The evening world. Newspaper, October 27, 1906, Page 3

if : . i& Several Stenographers Write They ie Have Found a a | Level. Make $25 Salaries and Are _Co2- tent, Proving, Says Miss Magie, that rH iss Eliasbeik Ma agie Talks 1 to Scores and Shows — | " _fiow Ambition to’ Ascend the Social Scale Is Stifled — SHE JUST WON'T CHILD ELOPERS GIVE REAAST HER JUST WENT AND that They | Miss Magto From Her _| Tells Girla Own Life} MISS ELIZABETH MAGIE, has been talking to the ‘‘shap girls,’’ Jess, as a rule, than-eyen typewriters. ' sults of her heart-to-heart investigation are em- ibe brilliant young sociologist, whose work Jn the mid- Westin behalf of women workers aroused wide attention, = VOTE, 50 THERE TOOK FINE FLAT Couldn’ t Be Elected Dog- Oc cupied $95 Apartment catcher in California, Says | That Was Vacant <for Woman. Speaker. She Finds Who Slave who are paid : The re- bodied in:the following article specially written | In Shops i Y essons That for The. Evening World, which willbe. followed Tees CAMP--HUGHES— RALLY. by others. treating conditions in other lines of ‘ ME AEEY S| yomen’s. endeavor. | emcee = Ana BahIST Women Hold Great Mass- i ehin Teach Folly ee ; eae setter [iss BY ELIZABETH MAGIE, ~ | Meeting in Harlem and Have (Copyright, the Prees Publishing Co., N. Y. World), AnH HAT Rien ALT Annis ac, Carlyle asks 1a courser of the sun work ity in the harness A Canliate Se Guest ek, swhen th Nopea “fF 7 ofa-dnty rdreply most emphaticallys“Not_on_your lifel” | Counters ey ee) [igre ere erten a alt A rin, maw Goeraerion Ifa man feels that he isn’t in his right place he's justified in kick- i : of Letting) "x (ooayeahacame tale nex a PERATENTE Set GUSTS ; ng—in fact, it’s his duty “He can never do-full-justke-to eetnrats y-entered, a yucant fat, price Hey nonth, cere ry if. Hin himself nor to.< If a girl fee 4 | going to sing joy Songe while she’s washing dishes. "3 go out into the fields and paint the glories of a summer sunset, she isn't v very likely to svear a saint-like expression’ when adding pp figures in a fly « Ifa womiah wants to study foreign manners and customs | stuffy offi she-isn't_going.to be very particular, about the-wa, in a country hotel. g- It's bad enough to be tolling mechanfcally when one wants to be! employed in interpretative work, but when one longs work, t our own occupation that we ara really free. body else until ihe is in the right place. s that she ought to be starring in “Cleopatra” she Isn't hen mechanical toll is jist what I sald {t was—h—l. It {s only when we can follow our own natural inclinations and choose It {8 only when we are em- Camp Hughes, | mp Hu : apartment as cheap as the cheapest, How to Free Ser red and ‘Twenty B n and nono too good for them. So in , If a girl wants to 2 Tiny dronment EMC Aes they went, and started housekesping, pt LGH Se ert told tho story ta th, Childvente ting wax held, proved tobe « spell en oreo. der that mad: notice, «Mra. John 1 dent, put Flea ha poem, 1 taka] | Themselves , Curb Soul. he-makes up beds | alls thero gettin’ “when she sees —a— put “outside. We're on the fourth 1oor. Wo hears the dummy walter begin to rumble. ‘Walt,' ahe says. She Mre. ¥ . Hughes on the plate and. nd.}) scldentaliy, Mrs. © de her first app orm {n the Interests of her ti to be doing creative wick.’ Up comes $1.4), and we beat it Fourth Honeymoon, >: She didn't speak, but sho t licrs down the dummy and orders ‘ % as smitied nut 2) cents’ worth sent up with tho That's what's the matter with us. We have been easy marks too long. It's chango for 8% ‘Please,’ she says, ‘and — >< and find our highest usefulness. earts are in thelr work. ployed-at that which we loyo most to do that wo can do our best work There are no office hours for those whose They are never watching the clock or listening the easy marks that keep wages down, T have been talking with the shopgiris for the last day or two. On tho average thelr wages are lower than the wages of typewriters and their hours | TRAILING WOMAN | GIRL SHOT IN FEUD over the roof into anvthet empty flat. “After a while we gves back, Dis $05 flat has a swell gas stove, so I runs 's= for the whistle. Vacation {sn't for them an event planned for months In advance and talked of for months afterward, To those who harp on contentment with condittons and who say that | aw girl can get along reasonably well on $10 a week—If sho {s the right sort fa girl—l wish to cay that this sounds like an argument In the {neerrst of sweap shop managers. = Gwith $10 a week, why isn't {t advisable for all? —}gersome of the "400" to try the experiment. _ If It $s advitablo for one perm n to be content 1_would surest that you | Jown and gets a nice steak. When L come back Lotuo's found an old tce- ck and whe spears the meat and cooks {it over-the gas." oral fer they had been living In tho t flat oa deverlbed by Alnert, Mra. are longer, and yet I find more contentment among them than I do among the typewriters. Is {t the awfu! contentment of hopelessness—apathy? Yet | people advise me to “let well enongh atone!" -If one fs bound and gage one Isn't Ukely to complain very loudly, but still, since there 18 no con platnt, “Tet well enough alone.” \“GOT INTO” RIBBONS AND STAYED. Lasked one young woman what she would rather do than sell ribbona. — “Oh, I don't know," she sald. “I thought once that I would like to be ewrltor, or do writing of some kind, didn't I do it? Well, WN AUTO-BURGLARY Sleuths Trace Pair Who Left! Bensonhurst -for Tenafly sand Vanished: BETWEEN FAMILIES wy Twelve - Year - Old Daughter Found Wounded Where —She Was Playing; funen maid: “Which WIil You Have?! “Ve have two mer her. to. the Children's Court. A who had heen in court before f of is Herth ete € thelr second elipe 1 {at | guy +i SCHEME-WORTHY OF A MILLIONAIRE! _ 4 In this connection 2 am reuinced of an article I fonce telling of some dear, good, kind-hearted, philanthropic soul who tnatt- >> Ftuted a course of -icctures, the purpose of which was-to teach- working The schemo was worthy of an HOUT -NOLLY, No J Oct, =A ly feud of long standing ts sald been the cause of a ahot which cause sawn a newspaper Kot into this and I didn't know how to get out. 1 ger $7 a week, haye been here five years.” x “It you-would rather do typowrlting why don't you learn {t now?" ‘Can't afford to lay off long enough" Tt all ten-cent ™ H be nd he o ult school to, work sengon he tet for Chavivite a. there was to forced the breast of the twelye-year- hows old = ‘girls how to Mve on 80 cents a week! “But you could go to night school," of Levt Eilts, of Center- ond Foon atch Ww) American the ones who best krow how (o make money and save money, = my numerous correspondents pits It: ~—— itogether under the same roof,” so for time immemorial, 4) material and intellectual progress will be diMcult, “+ the heights and we'll get there,some time, ay want. —¥ bs Bth your jobs, I congratulate you on having found your level, But I hope vodg gat you will not be so satisfied with yoursolves and your surrountings it you will fall to lend a helping hand, whenever you can, to those who | har inal “document ews, have rashiy jumped to very erroneous conclusions, ——Numbered-among this Iarg) ne following letter: E Saamessaesiaae millfonalre. The rule {s taat persons who are worth the most in this world are not “Gonlus and dollars cannot dwell and as long as we ALLOW It to do s0 both But we're Weading for However, we are not Ilkely to ch our goal by leaps _and bounds as long as Idlers thrive and toltera SOnT but) -says- some--one,--“necessity. fa the. motherof Invention’! and ‘the Lord knows wlio the father Is, ‘but, whoover he is, he should tpe-made to support his offspring. Poverty has its uses, they say, and adversity brings out the true value r. All right; granted. But how many are willing to take! ty for the improvement of thelr qharacter? Hold up| one's chara course in adye our hands. T cannot underteke-or hope to make a single. simple explnnation-of my ter, conduct and purpose that could be comprehended by ull. Mentalities differ go, I have been lauded to the skles by soma and; ed over the coals Qy others, Comparatively fow have understood_me | y. The large majority, influenced by garbled accounts of my orlg- and accepting as facts statements made ‘In faked {nter- SAMPLE LETLE rity_ore the “stemos'’. ref: dto tn Dear Miss Magte:— = I have read with some little amusement your encounters sinco you entered the fleld of Noterlety and must say that-1 disagree with you entirely regarding tho $10, a week eftuation, —}-am-a@-stonographer myself, In the business for some years and have never found tt aiMeuttto-seoure wn good position and if a stenographer {s worth anything at all, sho {® capable of earning at least $16. per week. It's according to the ability and pluck of the girl, It strikes mo that your services were E not worth nore than. $10, per weak, therefore you could never ~expect to attain 25, or the equtvalent of that which many girte ——working downtown tn Jaw-and tnaurance-oflces-recetye, * It appears to me that you were tred of working: and wanteg to eell yoursolf to the highest bidder just to liye an easy life; quite a number of my girl friend stenoa. agree with mo and say that they are of my opinion that any kindof» decent ateno. can make from 16 to 20 per week; the ‘dubbs” =. or stupld ones make 10; we have classified you in that class, Hoping you will have the above printed in The Evening ‘World, and if we do not gee it-there, shall make a copy of it and submit {t to The Editor of same, we remain A BUNOH OF EXPERT STENOGRAPHDRS— Maling more than $10, Pin Money per week.—Located on Wall St. HINKS THEY FOUND THEIR LEVEL, Iams; for, truly, I think that they are a little above the clam family. ve evidently thought some, Sf not clearly. They rather fair education on the part of the writer or writers, opek.sphere, Of course I am looking for an. “easy life." As one of Greed exploits genius, and has been dolag ting with-a-headache. I asked her why she didn’t go he T cannot exactly class this “bunch of expert atenographers” among tho Es And, aside from the misspelling “notoriety,” the omission of a few dollar marks and it change from tho st person singular to the first person plural, the letter bears evidence Well, my dear "expert stonos.,” I am glad if you are perfectly satisfied ¢ striving for, but who haye not yet been fortunate enough to find their P Perhaps you may know some other “dubbs" who are looking. por an “easy life.” Who {sn’t? Show me some ne who isn't and I'll show you an “easy mark." Easy marks are what most mployera are looking for, They are not looking for persons who recognize -27°nd are ready to fight for their rights, There are too maby easy. marks, wutom iNn near M . Thomas Web & young man whose family lyed f the double house occupted— by” er) z no ean be foreman Centerton. I “Haye to sew and mend my clothes at night, and rest. I get so tired working all day.” : “What do you read?” “Don't read anything, Haven't time." So tar as I could learn tho only. variation in her Ife was to go theatre once In a while with a friend, “Do you ever take your friends to the theatre?" in hi exelrenrent; heceoutd etn fore YES you enjoy your t the Bougher sand F some time there ft In stated, between | | ts HYtliat of Wah . to the cut) cna Taskad, She looked at mein astonishment. ‘No," she \d, the Ellis child was seen “Why not? You look like a generous, kind-hearted girl." : ng near tho sand pits, Wobber In # ¢ . on draught, with your downtown lunch, have been thero shor: before. | y a aS a ESE Opinion Ja the er But Order-a Dozen = = “BASS’ IN°SPLITS” “You can't be-very generons-on-$7. 1 week," she said. She thought that rich people were rich becuuse. they were born unde and ? anit mak Atkinwon hua the case jn | ducky stars.Apperently_she-thought nodeeper than bat. Slavery to -her_meant the old negro chattel slavery; nothing more. ",, ‘ j Dut cannot Toate Webber, | FIRST = ;She f= content with hor lot, Sho {s In complete subjection. And she does aul sand t : Webber family have | yids BeaptAlpntorsiter conie not even know it. She 1s too dead to even want anything more than ske 0! I Re DEODELL SS: jhas, for she aduiltted that she was contented-as she was, Hor ambition! - j to OUcal MS Orerer land aNng EA prenants : 2 They all Sell Bass’in Bottle _¢ Tis teen may never, have been very high, but what Httle-she did have cmished out of her. She has become a machine. White buying a-handkerehlef from a young woman tn ment store-I put the usual question: “What would you rather do than sell handkerchiefs?” She was employed on the first floor of the store and-T was: charset ;totearn that she had a much higher amhition—to be n clerk on one of the | higher ficors. I hope that she may some day i Another young woman of whom fmade a -smnat IRISH SINGERS AT BROOKLYN CONCERT. __ = pee (10 gallons on draught) ¢ Use furnished by 1 Firh Poetry 4 tne tMecting ot harmony the whole “Oh, {t's so near quilting (Ime I might as well sta “Has your head ached all day?" “Yen,” : “Then why. did you come to work at all? Did your master mike you come? — acne S' te Master! Ye = ne master.” "il y “Wouldn't you rather stay at home when you’ re sick?" #Yes, but I don't want-to tose my job." No} she has no master. [talked with several other shopgtris and. as before stated, there & fto pe more general.contentment among them than among the type Land thay-scemed to have given lesa thought to so¢ial cond{tlous. hard for me to belleve that this fa the rule. It 1s easjer for me to Tthat thie may just have hoppened to he the case with thoseort | talked. Later on I shall make a more persistent effort to discover the spark lof lite in thom, It wowd be awful if such apathy were general, EXPRESS YOUR AMBITIONS IN LETTERS, i Shop girta, tater! —AWhtie-tt-ts-bmpossibie—for-me—to. | you personally, as I would like to do, yet 1 wish to say to your that lare any among. you who feel that you are not in your proper plac who are ambitious for-occupation_of a higher order, I want‘ you-to to me and tell me your hopes and desires, tell me What 4 in you want to do and why {tin you are pot doing tt! And’if your ambition {8 ay mand egvirt natine Mra. Helen nee 4 Don’t neglect your cough, THIRST GETS HIM. Statistics show that in New York City PILLS > alone over 200 people die every week (3 | are one I shall be-glad to help you in every possible way. Many str INTO TROUBLE AGAIN. : Nene | women have expressed a destre—an eagerness—to assist me in my chosen esate RADWAY’S work of helping people to find thelr prop laces in life If you are es bawele: fortunate enough to be happily situated T would be glad to have your sympathy and support in my work for thoso less fortunate, Let us make life “as éasy as we can for each other. | | It 1s no crime to want an easy life, Weall want an easy life, what may be an easy life for one may be a hard life for anc Imagine | Edleon living what ts ordinarily termed an “eagy Ife—1y ty ped until 10 or 11; breakfast at 12; a glance through a paper or tw mo of ¢ |luncheon; a stroll downtown a cigar and a chat with a vat nd; dinne | more cigars and chats; in the evenitig a theatre party, after that suppr from consumption. i i urette St. New York Hadway € 6 To MOTHERS!!! Perfect. Food Whie Juraing, And most of these consumptives < might be living now ‘if they had not HOBINSUNS jand « game of cards—and all without a stroke of useful work on his part. neglected the warning cough. Ber cory a My lands! the man would probably go mind! He couldn't “work” that hard e ~ ( ENGLISN - = Imagine a fashionable man of leisure putting in such hours as Edison rs que DAL SELA FACTS roob, § ENGLISH PATENT MARLEY, You know how quickly Scorf’s © Emulsion enables you to throw <‘ does! But can you imagine a fashionable man of leisure doing any sugh useful things as Mr, Edison does? Work—oceupation—!s what most people want and need, but {t should bo the occupation they like best, and thoy should be patd adequately for it, according to {ts value to the world, If there are any who want work just for work's sake, let them go down to the beach and chop sand. While my foremost desire is to help into their proper places those | who are wasting thelr Ilyeé {n'a wrong environment— and, first of all, those whose ambition {t 1s to be of service to others—at the samo*tine | 4; ALL DRUGGISTS; { wish to impress upon the minds of all the fact that not one of us is | secure fn freedom until all are free, and freedom for all can only be brought about by giving to ALL THE PEOPLE what belongs to all the | Royal Letters 1 ‘trade Mark) Kei te COMPANY, 3 PW off a cough or cold, { NEW. YORI —CIICAGO—T ARIS, PAR HAIR BALSAM 50. AND 50c. AND $1.00. 2 aerate | | | | JA | | Lt r y t Will have to bo cox A CoG people, and to the INDIVIDUAL: what Delopgs-te-the:- individual,