Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-12
False Sentiment as to Work for
Young Ladies'.

1OuuK AauleS.
A false sentiment has rendered il da.
rogatory for woman to be q business
woman, for O girl to earn or appreciate
dollars and cents, if she can possibly
find father, brother, or uncle to SUP.
port her. The noble army of working
women, who of all women best dem.
onstrate their raison d'etre, is in general
a despised army; and while society an.
plauds the woman who is an artist. an
editor, an author, it does 80 by calling
her genius, and setting her out Of
that grand corps where she legitimately
belongs. Families with three, four or
five daughters, whether there are sons
or not, if the father can possibly sup.
port them. are brought up to do moth.
ing but help mother little This
helping is not generally really learning
housekeeping and seamstress work in
all its varieties, but skimming the sur
face of things, making cake, busting
room, trimming q gown, and leaving
those weightier matters of tho law, as
shirt making, ironing, bread.making
and beef cooking to some one else.
Girls speak of it as a hardship, if they
are obliged by stress of circumstances
to earn support. "Anna thinks it so
hard; all her friends have their time to
themselves, and she is forced to teach,
poor child !" The whole training of
the girl is aside from knowing anything
about business; she reads stories and
fashion magazines, not newspapers and
works on science and architecture, and
practical everyday life. She does not
learn teiegraphy or carving, or furni-
ture decorating, or gardening, or book
keeping, nor does she go into her
fathers business and learn it as her
brother would if she had one; bless
you, it would make her u rorhing uons.
an Thus out OF this army of working
women are kept, 30 far as possible, all
women OF education, means, refine
ment, cultured taste. These organized
into society make no end of blunders
in business, and regard them as credita-
BILE rather than otherwise, as Chinese
lady cherishes the deformity of
cramped foot. If they read common
law and medicine 80 as to be as we'll
informed on these points as ordinary
men, bless you, "they are very odd" at
the least. These good ladies' with the
very best intentions undertake to han
die the W ,rking women question; they
are thrown into contact with the poor,
and knowing absolutely nothing of
what it is to earn living, or what it
costs to earn . dollar, or what dollar
can be made to bring, they have only
the most general and no particular
sympathies; on the one hand, they will
be deceived and kill by over. kindness;
on the other, they will misunderstood
and kill by hardness. 1t needs work
ing-women to understand and help
working women; then they know that
being bread. winners does not forfeit
for them their position % wives and
mothers; that while they earn daily
wages they have the affections of the
hearth; that the poor mother, left Q
widow, wants to keep her children in
home, not to SOW them broadcast in
orphan asylums; that the poor couple
who nave passed their married fifty
years, unhonored it is true by q golden
wedding, do not want to be thrust one
into an Old Mems Home. the other into
an Old Women's Home. or put in the
separate wards of an almshouse, or one
60 to one Blind Asylum and the other
to another. There is fiue kind of
charity in England, where endowments
have been left 50 that decent destitute
old couples. or single people, can have
q nice three-roomed cottage, with fuel,
water and lights, and certain number
of shillings weekly on which to sub.
sist; and they can take in an orphan
grandchild, or feeble child, living as in
their own home, subject only to GER
tain regulations of sobriety, cleanli-
ness, and good enthusiastically Aflsr-
noon.
Tue ALPINE HsRN.-There was a
wild romance in its notes which was
characteristic, in a very high degree, of
all areuud. This instrument is about
eight feet long, and its farther extrem-
ity rests on the ground. 1t is used
among these mountains, not merely for
the herdsman's call, but as an invoca-
ton for the solemnities of religion. As
soon as the sun has shed its last ray on
the snowy summit of the Hottest ridge,
the Alpine shepherd, from some ele-
waited point, trumpets forth, Praise
the Lord God;" while the echoes,
reused from their slumbers ut the sa-
cred name of God, repeat Praise the
Lord God" Distant horns on lower
plains now catch the watchword. and
distant mountains ring again With the
solemn sounds, "Praise the Lord
God" and other echoes. sounding from
other rocks. reply. The Lord God"
A solemn pause succeeds. With un-
covered head, and ON Bonded knee, the
shepherds prayer ascends on high. At
the close Of this evening sacrifice, Of
fered in the temple not made with
hands, the Alpine horn sounds long.
aud loud, and shrill, Goodnight"
by other horns, while thou.
sand Good-uights are reverberated
around, and the curtain of heaven
closes on the shepherds and their
of 1rapeler.
Mr.. Lonsfellow having received q
letter from an Italian gentleman asking
why he should have employed in the
title of Excelsior the masculine
adjective. in preference to the adverbi.