The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-10

ways Iemhlu ItubFkaOle! IN THIS ll5E
we have the name of one woman who
never lived, and four at least who in
this country would owe all their celeb
rtty to the police court; and this while
history pants to be delivered Of noble
lives not known at all, like the woman
OF the House OF MonteGeltro, or little
known, like the pure heroic wife of
Conde, ,Glemence de MailIe."
NO CARE FOR WOMEN.
"The first prejudice which women
have to encounter is one which exists
before they are born, which leads faith
ers instinctiYely to look forward 10 the
birth of sons, and to leave little room
in their happy or ambitious schemes
for the coming of a daughter. Not long
since, a highly educated Euglishman
told me that this remark smote him
to the heart. Il never expected to have
anything but son, he declared; iand
when my little Minnie was born, 1 had
made no preparation for her. / had
neither a thoug ht nor a scheme at her
service.' 5' fz-
Fanny Wright, In some essays pub
lished thirty years ago, says: There
are some parents who take one step in
duty and halt at the second. tOur sons, ;
they say, will have to exercise politt-
cal rights and fill public offices. We
must help them to whatever knowl-
edge there is going, and make them
as sharp. witted as their neighbors. As
for our daughters, they can never be
anything; in fact they are nothing. We
give them to their mothers, who Will
take them to church and dancing
school, and with the aid OF fine clothes
fit them out for the market"
PROPERTY RIoHTs,
1.-THE Turk does not lock up his wife
with more care than the Christian his
strong box. To that lock there is ever
but one key, and that the master car
ries in his pocket. The case is not al
tered when the wife is about to close
her weary eyes in death. She may
have earned or inherited or saved the
greater part of their common property,
but without his consent she cannot be-
queath a dollar" This passage re-
minds us Of a criticism on the marriage
service attributed to Sir John BoWring,
This man considers 1t wicked from be-
ginning to end. "Look at It !" he says;
with this ring thee wed'-that's
sorcery; with my body thee worship
-thats idolatry; and with all my
worldly goods thee endow'-that's a
lie ~
Here is a true word:
1.-THE manners Of men have their ed
ucational influence. The quiet turn
Ing aside from women when matters of
business, politics or science are discuss
ed !; the common saying, What have
women to do with t6atF let them mind
their knitting, or their house affairs;"
the short answer when an interested
question Is asked: You wouldn't un-
derstand it, if l told you?-aH these de-
press and eneryate, and, even If not
spoken, The spirit Of them Gnimates all
social life"
woMAN's RIGHT TO WORK.
81 ask for woman, then, free, untram-
meled access to all fields Of labor"
Mrs. Dali goes on to show thai they
actually do perform the severest and
least healthful toll, and for it are un-
derpaid ......r,
"when, a few years ago, the Edin-
burg ReViete collected the statistics OF
female labor, it found the wages about
half what were paid to men. But no
reason was assigned for this difference;
only, one master-gardener yentured to
assert that women ate less than men!
"Out of two thousand women who
work for their daily breadin New York,
five hundred and thirty-four receive
dollar week. How many men, asks
DR.. Chaplin, would keep off death and
conquer the devil on such wages? One
woman had to do 1t by making caps at
two cents eachl Think of this, women
who like to buy things cheap; for, il
the veil could be lifted from your eyes
you would see-the angels do see-on
your gay white dresses many Grim
son stain; and among the deWy
flowers with which you wreathe your
hair, the grass that grows on gravesv
OF two thousand prostitutes in New
York, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty had been brought up 'to do
nothingi' but, of all the trades, dress
making furnished the largest proper
tiOni and yet you think you pay your
dressmaker we'll! In pretty story OF
two women employed in a clasp facto-
ry, he speaks of their low wages, and
says that having worked for thirty
years, they had seen ten masters grow
wealthy and retire from business, with
out having changed in any degree their
own position. These clasp-makers GER
tainly supported these ten masters and
their families in ease; and, wonderful
TO relate, these two did not fall. t
~ state boldly, that women have,
from the beginning. done the hardest
and most unwbolesome work OF the
world in all allcountries, whether civilized
or unciVilized; and l am prepared to
prove 1t. L do not mean that rocking
the cradle and making bread is as hard
work as any, but that women have al
ways been doing mans work, and that
all the outcry society makes against
work for women Is not TO protect wo-
men, but certain class called ladies,
Now, 1 believe that work Is good for
ladies; SO let US look at the truth. 'Let
1t once be understood,' says one of our
English friends, that the young busi-
ness woman Is shielded by the social
intercourse of those who are called Ia
dies, and 1t would obviate many of
those grave objections which deter par
ents from consenting that their children
shall brave the world in shops and
warehouses;
"Women in France are employed In
the manufacture of cotton, silk and
wool. The cotton manufacture compels
two processes which are very Injurious
the beating ofthe cotton, which brings
on a distressing phthisis; and the prepa-
ration ordressing, which needs a degree
CT heat not to be endured after mature
age. Both these departments are filled
by women paid at half prices.
TIE wooden manufacture compels
only one unRholesome process-thaE OF
cardtng; but all the carders are women
at half wages. ''s.i- t.E
In the silk factories, again, there are
two unwholesome processes entirely
carried on by women, The first is the
drawing Of the cocoons, where the
hands must be kept constantly in boil
ing water, and the odor of the putrefy-
ing insects constantly fills the lungs;
the second is carding the floss, the fine
lint of which affects the bronchial tubes.
Six ont Of every eight women so en-
ployed die in a few months. Healthy
young girls from the mountains soon
develop tnbercHlar consumption; and,
to complete the dreadful tale, they are
kept upon the lowest wages; being paid
only twenty cents where a man would
earn Ai1ty.h ua 4It ulzg1' I7 sss1ts
WHAT AMERICAN WOMEN DO.
I'm Ohio, last year, about thirty girls
went from farm to farm, hoeing,
ploughing and the like, for siIty.two
and half cent day. At Media, in
Pennsylvania, two girls named Milter
carry on farm of three hundred acres.