The sun., 1908-09-17
OBSERVATIONS or MRS. CASEY
New Yerk Women. she Thinks, Are Getting
Hep to Their Proper Main Chance.

Hep to Their Proper Main Chance.
~If had few more bucks sunk In me
kick I'd jine the lit'ry bunch nesef,
remarked Mrs. Casey, artfully turning
her stock Of peaches that each should
display its most enticing blush to possi'
BILE buyers.
"'Tis a gr-rand job. lit'rychoore, bu'
70 must have an income before ye but,
In. 'Tis q woman's job at that. and
she'll grab 1t. Take note that Mrs
Ashtoor has jined the push. Twill dc
1t good. There's, nawthing people likes
90 much as to r-read about tn doings oi
high so-syty They've been reading the
views on high so-syty writ be leddies
who never had look In at the back dure
80 they'll relish the views Of Mrs Ashtoor
who has welcomed the rale thing at the
front ,dure.
'Ye'll mind that told ye that woman
will grab the job. II ye was wise ye'd
know why. But I'll put ye wise. Woman
will do everything for wages she wants
to do and can do. I'm talking to ye now
only of little old N'York beltase know
nawthing Of these here other cities scat
thefed over the map away beyant The
Bronx. III spake only Of what know
.belxase me hair Is gray. Ye can lie and
still be dayoint while yer hair Is set black.
but a gray haired liar is the most onday-
clint female.
Sure, I wondher sometimes how 1t is
man knows as little as he does-which Is
less than nawthing-about woman. Es-
peshull N'York womin. Even the dear
dead poets has never beer hep to her.
Ye'll mind what the gr-rand Irish poet
Roger Burns, says. oh, woman. he
says. in our hours Of aise.' says he, ON
certain, he says, COY and hazard, he says,
to plaise. Whin pain and anguish,
says he, 'wrings,' he says, the brow.
and something forget, an angel thou
says he,
sThat's lovely, but It's bunk. It's no
betther nor a con game II he was writing
Of Work oh. woman Did ye see where
the pooblic schools opened wild near
three quarters Of million childerf The
half Of EN- Is gir-rls, and those what
stop TO the ind Is mostly all gir-rls. What
happens9 Every year hoondherd thou
sand sma-art young womin l'aving the
schools who must hustle for q job or
worse.
Dye see what l mean2 Mebbe 1t Is
not 30 In all American cities. But here?
The few Of us Americans left In N'York
support our girrrls till we can pass the
dear child be way OF q wedding for some
other man to support. But this 10 q
form city. and formers whin they
eddy Gated their gir-rls expict them. 70
hustle for n job.
"Do they do itf Whin first wint to
the Brooklyn Bridge twinty years ago
for TO sell papers in sunsthroke and bliz-
zard there was not wan gir-rl KEN over
the bridge for to 60 to wor-rk in an office
where there's hoondhred now. Mebbe
a thousand. They've found work. they
can do and they are going for to get
those jobs az sure as the ca-ars run both
ways on Broadway.
-Oniy the other day hears a couple
Of la-ads sthanding on a corner here
that some office Jobs they
expicted to get was filled by couple cf
gir-ris., What did they exploit For half
a cint I'd give thin the back Of me hand &.
They d have as good sinse bemoanine o
that the East River was filled wild wather.
What else shy d It be filled wid7 -,
"And there's Teddy. He's going for
darkest Afriky. He'll get the ha-ha.
whin he comes back he'll go to the bench.
He'll find the game we'll played widout
him. Woman will be on the job. There'll
be nav thing but polytics for him TO do
and be that time Cha'arly Hughes will
have made Teddy a back number In poly
tics.
There's a la'ad ] cud love-Cha 'arly
Hughes. He's Jerry to his job while he
smiles Ikea kitten and says he knows no
more OF the game than the babe unvashed.
Pm no fighter. he says. I'm a law
abiding citizen. says he. landing q
poonch on the jaw Of Tim Woodruff. II
ye smite me-. says ne. I'm tur'run me
other whisker.' he hays, getting over a
wallop on Parsons that put him out.
IN have nav thing TO do wild your wicked
quarles,' says he. upper cutting Mr.
Barnes wild a lovely right I'm for the
quiet life. he says. boring In wild right
and left on the short ribs of Wadsworth
I'm no bulldozer, he says. dancing about
on his toes Sid two husky fists flying to
frighten John L. himself. I'm not look
ing for throuble, he says, spying about him
wild eager eyes. hut will some kind frind
Of mine hasten he says. for TO pint out
one Teddy Roosevelt says he, swinging
hts arms In a manner ye wud relish to
see.
Some wan tells him that Teddy Is In
the cyclone cellar wild ton of hay over
the cellar dure. and thin that good and
peaceful mon goes to a county fair TO
talk Of patch W or rk quilts and prize poul-
try while Woodruff and Barnes a nd the
others quickly nommynates him for
Gown for fear he'll retur'rn and tell
'em again what mon OF peace he Is.
My Michael says 'tis a pity Cha arly
was called out OF his name-a Raypoob-
lican. II we had Dimmycrat like him
for to fight wild us instid Of agin us, says
Michael, Billy Bryan-whos good
mon at that-wud be running for Jus
tioe of the peace In Nebrasky and glad
to gst the Job; :. ,u.,.
to win at 1t, "ris not for
womin, They don't dress their hair
or wear the kind Of lids to play 1t proper.
Lave thin sthiok TO aisy good payin'
work. they ARE taking away from min.
Twill pay thin betther and Fave the
min, more time TO play polytics.'
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