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locomotion, but my wheel chair. In
1884 —eighteen years ago, while a
very young man working in a coal
mine at Brookwood, Alabama. I hap
pened to a terrible accident and broke
my back. The result was total par
alysis of my lower limbs. It Seems a
strange providence. I was working
honestly to support myself and my old
parents, when suddenly I was depriv
ed of the capability to earn a living,
deprived of health —doomed to suffer
ing and privation.
We cannot understand the nature or
the plans of God. We can only trust
that “He doeth all things well.” After
long and rebellious struggling, this
faith has come to me and it has proven
a great help in making me feel re
signed to my fate. But I must acknowl
edge the truth. I am growing dis
couraged and unhappy. I want to be
doing something. Friends, what can
I do? I have made persistent at
tempts to earn my support, but owing
to lack of a little money to give me a
start, I have failed. But there must
be a change. My dear father died
eight years ago—my good and sweet
old mother has faithfully cared for
me, but she is seventy years old, and
in need herself of being helped. All
my relatives are like ourselves —very,
very poor. I see no way of making my
self self-supporting, but in asking
kind fellow beings to help me get a
start. I might start in some kind of
business that I could attend to with
my hands and my roller chair. I
might have a small shop and sell need
ful things, and at the same time at
tend to chickens —if I had them. I
feel I have wasted time and energy in
past years just because I did not know
how to set about earning money. If
I had work to do I would not be so
despondent. Naturally, I am cheerful
and hopeful. Do, dear friends, give
me a helping hand. Tell me how best
1 can make a living and give—or lend
me a small sum as a start. Heaven
will bless you for your kindness I feel
assured, and words cannot tell how
thankful 1 shall be.
Searles, Alabama.
The page containing the signature
to this touching letter was either omit
ted or has been lost. Will the writer
furnish his name at once. M. E. B.
4.
BUSINESS WOMEN.
Has Men’s Sense of Respect for Them
Been Dulled?
That is a severe arraignment of the
men —let me say of certain men —of
New York, by “A Working Girl,” but
I believe there is basis of truth in it
from my own observation of the
course of things since the advent of
the “business woman.”
For over thirty years I’ve been to
the Wall street neighborhood, and
during all that time it has been my
custom to take a stroll in the lunch
eon hour. Formerly the appearance
of a woman in that district caused
men to stand aside in respectful—
e-ven if admiring—silence. But now,
bless you, from 12 to 2 o’clock the
streets are filled with a jumble of
both sexes. The men(?) stand in knots
smoking cigarettes, and commenting
audibly on the points of the passing
stream of “goils” as if if were a cattle
stow. Small wonder it is, to my
mmd, if an occasional fellow, bolder
than the rest, is fired sufficiently to go
“smirking up beside” a promising look
ing lass. Mark me, I don’t say that
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the working girl has sought to look
“promising,” but I do say that woman’s
active competition has dulled man’s
sense of respect for her. She is a
commonplace, where formerly she was
a rarity. She is in the scramble with
him, when formerly she was an ideal.
We have all been taught that “famil
iarity breeds contempt.” What is
more natural as a consequence than
that which “A Working Girl” com
plains of —in certain men?
OLD FOGY.
New lork, December 1, 1909.
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