The evening world., 1911-05-03

New York banker. who succeeded Mr.;
Franchise Society. upholds Miss OR
her own account what she thinks OF I
Mrs. Meyers criticism of the work
Ing girl reads very much like the ut
terarccs Of a seeker after self-adver-
tisemcnt.' declared Miss O'Reilly In
the Ivory voice OF the born orator.
She is a beautiful m an intelli-
gent woman. but she Is a woman with
out broad sympsthies. And all the
cultivation In the world Is valueless
without sympathy.
"TThi little browrstons houss.
whore the woman's Trade Union
League has its Offices. represents
an a~niiiation OF so, 900 wage-sarn-
ing women. In al, tina number
there 10 not q handful hat an
swsrs to this description OF he
working girl"
With a lead pencil held in her slim
right hand. Miss O'Rcilly punctured
the paragraph from The Evening
World in which Mrs. Meyer pictured
a working girl In the following words
Enter Rose Malone. overdressed
and vulgar; dyed hair arranged In
tremendous pompadour, artifcial
stin curls behind; big, unsteady
picture hat, p~retentious but OF
cheapest grade: coarse, purple mo-
toring veil arranged over hat; ey-
erything about her :. poor imita-
ton OF fashionable woman every
thing as unsuited as possible to
h needs OF a wage-earner Looks
uhderfed and unhealthy. She chews
gum. and regards Mason cher en-
ployer) with a bold stare"
Are Not Husband Seekers.
"In all u nifty thousand girl. there
10 probably not one who sought en-
ployment with a view to obtaining a
husband" Miss O'Reilly added
"A working girl goes to work
with just one object, that OF makinS
. Living. shs works for money to
get the things she wants-food,
shelter, clothes.
why should she not have pretty
clothes7 Why b~egrudge her fnery,
even tawdry fnery? Fanny Fern was
much inner than Mrs. Meyer when she
said I like o see a girl with a ring,
even though II be only a brass ring,
for 1t shows she Is satisfying her love
OF the beautiful Why should no.
working girls desire to have the pretty
garments which they create?
"A things are now. the girl who
mafes he $3.50 creation for Some
hypercritical parasite to wear to
church on Easter Sunday spends
$3.50 for her own Spring hat.
'Thp truly hrpad-,nlpda1 ua,,,s -.
sympathy and understanding for even
the mistaken warnings OF the poor to-
ard beautiful things.
Il think Mrs. Meyer 10 probably
right in saying that the WORKING
girl has injured the matrimonial
chances OF h girl who sits Z
homo waiting for a husband to u D
port her. Men are learning that
the girl who works for q living
makes . better wife.
Knows N-IGe Of Money.
"She barns the value OF money: she
knows how to spend It, and because she
has earned It herself she knows the
struggle and disappointment that goes
with the process. She makes more Al.
iowanee for a mans exhausted nerves
at the end OF the day, remembering her
own. She insists upon a decent home.
IL she makes sl5 a week she won't
marry a SIS a week man and attempt 10
live on his salary. She will prefer 70
keep on working and contribute her
share to the household expenses"
Enter Mr.. Roosevelt's favorite prob.
LEM" I interrupted.
lace suicile!" said Miss O'RellIy,
THE intelligent working girl realizes
that II IL better to have one lion than
twenty mice. She fulfls the law o.
life, tina. Of working in order to live,
II so reaches a fulhlment and a de-
velopmentt hat are fore ,cr denied u
women ~loafers and parasites. whose
opinions give her little concern"
Mrs. Meyer knows nothing about the
working girl" frankly declared Mrs
James Lees Laidlaw. Il wouldn't gel
into a controversy with her for any.
thing. but / know a great deal abou,
wage-earn!ng women. and | assure yot
they are as brilliant and cultivated and
charming as any women in New York.
She Lacks Sympathy.
Some time & when some ono men,
toned poverty to Mrs. Meyer, sac ex,
IilnIed On poverty, poverty. Ia
tired Of hearing about poverty :,
her point o. view on the subject o.
working girls could not be sympathetic
Some time ago Mr.. Laidlaw ahd
went to the Third Assembly Dlstric1
ball. We went at first Just to look on
but everything was so charming, tn
young men and women were dressed
and acted with such perfect taste, the,
were so brilliant and CGl vated tina
We had one of the most delightful
times Of our lives. Nj Laidlaw dance,
with the YOUNG Girls and ! with TIT
young men. one gi"l particularly i'm
pressed MI. LaidlaU by her clevcrAes'
and the eNtcat OF hey reading. II,
came and spoke to me about her, Sh'
had quoted from the philosophers an,
discussed with evident familiarity th'
deepest things. 'What DO you thinl
she is. a woman lawyer Mr.. Laidia =
asked me-. and we were 30 interestet
that \ found Anf Eha uaa nm oatnlo,