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THE AMERICUb DAILY T1MES-REC0RDER: SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1891.
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TRDANTS FROM HOME
TRIAL8 AND TEMPTATIONS OF RUN
AWAY BOYS IN NEW YORK.
A Plain Matter of Fart Talk from New
1 Turk’s Chief Iimpcrtor—Hoy** <;«*t Their
Ideas of the City from Lurid Ilook»—A
Paw Examples from the Iteeords.
Having already referred in a general
way to the evil effects that usually fall
to the lot of a boy who is so foolish and
headstrong as to run away from home
and try his fortunes in the great city, I
will cite a few cases of the many with
which the records of our police depart
ment abound. All teach the same lesson.
In January, a year or two ago, a boy
eleven years old left his home in Albany
and came to this city, as he afterward
said, "to «ee the sights.” As <i»y after
day passed and ho did not return, bia
parents, greatly worried, made inquiries
for hint in many directions. The police
of this city Were asked to join in the
search.
The boy had been nlicent about three
weeks when one day an officer who was
patrolling a post in the neighlxirliood of
the docks came upon a boy who stag
gered as he walked. The officer’s first
impression was that the boy was intox
icated, bnt upon making a closer exam
ination and questioning him it turned
out that he was .not intoxicated, bat
weak from lack of food and front ex
posure in tlio wintry weather.
The policeman took him to headquar
ters and gave him a good meal. After
ward it was discovered that he was the
boy from Albany whose disappearance
had caused so much concern.
His parents were promptly communi
cate! I with, and he was very glad iDdeed
to go homo with his father, who came
after him without delay.
A tew months after this occurred onr
police were requested to look for two
boys—ono fifteen years old, the other
thirteen—who had run away from their
homes in a New England city. They
had good homes and kind parents, bnt
Ahoy bad tired of going to school.
The idea of wonderful adventures had
been pat into their beads by the books
they had been allowed to read, and they
determined to see life for themselres in
a larger city than the one where they
bad been brought up.
They wandered about New York for
fire days, bnt fonnd life here a sterner
reality than they had supposed. The
little money they had was soon spent,
and at the end of the fire days they were
glad to give themselves np to the police,
and tearfully asked to be sent back to
their homes.
One day u policeman attached to ono
of the down town precincts saw a boy,
evidently a stranger in the city, sitting
on the porch of a house, and soon fonnd
that he was exhausted from hanger and
partially overcome by the heat The
boy waa only eleven years of age.
He had-come here alone from a town
In Massachusetts, first because lie wished
to see whitt the great city waa like, and
also because he had an uncle here, and
expected to be hospitably received. He
had the addreea of his ancle, bnt as he
was totally unfamiliar with the city he
oonld not easily find the boose.
When at hut, after mneb wandering,
he did succeed in getting to the street
and number, to which be bad been so
often directed, he was worse off than if
he had not fonnd them. The hope of
finding his uncle had been the one thing
that cheered him daring bia journeyings
through the labyrinth of streets.
a society woman does when she wears a
ball gown. Well, the 'longshoreman got
well,- and since then UtSVe been con.
vineqd that the coarsest men are not
without instincts of- gentility.”—New
York Tribune.
harbor him. Giving him a little bread
and batter wrapped ia a paper, he tnrned
the boy adrift upon the cheerless streets.
Under oar law the ancle was arrested
for hit inhuman conduct, bnt he was
discharged in court on his promise to
see that the boy waa taken bad: to his
parents. >.« 9L
After the ambition to go west 1 and
figbt Indiana perhaps the dWire to' go
a pan the stage ia the strongest motive
animating boys who take a plunge into
the wide world for themselvea. More
girls than boys are “stage struck,” bnt
the girls do not ran away as the boys
do—at least not when they are eo young
as most of the runaways of the other
sex.
No donbt the experience gained in
running away from home is often salu
tary. The glamour and glitter that are
imagined to surround life in s big city
are speedily seen to have no existence
save in the fancy, and the difficulties in
the way of a strange tad in a strange
place who it seeking a situation, even of
the humblest kind—difficulties which
amount practically to an insurmount
able obstacle—are soon deeply impressed
upon the mind. Fortunately, before the
matter has gone much further, in moat
cases a successful search is made for the
«ni«tag one and he eagerly seeks his
father’s door again..
Bnt this experience it not one that
rational parents would choose for their
growing boys. The stem realities of
life will come all soon enongh in the
natural coarse of things.
A»lh ave already more than intimated,
, many years of experience in police work
convince me that scarcely anything worse
could happen to a boy reared in the
country or in a small town than to be
thrown npon his own resources iu a busy
and bustling city like New York. The
chances are all against his earning a
livelihood, even in an humble way, and
all in favor of falling into bad company
and loading a worthless, if not a posi
tively wicked, life.
The alluring pictures of city life
which are drawn in certain books and
pars that are widely circulated have
corresponding reality, and once
s l would caution parents to use the
care in tbo selection of their I
u's reading matter. Here is one f
f sliacputent that -can easily be j
Vof, -rather, Hirer opened.
I A 'Longillijrfiinan'i. Sfil*,fi i,t Slorf
1 "You would hardly believe what silly
i . as some rough, uneducated men have
about propriety." said the nurse, *-> she
smoothed out tlio pillow and rearranged
the bed covers with a gentleness ami a
i dexterity tlmt recalled to the patient the
| ministering hand of a mother to her sick
boy. "1 recollect nursing a big long-
i shoreman when I was in the hospital,
t who had an idea of chivalry which, mis-
| taken and nonsensical though it was.
yet was refreshing in one of his class.
I Ho had been in some fight in a shop near
! the river, and had received a number of
bad wounds. His antagonist had
right for his heart, and ltad made three
or four gaping slashes*in his chest.
"The injured tnun was ono of the nest
built men I ever saw, and if his chest
had not been padded with thick mus
cles, he would have been murdered out
right. As it was, ho was in u critical
condition, and only tlio best care and
treatment could save his life. The sur
geons dressed his wounds the first few
days, and then tnrned the task over to
me. I went np to the patient, whose
name was Jackson, the next day, and
began to lav back the covers of the bed.
“ ‘What are you doing?" be asked.
“ ‘I am going to dress your wounds,'
I answered.
“'You. a lady!’ ho said in astonish
ment.
“ ‘Of course; come, no nonsense,' 1
went on, for he had grasped the cover in
bis weak hands and was trying to pre
vent my laying it back. I tried to argue
witli him, but lie blushed and said dog
gedly that he wouldn’t let a lady dress
iiis wounds. 1 told him he would die if
lie didn't let me take care of him, bnt he
said he didn't care if he did, so I had to
send for the surgeon. After Several days
the patient was persuaded toilet me
dress the wounds, but he turned crimson
when he bared his chest for me, ale
A TELLING CONTRAST.
THEIR OLD LIMITED SPHERE
WOMEN ARE WELL PAID.
Uon Ht*t weeu I
Who Ilo IVImt t*
■» Work Hn<l Thm
ic Condition of
fd to lie Called
b Who Do Wliat
vTUCU Hv uacvu Ilia V fix o If lUl lilt. iU* A aAa * , M nlniraf n;1 f Bn t n
though he had to expose little more that* .?* ; -
Had Tempers.
There are some vices which possess
what may be called a respectable ex
terior; they succeed occasionally in bor
rowing the garments of sotne neighbor
ing virtue and passing themselves off M
relations of his. Even when their char
acter as faults cannot be denied, people
are fWmd to palliate them aftd minimize
their evil tendency. Among such sine .
are envy, jealousy, pride and bad tem
per. To say that snch a one has rather
a hasty temper, or that he is difficult to
get on with, or that he iv too fond of
having his oyth way, is hardly, in the
opinion of many people, to aay anything
really to his discredit; yet, when we
analyze that disposition of mind which
is commonly called "bad temper" wo
•hall find that it ta neither more nor lesi
than the malignant desire of making
other people suffer pain. Even in the
case of a “hot” or hasty temper, this is
true. No one would use angry words to
another if he did not mean tbatXhey
should wound, and intend! to relieve his
angry feelings by thekuffering they may.
cause.—Chambers’ Journal.
The First Idas of Perpetual Motion*
Honecourt, a Flemish architect of the
thirteenth century, left a drawing of a
wheel that was to solve the problem of
perpetual motion with this memoran
dum; “Many a time have skillful work
men tried to contrive a wheel that shall
# tarn of itself, "Here is a way to make
Hat now his nncle refused to aid or A one,' by an uneven number of
mallets or by quicksilver.” But unfort
unately he did not leave the wheel.
From hia time on seekers after perpet
ual motion have been. numerous, many
of them supposed to be very respectable
and intelligent men. Among the receiv
ers of elgbty-six English uud twenty-
three Fr.-udi. patents taken out for per-
stuul motions between 1SU0 and 1860
ero n colonial btahop, a professor of
philosophy, ono of languages, two bar
ons, a Knight Templar, a doctor of med
icine, two civil engineers, several me
chanical engineers, etc.--Chicago Her
ald.
It Was the Moon.
Of Carlyle Mr. Gold win Smith tells
one excellent story: One evening the
party were seated ou the terrace at Lady
Ashburton's, in contemplation of the
gloilons moon that shone overhead.
Poor old woman!" broke ont Carlyle,
suddenly. The company looked astound
ed, but it soon transpired that the refer
ence was not strictly personal. The
sage was merely apostrophising the
moon, and condoling with her upon the
scene of folly she was doomed to look
down npon on eYery hand—except, per
haps, at Chelsea.—Pall Mall Gazette.
r
Twu a Good Dost Nearer to Keep On.
The funniest Incident in my experi
ence?" queried the bridge policeman.
“That was the conple from the country
just married. They had reached the
exact center of tlio bridge. 'Ob, my
darling, I can't go a step farther,’ ex
claimed the bride; 'whut shall wo do?*
‘Do, my precious? Why, we’ll go back
to the New York end and take a train
across.' And they did." —New York
Times.
Baboo Engllih.
One man during an examination was
told to write an essay npon the horse,
which he did in the following brief terms:
‘The horse is a very noble animal, bnt
when irritated he ceases to do so." An
other had to writo Upon the difference
between riches and poverty, and he ended
by saying: “In short, the rich man wel
ters iu crimson velvet, while the poor
I ma: * snorts oil fliDt.”—Lady Dafferin's
Viceregal Lite in India.
I ,,,] t„ n„ Called Skn'i Work,
The working woman’s sphere used to
lie confined chiefly to household work.
And it is a notable fact that in those
days the newspapers contained no stories
about women dying of starvation and
overwork in tenement houses. If any
body died from these causes it was a
man
Descriptions of the agonies of starving
workingwomen and their families are
now a feature of the penny papers. Only
a few days ago a woman iu Jersey City
who had worked in a big tobacco fac
tory and was thrown out of employment
by her advanced years and inability to
handle the tobacco leaf aa deftly as the
younger generation locked herself np in
her room to wait till the pangs of Imnger
snapped the life cord. She almost suc
ceeded.
Such on occurrence twenty years ago
would have been commented upon by
the newspapers and statesmen all over
the country, and the philosophers would
have philosophized to the extent of a
book on the subject: but so common
have such events become in these days
since "the extension of women's sphere"
that they attract little or no attention.
Perhaps some newspaper may, for the
purpose of advertising itself, get up a
subscription fund to bay a few neceeu-
ries for,the support, bat the averagaT$*
izen reads the little story,without emo
tion. It disturbs, him not more that!' a'
view of the dirty itreets or a straggle to ,
RES SVFIIUS
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JUSfoiStlur Sw,m,c*. kLomtuinv! tbluH «1J
cgje in*. Ite toTSe* «n jgjgjjj. owl.
Gluut. Nearly Twenty I'eet Tali.
| The giant Ferragus, who was tlaiii by
...Jbardand bitter ezperi- i Orlando, the nephew of Charlemagne,
a who have attempted to ! was eighteen feet high. He always ac-
in the great city, and 1 companied the nrmy on foot, there being
which they .welcome [ n o horse tall and strong enough to carry
Within the j bj m . pjaterua in hie published writings
1 U 1 tells of a giant whom he examined at
- - j Lucerne whose body measured 10 feet 4
inches and 8 lines.—St. Louis Bepnblic.
1
WHERE WOMAN NEVER STARVES.
And right here it may be asked, ip
view of the present! ftmifition of work-V
ingmen, “Has any one ever heard of
woman, sticking to the old Hi
sphere of working women—doi
servii
sarles
inch
novelty that the ambition of the mnsenm
men to secure unheard of cariosities
would be aroused.
The fact ia that the only women de
pendent on their daily work for aabetat-
enco who are comfortably situated, wHb
a fete exceptions, are the domestio serv
ants. All the th rifty ones have their
bank accounts,* 1 and they don't know
wbat it ia to want for food or clothes.
Moreover, their labor is comparatively
light, and they have real homes.
Bojthoroughly is this/act recognized
that tiie societies devoted to improving
the conditions of working women and
helping them in their difficulties with
employers exclude servants from their
range" of work.
Mrs M. J. Creagh, superintendent of
the Working Women’s Protective union,
gives the reason, as fallow*
k ‘The working woman in ‘stores, fac-
tories and offices need all the assistance
the anion can give, for the/ are the suffer
ers Women who work as domestics
nfiiy sometimes have reasonable grounds
for complaint, but their condition is so
far above tliat of the other working
women that they can always get along
comfortably.' They can get places when
ever they (wan t them, receive good wages,
dotPfc know what banger is, und are wall
acqsiilifeu ' with the looks of a book
book. They don't need help.
"It is thiAppor saleswoman, the over
worked factory girl and the sewing wom
an that bos to be helped to iivs
MRS CREAGH'S OPINION.
'Considering the board matter, they
do not get one-half or one-third as much
as the servauta and have to work longer.
Besides they are often cheated out of
their scant earnings if they are sick
for a time they lose their little pay, and
perhaps their places are filled before they
recover. The servant girl, on the other
hand, gets her wnges right along, and
if she is in a good family she receives
such medical and other attention aa the
store girl cannot receive. She is, in fact,
settled, while her sisters in the world of
business depend on their week's salary
for food and lodging the following week,
and a few days' sickness means to thorn
starvation and inadequate attendance or
a journey to a charity hospital.
“Therefore this society gives ail its at
tention to women outside of domestio
service. As women go farther and far
ther into the business world we have
more to do than ever. Every day we
have brought ta onr notice cases where
rich employers try to heat women ont of
•tuns varying from twenty-five cents to
fOO.
"The records here show, better than
anything 1 know of, the slavery into
which women have been brongbt of late
yean. Employers know that women
have not the money to pay lawyers to
•no for them, so they take advantage of
their helplessness whenever they can. It
ta remarkable, however, that they settle
np with great rapidity when the women
come here to complain. Our counsel
conducts worthy cases free of charge
and has got verdicts in tho civil courts
for more than 150,000 since the union be
gan its work.”
When Mrs. Creagh was asked why the
wages of girls in factories, stores and of
fices were so small, she answered in al
most the same way as Miss Van Etten
did.
Womeu, she said, took tho places of
men in many occupations without or
ganizing themselves to obtain fair com
pensation. They took anything they
could get. They expected to get married
some time, and their work was a tempo
rary expedient, at first, to obtain pin
money. Now many of them find that
they have really to support themselves,
and their meager wages wou’t do it.
Ltill they bear their hardships, waiting
ever for the gay cavalier who ta to come
along mid relievo them. With some
work is a necessity, with others it is not
But few of them seem to consider that
men have suffered in consequence of the
lower standard ot wsgga New York
Commercial Advertiser.
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