Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23

ton is the acknowledged Ieper.sf acton,
and is as general as it is positive. For
| this reason, parents, teach ycur daugh-
! ters some remunerative business. Select
! for them as you do for your sons,-ac-
cording to natural or apparent capabil-
| ity. No. longer expect OF them profcien-
/ cy in an endless round of what are
called domestic duties, whether they
/ like it or not, and any department OF
which is a science in itself.
| a women is expected to know little
OF everything, aud nothing thoroughly
or scientifically under the present sys-
| TEN of training, or rather want of train
| ing. 1t is, therefore, quite impossible
that she should possess any special abil-
| ity. A daughter often resembles her
father in temperament and personal
appearance-why should she not inherit
| the genius or capacities that have made
him successful? The truth is, women
are adapted to many professions and IA
variety of enployments. Looking back
upon the past, We find many who have
| been successful in their rebellion to the
established code, and who have wen
/ high rank or favor as reward for their
courage and perseverance. With all the
repression and exclusion, a galaxy of
female names, .a
"Like orient pearls at random strung.
Adorn the world of literature"
and every year the range of remunera-
tive avocatIons is widening. New ones
are undertaken suited to various degrees
of capability and refinement. Female
professors occupy college chairs, and in
the medical profession women have.
within the past few years, completely
triumphed over the prejudice and jeal-
nnSiac nf thn I1..Ia fraternity
meeting odium and vituperation with Il
diynified bearing that won them golden
opinions from all classes of society. Tel
egraphing, bookkeeping and type-set-
ting are being successfully pursued, aud
the way now is comparatively clear; yet
no eminent pos tiOn in life, it must be
remembered, is attained without prompt
and earnest effort to overcome all It's
difficulties. Women must work from
themselves and for themselves. 1t is
against all law to expect mental or
physical strength or abilities without
the equivalent personal effort to attain
these several qualities. This is admitted
in the abstract; but women, at least,
have not worked in accordance with the
law.
Women are accustomed to look or OBJ
stacles as EXCEPTIONAL; and, borrowing
their fancies from the poetical imageries
of chivalry, expect to find only roses in
the new line of action. The majority of
men accept difficulties as rule, and
grapple earnestly with each and every
hindrance interposing between the de
sire and the attainment of the position
they have in view; it only remains for
women to do battle as determinately to
conquer. Let opinion cry you down
scornfulIy as it will, meet it with indif-
ference, with religious sense of duty,
with truth, and without fear.
The barriers of cOnventionality have
been raised so high, and so strongly
cemented by long existence, that the
only hope of overthrOwing them exists
in the union of numbers linked together
by common opinion and effort. The
voice of one or two, or dozen women,
how ever jealous in the cause, would be
lost in the clamors of denunciation but
the united watchword of thousands
would strike at the foundation of the
false system and annihilate it.
Therefore, to daughters, say. fit your
selves for some congenial business or
profession that will reward your labor
as men learn trades-so that the results
of your labor may demonstrate the hand
and genius of a master workman in its
accomplishment, and the great world
which has need of proficiency, of every
germ of talent, of every resolute worker,
must, by force of the mysterious mag
netism of your power, recognize your
claims to equality upon this plane with
mani DemoresI's Monthly for jan
uary.