The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-27

| Die tOr men TO WORK Tor men, ana LOT WOhloh
TO work in mems stores and offices, yet for
woman to enter the homes of these same men
and work for their wives is to degrade herself.
Instead of being an honored assistant she
| thereby becomes q servant-nOthing more"
In a somewhat similar vein, rs. s." SAYS
"The American women have become such
| slaves to the Irish that we think we can hardly
breathe without them; and certainly some OF
| ms know from experience that we can hardly
! breathe with theml'
| Mrs. Erastus Blakeslee, of Plymouth, Conn.,,
! savs 80 fathers mothers, brothers, sisters,
! do not pirate to those you love about being
aoives teach them to be true and noble 0omen."
| Mrs. r. S. Bates, of Kansas, writes:-'T
| have always believed that women had q right
to vote: but always thought it question for
the far off future, until the death of my hus-
band in the war left me to Join the legion of
those who (in the phrase of Professor Lewis)
have taken very unnatural departure from
domestioity.'"
Grace Ashwood says:-'I know of several
highly educated women who, by force of cir
cumstances, are dressmakers; vet they do not
feel degraded by their employment" (Which
is because they are sensible women.)
'Brown," of Aurora, Ill. (but whether Mr.,
Mrs, or Miss Brown we know not), informs
us that she Cor he) knows of woman who
cleared fifteen thousand dollars in one year as
an agent for the sale of popular books.
correspondent to us writing from Nurem-
burg, Bavaria, mentions that "women in
Southern Germany have access to many
methods of making a livelihood to which
American woman are as yet strangers"
''E. A. E." says to her sisterhood :-HYou
are not to be unmindful of personal comeli-
ness. Every day you are to be as clean as
BRIDE You are not to suffer the stain of sin
upon your soul, of ignorance and error upon
your mind, or of filth upon your person or
:. lo hao f,r1
in person as, with the form and features God
has given you, it is possible to be-"
factory girl complains that manual labor
is looked upon by many educated women as
degrading; but adds, justly, ''work and edu-
cation ought to go hand in hand in the Anne
rican republic"
"H. Nj, =" writing from Washington, says:-
''To equalize the pay OF the male and the
female clerks in Washington would have an
effect to better the condition of working women
all over the country"
A correspondent at Lima, New York, in
forms us in glowing terms that Genessee
College, at that place-an institution open, as
all schools and colleges ought to be, on equal
terms to both seXes-has had great success in
this experiment ever since the adoption of the
plan in lS49. ''We owe it to the cause of uni
versal education" says this writer, "to state
that the presence of females in our classes has
ever exercised a very marked influence on the
young men, constituting an efficient agency i'll
their culture, and counteracting the coarse
ness and boorishness into which young men
are prone to fall during quadrennium of
separation from the refining influences of
home. Contrary to all the prlOrt reasoning
of monkish philosophers, the discipline of the
college is not embarrassed, but greatly pro-
noted by the intermingling of the sexes in
the same lecture-room. Experience demon
strates that three or four ladies in a recitation
room are better than so many paid proctors to
promote good order. We no longer wonder
that the righteous souls of college presidents
are vexed with the ungodly deeds of young
men, for years secluded from female society,
III manifest violation of the law Of the Creator,
who places sons and daughters in the same
family to secure the symmetrical moral de-
velopment of both"
Helen Downs, of Hartford, Conn, makes
vigorous protest against the use of the phrase
Universal Suffrage" until it shall cover the
suffrage Of women as well as Of men.
'H. U.,' of Chautauqua, N. Y, mentions
the following incident:-'I once had class
mate, passionately fond of books, to whom
library would have been like a gift from the
gods; and another whose passion twas chemistry
and natural philosophy, and her highest am
bition the possession of laboratory and its
apparatus Yet both have been able to earn
only a scanty livelihood, and library and labo-
ratory exist only in dream-land. The gentle
men of the class, however, with less ability
with less purity of life and earnestness of
purpose, have risen to positions of atfluence,
which the former can never hope to attain"
Sarah r. Plummer, Washington, D. c.,
says that the majority of poor girls must
either get married or else work at starvation
prices
"a Woman in Behalf of Women has sent
us two essays, giving reasons why her sisters
should have the ballot; and cogent reasons
they are and altgether unanswerable.
A lady writing from Kansas murmurs at the
scanty pittance eked out to female school
teachers, "even in cases of trst-class ability
/ and aptitude"
! 'E. S. t." discusses "Womens Dress, -
and says that whenever a woman goes on a
picnic her dress is generally so ill-suited to
the occasion that ''she loses at least one-third
of her time in disengaging herself from roots
! and brambles, in which she is perpetually
caught as in a trap This writer puts to us
the following question -''Mr. Editor (this
strictly between ourselves), will you impart
to the writer in confidence, lrhy gentlemen are
so peculiarly sensitive on the subject of ladies'
costume ?' To which we respectfully reply
that, on the subject of ladies' costume, gen
tlemen are generally less sensitive (and gene
rally more sensible) than ladies themselves.
An anonymous correspondent writes ~
exercising the right of suffrage is in itself, the
best school for mans political education, s(
will it be for woman's."
'H. NJ. =" of the District of Columbia, holds
that "the right of self-government belOng
7 equally to all men and all women" and sh,
3 adds-"It is in vain to attempt to elevate tn,
sex by establishing female schools or college
| or pvmnasiums. bV inyenting new STYLES q