The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-10-28
WOMEN AS PR1N7ERs.-We copy as follows from the

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New York World of the Goth;
From the beginning to the end OF our experiment
perhaps one hundred girls were employed at the
OF these less than half dozen could set type when
they first received. Some of them became tocr-
able compositors and now are making fair wages at
book work The Ma ory Of them, with every oppor-
tuny to learn, and better payment on the whole for all
they did than our received for similar work never
reached an equal nor earned so much as they. The
moment they were tried by the simple test so much
pay for much composition, which all male compost
undergo their earnings fell far below the average
of the earnings of the They required for
the most part work only in the day time only
or twice were their services require at night They
worked rs many days in the week as men, but could
none Of them work many hours day. Seven Or
eight hours mote than sufficient to tax their
strength.
Clean composition next to an imnossibility with
all Of them in the first instance, and the correction Of
their matter" they shrked, if possible and did badly
when it could not be shrked. YET they generally
favored with the most legible "copy' and under
little stress as to time. TO the setting of "rcprnt
that s, printed copy these remarks also arp}y.
1legb!c manuscr pit they were utterly incapable to
decpher. The majority of persons write more or less
egiby but the ma oity Of that ma loity write with
uniformity that is, their manuscript is obscure in the
same manner with the same letters combination of
letters The same pen-tacs do service ALWAYS in con-
reyng the same sylIables. Ruins Choae had chirog-
raphy VIGOROUSLY bad and iIiegiblc 1t differed from
CLEAR and lcgibe manuscript more widely than almost
any other mans eff his tine. But it differed uniformly
the same differences in the words. Therefore
one had only to learn his SYSTEM and his manuscript
became lcgiblc the better system from which c
all depart more or less. All good compositors learn
10 read egble manuscript, and they learn it by dis
corning these unormities, assisted by the subject the
context, etc. The have employed never
made any progress in this direction. 1llegibe manu-
script to them remained illegible From the context
and the subject they got assSanceperhaps because
they the DISTINGUISHED class Punctuation also,
somehow seemed bad to them as seven times nine"
20 Mallory Fleming. 1t more than human nature
could endure. At any rate they never pnnctnated !;
snd their justification must have been by faith, since
they never Justified" by" spacing" we'll.
Such was the incapacitv of the four or FIVE score
women ha re employed as typeseterS and such its
kind and degree Their hands travelled tolerable well
and swiftly from the to the stick when the boxes
had been learned not so we'll from the stick to the
case, in distributing; but all the compoSitors art be-
yond that purely mechanical part they rocked little Of
II remains only add that they all faithful the
extent of their abilities, and decent in their dress
and well behaved, aud that most of them had ordi-
nary common school education.
THE THIRST FOR MISUNDERSTANDING il in the
stock int trade of men and newspapers of certain
GLASS; and every effort is put forth gain it, Ignore
them, and they wther into IL wreched nOnentty; but
apeak of Them even if it be with deriSion and CON
tempt, and Immediately they bloom into fresh life and
,rtivv Who aoec nat know tla ,pIlc ,h,r,.taS md
Nv uJes NV N'o" 'ie p''o'o o.'" 'etes ahu
SUCCESS III Se''.As "lce'y 'aheo ABOUT; VINO "oulo
otherwise lapse into insignicance who are wretched
unless they attract the attention OF their neIghbors In
one way or another good or bad, 1t matters little to
aoe'h an IneF ann al IS ho'ofletF Inc New ork
Tribune OF wednesday, contains an amusing confes-
SION by one these hunters alter questionable fame who
admits frankly the value to him of criticism of any
Kind, whether hostile or friendly, which keeps his
mare before the pubic rms person Is MT A. oaE!y
Hail. who Is District Attorney Tor the city OF New
York, and who has on hand lively quarrel with the
Tribune of some years standing. He recently caused
it to be published in the Leader and other weekly pa
hume for libel LAYING his damapcs at 500 no and this