Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 January 1890 — Page 8

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-LIVES OF WORKING WOMEN

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FACTS CONCERNING^ THE \VAGE I EARNING GIRLS OF^THE CITIES.

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Army of Brave, True Wemen.

How few realize, as they meet in the streets or cars girls going' and coming from factory or shop, that they are passing heroines— young women who are bravely taking up the burden of self support, and who with patient courage are meeting trials, hardships and temptations, such as can never come to those more favored. Within the last fifty years the working woman has become a power in the community. The cities could not do without her. Go into any great store and see the fruit of her labors. Every counter shows the work of some group of girls or women brocades, silks, laces, embroideries, muslins, woolens, notions, fancy articles—all represent the toil of women's fingers. Very few think of the workers and the Jives they lead.

A most valuable report has recently been issued by the department of labor at Washington, which gives personal statistics of 17,427 wage earning girls engaged in 343 distinct industries out of many now open to women, and comprising the result of study in twenty-two different cities. The tables bring out very telling facts. The average age for beginning work appears to be 15 years and 4 months but 129 out of the number commenced under 9 years of age, and the largest proportion, 3,503, began to support themselves at 14. For years they continue the weary round of labor, rising at 5 or 0, and shortly after going to the factory or shop, where they remain, with but little recess, for ten or more hours. Often their work does not end when they leave the place of their day's labor, for out of the whole number questioned by the agent of the department, 9,813 not only work at their regular occupations, but also assist in the housework at home. More than half give their earnings to the head of the family, while very many have to care entirely for several others beside themselves. The average wages of the 17,427 was found to be $5.24, and yet with this small amount 6,614 do none of their own sewing, and invariably the girls present a respectable appearance.

These wage earners are women with ideas, high impulses, ambitions and desires such as all other women have. One of the ladies who collected the above statistics, and who personally met and learned to know about the lives of over 11,000 of the girls,was asked: "How many of them Imvo ambitions and an inner life of desire for better things, and how many, if aided in the development, would turn out earnest, true women?" Quickly came the answer: "Every one. I have yet to meet with a working girl who could not be lifted to a higher level." Instance, after instance was given by her of the heroic lives hundreds of them are now leading, and of the pleasant co-operative homes she had found. Many of us who have been honored by becoming tho friends of our grand working sisters could echo her sentiments. Nowhere else can be found in greater degree the noble impulses of heroism, self sacrifice, patience, cheerfulness and aspiration.

All over the city, after a hard day's work, thousands are gathered in ovening schools, working girls' societies, or other rooms opened to them, where they can study and improve themselves. A lady visiting a down town evening school saw a tired, sickly looking girl busily engaged with a copy book. The teacher of the class said: "That girl comes regularly each night after eleven hours of work, and without any supper. The lady paused by tho girl's desk with the remark: "Why do you come to school are you not too tired?" Sho looked up with a smile, saying: "Why, I must work, and I must also be educated, so what else can I do? By and by, though, I am going to rest." How few girls in sheltered homos would have shown such courage and ambition.

Hero is another instance: A girl was left as tho sole support and care taker of an infirm father, and she bravely assumed the responsibility. Rising eftcli morning between 4 and fi, sho mnde tho fire, did tho household work (including washing), prepared breakfast, and after buying a paper for her father and making him comfortable began her day's work at tho loom before 7 o'clock. She worked in a silk factory, and when tho 12 o'clock whistle released her she hurried home to prepare dinuer, stopping at tho butcher's and grocer's on tho way. Tho dishes were left to be washed up at night, for 1 o'clock must find her again at her loom. At night, after preparing supper and clearing up the house, sho had to get her father to bed, and it was after 8 before she was free. Ou certain nights of tho week she would be found at a class where sho could improve her mind, and on other evenings sho was busy caring for sick and tired neighbors. Sho took out flowers, fruit, etc., for distribution from a club room, and was one who was always ready to do a kindly act.

One worker in a factory had a legacy of $3,000 left her by a relative, but, while legally it was hers, sho feilt it did not belong to her, as she was uot the nearest of kin, and so die relinquished it and went bravely back to her drudgery. These women and girls, with their heroism and bravery, have hard lives and few opportunities. They crave outside interests, fun and means for self improvement. Some years ago one of them went to a friend, saying: "How can working girls improve themselves and have a good time in the evening?" "By co-operation, self help and mutual interest," was tho answer. The result has been that all over the city rooms have been opened by the working girls' societies, where groups of from 50 to 300 wage earners find bright companionship, books, music, etc. Classes are also formed in useful studies and industries. "Musical drills," or gymnastics to develop the body, are held weekly, physicians are engaged to treat members, experienced friends are there to give advice in case of perplexities, and even a woman lawyer has been found to give in* struction on personal rights.

But this is not all. A fundamental principle at tho beginning of the movement was that through the club girls should become better fitted for the wifehood and mother* hood that would probably come to them therefore much is dime to educate and train them for practical home duties.

The president of one of tho societies, her* self a working girl, in a recant speech, said: "My idea of club life i» contained in three word»—agitation, education, co-operation 1— rousing ourselves to realise our needs and condition, educating: ourselves to the best of oar abilities and helping others by co-opera-tion." Xobly have the girls, with the gentlewomen who are thoir advisers and co-labor-«n, carried out these ideas, and today there la vast number of them who have risen to a higher plane, and who are going on into earnest, helpful womanhood by the force of education Mcttred through co-operatfon,—-Grace Dodge In Harper's Bacar.

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pretty, curly headed and vivacious has been appointed a deputy collector of internal rev* eoue tn Indiana.

WOMAN IS THE HIGHEST. _,

Somewhere I have heard this adages And I think ft is a true one: fit takes much to make a lady.

It takes more to make a woman.11 Ladies with their studied graces, Ladies with their snow white hands, Delicate and clear cot faces,

Ladies high and ladies grand, Clothed in velvet, robed in laces, Much too fine for common touch, Crowned and decked with pearls and rubies,

Not true woman, overmuch Shallow, vain and superficial There are thousands simply human Worthy of the name of lady,

Scarcely worth the name of woman Not for them the grand creations Of a glorious womanhood Not for them the high ideals

Only soul hath understood Not for them the lofty mountains Rising o'er life's desert waste: They have eaten Dead Sea apples,

Let them pall upon their taste.

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Woman mounting slowly upward, Pure and steadfast, modest, sweet As the violets, which are blooming

In some shaded, cool retreat „v Woman reaching out strong tendrils, Earnest in the walks of life,

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Treading in the path of duty Through temptation, care and strife Women in the garb of patiencc

Standing where the tried have stood Breaking bread for questioning spirits, Wearing crown of motherhood Woman delving„sculpturing, carving,

Making still this adage true one: "It takes much to make a lady. It takes more to make a woman." Let the fires of fate burn higher,

Well, who cares? On downy bed Sleeps the lady, but the woman Walks the earth with stronger tread. Vital are the latent forces

Which are tried, the pearls lie deep," And they win who stem the courses And who climb the mountain steep, Write upon the heart this adage,

For,we know it is a true one: 'It takes much to make a lady, It takes more to make a woman." —Emma P. Brown in Woman's Journal.

TEACHING CHILDREN.

There Is Need of Care In Training the Memory of the Little Men arid Women. We cannot bo too careful in teaching children to discriminate between real memory, imagination and guessing. Attach no penalty to excusable ignorance, but frown upon Hie putting forth of guesses for truth.

The memory sometimes acts spontaneously, and sometimes it is influenced by the will. Memory should act spontaneously in the case of recalling common words as the signs of ideas, in the case of the tables in arithmetic, the orthography of common words, the musical tones in the scale and other necessary facts of common life. The memory should be taxed in this way only to a limited extent. In many cases we should furnish the mind with only the means of recall and recognition. That the sum of seven and eight and five is twenty, is a case in point.

The will has only an indirect control over the memory. It can detain exi idea known to be related to what we wish to remember and in this way secure the recall and recognition of what is desired.

The qualities of a good memory are facility of impression, great retentive power, and readiness in the recovery of whatever has been sufficiently impressed. The latter quality may often be improved by making earnest demands upon tho memory to act quickly as in addition, by requiring the pupil to «tate results as soon as obtained.

There are two types of memory, the circumstantial and the philosophic. The former recalls ideas in the relation of contiguity. It pictures objects as they exist in space and events as they occur in time. The latter recalls ideas in the relations of similarity, contrast and causation. It recalls classes and systems and causes and effects. This kind of memory presupposes a knowledge of the remembered relations.

Tho circumstantial memory is developed first and the philosophio memory has stages of its development corresponding to the relations in which ideas are recalled. Objects are first remembered as they exist in time and space, then as similar, next as contrasted, and finally as casually related. This order cannot be reversed or changed. All teaching should correspond to this law.

The conditions favorable to good memory are learning with attention and interest, a repetition of the process under favpring conditions of body and mind, a systematic arrangement of ideas and the habit of stating the truth with exactness.—Journal of Education.

Children That Tease.

It is a misfortune to a child to suppose that teasing is essential to gaining a point that he ought to gain. A result of such a view in his mind is that he looks not to his parents' wisdom and judgment, but to his own positiveness and persistency as the guide of his action in any mooted case of personal conduct not to principles which are disclosed to him by one who is in authority, but to impulses which are wholly in his own bosom. Such a view is inimical to all wise methods of thinking and doing on a child's part. And it is even more of a misfortune to tho parent than to the child for a child to have the idea that the parent's decision is the result of the child's teasing, rather than that of the parent's understanding of what is right and best in a given case. No parent can have the truest respect of a child while the child knows that he can tease that parent into compliance with the child's request contrary to the parent's real or supposed conviction. I\)r the child's sake, therefore, and also for the parent's, every child ought to be trained not to tease, and not to expect any possible advantage from teasing.—Sunday School Times.

Mothers Uie Best Doctors.

Drs. Aberuethy, Rush, Hosack and Harvey were great doctors, but the greatest doctor the world ever saw was a Christian mother. Dear me! Do we not remember her about the room when we were sick in our boyhood? Was there any one who could so. touch a sore without hurting it? And whan she lifted her spectacles against her wrinkled forehead, so she could look closer at the wound, it was three-fourths healed. And when the Lord took her home, although you may have been men and women, thirty, forty or fifty years of age, you lay on the coffin lid and sobbed as though you were five or ten years old. It is fortunate that God does not ask us when to let the old folks go far we would keep them too long from their needed rest.—Talmage.

The Dhnui Fad.

The latest fad in furniture Is the divan, "M EL W." declares in The Providence JournaL No drawing room of any pretensions in New York is without one, and usually they cost from f75 op. They are nothing more or less than an especially luxurious couch, with no head or arms, generally set in a corner and heaped high with soft cushions filled with down and corded with silk of all colors, the daintier and more delicately blended the better. On one of these oriental innovations, among cushions of pale ptok-and-grem and hlne and fawn color, in a luxurious tea gown of bint tinted silk and lace and embroideries, madam reclines at the hewr of afternoon tea in her dimly lighted drawing room,

Innate H»cci*ttnen.

"Now just stand beside me a minute and notice how much innate hoggishness there is in human nature," said a conductor at the Boston and Maine station last nigh4 to a Globe reporter. "The 5:45 train is just backing in. Watch."

The long row of empty cars slowly rolled into the station. The large platform and the little platform between the tracks were covered with men and women waiting to get seats as soon as the cars stopped. But as the speed of the cars slackened somewhat a movement began all along the crowd. Men jostled against each other in frantic attempts to board the moving cars, clutched at the rails and stumbled all over the steps, trying to clamber aboard and when the cars came to a full stop nearly every one of them was almost fyied with men comfortably reading their papers. -1As for the women Well, one or two brave but careless souls may have tried to step upon a car before it stopped, but for the rest there was nothing left to do but wait while the men, unencumbered with skirts and petticoats, jumped in and got good seats. "Not only do the men steal all the seats," remarked the conductor, "but they never think of offering a woman a seat. Street-car etiquette sort of half compels a man not to allow a lady to stand, but in a Bteam car she gets a seat only when she is able to fight for it. Some one will get killled jumping on those cars some day, and then perhaps you will see a change in things. Women have no divine rights to seats I suppose, but they ought to be allowed a fair start in the race."—Boston Globe.

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Booting Out Mesh Worms.

A German lady states that for two years she was tortured by flesh worms and finally eradicated them by the following method (diet, exercise and deep, of course, being first considered): Twice a week she took a Russian bath, using the cold shower afterward, and invariably taking an hour's nap, rolled in blankets, afterward. She then used at night on the affected parts of the face a wash of borax and water. As her nose was chiefly affected, she rubbed it smartly with a piece of crash towling, after which, very lightly but thoroughly, she rubbed in a little olive oil. Twice a day she applied a weak lotion of sulphate of zinc. This, with general care of her health, entirely eradicated the "flesh worms" and restored her skin to its former condition of smooth fairness, (glycerine must not be used where this difficulty exists. The use of the flesh brush is an admirable "tonic," so to speak, for the complexion, and well managed gymnastic or dumb bell exercise is also beneficial,—Herald of Health.

Dressed turkeys, chickens and ducks at E. R.Wright & Go's White Front. ,,

L' Amerique, Principes de Gale Cressidas,

at Postoffice News Stand. 12 n. 7th st.

There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the Ivbry They are not,: but like all counterfeits]* they lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of

the genuine.^ Ask for Ivory Soap and" Siinsist upon having*

TERRE HAUTE 6ATTJRDAT1SVElSTIISrG MAIL.

About Pianos. C*

"Very few know how to take care of a piano," said a musical man to a reporter who visited his warerooms. "How do you do it here?" asked the scribe.

"It is a popular notion that pianos •ought to be kept very dry. Nothing could be more fallacious. Pianos are not nearly so much affected by heat or cold as they are by dryness, and, reversely, by dampness. It is not generally known that the sounding board, the life of a piano, is forced into the case when it is made so tightly that it bulges up in the center, on the same principle as a violin. The wood is supposed to be as dry as possible, but, of course, it contains some moisture, and gathers more on damp days and in handling. Now, when a piano is put into an overheated, dry room all this moisture is dried out, and the board loses its shape and gets flabby and cracks. Even if it doesn't crack the tone loses its resonance and grows thin and tinny, the felt cloth and leather used in the action dry up, and the whole machine rattles." "How do you prevent this?" '"Keep a growing plant in your room and so long as your plant thrives your piano ought to, or else there is something wrong with it. It should be noted how much more water will have to be poured into the flower pot in the^ room where the piano is than in.ju»^£her room. In Germany it is the prSWice to keep a large vase or urn with a sopping wet sponge in it near or under the piano and keep it moistened. This is kept up all the time the fires are on."—New York

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Readers of The Mail, especially the ladies, will please not forget that we carry, by far the most extensive line of Men's Furnishing Goods in Terre Haute. That our goods are always the newest, beat and reliable. That we deal only in furnishing goods. That you will be waited on by salesmen who understand their business and not be pressed to purchase. That our prices are always below all competiton.

JAMES HUNTER & CO.

T. J". ZP-A-TTOIST & CO.

CleanlMeat Market

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CHOICE STEER BEEF, SOUTHDOWN MUTTON and LAM PORK, VEAL, aifd SAUSA

JSAAC BALL, FUNERAL DIRECTOR.

LGES,

Telephone 220, Fourth and Ohio

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GEO. MAEBACH,

-U DENTIST. ifllfttl 423% "Wabash Avenue, over Arnold's clothing store.

Cor. Third and Cherry Sts., Terre Haute, Ind. Is prepared to execute all orders in his line with neatness and dispatch.

Embalming a Specialty,

GILLETTE.,

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,1 'Pilling of Teeth a Speciality. Office—Corner Seventh and Main streets, in McKeen's new block, opp. Terre Haute House

RS. ELDER & BAKER, HOMEOPATHIC

PHYSICIANS and StJRGEONS,

OFFICE 102 S. SIXTH STREET,6 Opposite Savings Bank. Night calls at office will receive prompt attention. Telephone No. 185.

T^R. R. W. VANVALZAH,

JL/ Successor to 1 RICHAKDSON & VANVALZAH,.

X)EHSTTXST.

Office—Southwest corner Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entranoe on Fifth street.

J.NUGENT. M.J. BROPHY.

jS^UGENT & CO., PLUMBING and GAS FITTING

A dealer in

Gas Fixtures, Globes and Engineer's Supplies. 505 Ohio Street. Terre Haute, lad

COAL: COAL.

We have opened a coal office at 050 Main, at the former Kuhn elevator office and keep all kinds of

BLOCK & BITUMINOUS COAL

We solicit a share of the public patronage,

JOS. LEE—WM. D0RSEY.

EXOELSIOB

Steam Dye Works

SATISFACTION WARRANTED.

655 Main St., Terre Haute.

H. F. REINERS, PROPRIETOR.

R. GrAGG, DEAIiKR IN

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES

Picture Frames, Mouldings Picture Frames to Order.

McKeen's Block. 648 Main st, 6th and 7th.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

PREPARATORY SCHOOL and SEMINARY,

(Write for Special Circular.)

Standard College Curriculum. (See calendar.) Seminary of Music and Voice Culture. (Piano, Pipe Organ, Voice.) An Academy of Fine Arts. (Drawings, Water Colors, Oil Portraiture)

Opens leanesday, September 11, 1889.

For information call on or address the President, John Mason Duncan, or Sydney B. Davis, Secretary Board of Trustees.

Established 1861. Incorporated 1888.

QLIFT & WILLIAMS CO.

Successors to CI lit, Williams & Co. J. H. WIT.T.TAMS, President. J. M. Clitt, Sec'y and Treaa.

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Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc

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LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES GLASS, PAINTS, OILS

AND BUILDERS' HABDWAKE.' Mulberry street, «oraer 9th.

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Saves 25% to 50% of Tea. :f GIVES THE TRUE FLAVOR.

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Prices, $1.50 up.

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KINGAN'S ENGLISH CURED SHOULDERS, -T 7c

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Kingan's Best Breakfast Bacon,

123, (3 per pound."

Ki ngan's Best Kettle Rendered Lard lOc

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New York Cream Cheese Frank Siddall's Soap!. Electric Soap! Special Inducements on Sugars!

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STIFF AND RIGID CORSETS

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Jackson Corset Waists

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Approved by Physicians, Endorsed by Dressmakers, Recommended by every Lady that has Worn Them. MADKOJTLTBT Sggg

The Jackson Corset Co., Ja^kson^QMicMgan,

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