The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1913, Page 3

| "SAY RACE SUICIDE THE SCHOOL BOARD oe aii | Permits Teachers to Wed, but Dismisses Them If They Bear Children. * MUST WED SECRETLY. Pretty Instructress Whose Mar- riage Is Revealed Urges Clelelnbelninlelotolnlatets Others to Revolt. ‘The announcement by Miss Henrietta Rodman, a teacher in the Wadleigh High School, that she is no longer a @taster schooima'am, but ts now Mra. Flenrietta Rodman de Fremery, and an & problem in ethics, the problem being: B the Board of Education allows fe- @mle teachers to marry dut practically G@tmmiases them when they have chikiren, Gees the board, an institution espec! G@esigned to rear the young of the land » countenance race suicide? Members of the august body have just Qaased through the stress of wide public Gtecussion of whether it should allow a teacher, Mrs. Edgell, to have a leave of absence in which to and nurse it. The board is ring freely, after having had female teachers snap at it Mrs, Edgell’s request. INATION AGAINST MAR- ED TEACHERS DENIED. it i li il in this series. The money will be divided as Five other prizes of $10 each. | i & < best and most helpful will receive At ! ¢ f | ! i t So ends a very interesting letter for a year on $6 a week earned in a i | are given—iliness or to improve mentally. That is, ‘as much as ninety- agc8 seit at F ! gega i Ff afternoon, after school en #be will have all ast r = 35 “Either married or teachers," the secretary's assistant sald, “gre given leaves of absence to study or to get well when they become ill, other excuses are taken from single women ether,” SAYS BOARD PUTS EDUCATION ABOVE HUMAN LIFE. de Fremery married secretly, Mrs. Her husband !s employed in the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History. Mra. de Fremery charges women are being treated inferiorly to the spinsters in many branches of ac- tive “This matter of penalizing marriage for the woman wage earner is bec such a jous thing that the pub must soon take ft up," she said. Board of of a woman who takes time to get a college degree of Ph. D., but it dis charges the woman who takes time to Dear @ future citizen. It thus records itwelf as valuing academic degrees above human life.” Moreover—as a guide to the troubles ahead for the members of the Board— the bridegroom in this instance is a Socialist. YMXOLA GREELEY SMITH FH arried | and consequently cheaper, girl. was established it was the custom in lishments” to advertise for apprentic Girls were expected to give their Services free for a year upon the ©] promise of paid positions after . arning the busine! At the end tion increases the pay | ge evesy yeas all the apprentices were discharged as wnsatisicctory and new ones taken on, So, till the minimum wage law was passed, certain establishments paid abso- Jutely nothing for labor, But I believe the minimum in New Zealand is much below th weekly carnings of the poorest girls in New York not higher than $3, I think, Here a minimuin w is asked for, and a yer has given it as his opinion that if this amoun. became the legal wage the re- sult would be disastrous to the women it designed to help, since employers could get men for’s 1 would prefer tiem to women at th price. — PHOTO OF HIS 13 CHILDREN IS VOUCHER FOR A JOB. Picture Landed Kentuckian in Office at Home and He Thinks It Good in Washington, WASHINGTON, Mare! with a photograph of his family thirteen children, Ben Marshall, clerk of the Circuit Court at Frankfort, Ky., to-day joined the © 80 PAY MEN MORE SO THEY CAN MARRY. Various persons have written me to urge that the solution of the intricate problem of the relation of low wages 1%.—Armed ot ranks humers, He admits that the collectorship of Internal Lezington and, as his phenome fly alded materiaily in landing him the court clerkship, he brought along the Photograph in the bellef that it would Drove useful in aiding h 1 place. Ma: of the job he is after at to vice lies in payi men—in fact, In pay that they wi earlier than they do at present say th optimists, “all the women would be married to men wio could support them and vice would not ex- at least, better wages to so well much hen,” ld be to acquire a would be without ex- hall recalled Presid: Hi that thirteen Wilson if it re possible to con: ad tion, would have to be an ad- ditional law compelling every man of @ certain earning capacity to marry, if women were to benefit at all by the new conditions, And this would be manifestly impos- sible, sin most inal qi family it would disregard man's nable right of choice and would aie woman to the degrading situation from waleh she sas just emerged, that of being forced into mar+ riage 1 Bove as her f al hood mint+ rn a pair of st pnt large hole In tie heel, and then has held the fine shed work of art off to admire it—only to see the darn itself giving around the hour of pat ‘but ne ‘ m Vy e ! i | h ‘ i 1 was regarded by ‘ is lucky numbe: ‘or aieter, Mr. Marshall a th thirteen children each, aliough a broke the perfect ’ « @ fourteenth addiiion | Mr. Marghal! said his mo was minety- | @ix years of age, and still and | hearty. He said he had not nded | 4 @ &meral in the fa since 1866 | —>——- | | GIRLS STRIKE AGAINST $1.05. ' BAST LIVERPOOL, 0, March 19.— | ‘ " The atrike of seven jundred gists ens) ‘ ; Hl ployed in the finishing departments of F ye dle i potteries tn this city, Wellsville, ©. naret att and Chester and Newell, W. Va. to- , \ day crippled ws , ’ clay products a i triet. i F : continuan . w . F closing down iy would throw " cmp ‘The girls struck | rls struck becuuse y were eden inctyane from $109 and $110) edgex—vhe will understand how I feet eli ww ‘aay, eisai About patchwork eocial reform. ven if THE EVEN intolelainietebeininletoittoinletolot Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishin, “ISTARTED AT aE NOTE PaPre TABLE —— YT Wild KaOWS, SomepaY J MAVE® Cuver= wares “OPTIMISTIC KATIO® “Girls of To-Day Are Lazy and Prefer a Life of Ease to Hard Work,” Writes “‘Anna’’—‘I Would Like to Write a Book on the Temptations of the Working Girl,’’ Says ‘Louise V. B.”’ $100—IN PRIZES FOR LETTERS BY REAL WORKING GIRLS—$100 Cash prizes amounting to $100 will be given for the most help- ful letters from REAL WORKING GIRLS on the subject dealt with follows: Two prizes of $25 each. The seven letters which, in Nixola Greeley-Smith’s judgment, are these awards. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITA. “Who knows but I may be head of stock some day, or even buyer?” from a girl who tells how she lived department store and who adds that “to-day she gets along splendidly om $8,” an increase of salary having come to her each year for efficiency in her work. Perhaps the writer of this letter is too optimistic in treat- ing of the $6 period of her life, for she says that she gave half her salary to her mother for board and had re- tained the balance for personal ex- penses. A girl who lives at home can have little idea of the hardships which beset the self-supporting woman who has not that safe harbor. Nevertheless this letter from a con- tented saleswoman tends to discredit a statement heard frequently about the department store that it does not pay an employee to become too effi- cfent, since the moment her salary gets above a certain point she is dis- charged to make way for a green, In New Zealand before the minimum wage stores known there as “drapery estab- es the darn of minimum wages should hold, I am sure there would be a break, & new hole in another place, and the age-old problem of the immoral woman would come up in another and perhaps more perplexing way. And this ts not my opinion only, Havelock Ellis, after years of study of unfortunate women of all ages and times, in a volume em- bodying his conclusions, gives it as his opinion that wages have no direct rela- tion to vice, And the great majority of young women readers seem to hold the same view, Here are some of their lete ters: HAPPY ON $8 A WEEK AND HOPEFUL OF THE FUTURE. Dear Madam: I am a working girl and get on spendidly on my | salary of $8 a week, 1am a sales- lady in a big department store. The stationery department. I had to work the first year for $6 a week and was not behind the counter then, but at a table on the floor where only the cheap note- Paper {s sold. I worked very hard and tried to keep the boxes of paper nicely ar- 1 ranged and dusted on the table and did my best to be agreeable and obliging to my customers, for I always cherished a hope in my heart to get behind the counter, It was very hard for me to get along on $6 a week. I lived only @ couple of blocks from the store, in a flat with my mother and sisters; so T walked back and forth to work except on rainy or bad days, I paid my mother $3 a week for my board and I had the other $3 for clothes and things. Some- times mother did my washing, but oftener 1 did it myself at mght. I had to pay 20 cents out of my salary every week, too, for doctor's fee at the atore, s0 1 was taken care | of whenever I got 11, and tf I had to stay home a day or two from iMness I got paid just the aame, I wore the cheapest clothes I could buy and mended and pressed them, / to make them last as long as I could, I needed to wear a black waist and skirt in winter, and a white waist and black skirt in sum- mer, I was allowed an hour In the morning every week to go shopping, and I made good use of it, and hunted through the store for bar- Any anh Ip poet way 1 often got ING WORLD, ig Co. (The New York vening World). "wow MANY wee ATER WORMING ALL OAY AND START [WAT IRON AND CLEAN UP” ANNA fre @ good waist or other things for halt what [d pay regular; My aister, who is a nographer, would give me @ ovat or hat now and then which she wouldn't wear to her oMfce any mure, and that helped me a lot, too. For my lunch 1 took a sandwich from home and ate in the employeos’ restaurant where I could get a good plate of soup for three cents and a cup of tea or milk for one cent. Ice cream was from one cent to five. I never spent any more than five cents or @ix on my lunch. I had been in my position just eleven months and Christinas was only a month away, when the buyer came to me one day und told me to go behind the counter until the holidays were over, and there was @ new girl put at my table. You agine how thankful I was t behind the counter und be allowed to sell desk sets and other stationery goods. I fetl quite im- portant, All the: salesladies get commissions on their sales during Christmas, and I earned $10 for myself in that way. I studied the stock thoroughly and worked very hard for two weeks before Christ- mas and made as many sales as I Possibly could, When Christmas was over I was sent to the mana- ger's office and I got a raise of $1 @ week, I was a happy girl that night. I spent another year behind the counter and worked as well ax I could and kept the atock nicely and the case nice and clean. I found {t much easier to get on now on my $7 a week, 1 had a little more to spend on myself and 1 could go to a show now and then. At the end of the vear I was called to the office and got another one dollar raise, I wan also praised for my work. Now I get along fine and find life very different from when I had to exist on $6 a week Tam very glad now that I did not get disheartened and look for an- other position, but stuck {t out and hoped and prayed to get along and increase my salary. I hope and expect a raise in my salary every year, Who knows By in bad or disordered stomach, The 50c box of Ex-Lax is very economical, WEDNESDAY, THE GIRL WHO WORKS AND WINS “<::<" olnlatninteintaintetotet | Save Your Doctor’s Bills And Reduce the Cost of Living | "LA The Delicious Family Stomach Remedy The new 50c size of Ex-Lax is enough to guard the h the whole family for months against constipation, laz Always Keepin MARCO Impossible to Tell of the Hardships Borne to Remain Good on Meagre Pay :. Sends Minions to Break In but I may be head of stock some day or even buyer? I'll keep hoping. KATIE, AGONIZING STRUGGLE OF AGIR ON A PITTANCE. Dear Madam: I am a young «irl, away from home, working in a de- Partment store on a small sa It would be impossible t words the hardships I through to keep up appearance and be good. I have had many tempta- tions, but resisted, thinking only of the future, Only there were times when I thought how foolish I wi to struggle the way I do, By the time I get through paying for my board, carfare and luneh money there is hardly enough to pay for the little laundry during the week. No one can realize the heartache of having to live from hand to mouth T have endured and still endure, and there are thousands more like me. We girls often relate our troubles to one another and come to the same conclusion, to know the straight Path of life, as that ts the bent, LGR WANTS TO WRITE A BOOK ON} TEMPTATIONS. Dear Madam: I have been support- ing myself for the last nine years, starting at fifteen. I first worked in @ mill for $4.a week, and gave It all to my boarding mistress. She fed, clothed and sheltered me. After eight months my employer raived my wages to $4.25, $25 of that [ saved, and my wages were ally raised, so that when I seventecn I wan earning $8.75 a week. Not wishing to work in a mill all my life, I left and went to work in & millinery store at 9 a week. Not having much education, I studied evenings. Finally, three years ago, I started to work for a detective agency, and I am atill with the same concern, and if things keep going well, I shail start @ little business of my own In a couple of years. The temptations of girls are great y girl of to-day cannot lve on less than $8 a week. I would like very muc book on the tempta working «irl. 10) te WASHING March and Mra, Ernest HH. N. ¥,, a son was born on the mornin, lot the day Woodrow Wilson wan | | augurated President, To-day Presider | Wilson rec 1% M Wilson Taft, thanking Mr. This mornin | brought the j stick." thorn, the shape of a shilielah, | from W. Walpole Bell of No, 160 Fitt avenue, New York City, ° The Preside aft for th reel ident tmen post deliver: an s Pr It contain |40 Ex-Lax chocolates besides a coupon worth 12'c, One Boz will prove its vakge; all druggists, BABY HOWARD WILSON TAFT. Taft of Fulton, ed @ letter from Mr. Tatt| | saying the #on had been named Howard | t wrote, | palth os 0 liver, igestion, sick headaches and all other ailments that come from H 19, 1918. {HAL SHERIFF FOILS | MILLIONAIRE WHO BARRED HN QUT | Doors of Dahlgren Mansion | and Owner Surrenders. |! Boom! Doom! Open the doort* Voice from within: “The Sheri! “Open in the name of the law!" Bilence, Hard faced men are stamping about before the home of millionaire Bric B. Dahlgren, No, 92 Madison avenue. ‘They are armed with the papers. With them ts @ furniture van and three husky plano breakers, armed for the struggle. ‘What can they be about to do? Suddenly one of the men throws back the lapel of his coat. 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