The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-26
CRAVING To
Do SOMETHING
Present Day Tendency of the
Center Sex in This Land,
Even When Necessity
Does Not Force Effort.

eel have tried TO MINK what cOulu
A." said the woman at the counter,
..ord have found that 1 possess one
.o,ar+ have a voice and 1 want to
80 the most of that. Nothing else
nnIiayes me of the ordinary daily
I'D of society that l have known all
49, life. may not have much of a
80 os II is. but it is all have.
am going to cultivate Ihat' tneFeiore'
,lntiI make something out OF IT.
Her friends knew that she spent
two hours every day at the piano, mad
three lessons a week from her SINGING
teacher. in addition to per1ecIlng ner-
self in the languages sne tnougnt
v-ould be necessary TO her In attempt
ing TO sing. Such serious deVotlon 10
her art was not necessary as tne
Young woman in question happened 10
have sufficient income her case Is
1yDical of the present desire OF new
York women to do something
Il can run over my list or acqualnt-
ancas a woman said TO a Sun re-
uorter. and find that a majority OF
them are extremely interested IN some
kind of work ] know just Ordinary
New York women who do what the
majority of New York women do and
are not specially gifted beyond the
rest of their race. Yet L VIII ten you
what thier specialtieS are NOT long
ago they never thought OF doing any
thing beyond enjoying the ordinary
social pleasures OF their class and
thought they were doing their IulI
duty when they looked alter their
houses 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
who had established a school in viii II
Italian girls were taught sewing and
other means of supporting themselves.
Everything about this club had been
q success. but the women who found
ed il could never get hold Of, a secre-
tary who was competent and able to
speak Italian. Here seemed to be
Just the chance that this girl wanted,
so she goes three times week to the
school and spends the greater part OF
a day there, apparently happier than
she ever was. To do such as that re-
Quires more than ordinary intelli-
gence. In order that she might not
seem to be depriving of the work some
girl who needed the money she makes
The society pay her, and that amount
she divides among the Italian girls
who come there and seem to be really
IN poverty.
4 know two women who are just
now moving heaven and earth TO, get
orders for household decoration.
Neither has the least need of money.
and what each wants is to get out OF
bn IL hi N q
can be done only by getting a legiti-
a house. So they haunt the Offices of
their architect friends. 1t was a
great feather in the cap of one of
them when she succeeded in getting
permission to decorate several rooms
q stakeholder. She makes a specially
Of the French school, while the other
devotes her talents to the Italian
One of them had deco
rated her own house in the Italian
style. but as there are few ordinary
New York homes suited to such a Pc
Rod she is longing for hotels and rich
mems places to conquer.
Both these women have husbands
and children and do not neglect their
phase of the desire of women to have
that they can do. They
seem to be just as efficient with these
other duties on their hands. They
have even come to- speak slightingly
of women who think of nothing but
society.
The hardest worked women / know
is a painter who leaves a beautiful
home early in the morning to spend
half the day in her studio working on
portraits. She never sells any OF
them, as she has not yet reached the
point at which they would be good
enough, and her husband would not
allow her to IL she wanted
10 dispose of them in that way. Her
ambition is not to make money but
TO develop a talent possessed. Two
years before she took her own studio
she went as regularly to the league
and to other classes as If she had
been dependent on her success for her
daily bread. Another hard worker in
my acquaintance, and a rich girl at
that, makes beautiful book bindings.
She went abroad last summer to take
q special course of instruction under
we'll known teacher in Paris and
-'SO al uuI4A6 July anu
alone in the city to complete the
course she wanted to take.
Good works are scarcely to be
classed as a part of this new move
nent, but the mission in Chinatown,
the various Girls Friendlies as they
are called, and similar organizations
occupy the time OF many women who
20 not feel that they are gifted in ar
tstic ways. Those who are anxious
10 Go something in the musical or
literary field struggle at the piano OF
write and rewrite the short stories
which they hope will put them in the
productive class even If it does not
make them famous. Perhaps the liter
AIRY ambition has consumed more wo-
men than any other, but that passion
Is also too historic to be counted as
sign of the times. This new inclina-
eon Is, however, responsible for the
increase in the number of women who
read or pretend to read serious works.
know of a girl who used to think
VI nothing but her husband, her baby
end her hunters" said the same wo-
man who had been telling the Sun
toout the other women workers in so
SSIely. Nowadays she still loves her
husband and her babies but has given