Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-02-04

also, 10 lay up something ior inihy "Ay'
Our wives, led by Miss Logan, demand
more servants. The servants, marshallcd
by Sarah Jane, demand more wages-hgher
still, as if Excelsior was their motto.
Again the cry of despairing husbands and |
fathers rises up, "What shall we do about
it?" Where will the money come from to |
pay all these demands?
My dear wile's quick reply is, From the
wives following some business and thus AS
sisting their husbands"
Dear heart. Does she realize that alrea-
dy the labor market is over stocked! In all
the large cities women are working for star
walton wages this day Under all the gas
lights this night women will walk, who have
been driven by absolute destitution TO life
of sin and shame.
How will .Eis state Of affairs he relieved
by every married woman entering into the
arena and setting herself in competition with
the multitude of unfortunatcs whose strug-
gle for life We heard 50 graphically describ
ed by the young woman whom We all sd-
mire and reverence!
In one OF her lectures, Miss Dickinson tells
how during the war, the daughters of farm
ers and of others in moderate circumstances,
took sewing from nrmy contractors, to lie
exclusion sometimes of those who were dc
pendent upon such work for their daily
bread.
Is it not true this hour, that every new
applicant for employment, obtaining it turns
away some equally needy one or helps to
reduce the pay of labor, already too low!
am afraid we must make up our minds,
many of us, to life hemmed in and strait
ened by poverty. 1t is evident that we can
not all acquire riches. that strive rs we may,
there must be for many of us on, limited
income and a restricted sphere.
l would siifle no young mans aspirations,
no young woman's hopes. But while look
ing toward the future would have proper
preparations III ade for the present. ''When
my ship comes in" is a popular saying, but
many Of the ships never arrive. To walk
upon the sea-beach watching the Oiliny, 10
liuger by The riverside slraining Our eyes in
the direction Of the bay, will not hasten
the coming of the vessel laden with tho full
tilment OF cir hopes, the realization OF our
dream.
In liic midst of our duties, bravely met
and faithfully performed, the news may
come TO us That our ship is IN. II will be
tihit tttli W iNHu w ttl" hutli hh'i
| eagerly oversee The unloading of the costly
| bales.
On the broad seas sails the Flying Dutch
| man that nrver comes to port. Year after
year she drives before the wind, never an
choring, never dischrrging cargo. Perhaps
| the ventures of most of us are On board uf
her. Waiting will not bring them TO land,
wishn. will moi make the spectral steerslnan
head the craft / shore.
| Thcre is no present want more pressing
than that Of good housckeepels. Sheer as
men and women may ut this. it is hard
| fact.
| Nature demands food, and civilization re-
quires that it be decently prepared. Hygiene
steps mp and insists that 1t must be scisntif
cally cooked, urging that tralth and long
life will thereby be promoted.
| Here il indicite the need of good taste,
goud judgmeHt, the power of protiting by
experience.
How are these supplieds
From the Emerald Isle coaic hil-loads of
| ignorant peasants whosa best diet has been
bntter-milk and potatoes, whose best shelter
has been q h0vel not good enough for our
COWS: aithoui tas,c. without Judgment,
without experience, strong in body, but
coarse in mind and therefore with wild
fierce wills impatient Of control. They du
no, know aud they resent the attempt Ia
teach them.
Oul Of slavery, with all the vices that sla-
very breeds, with habits OF ialsehOud and
tueii, unskiied, traincd only in tie thrilllcss
and rxtrayaganl methods Of the slave sys-
tenn, cor,e colnied girls and women. They
arc more ,,ocile than The foreigners, but they
ueCd To uiilcarn all they have acquired, and
that is - tedious and puiuful task, always.
We open orr kitchen doors, invite the
hilesians or Africans or both 10 enter aud
turn over 10 their care our health, our COM
fort, our peace Of mind.
oar daughters have intelligence refinement,
To some extent duciliiy. We could teach
them OF lave them taught in all the branches
of household work. TEcy would stay will
us for some years before their marriage, ant
helping their mother aud being helped by
h.r, there wonli lie more true enjoyment ant
more genuine advantage than can. ever h.
saincd under ihc present miserable s,stcn
If bringing up girls 10 dcspise housekcepin.
and consider tho details of home life as mer,
dishonorable drudgcry.
Shall we then make cooks of our daush
ier>!
No. Let lis make OF them ortistes!
Not artists in Grecian painting, or til,
Grecan bend, or dccaicomnnia, or wax
flowers, or crochet work, or the fifty con
tcnptihle devices for wasting time and cult
| VnilnS industrious luienesS.
But artists in homework skilled in tn
way to make home happy.
Sarah Jane would not have al girls taugh
housekeeping because not all h, We aptitud
for H. Whom will she select to be s.
taught?
Shall there bc chronological examination
in every household to discover these with
! genius for house-work ?
Shall II lie by clussts? Must the pom
/, or the rich or those who are neither, CIV
their daughters to these pursuits or hol
hem back from then?
: What shall my daughters do about it!
Suppose they are taught housekeeping
=. will that interfere with any nobler career
!, Take Anna Dickinson rs an illustration
BY her own admission she scrubbed pave
g mrnts when she was girl, and took I'll
money so earned to buy a ticket for Wei
# dell Phillips lecture,
- That shows her training. Tomorrow,
u am sure. she CO. Id prepare tho dinner f
her mother household and do il well ii,
IS what she did in the past interiered with hi
, success as a speaker or writer? Do h,
present capacities as manager of fami
: weight her down in her asplings or in h
attainments!
Of Many girls without much natural aptiut
:, paru music by dnt of practice, to whicl
" often, they ARE compelled by their parent
I'd Very frequently their knowledge Of music
ie never called into requisition after their ma
lv riage.
:, Housekeeping is as truly a science as III
'' sic is, and il is in daily demand. On
g. learned there will he opporunili 9 enou!
nj to keep the knowledge fresh. Its acquiI
ment is a genuine and unmisiasablc gai
T.. l. will hinder none it will help multitude
'o Yet all Pickle Street, and all the 9th
Y streets, are bringing up their girls in ign,
en ance Of those affairs which are most vital
as important. "Drudgery' and ''slavery" a
the current terms for household duties, q
the Young misses loathe them accordingly
oi High. priced servants will not settle
matter They can only complicate it.
III Wives aud mothers trained and disciplin
"a from early girlhood, taught to make tn
io heads save tltir hands, aided by such n
he chinery as will tighten labor in the nou
ers would settle the matter.
,do But wives and mothers are falling out
''s fashion. Miss Dickinson alluded TO Il
u.s. large and increasing class Of unmarried "
ell men, to which she as yet belongs
of It's true. Every year extends tue nu
ok her of those who will never be wed.
~ A ,y;fa ic nn,v n INJURY She brinvs nn