Show THt QUtS Fog JARm Yor 01 EE TO FID ITth BACKING ENyBIOPES She Gets 3 Week For Doing I and Spends a Iueh For TrfeGrl ra ttement House New York Sun The was of women are beyond me said one of the sex but if the wholesaler wholesale-r vlng for occupation for something i outside Of mere home maters on which to center talent and attention be any sign of advancement then a fair proper tOl of the sex are making noble headway head-way Now there Is lss A a elap perlg welappointe young woman In no way stnte as to some comforts and dress essentials She goes down to a business omc and backs envelopes for 3 anl a week The J Isnt a circumstance In the enIgma lIlies A spends more than that even week on chocolates and messenger mes-senger boys One of the head men of the office suggested that she did it just I for the exciement but I looked into the matter and there Is absolutely no excitement ex-citement about that office or the work The envelopes arc all alike the same pea I DIe are In the same place every cay in the rear and unless there Is a savor of adventure in swinging down from Harlem rem each morning hanging on to an L car strap or risking the chance of a seat on the return trIp at night Miss As bud ness scents to me to bar out even the chance of variety Its true as a typewriter type-writer told me one day A girl In business busi-ness feels that she Is addlmmg her little share to the worlds activity That was IL nice little sentiment on the wageearn ers part but the typewriter had the vital vi-tal neverceasing excitement of earning her daily bread and keeping some sort of roof over her head whereas Miss A but thats enough of Miss A Now take Miss B a total different type of girl and with motves almost as batlngthat Is If women have motives Miss B Is as trJm and rounded and goal to look upon as Miss A She remInds re-mInds me of a faIr Inviting unwritten page waitIng for the sentiments to be traced upon It or of time soft plant cJy ready for the modelers formative exrerl mont Miss B is responsive absolutely unspoiled anti Innocent as yet that she Is moved by Impulse or that there is such a thing as st analysis In humln reckon Ing 1is8 B lives 1 a settlement house I think thats the right name for It 1t Is aplace where young women who wish to study socIological problems at Irst hand or near range arc made comfortable comfort-able during their novitiate and are per mited to have callers In between tiames MIss B Is no more In need of living wages than is I my young woman who backs envelopes Anyone can see who looks Into her face that she has been ben well fed and wen housed and wen cared for all her life and that al lfe no concern or care for future exigency need cross her mindVhat What made you go Into this I asked her one day between whiles of his teqlng to another enigmatical young woman across the settlement house par her who was coaching an alertlookIng foreign quarter young man In the telling points of debate and dialogue as taugnt i In hem pattern of vomans college I Well I erJ t know was Miss ns smiling answer to my question I live queston lve I in little a ltte Wisconsin town you know and Its very dull there In wlnternoth f Ing going on I put this answer away in my mind for future turning over In hopes of Solution but until I can get at Miss Bs Individual interpretation of dun lss get a better Insight Into her sociological studies or what she calls going on I am as much at sea as ever Now again only yesterday I brought up short against anothel illustration of the orcramhliig mania for activity in the worlds affairs This was the case of Miss Crobust Pennsylvania raised and as strictly good value as the broilers or ths tempting scrapple that broiers ns from Philadelphia 1lss C Is a trained nurse Only a short time ago she towed a distempered friend of mine thro Ih a I shweeks fit of aggravatln I cmmtmmced aggravat > In at the nurses headquarters where they report for emloyment Iml spend I their unoccupied time t order some mut ton broth for an invalid neighbor and had Miss Cs history slWtend fl me In outline by the mistress in harge while I waited for the broth whie I 1 do wish these women would stop woull going Into trained nursing just for the excitement of the thing she said lbey I nOver have the patience to put up with tst ts tha reoples il and so get into all I sOrts of wrangle that are a setback to the other nurses who are working for I tho real need of i Now working girl who went out just as yoU came in i line her back up about something utterly t1 ar Nlt unreasonable that will prejudIce both the I physician and patent and make it hard I for me to get her another place as good Here I was staggered again for never In my widest Imagination had I dreamed that any woman WOUI embrace trained I iur5ln fo tho rlmnt nr thn hl I Backl S c p 5ore i ri ngU r lsmelJng tenements and keeping tab on dispossess cases for a judges Inspec ton seemed to my mind more tolerable more promising of satisfaction to the ex cltemcnt craving faculties Do thcydo many trained nurses go into the business for the excitement I I asked as I paid for the broth and a littie omethlng besides for tho way the package f pack-age was put UD I Indeed yes you wou1nt believe how many came the response Why the ma I ron and superIntendent of every hospital hospiai In tim country lg tell you what a time she has with time lilghmty independent feel ling I nurses and with the flirtatious doc tors and aU that A young woman like Miss C for Instance hives In a small town with nothing to occupy her alter she leaves school and she gets Into a per feet fever to KO somewhere and do some thing that offers novelty and has spice to i Her folks cant object to her enter Ing the nurses profession because it sounds noble ald aU that and 50 oft she starts and stays too Trained nUrses see a lot of life as they go from house to house and fnd entertainment and ex ciement of the roughened seamy kind Oh yea lots of women go Into nursing for the excitement although of course the earnest workers wouldnt hike to have It known ImownNow Now I wonder I thought as I walked walk-ed away with my broth and my new Ink hug If ever there was a young man who went to backing envelopes or diving Into dlsposscss cases or waiting hand and foot on sick and cranky and contagion bearing people just for the excitement those avocations offer uocatons ofer Miss A Miss B and Miss C have come uuder my observation in the most caumml way but today I hear of thirty other women to match them only on another an-other ne X the acquaintance af some peoplo I leo Is mustering up recruits far a new music hal about to be opened getting the women for odds and ends of burlesque horse play and farce wore He advertised for thirty handsome young society so-ciety ladles for metropolitan productions pronctons and Im told was taken aback by the number of applications and lend of wOmen that responded Whole strings of them three times the jumber needed and few with whom the weekly wages to be paid cut any Igure Of course they werent any of them conspIcuous ep gr j In the s floe that term society was only put In as a baitbut they refined were refned looking and evidently accustomed to leisure and to haying pretty much their own anl X Is a good jUdge of human kind not apt to b Imposed upon ha any imitation Besides these women Id not have any of the trade lingo and catch expressions I They are women who have sulficlent Income to live on and who sit around and do nothing and lead such lacklustre lives that they snatch at the chance for ex ciement he said I think some of them arc married either with husbands pensioned pen-sioned off or away traveling for some house perhaps willing like their wives to go Into the thing for the excitement It offers But Imagine any woman able to be her own mistress and able to dress as those women were dressed some with 10 street gowns on and with good furs and oldtopped umbrellas and things that cost sold money coming here to drudge and rehearse In these drughty hals and put up with all sorts of treatment and hear the women professionals who are really Interested about the wages haggle about the 8 a week that they will get and when It shall be paid I and who will furnIsh nt 1 ln ea 1 nIsh the extras and ah that I am told that the appearance of these women made such an Impression on the manager that he was ready to read a homily on the subject to the professional applicants who hud been advertsed for In a trade paper and who presented quite a contrast In garb amid countenance to time amateur recruits who were 50 eager for spICY work and ensaton Thats a queer shQwlng for the domestic woman and for the advancement of the great middle class of wives and mother 1 thought as I pictured pic-tured the excltementhunters rehearsing their parts and then I remembered Miss daeRI A and Miss ii and eRI tb each bent on the same quest only by a different route and I am willing to concede that womens Ideas and ways of reasoning are beyond 1Ind1 out |