Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Choosing a Career.
[Harper's Magazine.

[Harper's Magazine
One sharp lesson of the panic, and indeed
ofour shifting American fortunes without any
panic at all, is the wasteful folly and cruelty
of the old education of woman. 1t is folly
in an economical sense, that ignores the
sharp possibilities of the future of our girls
while we send our boys out into full life
armed and equipped for the fray. .
The young man, returns from school, i'll
the bright glow of dawning power, untram-
meled as yet by care, and under the shelter
of his fathers roof, decides upon his career
Admiring aunts and sisters watt their pray
ers and hopes upon the winds that wing his
sail; the fathers experience and counsel
pilot the boat through the shallow water
near the shore. Everything aids his start
youth, freshness and special training. He
has no responsibility upon him save for his
own health and good behavior.
When does woman choose her career ?
In middle age; broken down by sorrow
when she has seen her lfe's hopes 90 down
one by one in the horizon. AS girl, she
has waited in her fathers house for the lover
who never came. All her youth has gone by
in vague dreams. In the frivolous business
OF fashionable society her strength has spent
itself
Her hands are not skilled save in the deli
cate embroidery her brain is sluggish, though
it aches with new anxiety and despair.
Heavily weighted with responsibility, it may
be with the broken down father, or the always
invalid mother, now dependant upon her,
she sets out upon this new path with weak,
uncertain steps. Beginning a career at forty,
all unframed
The daughter of her washer-woman can
6Scfo rv;r ri ,ho r;,
home her shoes has already shot far ahead
She scarce used to notice these girls, save
when they were thinly clad and looking
hungrier than usual. It was easy to loosen
her purse strings or send them into the ser
wants room to be warmed and fed Where
are they now, while she is halting, timorous,
on the sharp stones of the highway? The
washer-woman's daughter is salaried at the
model school house yonder; the other is
book-keeper in her fathers shop and it pays
her well. -
All, that artisan father, that mother toiling
early and late, had deeper wisdom in their
need than the merchant, the clergyman, the
railway king, in his hour of power. What
cruelty like to their indulgence now The
f0ndness which reward their
girls in luxurious helplessness, which as
sumed the future as certain in it's golden
round, has its parallel in other lands. There
are Asiatic fathers who put out the eye OF a
girl that she may be more pathetic beggar |
To the study of this Chinese prototype we
the American father who, choosing
careers for his boys in the fine freshness of
early manhood, 1eavesh is darling daughter
helpless amidst the buffets Of the changing
tide. YrExtfpHR
For Evening Gatherings. dH IT
A list of amusing forteits, which will |
make the company laugh and not offend the |
person called upon to pay them, are here /
with given .an.a s#s g"l- i@rHr IL 4
/. Put newspaper upon the floor in such /
, way that two persons can easily stand upon |
t and not be able to touch each other with
heir hands. By putting the paper in the
doorway, one half inside and the other half
outside of the room, and closing the door
,ver it, the two persons can easily stand upon
t. and still be beyond each others reach.
2. To. go out, of the room with two legs
md come in with six Not very difficult if
me thinks to bring along chair on the re-
urn = sa3I -""t's'i-t+t. = - @t' 81. F.. l.
!, 3 To act the dumb servant The person
Who has the forfeit to pay must act out the
answers to the questions put by the master
IT the ceremonies, as How do you make
,read?" i''How do You make soup?p etc.
This forfeit will cause much merriment if
proper questions are put ..... .... ...... ....,
A. Put one hand where the other cannot
ouch it. One can get out of this difficulty
~ putting one hand on the elbow of the
'ther arm. f. .,,,s ...,. ....f,..
s. Place pencil on the floor so that one
annot jump over it. May be done by put
ing it close to the wall of the room. ...a5- i,
I 6. Put question that no one can answer
With mo" This is not hard if one thinks
o ask, what does yes spell ?"'o s'',..'4 !
I 7. Push a chair through finger ring. This
orfeit is made by putting the ring on the
niger and pushing the chair--any other OBJ
ect will do as well-with the finger f
8. Put yourself through a keyhole. This
vas great puzzle to US for awhile, but when
piece of paper was taken with the word
yourself" written upon it, and pushed
Trough the hole, it was all clear. -~t''