Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-06-21

drawing of the cocOOns, where the hand
must be kept constantly in boiling wa
ter and the odOr of the putrefying in-
sects constantly fills the lungs the sec
/ ond is carding the floss, the fine lint OF
/ which affects the bronchial tubes. Six
| out OF every eight so employed die in a
I few months. Healthy young girls from
| the mountains soon develop tubercular
! consumption and to complete the
/ dreadful tale, they are kept upon tho
lowest wages being only paid twenty
! cents where man would earn sixty"
I'm Ohio, last year, about thirty girls
| Went from farm TO farm, hoeinR, ploW-
/ ing and the like, for sixtV-tWO and g
half cents day. AT Media, in Penn.
! syIVanlai two girls named Miller carry
on a Larm OF three hundred acres, rais-
/ ing nay and grain, hiring labor, but
| WORKING mostly themselves These We
men are not ignorant; they at one time
made meteorological observations for
an association auxiliary To the Smith
| sOnian Institute. But labor attracts
them, as it mould many fConJen II then
ageye not oppressed Do, public opinion.
"Let us close this branch Of our sub
iect with q picture homelY but attrae-
tive. According TO thy request writes
a Quaker friend from Wilmington, Del.
i send thee some facts concerning Sa-
rah Ann SchOfeId. Some fifteen years
Since AEeE dHDnEE DGEtlUlH AAAIA AnNlAH"
ed in debt. He owed some ten or
twelve hundred dollars having lost
largely by working for cotton and
WOOllen mills. His business was max
ing spindles and fiers. His daughter,
then just sixteen, proposed to go into
her fathers shop and assist him, she be-
ing the oldest of seven children. He
accepted her offer and told me himself
that in twelve months, she could finish
more work and do it better, than any
man he had trained for eighteen. She
earned fifteen dollars a week at the rate
he then paid other hands.
" Her father died. Her two eldest
brothers learned the trade Of her, and
went away. She has now two younger
sisters in apprenticeship, and a brother
fourteen years OF age, all working un-
der her; turning, polishing, filing and
fitting all kinds Of machinery. 1 went
to see her last week. She was then
making water rams to force streams ln+
to barns and houses. She is also begin
ming to make carriage-aLles. She is
her own drauRhtsman, and occasionally
does her own forging To use her own
words, What any man can do, / can
but try at. She has a steam
engine, every part Of which she under
stands; and I know that her work
gives entire satisfaction. When they
have steady employment, they clear
sixty dollars a week; and she says she
would rather work at IL for her breada
than at sewing for ten times the money
The truth is, it is a business she is fond
Of
In New Haven clock factory seven
women are employed among seventy
men, on half wages; and the manufac-
6 51rer takes great credit to himself for his
liberaity. At Waltham, also, a watch
factory has been lately started, in which
many women are employed. For the
first two months the women earn two
dollars and fifty cents week; for the
third three dollars and after that four
dollars. The men earn from five shii-
lings to two dollars day. 1t seems that
no special skin is required in the wo-
men, while the men in few depart
ments are still paid according to their
ability. The steam-eugine, it appears,
has not yet learned how to cook dialsi
In this case the operator must hold the
dial, turning it evenly, as IF he were a
which requires Judgment
and 'facultyp %
ON 1850 there were engaged in shoe
making in the town Of Lynn 3,T29
males and 6,4I2 femaies-nearly twice
lS many women as men yet, in the
payment of wages, only half
rs much money was paid to women as
10 men. The three thousand men re4
seived seventy-iVe thousand dollars a
month; and the six thousand women,
.hirty-seven thousand dollars; that is,
.he Women's wages were on the average
only One-quarter as much as those Of
lhe men.
'Plenty of emplOyments are open to
hem but all are underpaid. They
Will never be better paid till women Of
'ank begin to work for money, and so
.reate a respect for WOman's labor"
''The result of a great deal Of reading
If great many laW-bOOl1s is only this
that we are more firmly convinced
han ever that the most necessary re-
Orn is a simple erasure from the stav-
Textbook of whatever recognises distincz
ions of sex. You should make woman,
n the eye Of the law what she has al
ways been in the eye Of Coda respOn-
ible human being; and make laws
which such beings, male or female, can
hey.
Chow I should rejoice to see a large
Ioweu mill wholly owned and manag-
d by women What is to make 1t pos
ible 2-onlY, that the unoccupied WO-
nen Of wealth and rank at this moment
n the Commonwealth should combine
0 build or buy such mill. Suppose 1t
yell managed, representing ultimately
million of dollars: do you believe i6
7Ould long remain without political
over just as the testy trade of Up
al aldemanded the franchise for its eighty
ne women, so would the Lowell mill.
Mrs. Dall's book is an eloquent and
ensible plea for justice to women. 1t
eserves to be read. and viii be read, for
is too interesting too escape even the
lie and thOughtless. It ought to have
n index, to make it thoroughly useful