was fitted for nothing
by which she could earn even q bare living:
she had no place to go to but Q little empty
room, which would be hers only 80 long
as she could pay $3.50 a week for 1t IN ad-
vance. She had M one even to speak to,
no one to care whether she came or went
or what she did.
She had now como to the stage when the
domestic section Of the help wanted,
female" Interested her above all. Accord
ing TO the papers there were plenty of these
wanted. She wondered II she were good
enough to be q general servant, or II that
would do no harm to try. She made several
ventures along this line, but they were all
as unsuccessful as the others had been.
Either she was too small and frail looking
and would not be able to get through with
or she had a suspicious look, not being the
regular type and having no references,
and therefore was not to be trusted. Above
all, she had had no experience:
She turned away from this last venture
convinced that there was nobody on the
less there than she. She envied thefllterate
little eighteen-year-old stenogaphers, all
envied the glib and afable cultured
ladies'" who could make q living out OF
Sister Sylvester's. Soothing Syrup; she
envied the expert addreesers, who could
address 1000 envelopes a day; she:e nvied
the nursery governesses who had. had
~experience,' and she envied the happy
generals, who could leave q place one day
and get another the next. Alas, she was
none Of these; whatever she tried, she was
inexpert and incompetent, moro Of q hin
drance than a help. s
One morning as she was going tout to
make another desperate round Of search
she found q letter in the box from q man,
who had been q friend OF her father. En-
closed with 1t was q letter addressed to the /
editor in chief Of one Of the big dailies.
The first letter ran as follows.
my DEAR CATHERINE: have been told
that you are in New York looking for.
position along literary lines. I know tust
how difficult 1t Is to get suoh work, and I
want to help you II possible. To this end
I enclose a note Of Introduction to Mr..
W, who IL an old college friend Of mine. |
in the hope that he may be able to aid you
in getting what you want. Wishing you
every success, I am, Co..
This letter awoke very little expectancy
in Miss M--'s breast; she had been disap-
pointed too often to allow herself to b.
buoyed up with hope again, However, 1t
morning and sent the letter In by the
of,oe boy. The eiitor, who was one OF
those she had previously called upon, sent
for her. asked her q few questions about
her training, looked at her kindly and said
he would Ike to see some Of the work she
bad aifsady done.