The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-03-02
Stay at Home.

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scores of letters from the South West,
declares that while tho list of employ.
monts seems largo enoug h to afford
every woman who desires it abundant
employment, it il not so. Every
place is filled, and q Ioeedy candidate
for it stands hungrily waiting at tho
side OF tho occupant. The only doors
VIDE open in the seaboard cities are
those Of "rnin or starvation"
1t therefore tenders the following
advice, which IL stern and chilling
indeed, but is sound, wiso and very
suggestive
"Our hnal advice to all past or
future applicants IS: Stay at home,
where you arc known, and where you
will at least DO secure of that human
symratby-that esprit t~ corps which
forms part Of tho atmosphere of u
country village. 70" will Ind hone
ot 1T waiting for you in the streets of
great city, however laudablc your
ondoavor and q woman, call herself
ny what unwomanly name she will,
dies without it, as surely as bird in
an exhausted receiver, Bcmg at
home, take up any work, mans or
"omnrs' Tor which you arc httod, and
wh'on pays living prices. Do it as
thoroughly as man, and you need
not rear MS competition. The very
novelty OF the attempt Will insure
success @
iho emPloyment OF tho weaker
sex, even as saleswomen III shops, is
unknown IN most Southern or " ostern
towns lnoy are conhned there, by
custom TO the needle or the teachers
uoSk' inc woman VINO opens any
other avenue Tor them by the exam
p'c OF nor own courage and integrity
IN lapor' not only serves herself but
os'ap,lshcS ci'y vi refuge Tor count
,ceS o'"ef ''ecoy ana leeoler victims
10 "hom ,ne soc'al barriers arc now
linPreSHaplc' lict ncr rem cmDer, be-
lore beginning, that in tho world Of
trade her pitiablc condition will avail
.'or nothing. Its laws arc hard but
intlexible it is tho contract honestly
fulfilled, tho undertaking most thor
oughly finished, the artists touch in
tho picture, tho sound, hard logic in
the speech, that in tho end commands
the reward not beauty in distress,
or starving children. Wages follow
the worker, not tho pauper charity
belongs to another question. If
the necessities of mind and body to-
day forco women to take up tho work
OF men, few men would be so churlish. !.
TOR the s'ko OF their own shattered
ideal, as to refuse to bid them God
speed. But coming into our world
OF labor. they must submit to our
laws, and be subjected to our defeats
ana the ilrst and most inexorable of
ITS maxims is that which demands
hard drudgcry from every aspirant in
evory path, and assures US, with
keen worldly wisdom, that it is only
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TnE Com P1or INVESTIGATION. -
Ga,Gold's Gold Panic Investigating
Committee did not meot to-day. II
will examine ono witness tomorrow,
the telegraph operator who recsiyed
Boutwoll's dispatch in New York
ordering ButtcrAeld to sell gold, and
thcn close tho testimony. General
Garfield has already com menocd to
prepare his report, which he saws,
will be comparatively brief. The tes-
timony, however, is voluminou9, and
will cover several thousand nrinted
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