The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-11-21
,Et.e g..o.,s.ss, Duration.

/ The condition, aspirations, and employ
Iauts ofwomau, in relation both to poll
e aud % business, are beingas vigorously
perhaps more vigorously-dizl used in
lba lama than IN this country. In Il mod
Ii-i form, woman suffrag has been recog-
lsle3 among our English cousins, for
lalay .lay now vote for parish officials who
IHs political, and not, as their designation
gag4 imply, ecclys} istical officials; they
4sua voice. looms the choice Of the newly
constituted school board and the question
heir admission to the national univer-
SIDES, as regular undergraduates, Is evil
aaay only one OF time. Tie English
ps..lisc. authorities have taken step
i .ch Indirectly at least, encourages
what Is broadly known IN that country as
The 'womus movement" l'y appointing
forty = gug women to positions IN the
savings bank ulIce which Is attacia q TO that
department., aud tins Is announced to be
oly introductory to similar appointments
throughout all the branches of public SER
y.es uater tue control OF the Postmaster
General. In this country women have,
for some time, received positions rs clerks
- -t ~ -s1'i+t- t'fAi tt41I
pQ7'mistrgsses ami post-oihce clerks, and,
as they continue to enjoy the confidence
OF their superiors, it may be taken for
granted that the experiment is q success.
In both England and America there
is certainly large class of women who,
while they must support themselves, are
untitled for the manual work and drudgery
o. factories and stores. Many of these
become successful book keepers, account
ants, and copYists; but the fact still
remains that these lpations satisfy but
avery small portion Of the demand for en-
pigment existing among intelligent we'll
educated, but impecunious women. The
positions for which such women are best
fitted are, doubtless those which bear
the least heavily upon the physical powers;
and this Is the case with most government
Offices. I'm England the action of the
post-othce chiefs is novelty, and as such
has been bitterly denounced, especially by
h2 male clerks, who are the most inter
ested in the case; yet that their policy Is
we'll considered is evident both from the
success Of the experiment here, and from
the shabby-genteel misery which is but
too common among the educated but I'M
provided women OF England Respect
ability Is a terrible word, and frighten!
many poor mauon and spinster into {
COON OF life long make-shifting and brow
sing on the confines or penury. The we'll
educated daughter OF q country rector,
who has died leaving mo assets, shrink
from .hecareer OF a seamst ress or a COVER
mess, nor can she think tor moment o
the loom OF n c0tton-mill or the counter
OF London shop. What shall she do
Respectahiiity says she must choose som'
qus-t and genteel employment. L ma,
6caald that she, who IS virtually q heggar
has no business to heed the Voice of thi
worldly tyrant; the more practical and pre-
saitp ast-oiiice says that ii viii do its shar
g o9hcede to International prejudice which
after alI Is not without its good points, ant
Will supply the needed grade of work q
iac as is exigencies will allow. Tn
Eomg" question, or rather the position {
women in the world, must be determined
rs mos; questions are, by practical exper
mem; and il is we'll that the experimer
should be fairly tried.-Appleton's Joul
ns}