The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-14

know what to do for the women who have lost fortunes and friends and every thing but the grim determination to do her work or DIE. I'd get them comfor- table quarters to live in, after the day was over. and nice, soft. squashy pillows to rest their tired bodies on, and delicious things to wrap up in and protest their worn limbs, and I'd feed them up, and l wouldn't Spend one penny on buying dry, dusty old books to improve their minds. I'd feed them up-I would. I'd marShal my ranks of cashiers and shop girls, and manicurists and stenographers and wom- en who are doing clerical things in of- fees and I'd send them every one to the kind of restaurants where men eat; and I'd make them eat like men. suppose it would scare them to death to see their first luncheon bill amounting to nearly their whole weeks salary-but I'd make them do it, just the same, because I'd be paying the bills for the food-the right sort of food, that sticks to the ribs and helps a fellow to keep going-that's what tho working woman needs" ''Let the idle woman," the Blue Eyed Woman went on, 'continue to order their women-y Chocolate Eclairs and Chicken salad--but my women proteges would be eating rare roast beef and legitimate vegetables. I'd endow a Lunch Room for working women and I'd teach them what food to eat to keep their strength upy
 You wouldn't have to erect monu- ment to yourself or build asIibrary if that happened" I suggested. because the working women of your town would do 1t for you.''.
 "I wouldn't be after that sort of thing said the "Blue Eyed Woman, all smiles, "but for the sheer love of working wom- en. I'd like to be Millionaire and carry out my ideas. It's a perfectly plausible and practical proposition. Give the work ing woman comfortable clothes, good rood and a little recreation and she's worth 10 times as much to her Employer. She is much more pleasant to her family and
 on better terms with herself. Oh! wish I were a Millionaire!''
 The little, generous minded, Blue Eyed Woman isn't the ONLY one who wishes such a thing!
 Would that there were more charities 1 for the body!
 We've got enough for the improvement of thc mind of the working woman! What she needs is more CREATURE
 
 More comfortable clothes and substan- ] tial shoes, and sensible Business Mans lunch at moderate cost ln the middle of
 the day, and nice, respectable, whole
 some place of amusement in the evening 1 If You question the need of such stand
 on one of the busy corners downtown late
 in the sfternooii and see the hundreds, ot working girls who scramble into the cars that take them home after the day's
 work is over. l One little girl who had been a cashier | in store. and whose salary God helr 1 the man who would expect her to live re-
 spectably on such wage) was very small
 recently lost her position.
 She begun studying stenography in a Business College and she had to econo-
 mise on her lunches.
 She had no lunch, in fact, and worked from g until at her lessons, and sine
 beat up her brain and worked overtime
 so she could take the whole course in
 two months.
 She told me this:
 ''I get through the mornings all right
 but can't seem to learn anything in the afternoons"
 Certainly not. How could she. when she l had no lunch and her brain and body
 were tired and worn out-starved-au be.