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met many young women agents, re
porters, clerks, etc., and am also fa
miliar with the society side of a busi
ness girl’s life. As the daughter of
a friend of my mother’s was left an
orphan and my mother gave her a
home with us, but, declining to be de
pendent on us, she qualified for busi
ness and has been a well-paid stenog
rapher, pays her board and all her
expenses, and goes into society with
my mother and sisters. She is a fl
young woman in business and in so
ciety, but says she would prefer the
business life unhampered by social du
ties —and that if she were to give up
one life or the other she would, un
hesitatingly give up the social life. Yet
she is very gentle, highly cultivated,
accomplished, very beautiful and ex
tremely popular.
If I were asked to say which I would
prefer for a wife, were I at liberty to
choose, I would say a girl who knows
nothing of any business except house
keeping and nursing, and I would
prefer, if financially able, to hire both
a housekeeper and a nurse. I would
want my wife not to come in contact
with one coarse or hard element —
and the business girl must come in
contact with many.
I meet the business girls in ears,
offices, elevators and restaurants —
they have a self-reliant independent
air and manner, they make no ap
peal to a man’s chivalry or knight
hood; I meet the society girls at home,
at dinners, balls, studios, teas, many
of them at slum work, in hospital
wards, in church and Sunday school, —
you musn’t think that the rich live
always between balls and theaters. !
:admit there is an element that runs
Ao the ball and theater extreme. But
fthere is a higher type who attend only
standard plays, if at all, that travel,
read, patronize art, literature and mu
sic, and is just as useful as the girl
who makes ten dollars a week for
her aged parents. This higher type
of girl with money at her command
keeps up many things. She, as I
said, helps and influences many ar
itists who, without her help, would
never climb to success. She buys
Ibooks, founds clubs and libraries,
maintains hospital wards, gives flow
ers and free trips to invalids, and
spends money in many ways for the
benefit of humanity. She dresses with
k taste and style, because she knows
no other way to dress. She lives up
to her best in society, the world and
the church. She is a product, of our
high civilization, and we could i! !
spare her. She makes every appeal to
a man’s chivalry and knighthood, calls
out the highest in him to meet the
highest in her; fosters every high
ideal and lives “the life classical.”
The business girls, I know, dress
as well or better than the society
girls; they wear expensive shoes and
gloves, wear jewelry, spend money for
gaudy ribbons, “merry widow” hats,
and catch up the latest fads in every
line. They will stand on their feet in
stores from seven to six, possibly
later, for five dollars a week, and
rspend nearly all of it for clothes to
■show off in at the park or on a Sunday
•excursion. Os course there is a higher
type of the business girl, but many
of them patronize cheap shows, cheap
music, wear gaudy clothes, eat ice
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cream at cheap restaurants with cheap
men. Thel toss their heads defiantly
at well dressed women and gentle
men, and make no appeal to anybody
in any way except to arouse pity for
their cheapness and ignorance.
However, there is a type of society
girl just as cheap and profitless as
the cheap type of business girl—and
there is a type of business girl just as
fine and classical as the fine type of
society girl. All honor to both!
SAUL W. GLENN.
Long Beach, Miss.
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AND THEN I WANT TO GO TO ALA
BAMA.
I want to see the lights of Coney
Island,
I want to soil along the Jersey
Shore,
I want to see the Fair at old New Or
leans,
I want to hear the great Niagara
roar,
I want to see the Great Lakes and
Chicago,
1 want to see the mountains of the
West,
I want to see the Blue Grass of Ken
tucky,
And then I want to go where “Here
we rest.”
“Here we rest” way down in Alabama,
Where the niggers work the cotton
and the corn,
O, then I want to go to Alabama,
Back to the dear old state where I
was born!
Some day I’m going up to Washington
City,
And hear our wise law-makers make
some speeches,
And then I want to go “way down in
Georgia”
And feast a while on good Elberta
peaches.
And then 1 mean to see the “Land
of Flowers,”
And take a yachting cruise among
the Keys,
And stop a bit at lovely, lovely Palm
Beach
And fight away the ’skeeters and
the fleas.
And then I want to rest in Alabama,
Where the niggers work the cotton
and the corn;
O, then I want to go to Alabama,
Back to the dear, loved state where
I was born!
TESSA WILLINGHAM RODDEY.
Long Beach, Miss.
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