Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-07-20
CHANCE FOR WORKING GIRLS.

For love, after all, is the purpose of life,
The aim of the struggle, and turmoil and
strife;
If somebody loves you, why worry and
sigh,
For love we are living and love cannot
die.
If the majority of young women
could map out their futures, ninety
| nine out of a hundred would elect to
be wives. This is especially true Of
the girls who are breadwinners. Not
that work in any Of its branches is
distasteful, or too laborious, but the
path of duty seldom runs parallel with
the path Of love, they imagine; there
fore their opportunities of meeting
manageable men are limited.
l cannot agree with the girls who
hold this view. l think each young
woman can shape her future to a GER
tain extent. No matter how hard she
may have to toll from daylight to
dusk, she has her evenings, at least
half Of them, during the week.
1t goes without saying that she is
tired; perhaps has household tasks to
perform; sewing, mending, freshen-
ing up her own blouses, hat to trim,
gloves to doctor up, their few rooms
to tidy up, and a hundred-and-one
tasks to attend to that must be &C
complished before she can seek rest
and forgetfulness in tired natures
sweet restorer, sleep.
Granted that these necessary duties
must be accomplished, still main
tain that she should not give up all
her precious youth time to these tasks.
Life, health, happiness, in short, her
future prospects demand that she
should devote a portion of her eve
nings to recreation. Every working
girl should make a solemn compact
with herself that she will devote two
evenings of her. week to pleasure, Wis
iting a girl friend who lives near, TAX
ing a healthful walk with woman COM
panions on the brightly lighted streets.
She is giving herself the benefit of
seeing and being seen.
Acquaintance meet where hills and
mountains don't When least expect
ed she will be introduced to a worthy
person who is only waiting until he
comes across his ideal girl to WOO
and we'd
Stitching away on something which
can De got along very we'll without in
the four walls of home is waste of
energy and time She is cheating her
self out of the time which should be
hers for recreation and mingling with
the outside world and is keeping her
self hidden from the puzzled swain
whom Cupid has commanded to search
far and wide until he finds her.
Working girls are their own worst
enemies when they deny themselves
the opportunity Of meeting nice peo-
pie Of both sexes. No matter how ex-
hausted a young woman may feel at
the close of her working day that
should not be her excuse, to herself,
for staying indoors and brooding over
the loneliness of her life
She should be up and doing, making
the most of the present, which will
have much to do in shaping her future,
though she may not realize this fact.
1t Is a young woman's individuality,
her persistence to help herself and
get the most out of even an humble
life which will bear fruit. The four
walls of home are often a Jail, and the
young woman her own jailer. She
should not bury herself while she is
alive.
Girls who are missing their chance
of matrimony may find. If they look
into the situation closely, that it is
their own fault.