The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02

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most Of the female colleges fits the gradu.
ates only for the drawing-rooil, and that
perhaps none too well, and leaves them
in sorry plight to undertake the stros. 3
gle Of practical life and Of self.support
II necessary. This should be otherwise.
1t is not to be supposed that every
young woman Is to become the wife of q
wealthy man, nor are even the young
ladies willing to admit that the only OBJ
ject Of life is matrlmony at any cost, -
Every young woman before reaching
maturity should be thoroughly In
structed In some line OF business In
which she oan earn livelihood, should
occasion require. The daughters Of the
wealthy, with the liability Of riches to
suddenly disappear, have no certainty
that they will not be required to earn
their livelihood, or do worse, at some
period Of their existence. Without a
practical business education, the avenue
left open to such are few, and are filed
to repletion so that those obliged to enter
them obtain but small compensation for
their labor. g.
TO add to this, popular education has
failed to teach society to honor as they
deserve those who prefer honest toll to
dependence. Education should fit
females to enter upon those professions
in which they might support themselves
and be an actual benefit to their fellow
creatures, or to'fill positions OF honor
and trust In the ranks OF those branches
OF business for which by nature they are
as we'll fitted as those by whom the
places are now occupied. Many of the
requirements of business, manufacture,
trade and professional life are such that
they might with propriety and ease be
filled by young women were they not
untitled by education and debarred by
society from doing so. AS book.keepers,
clerks, telegraphers, stenogr aphers,
ticket sellers, and In hundred
other branches of business they could as
well and thoroughly I'LL many Of the po-
sitions offered as the other sex. In the
professions there are various depart
ments in which they could be not only
equal, but superior; and In the many
branches Of manufacture there are thou.
sands of opportunities which might be
taken advantage OF through proper in
struction and become profitable and
pleasant to many who now actually suf-
fer from want, and who miss the oppor-
tunity for lack of proper practical edu-
cation and through fear OF the restric-
tions of society and popular opinion.
Among the professions, that of medicine
is especially fitted for the reception to
its ranks of the gentler sex. Thousands
Of women in the land lead lives of
suffering and 60 down to untimely
graves through the innate delicacy
which prevents them from applying
for the medical aid to those of the op-
rosite sex which one of themselves
might render had she the proper educa-
tion and training. The latest census re-
turns show that Of the sixty-two thou
sand physicians but five hundred are
females, while observation and reason
show that with propriety one-half the
number should be. By the slow work
ing OF the laws Of nature women are
finding their place as writers, as teach
ers, and as artists, and there is no rea-
son that their fitness for these and other
important and useful positions which
they could with propriety and advan-
tage fill, should not be encouraged and
the door thrown wide open, and as many
as desire invited to enter. 10 the pres
ent system of education and the present
status of society may be ascribed much
of the suffering and vice and prostitution
10 which want and starvation has driven
thousands OF women in every large city.
Would those who are clamoring for 'jus-
tice" for woman actually benefit her, let
them popularize honest labor and honor
able employment, and while the higher
education and cultivation is retained,
and urged upon all, let them open the
doors of business and manufacture and
professional work to women, and they
will annually save thousands from a life
of shame and degradation, and add ma
terially to the health, happiness and real
comforts of very many more.
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