Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-01-30

New York. Jan. Isl have tried 10
think what 1 could do" said the woman
at the concert, land i have found Una
l possess one talent. l have a voice
and / want to make the most of that.
Nothing else relieves me OF the ordl-
nary daily ound of society that 1 "
known all my life. l may not nave mucn
talent as it Is, but it Is all nave. L
am going to cultivate that. therefore,
until / make something out of it.
Her friends knew that she spent Two
hours every day at the piano, d .nIee
lessons a week from her singing teae"ei,
in addition to perfecting herself IN the
languages that she thought would pc
necessary to her in attempting TO SING.
Such serious devotion TO her art was
not necessary, as the young woman IN
question happened to have su''1cieh, III
come. Her case is typical of the pres
eut desire Of New York women 10 do
something.
II can run over my Est of acquaint-
ances." "a woman said. land find that a
majority OF them are extremely m
terested in some kind of work. l kno"
Just ordinary New York women who
do what the majority vi New York
women do and are not specially gifted
beyond the rest of their race. Yet 1
will tell you what their specialties are.
Not long ago they never thought of
doing anything beyond enjoying the
ordinary social pleasures of their class.
and thought they were doing their fun
duty when they looked after ;heir
homes and their children.
"One of them, who speaks Italian
well. wondered what use she could
make OF that gift beyond reading for
her own pleasure. She had a friend
Italian girls were taught sewing and
other means of supporting themselves.
Everything about this club had been 81
success. but the woman who founded
1t could never get hold of a secretary
who was competent and able to speak
Italian. Here seemed to be just the
chance that this girl wanted. so she
goes three times a week to the school
and spends the greater part of the day
there. apparently happier tina she ever
was. To do such work as that requires
more than ordinary intelligence. In or
der that she might not seem to be
depriving of the work some girl who
needed the money she makes the so
ciety pay her and that amount h di-
vides among the Italian girls who come
there and seem to be really in poverty.
Not for Money Cain.
Il know two women who are just now
moving heaven and earth 10 get orders
for household decoration. Neither has
the least need of money. and what
each wants is Ia get out OF the amateur
class. They think that can be lone
only by getting a legitimate order from
somebody to decorate u house So they
haunt the offices of their architect
friends II was n great feather in the
cap of one of them when she succeeded
III getting permission to decorate sew
eral rooms in "A hotel in which her nus
band was n stakeholder. She makes a
speciality of the French school, while
the other devotes her talents to the
Italian renaissance. One OF them has
decorated her own house In the Italian
style. but as there are few ordinary
New York homes suited to such a per-
iod she Is longing for hotels and rich
mems palaces to conquer.
Both these women have husbands
and children and do not neglect their
duties toward them. That is another
phase of the new desire of women to
have something they can do. They seem