New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-31
Special EDUCATION FOR WOMEN

A PR oTESr AGAINST EXPECTING WOMEN TO EARN
THEIR LIVING AT WORK THEY NEVER WERE
TRAINED TO PERFORM
To me EditOr or The Tr,bune
SIR Pardon me if | cannot accept all said
Ill your recent article on women aud business cler-
gymans daughter and teacher have been placed
where have seen and heard much both sides have
been repeatedly called by rich and Door to sym
pathze with them in trouble arising rom this vorv
question OF labor There Is scarcely country vllaoc or
neghborhood where good aundress or any one win,,
to do days work could find plenty of work nor ono
where there are not women abundanty able will
ing to for help they get Everywhere are In
be seen women who working themselves into early
graves, leaving their children just when mothers
is most needed else becoming chronic In valids
girls growing into weakly women, because while grow
Ing they are forced to take up the double duty of student
and general helps and Others whose fathers possess a
competence growing without any practical educofon
because their mothers require their help true that
most fruit sections require hands to pick and pac
fruit hands in their canning and dryhouses than
they can procure, while women are at the same time
suffering for work Yet claim that large part OF the
ev and its remedy lies not with the laborng class Of
women but with society at large any of those five
women Deen inclined to leave the city, they were with
out DOUBT destitute If they had tramping through
the country for work. owing the vagrant and criminal
class OF ramps In the country but driven
to it by the force of necessity wond have enIoved
them and once employed they would have found them
selves objects OF suspicion in the whole neg hborhood
unemployed hey could scarcely get food shelter To
nave begged the means to advertise and get work they
would have laid themselves open to n cbarg. NJ yo
grancy. Remember, do not uphold suicide. Yet be.
t"ee such persons ana DEATH or pauperism, can
be nothing unless some charitable society finds work for
them. ~
Why don't these things adjust themselvesg EJrst ho
cause too many cannot that laboring woman can
hoV h'e Oh inc same wages she could in grand
mothers time, when dresses were honest honesnun
lasting double the time they do now and woman could
Me IA
acres require help and better tools than those ~
pioycd IN his grandfatlers time, while demands IA
uay necessities Things never dreamed Of even as uxu-
res, by them These things make added work for the
house. Yet is often the that il the wife does not
perform this work she Is deemed weaker ar layer tbo
her grandother or II the necessity help admitted
the wife Is not permitted the privilege husband takes
OF hirhe some one competent to do the work. and then
paying Tor that work its worth but limit IL mt IN tho
wages That cannot procure good intelligent help And
the act that there Is class compelled to work for what
ey can get brings down the wages of this class of
iaoorers' ana large part OF the Intelligent seek
otner employment and Others instead improving IA
they would with greater competition become careless NJ
their employers interests And the world wonders WIN
the wife complains, instead of turning of her girl ana
hiring competent help Another large class is drven
from our Kitchens by Lack OF justice courtesy The
laborng man and In any other position than that
OF have their hours OF rest and Their
Sabbaths to themselves II is impossible at times 10
give the house this time. While mapy families
by company or added feastng, make the Sabbath the
hardest day In the week. few think add TO the woes
Whe many think the servant insoent If she complains
The position of the servant i'm many families was ,
wnnt up 10 me oy little girl OF nine years: Ma
More than this the seryantgr often cus o,,a
OH from almost every social privilege first resort of
mly Is me needle Some who have talent and energy
others for want Of talent for this work or be-
nos .nurs are more TO be employed than find en-
thn IN h Others who care only for the money or Who
i iiA .ist anyone wbo can the required examjno
this. - 'e' A"o Sonoois suHer from
The majority of boys are trained as soon ma old or
ior some especial work. How many fathers who are am