The sun., 1910-05-22
OUTINGS OF WORKING GIRLS
CRITICISMS BROUGHT BICK
PROM VACATIONS lT HOMES.
The Quesii9n of EVpcn,r When Money q
saved Frum small Wages Gem
plainis About sysicms of Manage
ment-A Iark Of onpanionship.

lNANaia AhNAA NANANNia " NaAAAN
ment-A iark Of Gompanionship.
enc. my sister and are not going to
q vacation home Tor girls this summer.
AZ least not JhC kind of home YOU mean. .
The speaker was q young woman who has
heen working IA box factory ever since
che leit public school six years ago.
4 used "a go o. a vacation home when
was IN school went for five summers
b. the saue piace and had nice time.
she went On. Then I passed the age
limit and when heRan 10 work ! was not
making enough to pay for a trip, - !
stayed home mendng my clothes and
getting what fun / could on the pier.
MY third year in the factory ! was
getting more wages and my sister WIS
working as cashier in shop on Four
teonth street and We saved up To 90
away in tho summer. The ladies in tho
settlement said they could send us "a a
lovely place 10 spend TWO weeks and they
gave us ticl,rts which said an expenses
for the two weeks would hc 1
Now 81 may not he much to some peO-
PIE. but il Is a good deal when you have
90 save Il up out of s. o week while help
ing 10 keep up the home. buying clothes
for yourself. shoes for a younger sister
and a little something for the baby once
in a while. That is what | was doing
that year. and my sister the cashier
was doing just as much.
we managed 10 save tho money and
b. borrow a suit case 20 take our clothes
IN and We left home believing We were
gong % have the time of our lives II
was a nice. large house near tho bathing
beach Of a fashionable Jersey resort
There was plenty 20 do II you didn't
mind doing u bv yourself and plenty cf
interesting people to look az n YOU didn't
mind using your eyes and never your
tongue.
Everything seemed ~ lovely when
We first got there that neither my sister
nor | could understand Why several
urls who had been there less than a week
were grumhlng to got hack tn town.
On the third day We began 90 wish We
had somebody 10 talk to besides the
rirls in the house On the fifth day we
were as discontented a. any ~ IA" other
girls In the house. We werp tired of doing
nothing hut eat, leep and look
II was on tho afternoon of our sixth
day thar We had two men speak to ms
and take ms % ride in rowboat. Ny
sister. girl who slept in tho room with us
and | were sitting on the sand near the
waters edge when the men ps-sed IN
their boat The oldest man called out.
Hello. girls. don't YOU want To take a
little row. We said We did and got In
tho boat They took ~ about two miles
up the beach. pointing out the handsome
places and telling us something about
the families who lived In each. ! can't
tell you how much We enjoyed that boat
ride. and yet Be- got us into trouble
The manager OF the vacation home
asked where We had been, and on learning
that We had been rowing with two men
who said they. were gardeners on one
ofthe estates q few mi las below. and whose
names We didn't even snow. she gave
us a scoiiing night there On the presence
Of an the girls in the house she said
Ne were a disgrace tO the establishment
aud made us promise never 10 speak to
the men or have anything % do with them
and the places whore they lived They
roved 20 and from their work
4 told her thar my sister was Il. ]
was % and the other girl was little
older. but IL didn't do a bit of good She
ordered MS n0' % go out unless accom-
panied by herself or one Of the three
girls she appointed. We stayed until
Wednesday ana the ladies' 40 the settle
ment said We were unappreciatiye heoauze
We didn't take advantage Oi the entire
two weeks.
The neA' summer We went toa vacation
farm and didn't speak 20 a man from the
time W. isf' the station until W. returned.
The summer following that We went %
y place up the Hudson, IN the foothills
Of the mountains they told us, and We
were loneler than ever. This wear We
think we D just stay home and mend our
clothes and 60 10 the pier evenings"
I don Ake vacation homes because
they spoil your vacation declared e
saieswoman in a department store. 4
have been tO four and each was more
lonely than the one before.
last summer beloved ! had struck
a paradise. A lady from uptown who
tries 90 help working girls told ne of a
place thar a freui 0f hers hai fxei no
"a
house. she sail. ou the grounds II the
owners country place where never more
than two slept lu a tOom and everything
vas supplied free OF cost. Aly oIly
expense would ne railroad ticket ther.
and baCk She sal d there we're lust two
vacancies 40 the tune | had my holiday
20 | could get d friend 20 go along with
me.
I selected my aunt. who is only two
years older than | and got her 10 take
two weeks On from the laundry where she
was working. though % wasn't time for
her vacation. We both thought IL was
40 nice not to have any board tO pay
When my aunt. Who wasu getting
the tickets WOll1 cOst ! said / dion {
believe they wouli be more than a dollar
~ the outalfe, no she went o. work and
spent the mOEey she had Lcel saving
10 get a bingham dress and a straw hat
She paid - Tor them both together. keen
ing back g for railroad tickets and sps.uU-
ing money iDr tho two vesaz
When ! Calir 9 uu t.r lady o. see what
time the train lelt she t0lI roe the tickets
wouli COat g. Tor each round trip.
knew my aunt cDul INIT get that much
money together from what the laundry
WHH paying her lu such "a short while
~ / toll the laiy and she offered % buy
the tickets for no,1 OF No.. with the under
standing that we were 10 pay hack the
society that lurUishp t'p mUT ~.
well, W. went. but W. didn't feel az
cheerful a- We had before finding oui the
cost q the tlfkgts. 10 Wa- "A cold drilz.y
day in August and when W. rraghrd the
end ~ the trip and che station agent
told a. W must Wait flr do" gentleman
" Fend Tor u". a. biz place was ten miles