Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-09
FACT, FASHION AND FANCY

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FACT, FASHION AND FANCY
Paragraphs Calculated to Interes,
York County Women.
To keep your linen which is not in
everyday use from turning yellow
wrap it in a towel which has been
blued.
A woman can work wonders in the
appearance of the house by moving
the hatrack across the hall and put
ting the washstand where the bureau
| was.
When on my day Of life the night is
falling
And in the wind from unsunned spaces
blown,
1 hear far voices out of the darkness
calling
My feet to paths unknown.
There from the music round about
me stealing,
I fain would learn the new and holy
song
And find at last meath the trees OF
healing
The life for which long.
About women:
In Norway women are allowed to
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members Of the government.
The fourth woman fire inspector in
New York was recently appointed by
Fire Commissioner Adamson.
One-ninth Of all the women in the
United States marry before the age OF
twenty and one-half before they are
twenty-five.
London has fifty policewomen who
have made a success of their work
and it is now proposed to start mount
ed women patrols to look after the
welfare of animals on the street.
Women are now holding the follow
ing positions in England: Railway
clerks, railway porters, ticket collec-
tors, station masters, omnibus con-
ductors, grocers, messengers, night
telephone operators, bookstall clerks,
motor van drivers, pithead laborers,
farm hands, carriage cleaners, post
girls, newsgirls, munition and arma-
ment workers, sheep dippers, bank
clerks, club servants and motor agents.
Renton, Scotland, has a woman let
ter carrier.
Women are acting as street cleaners
in Cardiff, Wales
Girls are employed as messengers
in the British war office.
Women are now eligible to become
notaries in North Carolina.
Women suffrage amendments will
be voted upon in seven states this
year.
The Women's Trades Union league
will build labor temple in New York
city.
Deserving all praise is the girl who
works The complexities of the mod
ern times has put out into the field of
endeavor many women whose choice
would be the quietude of the home
and not the rush of the marts Of
trade. There are many wives and
many daughters who must toll that
home comforts, though they be Of the
slightest, may be had because the man
Of the home is no more, or worse than
that, has become a burden by his own
misconduct upon the women he should
protect and nourish. 1t is to these
women, to these girls who work, that
the world owes homage. The girl who
labors at some daily toll that she may
care for others is queen among young
women. She is way and above her
sister who by reason Of the labor Of
others sits in idleness and makes no
effort to be a factor in world service.
Just the other day we came across a
tribute to the girl who works, and it
so impressed us that we pass it on.
We do not know where it came from
it is one Of those gems from the work.
shop of the newspaper room which
in time loses mark of authorship, but
| there is a sentiment i'm it which grips.
Its caption is "All Glory to the Girl
Who Works." and here it is: God
bless the girl who works! She is not
too proud to earn her own living. not
ashamed to be caught at her daily
tasks. She smiles at you from be-
| hind the desk, counter or printer S
case There is sweet memory of
her in everything she touches. She
| is like a brave mountaineer, already
far up the precipice climbing. strug-
spiration. 1t is an honor to know this
| girl and be worthy of her esteem.
Lift your hat to her, young man, as
she passes by. She is queen in the
realm Of womanhoOd. She is a prn-
| cess among the tOilers. Her hands
may be stained by dish washing,
sweeping, printers ink. of factory
| grease, but they are honest hands.
They stay misfortune from the home,
they are moving. patient shields that
protect many a family from the poor
house. God bless and protect the
girl who works."