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Show The Girl of the Pkkiod A New York letter says: "One of the worst features of these cases of destitution is the great number of women who can do nothing in particular educated. a.Totnplisned, refined, but unable to earn a living at anything anyone wan'B none. Tho number of these CsiBert iriiihtful. The other dny a younn Kdinan who h.id liet her husband hus-band and who had been swindled out of her little property by lawyer, applied for work. She could speak three languages and teach four; she could teach music; she could copy letters, direct envelopes, entert tin their company, sing she had never, made bread, nor even her own dresses, and could not read aloud so that any body would care to listen to her. She had good nature and an extra board-iog board-iog fioieb, but there was no body ol practical, available training between the upper aod under side of her equipment. And her ca?e represents that of hundreds. Wendell Phillips' experience with the Boston girl-gradu ate, who could not even read to bis wife, ecu id be matched by thousands of cases here. The gill of the period is not a self-supporting commodity, and it bo happens that a vast number of the men of the period show uo de sire to pay her hoard bills and furnish tier with pin mooy." |