Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-04
What Women Are Doing.

Mrs. C. NJ. Williams has just been
elected president of the State National
Bank, at Raleigh, n. C.
Professor Maria Mitchell is engineer
ing course of free lectures on Sci
ence," by women in Poughkeepsie, n.
y. Mrs. Ellen S. Richards, Miss Grace
anna Lewis, Mrs. A. B. Blackwell, and
DIR. Helen Webster, are among the lee
turers. The lectures are given under
the auspices of the committee on SCI
ence of the association for the advance
ment of women, of whom Miss Mitchell
is chairman.-IPomdn's Journal.
One of the flourishing Fifth street
shoe stores is managed entirely by two
young ladies, Miss Riley and Miss Line
hart. Every part of the business is at
tended to by them. They keep the
books, attend to the stock, and open
the store in the morning, and close it at
night. When boxes of goods arrive
they open them with hand and Ratchet,
quite as we'll as a young man could do.
They give orders for new goods. About
the only duty the owner of the store
has, is the not unpleasant one of coming
in occasionally to relieve the cash-box
Not shoe store in the city is better
kept than this one, which two girls car
ry on. They are refined and gentle in
their manners, and so prompt and po-
lite in business that they are said to be
building up an enviable trade. One is
of Jewish, the other of Irish descent
They have been intimate friends for
five years, having been fellow-clerks for
that length Of time. Both are the
daughters Of widowed mothers, and aid
largely in supporting their families.
These excellent girls are only another
instance to show that when woman
works for her living there is always u
very good reason for it. 1t is not too
much to say that three-fourths of the
women who earn money have others
than themselves to support. Of triple
plated meanness, therefore, is the spirit
which seeks to restrict woman's labor in
any way whatever, or which grudges
her equal pay with man for equal
work Cincinnati Commercial.
In several branches of the treasury
service women have risen TO the protic-
iency of experts. This is especially
true of them as rapid and accurate
counters, Us restorers of multilated
currency, and as counterfeit detectors.
General Spinner says: "a man will
examine note Systematically, and de-
duce logically from the imperfect EN-
craving, blurred vignette, or indistinct
signature, that it is counterfeit, and be
wrong four cases out of ten. A woman
picks up note, looks ut it in desulto-
ry fashion of her own, and says: That's
counterfeit 'WhyY Because it is she
answers promptly, and she is right elev-
EN- cases out of twenty"
Yet this almost unerring accuracy is
by no means the result of mere instinct
or of hap-hazlrd chance. 1t is the Sc
quence of subtitle perception, of fine,
keen vision, and of exquisite sensitive
ness of touch All women do not excel
as counterfeit detectors; nor can all be
come experts as restorerS and counters
Of currency. But wherever a woman
possesses native quickness, combined
with power Of concentration, with train
ing and experience, she in time COM
mands an absolute skill in her work,
which, it has been proved, it is impossi-
BILE for men TO attain. Her tineness of
tosch, swiftness of movement, and sub
tlety Of sight give her this advantage
Mary CleAan,er.
Mrs Elizabeth X. Churchill, of Prov
idence, X. L., i'll IL paper upon "Jour-
ralsm," presents the following points
i'll regard to woman's work in journal
ism:
"What can journalism do for wo-
men? What can woman do for jour
nalism? The answer to the first ques-
ton might be hard work, poor pay.
Few writer's gain IL generous support.
BY long, faithful, hard work, they may,
fblessed with good health, good taste,
good sense, fine culture, ready wit,
genial humor, and high moral tone,
gain respect, II home, ana friends. But
on the way the temples will throb, the
body will ache, needs will goad The
answer to the second is, women can
bring into journalism good will, moral
courage, purity OF thought and express
sion. AS reporters of meetings wo-
men excel; they condense without dull
ness. Harriet Martineau in twenty
years wrote ! ,642 leading articles. Wo-
men should write the police reports.
They would not be inclined to treat
crime as joke, to wittily describe the
beating OF wife or child. Yet, wo-
men journalists need to exercise much
strength of mind and caution.
"a reporter forces mans castle,
en- &c hses HIM rs il he were charity
child. Whether he answers or not, the
abusive or slanderous paragraph is
likely to appear. The character is
ruined, women is in tears One lies in
her grave from the stab of a cruel pen.
Women are much to blame for mali
cious paragraphs which they find
editors eager to publish. Let woman
writer consecrate herself, and write no
line which, dying, she would wish to
blot"
Obliged 10 Eat His own Words.
New York World.