Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — Mr. Depew and the Girls. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Depew and the Girls.

New York Worl i. It was excellent counsel which Mr, Depew gave to a company of working girls when be told them to enjoy their work and. “get lots of fun” out of life, after the example he tries to set. It is not so easy to “get lots of fun out of life when one is a typewriter or a seamstress, as when Orie is a President of a great railroad company with the salary 9 f a President of the United States, nut after all there is less in circumstance than in temperament., so far as jollity is concerned. Mr. Depeiv would “get lots of fun” out of life if he had only a typewriter’s pay for a' typewriter’s work, and the working girl of sunny temperament and selfrespect has advantages of a well marked kind over Mr. Depew. She is not nominated for President three times a weak as he is. She is much younger than he is, which means a longer prospect for fun. and she has not dined out as he has until the thought of dinner has come to be wearying. And then a healthy young girl has her little thrilling dreams of romance out of which she gets a pleasure wholly beyond the reach-of. the' Railroad President. Imagine Mr. Depew lying awake in an ecstasy of sweet imagining over tfre~rectrtteetioh !of a kindly pair of eyes or a warm 1 grasp of tho hand with a world of j possible meaning in it! i There is joy in honest work for | honest bread which is to be found no. I where else in this world. The prim- [ eval curse is not a curse, but a bless- | ing to men and women constituted as , men and women in the nineteenth I century. The grievance of the workingwoman (when she has a grievance) is not with the fate that compels her to earn her bread, but with the inhu- ' inanity, injustice and often the, brutal- : ity of mdri who should hold themselves I the willing and brotherly protectors |of all women, and especially of wo- ! men who must wage life’s battle singlehanded.