Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-15

| ltelIiRenee he m0y attain. His business
l is q separate department, and dIspeAsesItI q
separate reward. The .Rfst 6fthese Is en-
tifsly, and the second partially, wanting
to women. A female assistant In high
school, a woman of educstion, refinement,
Iaceomplishments, tact and sense, receives
ak hundred dollars, and if she stays cir
hundred years she will receive no more.
A male assistant, fresh from college OF
normal school, thoroughly unseasoned,
| without elegance OF manners, or dignity
Of presence, or experieuces teaching on "
temporarily, with view 70 the pulpit, or
the bar, or sprofessorshlp, receives q thou
sand dollars. His theqsapd i 6ecapse
no isa man. Her stx hundred Is because
she is womRns Her little if9geF may be
worth more 70 the school than his whole
body, but that goes fornothing. In cet-
tain icollege" wot OF, the dprofessorsS
have larger salaE han the aprecen,
tresses," who perform aolble the amount
6f1a6or, andwtthout Say hope Of promo
ti0ntj FeMEIa sasaiglant9 La gFamuiAF
school receive three OF fouF hulf+
dred dollars where the male priupi-
pal has ten or twelve hundred, and where
the difference Of salary bears no
proportion to the difference Of care and Ia
Dor, No matter how Rssidi0nsly they nay
devote themselves 70 their duties, nor low
successful they may be in results hey
have attained the maximum. Worse hRu
this; since the increase of prices ccnse-
uuent upon the war, teachers sahries
have been Increased; but where two hun~
dred dollars have been added 20 the Ialary
of the male teachers, only twenty fiVs have
been added 70 those Of the female assls'
tants; SO that the mans salary Is sixteen
per cent. higher, while the wonsn's is
only six per cent higher. This ts done IN
Massachusetts. One excuse is, that It does
not cost woman SO much to live as 1t does
q man. If men would be willing 60 pfse-
toe the small economies that women prac-
tfoe. they could live at no greater expense.
There are some tniugs In which women
have the advantages; there are others in
Which.it lies with the man. A wcman's cal-
loo gown does not cost assmuch.as as a mans
,broadoloth coat, but her dress the ward
robe through, costs just as much as hts-
He can be decent on Just 90 small sum as
she. Another excuse is that men have a
family to support. suppose, :hen, that
women never have families to support. No
female teacher ever has widowed. mother
or an invalid father to assist, or brothers
and sisters to educate. No widow ever
had recourse to the school room 70 provide
for her fatherless children. Or Il such
things ever happen, 1.-THE authorities make
adequate provision 6oFit.
A WoMAN's CHOICE.
There is not one woman in million who
would not be married, i'll borrow q
phrase from the popular, pestilent patoia,
but transfgure it with its highest mean
ing-if she could get chance. How do l
knoW2 Just as know that the ltArs are
now shining in the sky, theugh itls high
noon. I never saw q star at midi sdayi bat
I know i Is the nature ot stars g hlpe IN
the sEy,. and OF "a SKY 70 hoid IL etaEes--
9eninF 0f fool rich or poor, h9aqt er the
beast, ii, marriage were what It shoald oei
what God meant it % b85s what even with
the worlds present possibilities 1t might
be, it would be the Elysium, the sole com
plete Elysium, of woman, yes, and of man.
Greatness, glory, u5efulness, bBppiness,
await her otherWhere; but here alone all
her powers, all her being, can find full
play No condition, no character even, can
quite hide the CLEAN of the sacred IRE; but
on the household hearth Il joins the warmth
of earth to the hues Of heaven. Brilliant
dazzling, vivid, beacon and a blessing,
her light may be, but only happy home
blends the pTismstic rays into soft serene
;Whitehess, that floods the world with d.
vine y illumination. Without witely and
motherly love, . part of her nature must
remain unclosed,-a spring shut up,
fountain sealed; but thousand times bet
ter that it should remain unelosed than
that il should be rudely rent openI or
opened only to be defled. A thousand
times better that the vestal fire should
burn forever on the inner shrine than that
il should be brought out to boil the pot.
But the pot must boil, you say, and
so IL must; but with oak'wood and
sbaviugs, not with beaten olive oil.
WINS AID COOKS.
Cooking is tha cooks profession; she
ought TO stain skill, and her employer has
the right to require it, and as great q Vari-
ETY. and profusion of dishes % he can fur.
nish material for. But If he is not able 70
hire q cook, and must depend entirely up
on his wife, the case is different, Cooking
is not her profession. II is oHly one OF the
duties incident TO her station, II 10 incum.
bent upon her to spread a pleuttul and
wholesome table. 1t is culpable inethoten-
cy to do less than this 1t Is palpable i'm :
morality to do more. No matter how fond
of cooking, or how skillfnl or alert Wo-
man may be, she has only tRenty'tour
hours in her day, and two hands for ker
work; and one woman who has the sole
care Of q family cannot, If she has any ra'
tIonal aud Christian ideGof life, 0fperson-
al, household. and social duties, have any
more time aud strength than Is suffcienI
for. their simple discharge, OVERRIDING in
one direction must be compensated by un'
derdoing in another. She cannot pamPeE
Peter without piaching Paul. Much that
you Iaud as 9 virtue, Illament as a vice
You reVel in the cakes aud the pastries
snd the dainties, and boast the skill Of the
b ouseWife; aud indeed her marVels are
featly wrought, sweet 70 the taste, and e
be desired it honestly come by; but Y
there has been plunder and extortion, u Il
is soul that fakes in the pastry, Il iS 6
II leisure and freshness aud breadthl o
sympathy aud keen enjoyment have 6s-7
ffitteEed away On the fritters. and slmnss