Connecticut western news., 1877-06-15
VOL. VI.


 to work. The endless falsehoods and evasions that it leads to! .l-L
 remember how amazed used to be as girl, at the immense amount of baby linen that was made up in one of our neighbours houses. There were three maiden ladies, and they were for ever knitting shirts and socks, and tucking and ruling little garments, for one of their friends,' they would say to the inquisitive child. But re- member, when their friends drove up in elegant carriages, the work was inn mediately thrust behind sofa-cushions, or into closet, while they awaited their guests with folded hands and se- rene 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 regu- larly employed by the Ladies' Reposi- tory, where they figured as numbers g, p and II. g..5s .....l lz... -
 Think of it La 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 one of the weaknesses that I like to make war upon. Which is more de- grading, should like to, know, work ing or lying. e5 .f a .... And here was one of our own mana gers the other day coming te 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 good honest rule that, ,compels the registry of all actual copyists. And the father of those girls is a worn-out book-keeper, who holds his place from sheer inability to give it up. Every body knows how hard he works. Any body may see him going down street early and returning late. It is only that his daughters are ashamed ofwork for themselves-they are not ashamed of it for him. 5ta s5 ~.s eff ever you break down, my dear, Taddeo, with over brain work''-here a slight smile curled the lip of my queen A, and have to do ,crayon heads or mend lace for living, depend upon it will have a sign that shall reach all across the house .'' loil sl # ls A. .....
 "But this poor girl! No longer young! Oh, my dear, what a wicked, wicked father she must have had, not to make her life secure!'' .a.s
 And again my wife taps her foot. The remark, observe, is not charae- terized by her usual sagacity, and 1 tell her so. Iaaiis8 v i 2. Ii -.s-t.
 "How can anything be secure in this day and generation? What rock more firm, to all appearance, than that on which Ogontz was built, of fair fortune and fair fame 3aand look! an autumn wind has scattered it's contents with the Autumn leaves. It is nonsense to talk of fpermanent fortunes in America. ,
 ''It is and it isn't. The fortune I meant was the knowledge of work, the trade, the set training, the profession or business that fathers give to their sons, but withhold from their daugh- ters, with blindness equal to Milton's own. have never been able to for give 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 skillful diversion to an appa- rently irrelevant topic, eff resistance to tyrants be obedience to God I don't wonder his wives ran away from him. You needn't raise your eyebrows, Tad deo; say wives in lilly Slow-boy sense. I know perfectly we'll there was only one who did. It's pity thai others of the family hadn't the courage of the example, " ls-s . -
 elf my wife were to run away from me, just now, I might finish my paper I humbly suggest; "but what with Mrs John Milton, that Misses Milton, and Miss pardon me, forgot hel desire to remain unknown-n Et
 "Let me write an editorial!' !'' and my wife seized upon a pen. The result o1 her raid upon my writing table is here with respectfully submitted.
 TADDEo GADDI. IF rBr- 2 CHOOSING A CAREER. s-I One sharp lesson of the Autumn! panic, and, indeed, of our shifting American fortunes, without any pani, , at all, is the wasteful folly and cruelty of the old education of woman. It i! the folly, in all economic sense, tha ignores the possibilities. of the future for our girls, while we send our boy out into life fully armed and equipped for the fray. ..r.- ..-.. .. -.-.s, ef ....
 The young man, returned from col lege or. the scientific school, in tn, bright glow of dawning powers, un
 trammeled as yet by care, and unde1 shelter of his fathers roof decides upol } his future career. Admiring aunts ant sisters. wait their prayers and hope upon the winds that wing his sail; tn, fathers experience and counsel pilo the boat through the shallow water near the shore. Everything aids hi start-youth freshness and special train ing. He has no responsibility upol } him, save for his own health and goot [ behavior. ..-....
 When does woman choose he career? In middle age, broken dow1 by sorrow, when she has seen her life hopes go down one by one, in the hori t zon. As girl, she has waited in he father s house for the lover who neve came, All of youth has gone by il vague dreams. In the frivolous busi ness of fashionable society her strengtl has spent itself. t.. -.
 : Her hand are skiiiess save in delicat ,j embroidery; her brain is sluggish | ,;AI, {,