Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-16
False Sentiment as 10 Work for Young
Ladies'.

A false sentiment has rendered it derog-
atory for woman to be 4 business woman,
for girl to earn or appreciate dollars and
cents, if she can possibly find a father,
brother, or unrle to support her. The no
BILE army of working women. who of all
women best demonstrate their rdSiOn
d etre is in general despised army; and
while society applauds the woman who Is
An artist, an editor, an author, it does so
by calling her Il genius.and setting her out
of that grand corps where she legltima te-
ly belongs. Families with three, four or
five daughters, whether there are sons or
not, if the father can possibly support
them, are brought up to do nothing but
help mother II lutte! This helping is not
generally really learning housekeeping
| and seamstresS work in all its varieties
but skimming the surface of things, max
ing cake, busting II room. trimming II
gown, and leaving those weightier matters
of the law, as shirt making, ironing,
bread making and beef cooking to some
one else. Girls speak of it as hardship.
If they are obliged by stress of circum
stances to earn support. /" Anna thinks
il 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 practi
y-day life. She does not learn tele
graphy, or carving, or furniture decora-
ting, or gardening, or book Keeping. no.
Hoes she go into her fathers business AM
learn it as her brother would if she had
one; bless you. it would make her IA
iUorking WOmaR Thus out of this army
Of working women are kept, SO FAR ~
| possible, all women of education, means.
| refinement, cultured taste. These organ
| izrd inloa society make no end of blunder,
in business, and regard them rs creditahle
rather than otherwise, as Chinese lady
| therishes the deformity of Il cramped foot
| If they read common law and medicine
50 rs to he as well informed on lhes,
points us ordinary men, bless you, they
ire very odd at the least. These good
tdies with The very best intentions under
| AXE to handle the working woman ques
ion; they are thrown into contact will,
he poor, and knowing absolutely nothing
of what it is to earn Il living, or what Ii
rosts TO cam a dollar, or what Il dollar
can be made to bring they have only tn,
most general and no particular sympa
HES; on the one h mi, they will be de-
ceived and kill by over kindness. on th
other. they will misundrrs and and kill by
hardness. 1t needs working women IL
understand and help working women
hen they know that being bread winners
=, does not forfeit for them their position a.
wives and mothers; that while they earn
iaily wages they have the affections of thu
lhearIh; that the Door mother, left wId
pw, wants to keep her children in II home
not to sow them broadcast in orphan asy
ums; that the poor couple who have
passed their married fifty ears, unhonoreo
1t is true by II golden wedding, do no
want to be thrust one into an old men ,,
'ome, the olher into an old women
home, or put in the separate wards of al
tImshOuse, OF one go TO one blind asylum
md the other to another. There is fin,
kind of charity in England, where endow
ments have been left SO that decent desti
ute old couples, or single people, car
nave nice three roomed cottage, will
fuel, water and lights, and "A certain mum
Der of shlIings weekly on which to sub
Sist; and they can take in an orphan
erandchild, OF feeble child, living rs il
their own home, subject only to certain
regulations of sobriety, cleanliness. ant
good order.-hundaV afternoon for JuIy.