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Beloved, far from me today,
To evermore remain away,
Though I may lean not on your breast,
Nor feel on mine your dear lips
pressed,
None ever loved as I love you.
Sometimes I welcome grief and pain
Born of my love, nor would restrain
The tears that flow, for your sake
They come my lonely heart to break:
None ever loved as I love you.
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“THE GIRL ON THE INDUSTRIAL
FIRING LINE.”
This is a matter engaging the atten
tion of philanthropists.
On West Tenth street, in New York,
is situated Waverly Hall —a home for
girls who have been morally wounded
in the battle of life —working girls on
the firing line. The firing line being
the vast industrial army, who earn but
five and six dollars a week. These
girls, as Arthur Newcomb tells us in
“Human Life,” are the true heroines.
It calls for heroism to face fate on a
pittance. Only heroes in a great city
dare fight with feminine claws for
five dollars a week.
Six millions of working women
make up the feminine industrial army
in the United States. They come from
everywhere—from North, West, East
and South—from the country, the vil
lages, the small towns, the city tene
ments and suburbs. They come filled
with faith and hope, often with pure
hearts and rosy cheeks—and bodies
radiating health.
Then comes the fight.
They face two enemies. The first is
fear of starvation. One offers squalor,
poverty, loneliness, rags, tears. The
other lures them onward with color,
light, laughter, clothes, drinks, joy.
And both at the end offer —death.
Mr. Newcomb paid a visit to Wav
erly House —the Home on Tenth St.,
which in the year just past has shel
tered more than three hundred girls
of whom a hundred and nineteen have
been rescued permanently from lives
of immorality and restored to social
usefulness. At the head of this noble
institution is a young woman, who has
herself been a working girl and un
derstands the conditions and the
temptations of the working girl’s life.
It is she who says the girls on the
industrial firing line, earning but five
or six dollars a week, deserve to be
called the world’s heroines, when they
do not succumb to the circumstances
and influences brought against them.
Maude Miner, declares, that five dol
lars a week is not enough for a girl
to live on in New York, unless she re
sides with her parents.
She says to the parents and friends
of girls who are yearning to come to
New York and other big cities to earn
their living: “Girls, who come to the
city in this way, are obliged to face
two Twin Demons, starvation and
Vice. Here commerce is the only god.
Men play with the souls of girls with
the calmness of checker players in a
country grocery. They ate after get
ting the most of the worker’s blood
and brains for the least flay. Profit
Is their fetish. Most of them give no
consideration to the three primary re-
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A VALENTINE
9y Margaret 'Richard.
Again, with shrinking soul I pray
For strength to thrust this love away;
But it were easier far to die
Than conquer that more strong than I:
None ever loved as I love you.
But, oh, I count it worth the cost
Os all that I have missed or lost,
To feel sometimes our spirits meet;
To hear your tender voice repeat:
“None ever loved as I love you!”
quisites—food, clothes and shelter.
When you consider the cost of living
and the small wages paid, the wonder
is that so few succumb to conditions
and adopt the so-called easiest way.”
What Produces the Prodigal Daughter.
But bad working conditions, Maude
Miner thinks, are not the only causes
of the prodigal daughter. The initial
factor is the bad home. The brutal
father who sets no value on the girl’s
work in the home and throws up her
dependance to her, and the father who
locks a girl outside if she comes home
a little later than she should. The
mother, who is nagging and unsym
pathetic, or the step-mother to whom
a girl is afraid to return when she has
lost her job. These have sent many
a girl to an evil life.
“The parent,’.’ says Miss Miner,
“who takes all a girl’s wages from
her, giving her only car-fare and lunch
money, and leaving her nothing for
the little fruits, the little amuse
ments —has a great deal to answer for.
“Generally speaking, tne causes
which send girls astray are these: Bad
homes, bad working conditions, in
cluding inadequate wages, and the
natural human craving for amusement,
the young instinct for play.
“Have you ever figured upon the
difficulty of living on $5 or $6 a week.”
Miss Miner inquires. “A girl pays
$2.50 weekly for room rent, ten cents
for breakfast and does without it on
Sunday morning to bring the weekly
total down to sixty cents. She pays
fifteen cents for lunch —a sandwich, a
glass of milk and a piece of pie, per
haps. That comes, for the week, to
$1.05. She pays twenty cents for
dinner, or $1.40 weekly, and say forty
cents for laundry—adding that up
we have $5.95, and we have allowed
nothing for carfare, nothing for amuse
ments, nothing for clothes.
“Yet some girls live on $5 a week,
others on less, even $3 and $4, and at
seasonal work, which throws them out
of employment during the summer.
“If they turn, in their ignorance and
desperation, to the street, it is not
because they are naturally vicious, but
because conditions have been too
strong for them. Only a negligible
per cent, of girls are naturally vicious.
“A girl arraigned in Jefferson Mar
ket the other day exclaimed to me,
‘just think of it! There isn't one of
us that wasn’t once an honest work
ing girl.’
“Now the thing to do with a girl of
that sort is to convince her that the
world will give her another chance,
that she can be an honest working girl
again.
*‘lt isn’t always easy to paint a rosy
The Golden Age for February 9, 1911.
picture of life on $6 a weex after a
girl has been used to spending $25 or
S3O. But just as a moment of depres
sion is often responsible for her fall,
it may assist in her reclamation. Sue
suddenly realizes that she has nothing
—no more advantages, no more money
put away than when she earned a
decent livelihood. And then, too, no
girl is ever wholly depraved.
“You can’t lay down any rules for
rescue work, but, of course, I never
preach. Each girl requires different
treatment. I find out what she is most
interested in doing or has a talent for,
and I try to find that sort of work for
her to do.
“I would not say that any woman is
irreclaimable, and when you consider
the conditions under which girls live,
the sweatshop homes where they
work as children before they go to
school in the morning and after they
return in the afternoon, and the in
sufficient wages that are paid to them,
you wonder that so few go under.
“ ‘Why, I was tired of working long
before I began to work’’ said one girl
to me. She had helped support a
family of five children by making
artificial flowers at home ever since
she was a tiny child.
“The $5 a week girl, the girl on the
firing line,” Miss Miner concluded, “is
a moral heroine if she doesn’t sur
render. If she does she is entitled to
another chance and Waverly House is
here to get it for her.”
Wtb Our Corresponbents
THE SPIRIT OF SUNSHINE.
It was only a look but it cheered the
heart,
Like summer sunshine after rain.
It was only a “word” but it healed the
pain,
And the face was in smiles again.”
“The spirit of sunshine” shall be
my text for a short talk to my sun
shine friends and in it I shall endeavor
to show the beauty of living up to our
“Creed,” for we have a Creed, you
know, just as the churches have, and
here it is:
“Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on. Pass it on
’Twas not given to you alone,
Pass it on. Pass it on.
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another’s tears
Till in Heaven the deed appears.”
In order to develop any truth of
character, one must practice it, study
about it and build a little day by day.
And in this way we form habits which
mould and develop our characters. I
have read somewhere that “thoughts
are things” and again, “as a man
thinketh so is he.” And so it is, if we
cultivate the spirit of sunshine live
it in our daily lives, infuse it in all
of our dealings with our brother man,
we soon become a veritable beam of
sunshine, radiating the beautiful re
flection of our inner and sunny na
tures upon every one with whom we
come in contact. Let us be oh! so
careful of our words, for they are pow
erful weapons of good and evil. Let
us cultivate the art of gentle speech.
Let us always be ready with a word
of love and appreciation for our
friends and loved ones for verily the
lips must give expression for the
heart. We all know how often a
cherry greeting, or a pleasant smile
has changed the whole current of our
thoughts, has dispelled the gloom and
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in its place left sunshine.
“Oh words, sweet words,
A blessing comes
Softly with kindly words.”
W ith the advent of the new year,
many of us make good resolutions,
many of which we keep, and some
alas, we do not. If our list is not too
full let us add one more to it, and
see that we live up to it, so here it is:
“I solemnly promise to cultivate cheer
fulness, for cheerfulness is the
best promoter to health, and, like
personal beauty, wins almost with
out any other good trait.” Let
us also endeavor to do just one deed
of kindness each day. It may be only
a smile that constitutes that deed of
kindness, but let us watch for the op
portunity to lighten some one’s bur
den, and to do the right thing when
it is needed, whether the thing be
great or small.
How many of us in our hurried lives
ever stop to consider how great is the
influence and stimulus derived from
sympathy another word for sunshine?
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had almost reached the end of his race
ahead of all other contestants, but
the race had been long, and he was
well-nigh exhausted when suddenly a
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