New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-07
EMPLOYMENT POR WOMEN.
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10 khe Editors Of The N. y. Tribune:

4 ~ t7e Editofs % Inc " T. Irtture:
Among the recent suggestions of Tx
CouriT to occupation for the thousands of respecta
bic females in City who in need and sorrow with
wasting powers and unavaing talents for business
hear nothing of the obvious resource of C9erSship
opened to them with excellent result in Philade
phia and elsewhere. What rational objection does
Eew-York pre- sen, agains; so humane changer When
shall we be willing to do something IN the way OF pre-
vention instead OF mourning over evils which, after we
have let them grow to great aud uninanagea5le bulk,
we calmly ret down as hopeless
The enegy with which the a. Early Closing Move
ent is taken up and advocated by the parties inte-
rested seems to me to set good example to those
whose views of humane reform go little further than
is the aim of these gentlemen There those in this
City-a respectable number too, will, perhaps be
proved ere ong-who think the Early Closing Move.
nent should be final, far the able bodied young
men now employed in retail dry goods stores
cerne and that all stores irequented principally
by ladies should reopen with female clerks and others
whose nature or circumstances may have united them
for robust outdoor labor
Does this sound startling, Mr. Edtora Words Of
truth and sOberDess often seem like madness when
they contrayene established ideas In this case GER
tainy, more than habit is to be overcome There
who will honestly in the suggestion of this
new for feminine industry only another and
outrageous attempt at usurpa'ion the part of
the once submissive sex Not satisfied with holding
female Conventions and there giving forth such utter
make the OF honest hearers TO tnge and
their hearts burn within them at the presence of
truth long uDperceivtd, women going to push us
from stools, literally, and place themselves in posi-
tons Of responsibility, which will yield them mainte
nance and consideration Not content with tnatching
the pen, will they invade the pocket What is to be-
Of the thousands Of young wno get their living
by measuring silks and lacesi"
Mr. Editor, is not little strange that nobody ever
thinks Of asking what is become OF the thousands Of
young women who had the opportunity to get
their living by emp Dymen so obviously suited to their
pys9ue their habits to their abilities TO their natural
tastesi If young men would be loss without this
resource what must be the position of women, shut
by nature and custom from thousand others which are
open TO the male sex Is not time to remember that
women cannot live air, or even on compliments and
that both Justice and policy demand their admission into
walks of usefulness suited TO their powers and yielding
the means of decent live HOOD
The Almighty certainly never sent hall his rational
into the world with all the rational wants yet
aptitude for supplying the did he intend taat
having those ordinary human necessities they should be
debarred by custom cupdty from the means OF sat
isyiDg them honestly No sophstry can make it appear
have been the divine intention TO restrict the occupa
tons of Woman TO certain number prescribed by social
caprice. If it be doctrine that 1t Is lawful and
proper for Woman to do Whatever she Is MT Tor let us
give the Nineteenth Century the credit OF being wiser in
this than its predecessors. To teach anything
contrary to this ID to argue against the suns shining to
throw impednents in the way OF its practical recOg
milton is doing something toward hlng the avenues OF
misery and vice with everrenewed throngs OF victims
educated to tmidity which incapaciates them for re-
sistance.
That the post Of sorecerk or exhibitor of the class
of goods required by ladies is one which can more
properly be filed by women than by men, Is so obvious
n scarce to need word of argument Perhaps the
mere contemplation OF young man In that position Is
as likely anything that be said to prove that the
present state Of things sheuld be altered What figure
Is that contrssted with our ideal of manthc lord OF
creation-endowed with muscles for the forge and the
forest to battle with the elements, powers OF
reasoning which he proudly thinks distinguish him
irrevOcably from his feeble sister, See the air with
which he raises folds, flutes and flashes that silk to
dazzle the eyes Of his glib tongue all
the while pouring forth "weak, washy, everlasting
food of persuasion with many vow and ne'er
true one that those styles the only wear Is it
not evdenth nothing but the habit Of grasping aA
could blind men to the unsutableness of such occupa
tions to the owners of thews and sinews and supe
ror' brains Let hope the day has arrived for such
practical recognition of womans untness for certain
posts of dignity and responsibility as will leave open to
her those for which her peculiar powers lat least in the
opinion of her MASTERY are fitted Yours WOMAN.