Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
RICH GIRL IN LAUNDRY.
Chooses Hard Work in Preference to
 Life of Ease.

In the July American Magazine Ida M. Tarbell tells the life story of Carola WoerishOffer, a girl of rich parentage in New York. who abso- lutely refused to live in luxury on the money which was hers by in heritance and chose to go through the real experiences of life which make for the upbuilding of genuine char acter. This girl, who was killed in an accident at the age of 26. achieved great work for women's trade unions before her death, but earlier in her experience she worked for four months in a laundry under pre- cisely the conditions that were inn posed on the other workers In fact. those who worked with her had no knowledge of her identity Of this experience in the laundry Miss Tar bell writes in part:
 As she was determined to shirk nothing she was regularly at her tub or mangle or feeding machine at 7:30 a. m.. and whenever the work demanded it she stayed on into the night There were no provisions for seating in the long work period. ire quently the rooms were practically unventiIated, always more or less stifling from steam and damp. In some places she found neglect and uncleanliness adding to the disag gree able features inevitable in the indus try. She worked days over unguard- ed machines, where the girls told her cynically: You didn't get burned i today or yesterday, but you sure will some time, everyone does That she must have often suffered dis gust, pain and fatigue is certain, but she makes no record of it. It is ! only by accident. indeed that one learns that she was conscious that it 1 was a hot summer, She is telling ! in her scrupulous, restrained way of ] the ventilating provisions in the diff ! ferent places she worked Tn one place where the investigator dipped shirts in hot starch at a breakneck pace she says, she was first struck when she went out to lunch by the ! cOOlneSs of the day That night she discovered that the thermometer had registered 96 degrees in the shade!' i The entire naturalness of her at titude toward her fellow workers. her apparent uncsOnsciousness that there
 
 , them. made it possible for her to fall at once into friendly relations. She was one of them Dozens of little comments like the following show this Upon entering a new place the investigator found, as a rule, a spirit of friendly interest and of cor diality, expressed occasionally in the 1 accepted formula Say you got a feller?' Sure; aint you got one?' | Sure
 "Or take this: One of the ironers was eager to tell her past pampered 1 life as a cook off Fifth avenue Sure, and it was a fine time I had there, but" she added with a sigh l it was there l met me misfortune" " ! And what was that?" someone asked Me husband" she said, and then explained how it was through his illness that she had been brought upon her present arduous days i standing on your feet nine hours a day five days in the week when you are well on in life is no joke."'
 Her strict control of herself. the easy terms she fell into with the girls, gave her reaSona bleness to- | ward the work and an understandine of how and why they, as a rule ac- cept cheerfully and as a matter of course it's hard conditions. That is, understanding and not emotion ruled her investigation"