Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-09-12

wages offered men by the various trades, I
were very low. o., nv NV "a. ,fI,l.1
The market ts already overcrowded,"1
several stout red-faced viragoes had told I
him snappishly, owe perfer female op.
peratives as rule, and there are hun.
dreds Of men eager to work for US at half
the price, or at any price at all" aobia5]
There fwas a moderate demand for
coachmen and masons, but Mr. ,uKrauft
knew nothing of either craft. Women
monopolized the trades and professions.
1t was found that they were more apt to
learn, and more supple and dextrous
and where strength was wanting machine
ry did the work Worse than that, the
very fact that he was aman. and obliged
to shift for himself, insured MIR. Krauft
suspicion and coldncss on all sides 1t
was expected that men would be comfort-
ably maintained and provided forby their
wives and there was general feeling
abroad in society that it was not exactly
becoming in man to possess or use the
qualities by which woman. made her
way in the world even when he was
obliged to support himselflike Mr.. Krauft,
} and whenever any body pointed out the
fact that a large number of women were
I unreasonable enough to die and leave
:, their husbands without income or re-
) sources, and a large number of men were
Q unreasonable enough to be born so poor
\ that they must work or starve, there arose
a general clamor, and it turned out that
the roots of society we're in as much dan
: ger as ever they had been under the old
Z regime. 1t was plain enough to Mr..
: krauft that there was work enough for
s men and women both, that woman mon
8, opolized many pursuits for which they
$ were actually not as we'll adapted as men
!, Neither could Mr.. Krauft see why it 'wp'
not just as respectable for u man to labor
I, as woman ;1eneither coald Mr., Krauf
:, understand why his two little sons. VIII
IS Ewhould be forced to earn their own livinj
l. should be shut out from almost all tn,
= roads to competence, and restricted almos
entirely to those 10 which they must dely
p all their days, with 2no hope of advahc
r or Improvement; neither could Mr. Krauf
l. comprehend why his brother Tom receives
At a salary of four hundred dollars in his ca
r pacity;of book keeper, while Miss Ellie,
at Tree, in similar capacity in the sam
+, establishment. received eight hundred dol
as lara for precisely the same work and h
q ploddeA up Broadway, looking with timi'
'h8envy at2tbe comfortable, assured well.tO
az do woman forms that continually met an
atii 4aua PASSED him, Gl s'sqm " . o..5art3
ntE Kraufts Was rcall y very near despair
sci l-He had walked all the morning
hc1 and was hungry and weak. That di
I'D not matter, but his children were huugr
p ialso, and7that isivery disagreeabled / 70
he multiply the trouble in their poor, litt
'nI istomachs by your philosophy.o1l ha
d. rather be hungry any tiIne1 myself ods
IT, had MrhKrauft, andIhow, he asked hir
ed self, could lie 60 homo and the two olitt
lis things tucked up in the bed to keep the
as warm, with not even loaf Of bread d j
~ fact he couldn't, and wouldn't go: audoa
Ie- irving at desperate resolution and1apa
X Of fine q steps togrther marched up al
he rang the bell The mistress of Il
n fine steps was an old gacquaintan
'ut Of Mr.! Krauft's--a sharp little woma
ed who kept a barding-house in those day
no oPand was always trying and barely succ
nd eding in making both ends meet; nc
W a woman OF crate wealth and high stan
nd In business circles 10 gdi aeB dsId0
'ls'1 omA Al Mr.dKrauft's ring appeared alof
sss and scornful waitress before whom1he i
on stantly become as nothing in his owniey
ing and ushered him into tho liberty; 9whe
as' Mrs. Manlius was busy over her papers
Ike sharp as ever but she had also gro'
IN stout Upon it, and your shorr, stout pee
sf''le are very discouraging; and she look
''' Of M Krauft in afrosty far-off way th
w. chillsd the eloquent and convincing spec
red he had prepared into few cob coherent m sen
nees about want Of work, destitution ct
Tho II made my way up from the bott'
acs round" ,retOrts Mrs. Manlus, mil
,,d coolly. 80 have hundreds Of otl