The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-03-13
to the Ladies' Repository business I
was very near putting the letter in the

III ever there was mean, false hy-
poeritical delicacy, it is that which en-.
courages women to work under false
csors md - (trIrfmdney while pre-
tSeain Ill &egant dleness to make
-ffAcy Nrk theirSfriends. / never
Ind any patti bee vii it. Why should
aEom@ baa6hamedibf earning money {?
Why should she hide that she is obliged
to work? The endless falsehoods and
evasions that it leads to!
1 remember how amazed fused to be
as . Garls at the immense amount of
baby linen that was made up in one
of our neighbors' houses. There
were three maiden ladies, and thew
were forever knitting shirts and socks.
and saokang and Fu1lling 3ittlexax7ncntG.s
for one of their friends they would
say to the inqmsitive child. But I re
member, when their. friends drove No
Ill elegant carriages, the work was I'M
mediately thrust behind sofa-cushions
or into a closet, while they awaited
their guests with folded hands and
serene composure-all the while pre-
tending to live elegantly on an income,
and do nothing but for pastime. I re.
member what shock it gave me after
ward to find out that they were recu-
larry employed by the Ladies' Reposi-
tory, where they figured as numbers
nine, twenty-seyen and eleven.
Thinksof it Ia woman condescend
ing to be number, instead of herself.
to take any sort of mitigated charity as
the reward of her own hard work It
is enc of the weaknesses that l like to
make war upon. Which is more de-
grading, | should like to know, working
or lying?
And here was one of our own mana
gers the other day coming to ask for
copying for some young, ladies' who
needed work, saying she had promised
them that their names should not be
known. She wanted to take it out in
her own name, but fortunately we have
a good honest rule that compels the
wicked father she must have had, not
to make her life secure ~
And again my wife taps her foot. The
remark, l observe, is not characterized
by her usual sagacity, and tell her so.
How can anything be secure in this
day and generation What rock more
firm, to i.n appearance, than that on
which Ogontz was built, of fair fortune
and fair fame and look an Autumn
wind has scattered It's tenants with the
Autumn leaves. 1t Is nonsense to talk
| OF permanent fortunes in America"
sc 1t is and it isn't The fortune |
meant was the knowledge of work, the
trade, the set training, the profession or
business that fathers give to all their
sons. but withhold from their daughters,
with blindness equal to Millions own
have never been able to forgive that
| old tyrant for teaching his daughters
the Greek letter for his own benefit, and
refusing them the golden grain to which
| it was the key. And"-with a skillful
diversion to an apparently irrelevant
topic, "if resistance to tyrants be ODE
dience to God, I don't wonder that his
wives ran away from him. You needn't
raise your eyebrows, Taddeo; | say
wives in lilly Slow-boy sense. I know
perfectly well there was only one who
did. It's a pity that others of the fam
lily hadn't the courage Of the example"
eff my wife were to rim away from me
just now, | might finish my paper" ]
L humbly suggest; "but what with Mrs
John Milton, the Misses Milton, and
Miss Layinia- pardon me, ] forgot her
desire to remain unknown"
''Let me write an editorialr' and my
wife seized upon pen. The result of
her raid upon my writing table is here
with respectfully submitted.
1 TADDEo GADDI.
CHOOSING A CAREER.
One sharp lesson of the Autumn S
panic, and, indeed, of our shifting
American fortunes without any panic at
all, is the wasteful folly and cruelty of
the old education of woman. 1t is the
folly, in an economic sense, that ignores
the sharp possibilities of the future for
our girls, while we send our boys out
into life fully armed and equipped for
the fray
The young man, returned from col
lege or the scientific school, In the
bright glow of dawning powers, I'M
trameled as yet by care, and under the
shelter of his father roof, decides upon
his career. Admitting aunts and sisters
watt their prayers and hopes upon the
winds that wing his sail; the fathers
experience and counsel pilot the boat
through the shallow waters near the
shore. Everything aids his start
youth, freshness and special training
He has no responsibility upon him,
save for his own health and good be-
hayior.
When does a woman choose her ca
reer In middle age, broken down by
sorrow, when she has seen her LIES
hopes go down one by one, in the hor-
lion. As girl, she has waited in her
fathers house for the lover who never
came. All of youth has gone by in
vague dreams In the frivolous bus
mess of fashionable society her strength
his spent itself.
Her hands are skilless save in delicate
embroidery; her brain is sluggish,
though it aches with this new anxiety
and despair Heavily weighted with
responsibility, it may be, with the
broken down father or the always inva-
lid mother now suddenly dependent
upon her, she sets out upon this new
path with weak, uncertain steps. Be- |
ginning a career at forty all pntrained
ILL., ,7..uguUer OF the washerwoman
can distance her; the girl who used to
bring home her shoes has already shot
far ahead She scarce used to notice
these girls, save when they were thinly
clad, or looked hungrier than usual |
1t was easy to loosen her purse-strings
or send them into the servant s room to
DO warmed and fed. Where are they
now, while she is hating, timorous, on
the sharp stones of the highways? The
washerweman' daughter is a .salaried
teacher in the model schoolhouse yon
der; the other is book keeper in her
fathers shop, and it pays her well.