New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

II 1t isn't in Epictetus, try Emerson, Tor
the origin OF any sage remarks which may
emanete from the city Hall in the future.
The Mayor has a new confidential secre-
tary. Mrs. Jeanne B. Marion. who says
Emerson is her Bible. Epictetus and En-
erson, \ proper pair TO rule over the
holy 81 holies in the temple of govern
nent Yet this is not all. Mrs. Marion
,s very fond of Shelley and needless TO
saI" adores Shakespeare. She wants every
woman in the city TO read Elizabeth Bar
r.,t Brovn;ng's THE Cry Of the Children
that p,cture Of the horrors Of child labor
which she SAYS Will do more than any
thing else TO wake people up To conditions
which exist. II women only realized.--
"Then YOU DO believe in suffrage
'Why. Of course" the little woman an
svered. Every working woman does
''But does the Mayor know YOU 90!
CT don't believe so. hut the Mayor NJ
titude toward women is shown In his sign
ing the equal pay bill. Well yes, even
marched in the parade last spring ana
carried a banner when someone else was
tired. really believe, though. that the
majority Of women do not want the votes
II thev did they'd get H. What we SUI
frarists must do is 10 educate the nome
women. the sheltered ones. 10 the neea
of the less fortunate. We should let me
men alone and convert the women. Nheh
these home women do wake up there VIII
he no more Asch fires, no more chlId laoor'
Womans maternal instinct is so much
stronger than mans paternal instinct tha'
laws for the protection OF children VIII De
tho essential thing 10 her, not SECONDARY
thing as they are IN the minds OF men,
even the best Of men, because they don
feel as we do. You can't refute that ar
g1,rnent Things are as they are and men
have made them SO.
In spite of her strong convictions the
Mavor's new confidential secretary Is
happv. plump little creature with curly
yellow hair and brown ewes, so well dressed
and prosperous hammered that she might
be a rich mans daughter just trying her
wings in her first little flight out OF lhe
home nest Instead of that
college? Well no indeed" she said.
"except the College OF Hard Knocks. m
a seIf-made woman. The reason | am so
interested in the child-labor situation Is
that | was in II myself once. We came 10
this country from Denmark when ! was
ten years old, my mother my sister ana l.
with very little money and none Of us able
10 speak a word Of English For feW
wears we had ghastly time. My mother
Ala some sewing under the sweatshop sys-
tenn and my memory is full Of the terrors
I experienced in going to the factory Tor
the garments and carrying them back
when finished. l went TO school. but ] mad
no time 10 study because | had TO do the
housework when / came home and then sit
down and help sew until late into the
night. Well things were better when l
grew older. At fourteen | left school and
studied stenography. l was naturally good
in spelling and quick in languages, so l
sct good position at s. a week-more
than young girls of fourteen can get to-
dav. I understand, but We were not so
common then
The rest is like the old American ro-
nnances of the self-made man. The Immi-
grant Girls Career; or From SweatshoT
10 Mayors Office" should be the title. She