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

! From the New York Post we obtain
| the following extracts from a brilliant
/ and eloquent book, lately published,
! by Mrs. Caroline H. Dall, entitled "The
/ College, the Market, and the Court; or,
/ WOman's relation to Education, Labor
and Law" The extracts we give will
be found an energetic and eloquent ap-
peal for woman's right to free and un-
tram m eled access to all fields Of labor.
Mrs. Dali proceeds to show that woman
actually performs the severest and least
bOuntiful toll, and for it are underpaid.
She says:
sfYVben, few years ago, the Edi7l-
btt7-gb ReUiet0 collected the statistics OF
female labor, it found the wages about
half what were paid to men. But no
reason was assigned for this diferenc e;
only, one master-gardener ventured to
assert that women ate less than men
"Out of two thousand women who
work for their daily bread in New
York, five hundred and thirty-fOur re-
ceive a dollar a week. How many
men, asks DIR. Chaplin, would keep of
death and conquer the devil on such
wages? One woman had to do it bv
making caps at two cents each Think
of this, women who like to buy things
cheap; for, il the veil could be lifted
from your eyes yOu would see-the an
gels do see-On your gay white dresses
many a crimson stain; and among the
dewV flowers with which you wreath
your hair, the grass that grows on
graves OF two thousand prostitutes in
New York, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty had been brought up ttO do
nothing > but of all trades dress-malk-
ing furnished the largest proportion
and yet you think you pay your dress
makers welll In pretty story of two
women employed in a clasp factory, he
speaks OF their low wages, and says
that having worked for thirty years,
thew have seen ten masters grow veal
thy and retire from business, without
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 reIaUe, these two did not fall.
''I state boldly, that women have, /
from the beginning, done the hardest
and most unwbOlesOme work of the
world in all countries, whether civil !
lied or uucivilized; and 1 am prepared /
to prove it. 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 I
all the outCry society makes against /
work for women is not to protect WO-
men. but class called ladies. Now, /
believe that work Is good for ladies so |
let us look at the NEuLns Let IL once ne ]
understood > says one of our English |
friends, that the young busines-woIaan |
is shielded by the social intercourse Of /
those who are called ladies, and IL |
would obviate many Of those grave OBJ |
jectiOns, which deter parents from con-
senting that their children shall brave /
the world in workshops and ware /
houses
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 of the cotton, which /
brings on distressing phthisis; and
the preparation or dressing, which
needs a degree Of heat not to be endur-
ed after mature age. Both these de-
partments are filled by women paid at
half prices.
''The wooden manufacture Compels
only one unwholesOme process-that Of
carding; but the carders are women at \
half wages.
''In the silk factories, again, there are
two unwholesOnle processes entirely /
carried on by women. The first is the /