The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-04-21

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Scarcely day Of oar liz passse thss
No are MOI obliged 70 confront the qnsS.
ton. How shall women, dspsudsRt mi
their own exertions for = livelihood. ind
. remunsrative emple5qantlr Il i dat
~ urged upon N y tdldisfs' wives,
widows, and childfea, Who te4k ~ OFT
ii the Sanitary Conmissios, and the He.f
lief Association for Soldiers Familiss--I
and NJ nsvsr enter the Home of the |
Ffieudlsuu with which We rgus0SixtSd,
that dozen woaaa pllcsd Aors d. COM
BOT in their struggle with the veflds and
who have bean received 10 the protecting |
sanctuary Of the Home, till thsy can re-
tain their footing, do not thrust upon rs
the uoanswerable question, "What shaH
zoe dos" 49, 488 ~
A very large number of women are
compelled 70 self-support andfqD various
reasons the number is on the ipersaseTi
bat Whit II there for them to dof For
men HE world offers work vaough-they
can &c 1hers they iiks, and do whatsyAF
they are best fitted for. The smployments
open to women as sxessdingly fswy As- |
remunerative, and crowded to excess
Whereswgmsa sesa eegRtsde they gan
teach, II . situation % can Sc found; but the
Superintendent Of Schools il fhis city iu-
forms MS that for every vacancy he has
twe.ty " mora. ppplitsptkys felJSG s(t3
qualified for the coveled position. and Of
couree ninsteen or more Of them mast b.
disappointed and unemployed. Where
they obaain situations. their pay il often
so meagre. a. in this city, that il hardly
sufiices for food and clothing. We have
known women who have qualified them
selves to serve a. book-keepers, and who
have grsdaatsd from Cemmeeciai Colle--
ges with the first hopoEs, and keen recon-
mended by their Professors - the equal
Of any young gentleman whom they have
graduated .hpt they do not Obtain ems
ployment. eBook- keeping is regarded a.
exclusively the business of men,, and no,
men ars not to Be folefs,ed II compsti
ton withshcm. We'say nqfhihg OF IT.
erary employnents, for Il is we'll known
that literature rarely offers 10 the gifted
and highly cultivated but X precsriutfs
livelihood. sss, ~. sts1 Z 4 kss.S - IS
What then shall the uneducatsd, the
laboring class of women, do for self sup
portl If any one spposss II is1sasy kr
this class to support themselves, We would.
like to turn over to him the continual fe-
male applications for employment, that
come before us in come way or other, ;
There is sewing, which is another name
for eaicide OF starvation, where it IL done
by hand-domestic service. xAehine,
scrubbing, taking boarders, working shops,
taking care Of Offices, nursing, etc.. eta
Where woman has only herself to pro-
vide for, she can in some Of these en-
ploy ments obtain a iivelihood-but how
about the large class who have families of
children to provide for 7 They cannon
leave their little ones to 20 away from
home to work BY the day, or the week
and it is next to impossible to find them
supporting employment in their own
hou'ss. Many poor mother is forced BY
the extremity OF her poverty to give her
children away, rather than see them suffer
from hunger and cold. Among the most
painful scenes which We have witnessed,
has been the agony Of spirit of poor wo-
men, compelled by their wretched cir.
cumstances to give away their Children.
A poor woman sent for US not long
ago, to ask rs to End home FOR her
babe, two days old. Her husband, a
KIND hearted, but feeble, sAiftlees fellow.
mad died some weeks before, leaving her
with four little children on her hands.
besides this little newcomer. "Nobody
would take the baby EXCEPT for love Of
1t, the poor mother iuetly argued. "and
whoever takes il will grow ID love Il more
and more. If keep the baby it cannot
be veil cared for, g must earn living
for the other CHILDBIRTH give it away
my hands will be free, and ] can take
care'of the rest" So We found mothef
and home for the little .innocsas j, =
wealthy hUilE Ehersa sasst (seas c6asin
made BY the recent death Of dearly loved
babe. We went M ~ ~ mothers
SICK room, to tste The sAty down to the
carriage, where its future mother awaited
It's sbs bad sipuisted thatsah aattrsi
mother Should never know who she Wa
or where she resided. "Goodbye, little
baby, said The psor vienna ., xai6ef tSsrs
ana kisses On its unconscious face II
give you away, not because / don't love
you, but because ! love you 90 much TIA
l caunet have you suffer Is We do.n-
And sns pac'6ed the o,hsr weeping chill.
drsn by assuring them that the babv
would now have clothes, and warn 80.
die, aud be taken good care of.
We sometimes advertise for homes for
ehiidren--but much more ffeouentlv
homes are found for them without adver.
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