Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-09-21
Work for Feaalss.


One Of the leading Shreveport merchants
has employed q couple Of young ladies NJ
CLERKS in bis store. This may perhaps be
the means Of inducing otbers 10 do the
same aud TINS Offer relief to many excel
lent females who are perhaps a burden to
kyoor psrruts or other relatives, simply he
|cau.- no opportunity has ever pre.snted
Eit.elf for them to make q living. Almost
lever, duty atoat dry g.ods stor. can he
performed 10y n female, and In many other
kcallings IL Is the snne way, yet males fill
kal1 these Positions wbite there are scores
Of females in every community, all willing
and anxious to make q living, Who to do
so must ply the sewing machine treHdl- nr
teach q little school, and so numerous are
the applicants for these places that many
Imu't be lrf, ont.
From a mistaken idea Of the sphere Of
woman she has been dcgrsdrd Into 4 posi-
,icn of dependence that ia humiliating To
Ithrir more refined s~nsibiliti-s. Public
ys-niim-nt has really kept them down in.
Si-nling 10 elevate III. s.s by claiming
THAT they we're too refined. pure aud an.
grlic to engage III any breal-~ inning yo-
cation.
The truth il, that nine tenth. of the fs-
males of the land really desire To make
money for themselves. Even il those
whose duty il is to care for them are well
able To de- so, their desire to Ice indrp-nd.
lent the fact that money made hy their
[own hands or brains is more appreciated,
and the natural feeling in the breast of
every honorable person, the pride that
ynakrs n condition If dependence insnp-
portable, all combine In create an anxiety
to do for themselves. Trnc there is a false
pride that would make some wou,d-he
kari,tncrats attempt to bclittlc the female
Icirfk, printer or telegraph operator. but
the h-~t men and women of the land
would extend them every honor.
How long are We To wait in the villages
aud towns f Louisiana, and indeed other
dismiss their fancy soft -hand-d clerks to
1.-THE fields and work shops aud take in
their place III. rrtn-d. Intelligent ,onng
llsdy who drnn,s her life away III au idle.
ness enforced by silly cns;orn'
There is rourt III Homer for fifteen or
twenty Young Ladies' aud there is within
r a. L.,
willing aud anxiuu- to do any honest work
IwithIH their strength and capacity, rather
lthun Ia remain III the homes of others an
l"xpcnsr. Self interest, the greatest spring
t'f human artian, il srrms To- H., should
| have partly ut least settled the question
l"ug before this, il being we'll understood
That the females work for lr.- than men.
I.a great Is their anxiety to bc indcIsnd-
Irut.
In the North and West there i, 10 longer
Iany doubt ~ 10 It's pIrprrtN. II Is also
iL. Ease IA the larger cifi-s "f the south.
la New Orleans one will see the elegant
| adlrs of culture aud r,.fnrnirut III thu
barge dry p""t~ ,t"rr, filling ucccptahty
the places heretofore occupied lay men.
Whoever would make usnIr for him
self - u friend To- til" e-utlrr better sex
and w"uld show i bravery that i, above
/, u-t"m and falls" sruilmuut. may do -
10y opening some aNruuv ut honest labor
to the females "f the lanl. Let it hc nm.
[l,F-t.sl ,it.t ,it.r l.,,. M, ann, Il ,.l,4,...
with men III the various callnyS III hf,
and wcw All hear M more uf their frirull.
~, oi their thinking unly Of marrying
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