Show SHOPWOMENS VACATIONS The soullessneei of corpnratloni and i Capitalists has bean so much enlarged upon and preached about that when one of these much decried organisations or Individual shows a tendency to bt fair or even generous to I Ms employeee there II I usually a tendency to deprecl I ate what la done comparing It with a visionary standard of what ought to W I Instead of with what others are doing I at the earns lima and under the Name conditions Ioaslbly the most unfortunate unfortu-nate class of working women In the i rammer are those who toll In the large I department hops I on their feet tram I oclock In the morning I until C at night they hive at I most but ihreequaiurs of an hours vsplle far rest at noon All day they I are harassed by exploring hoppers and even when the ventilation i Is of the lies I they breathe vitiated air The hot sun heals down with double fierceness through the I great glass skylights MIn the M-In show windows These women have no time to sit down even K they were allowed la do Pat for any length of time The favor shops have seals provided for employeee who are not busy but as one seldom sen a I shopgirl occupying one it Is I more than probable that when nn employer Bulletin that a shopwoman li nol always 1 busy he soon replsns 1 her with some oie who I ran better keep up the pimrana of business being brisk When summer cornea the shnpwoman sees her more fortunate sisters prepar low for OUUII Ih camp country paw shore or mountains knit It makes her feel the unfurlunetrness at her lire or toll as women who 010 nol tom In can tact with the butterflies or fashion never nev-er do She seal other women who are like her oung and fond of gayely buyIng buy-Ing pretty gowns and talking color their plans for having a good 1 Urns as they look over the goods on her counter It she is nol an exceptional woman she I logins lo question why rate should 1 hive hiPoll 00 gvmflouf 10 Illegal wOIIIn who are apparently no more worthy or Its I good 1 SrNxtfthSn herself and with quoin tlonlngs ltln double and wllh doubts bItlievivroo I lly the time they are M man of thess women will lie I either dead or married = vww and a new lot of working women III be accumulating a stork of social psrsllels 1 to hsnd on to their children ami Ihelr childrens children thus sowing siHlat dissatisfaction from which may spring perhaps a new French revolution Who knoul but Hint some lletleei toiler now w curing rllilHua nndtrylng cash be din I a counter may be the mother or eundninlhernr a nture Plobeeplerre i mton or Jlarat or liertelf a ecood C hurl ilte CnfdayT A fw or the great merchant prince f the liri I 1 r illlee terognlltng that hlty I i nt1 rMre Is I the moet 11 fliahl hur InkrK a pirnonnl I In it rest In thi o ntioni of their emily em-ily d It i < an intiriet that net only elau well for their exudation of heart I but aim file their buellwei nctimen Nearly nil the groa1 ilff Similar stores In the Service clllea ortliftt emploee a weeki veiallon with PAYS mine do more than this but all potable nrm do this much ptolaed the young woman wo-man haG been In their aervlca far a year The ftmeUmere lague haG done a good deal In compel merchant who were thounhtltae In this matter to re ipecl the I right of those who work for them This orginlglllon I composed at f wealthy women in U arly all the great cities 10 pledged lo patronlu only thoae ihope which conform with He regulations one of which ll a week vacation with Pay It N rather odd to note thai the rich ami 1 faehlonabla hope are nol near 1110 o na1der te o 1 their women employ ai the great hope of its raklJle class or 1010or people peo-ple our employer 1 would not favor much I n arrangement OH the reply one great metropolitan ehopman made tot to-t question aa lo whether they tent their ihopwomen Away for a vacation at the Memo eipenee We pay gont t users and after long and faithful service we show our ippteclatlon by warding vacation A weilern firm not very long ago rum lo New York to open a branch I houee and with western enterprise I brought new Idem In regard to the Iro rnanaxormint of employed Thejr form 441 jin employed aaanrlatlon among their work people the niln having wOrkoid inreenfully In their worn olr f AieMmenti graded according too he ability to pay were made on each i member nf the anodallnn I to ae rut the original fund No one was required to join the rMaoolatlon unless he or She wished lo do go but coon the benefit were eo apparent that everyone every-one was maximum to belong Iar Instance In I citing of lllrvnM the member were entitled to a lick loans nt In I proportion to the assessment They were oleo entltle1 lo I the renteee of a physician without extra charge In caeea of death a benent of from 11II to IIW was paM Kntertalnmenti were given for the benent of the fund anti I now It ll I In eo prosperous a condition I that It has I70M conservatively Inveel oil In an Interest bearing fund It I hit I begin able to Provide it summer hours I for 112I ork n women to donate WJ I I 01 lo 11 mass deaenlng of assistance to pay lUll for lick benefit lo member mem-ber and lo economy death holle tire of about HM The Summer home le I at I ong Preach mil consists of Several cottage PuP MM with e ery luxury and con ventence that A Summer 0011111I could demaml Croquet and tennis grounde golf Sets blcyclaa hammocks eiery filing for outdoor amusement Drive irr frequently ghen for the benefit of the guests and the beach rr bathing Is I aiccielble tin 1 Watch being n Sort 1 ate t one with life guards In attend n nee In the homes there an plenty of gonl book Slight literature to lie I lure but wllh all graph caredilly encluded while the beat of perloillcale and the newepa torte are repreaenteil tests are char Semi for the use or guests 1 and are available for frequent excursions A trustworthy matron li I at the head of the summer colony and le I held reopen Ible rot the welfare of her charge They are brouuhl from the city and taken back mania under the rare of tome reeiionelble employf of the store sometimes one or the member or the firm The college wen open tail year front the IIlh or June until the 11h 01 HoIImr unit were n grest success The advantages 01 uh a system are apparent to thoee who know anything or the condition that Surround the llvei of the average working woman The money whlih ehe earn must generally gen-erally U > iimtrlbuud to the eupinrt of hr Parents Or hr brothers still alsters al hm COhuenlly Phe In I nt able to save nnrlhlnl for her vacation Twon the wages pold fix her watic or two weeks of Idleness are I is Ty to them dependent upon 14 l Th guru = = 111 lu she earns varlea from tt a week paid to cash girls to lit n wee1 < about the largest larg-est salary pstl to the sxptrietirtd saleswoman the average being n art H Tin dollars le I the atrerage coal of a vacation four dollars and W n week Word can IM I secured In some country places Itit It li I ginerally poor Added to Ihlk Is I the transportation lUat brings the cost per week up lo 17 or M The average New Yolk Saleswomen who lives In the tenements and cannot afford to leave thai city In the sumnitr goes lo the pirk to Conty Island nnl the nearby reports aa special treats fthe simply exchanges the monotony of selling In ins store far that of Axing up her wardrobe at Items or helping to mind the squalling Infants In the hot III smelling tenement rooms In I the evening she puts on her Saint and 1 ROSS out to promenKle up I 4i down lron1 street which Is the llrtadway of tilt lower east side Hhe motto gtntlnnn frlendi as she rails her beaux on the street corners for she Is I too often Saturated to lake them home even It there waa anywhere to entertain them CharllI nrhloollonl that Perdition tii help wnnuti of this class perhaps da the best they ran but Ihelr work Is I a mere drol In the bucket It Is en hinged about with red tape t that those who need Its I benefits meat seldom re celts them In the rasa of the great shops where them Is I a chance to dot it do-t and needed work along such lines as this with the aid of auxiliary societies and associations the hop of the walking women of the great oltlrs 1 lies provided employers can be brought lo see It In giving the empknaaa at least a taste of those summer pleasures I pleas-ures which the employer himself has always enoel imilU KNOX |