New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

-. , mart of the dress forms trade In
itself often girl will sew 1cr Seai ~
how to make nothing but sleeves
"c.reat numbers of girls who appear In oas speo
- oformances are obliged to give weeks OK
t;. to rebAarsals without a cent OF pay "here
t the Justice in that? The stage hanos anu
musicians will not give a single renearsai ~
regular pay. But worse than tnat Is 'ho "'
responsible companies will take slris ou.
road and leave them stranded in some illie p
+.- from, home without cent to get back Inc
Arnn1over finds his show is not paying ana Simply
leaves with what money there is IN MS P0
think theatrical companies should be conpeiieu -
assume some responsibility to the characlei ..
the connpanies in which they furnish ehsasenh1nt
Evsn women writer's go TO the union 10 get Ine
money coming to them at times Inere
countess for whom the union coiec'eu
amount She was Southern girl VINO nau iiaii
q reallv truly count. This. however, did not pre-
vent her from having to earn Ter living which ~ 'o
5,a ", Nev- York for a time by writing. she was
particularly unfortunate, because sne oio SO
deal of work for fashion magazines ana tne ia''oA
ora chief offenders In this line New rnasazihe'
os I'm also are seen for a brief period on the
-. o,d then vanish much like fy-oy-
,nbt- theatrical company. They never Valish
without bills owing to writer's Inc ans "i'c ~ -
.ed,tors'' of these transient enterprises assume
toward the writer's who submit ma1erlaA-oi'eA '
1,cted-to them, or who ask for cneck lof tita'
already published. amusingly irnpuden'- o.'en
ri+ers fail even to get unpublished manuscripts
back. r,cc WOMAN
..rr. ,os+ beIness woman in the world, said
NJ, u,or,n .fs the woman who has been taken
care Of all her life by good husband or soou
father or good son, and for SONS reason oi
other has to get and earn her hVlns IN Il'uuo ~
ace or later Such a is pitiaple OBJECT
1,bo,, dr;ft in here and drift out, heaven knows
where There Is nothing they can do, nothins we
can find for them to do I have seen SO many Oh
theu that If 1 were worth millions, every odus"
ter 1 had should be taught some traoe OF pio1e9 p
sion and given at least little experience ID earn
ing money at 1t. No woman ever KNOWS "ne
she will have to come to it, An ignorant, PoOiIs
Maid little girl who went to work when she was
forrtaen is in better case than these women sne
tnous how to earn the bread to put IN her rnoutn
If she can find the work TO do
.rThe greatest handicap of women workers As d
whole? Marriage" said Mrs Kemp Ihe great
ooss of the women In trades are young, inexper-
enced girls. Now, 1t is not the boys IN men
trades who keep up the standards OF tnose tfaoes-
II &c the experienced, middle aged men More
over every boy who goes to work knows aosoiutey
that there is nothing in life for him except wnat
he forces out of business. Every girl knows tnar
she NAV marry which will change the whole
course of her life. II every boy who went TO "orH
a+ fourteen or sixteen knew that during the fol-
lowing ten years IT was extremely possible thae
his whole future would be completely changed SIM
nIv because he had dimple in his chin or pretty
ankle or happened to come in contact with some
one who liked him and offered him job for life-it
would nrobabIy make a great difference IN ths
eA1ciencv and progress of men IN gainful occupa-
tions II makes the same difference with women
II checks ambition; 1T is the great obstacle 10
their organizing for their own protection 1 have
no desire to say anything against marriage. l am
simply stating facts