Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-01-23

SION OF women into the higher branches
Of their labor, and the threatened
strike Of the china painters Mt Worces.
ter, if women were allowed the use Of
the maul-stick, which alone enables
them to do the best work, aud conse-
qnentiy get the best pay. l wish, en-
phatically, to point out the necessity for
definite training. Women are already
extensively employed in tho various
industrial pursuits they ought to have
the advantage Of special training. and
the most lucrative branches Of their
occupations ought to be opened to them.
They should not find themselves shut
out from any post merely "bccause
they are women" Neither are VIC Just.
lied in drawing upon their physical
strength and ignoring their mental
capacity-regarding them, in short, rs
mere mechanics, hands without heads.
| cannot enter at length on one serious
consequence Of the restriction Of women
to tho inferior branches of industry,
but l must say, in passing, I hat I regard
it IS two-fold evil, for it deprives the
workwoman Of tho stimulus found of
value to the most conscientious and
cultivated man in the kingdom, and it
prevents the younger women from hav-
ing the supervision Of their own sex.
If girls cav older women in posi- tions
Of trust and authority they would not
only b. encouraged to develop that bus
issss-l;ke capacity and those Qualities
Of mind without which they must re-
main individually. and socially in tire
lowest scale, but they would feel them.
selves far more protected than they can
do At present, while they have no other
safeguard than their own prudence
When men urge that the Introduction
OF women into trades and professions
will diminish their wages, it 10 neces.
sary to remind them that the progr,ss
Of science AID new forms of existence
have given into their hands the avocs.
tons Of women. The baking, brewing,
spinning and weaving have been trans.
planted from the homes to the manufao.
tory; machinery spins, weaves and
grinds, and men undertake the work in
connection with labors which formerly
occupied all the women Of the homes
aud enabled them without leaving its
sacred precincts to contribute to the
support Of the family When every
garment vas spun and made at home
domestic duties consumed tue time Of
all the women in the household, but in
the substitution Of machine for hand
labor the class Of women requiring out
side rcmunersttve pursuits has grown
larger and larger, and has lattcrly in.
creased at an unparalleled rate. Our
ideas: language and arran eements have
not altered in any corresponding degree.
We have forgotten that this woman for
merly contributed to the support Ct the
household, and assumed that eyery NO.
man has been sought to be maintained
in idlcness by her English aristocraey
some provision is made for the female
members Of tho family, but when you
quit the narrow confines Of this class
you find hundreds Of women compelled,
like men, to seek their own bread
" And it is terrible incident Of cur
social existence" says the London
Times, that the resources open to wo-
men Of gaining livelihood are 70 few.
At present. the language practically
held by modern society to destitute
women, il: Marry, stitch, die, or do
worse" propose in a second article,
to refer to the special directions in
which women's industry can be we'll