The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-16

aud even not b we're good diluer f. tla''
Women constantly CONE TO tDc, Jas aver na'.
10 cay TO NE Rhas eau bey do lheS say ti'D
have plenty OF work to DO, out IVY
cannot exist on the WAGES they receive
People say, "Why don't they 90 ana -
something else ~ That question can be
easily answered. thefe the lecturer went
on az great length TO show how WORKING
women went 10 SEEK for work elsewhere, ana
were unable to getit either because mere was 90
much competition In the heid, or because they
were unable to DO u, ana pIVceeueu W snyP
In consequence of the thouentlessness OF cut
xene women were thereby deprived OF earning
q proper living. Why not trust them 20 Ihe
medical profession? Here at once the phy slchn
iutefferPd sud sad. to preserve the chasuY Oi
@omaphood, and at the same time sayl ne ~ ms
heart. God save us from any contact wlih tnem
Uaughter.) As general rule the physician
had derived fUur.hfths OF his income iron 'ne
suffering of-womap, and why not nave womeo
to attend upon their own sex as phySlclahs!
The doctor employed. nevertheless, purse aS
two dollars day, Notwithstanding u,s no ay@essUu @
to the sex, whilst he receives his SlO,OOo year.
A woman is not ullo we'd TO be In ny er because
the court is no place for her, whilst at tue same
time the is allowed 10 stand In tue witness OoA
10 be bro VI beaten, II was dlSgraeetul lor
woman TO be a merchant. or own an estdpllsn-
meut in Fifth avenue, whilst IT was emnently
DR. ger Tor her 10 attend bShlnd the counter aI
one. halt or oue-third OF the salary Ot young
man II was also In proper for her to aspire 10
the profeSsOrs chair. In Washington tnerc were
n great number of women Government cleIbs,
who received 1SUU year, duu hJ TUE "a IIiO
Young men as clerks who received from SIIUOto
$4,000 year; $500 year was The sum given 70
the highest paid female. These women had
mostly families to support, whilst the young
men bad not and yet the latter had raised cry
that the cause OF mOrailty IN Washington would
be served by taxing them outot thef SITUATIONS
Would not immortality be more increased Oy
throwing them helpless on the world! On,
bepeyolence, Justice, magnauimity, thy name is
man (Applause.) Something IN the way OF
lucrative work should be got for girls, ana a CO.
operative association was formed whereby they
may be able 10 become employers aud pocketthe
profits of their toll. say % YOU, my trlenus, TO
help these women. / would 10 God had the
power TO describe to you the suherinSs OF women
| all about us. | see women ABOUT me beautiful as
| the Ctty of japan, exquisite i'll appearance and
| proportions, but deadly wbtn you linger near
| the m alnted sepulchree. That was on account
| of the foolish dignity aud selt-respect when
| they cherished as they grew to Womanhood;
| and having nothing in themselves by which to
support respectable existence, and then enable
| TO nam ain themselves when they went forth 10
battle with the world. | tremble as see the
| eirl ed out into this unequal contest: u Is
| as though you had taken crystal aud cast II out
| against harder object when 1t gets destroyed
| i have seen them pushed eventually from
! want to sin, until they sunk down 10 II misera-
Bile death; Tor death tarIies not in its approach
| to the unfortunate. Their tate IS spread over
| every avenue tonight, whilst you listen ana
| talh. ] take o view up town. | see many going
through suffering, from want TO starvation,
from starvation to iniamy, ron intamy to
IL
quote from the World which relates to a case
| OF this description. The Word represents the
case OF q young eitl, sixteen years OF age,
begging for employment, who went on to work
al So q week on her arrival 10 New YORK. She
Lad 10 support her mother and herself olt
OF it, and she found ene could not do 50
at $S week; She eoS Wen' INTO nao saigon TSon
she cane TO beg for some honorable employ
ment, and she bettered herself at the expense OF
the Trlceless gltt OF chastity. All, friends,
,,,,,Il van ~ o A IN nrnN In Ifp1 n
helpless female Ano her case Will recite OF
young grl who cane few years ago irom
Georgia. She was unable TO get work. and
poisoned herself, the only alternative lett her IN
this great Christian city being starvation or
shame. Another epItome | will give of the
waste and the wants aud the sufefmgs OF
women-an epitome Of the injustice done to
these women by the law ana the government
of ociety. young girl came 10 mis- country
from England, seventeen years OF age. She
came in company of q man TO whom she had
heen married, or TO whom, at least, she sup
pOeed she bad been married, for six months.
She found that this man was not her husband
that he had wife already. She was pennIless
and stranger in a strange land. She had not
a friend or acquaintance III the world. she
sought for work, her money being expended
and went to work Tor d man who solicited heI
to go into the country. This helpless child
the stranger IN strange land, was taken
i'll by a circumstance which befell her
and God kbows the secrets of thai
hour-the torture it Occasioned. The people O
the house discovered her mournful condition
turned her adrift on the world, without friend:
or acquantances, her last state beng worse
than her hrst. She took shelter in a lodging
house. The woman gave her room for money
and vent L ot near her. There she remained IN
solitary suHeriLg during severe winter. She
became in due course mother, and lived alone
by the little HE that was breathing out by heI
side. The child died she was taken into Gus
tody al d condemned, aud now lies in the Jail IL
ny city OF Philadelphia with halter above hel
head. (Whllst recitine this passage the speaker
was much moved.) Alb, my frlendS look at il
resolve that these things shall be abated, ii no
destroyed. Help to bring about the day wher
woman shall have the means OF earning al
honest livenhood; when crime and vice shall b.
covered up by righteousness as the waters covel
the sea. (Applause.)