The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-25
WOMAN AZ A WORKER.
The Industries Open 20 Females Seek.
ing Employment

New Orleans Democrat
The employment of the surplus female
labor of this city has been long acknowl-
edged to be necessary TO tho prosperity and
development of New Orleans. The Dem
Ocrat called attention TO this, many months
ago, and is consequently glad TO SEQ othor
southern journals taking up the subject and
discussing it in tho proper spirit. The
Charleston News aPd Courier showed re-
Gently that more backward condition Of
affairs exists to-day in that city than any-
whore In the civilized world and there IL no
opening for tho willing young women of
Charleston, excep, as teachers or seamstressr
es. 1t insists that there is a strong desire
on the part of the women of tho Palmetto
State to work, but that there is nothing for
them TO do. Tho Augusta Chronicle shows
the readiness Of the southern women TO
labor, and calls attention to the condition of
affairs existing in that town, where the work.
ing population has Seon doubled in the past
few years by the employment OF women in
the cotton Mills and where there arc COM
fort, prosperity and wealth in consequence.
We cannot afford to encourage ideas that be.
long to tie dead past.
WOMEN WORKERS IN EUROPE.
10 Europe the woman ia everywhere ro-
cogni3ed as an important co.workor, and the
family cannot be supported without her as,
sistance. 1t ia estimated in Franco that the
women and children belonging to each fam
lily will produce M mach as tho masculine
head, and increase the domestic comforts
Ia tha la g
that makes France 80 rich and prosperous.
In Germany, where the lard is far from fer
tile, and where life is a constant battle for
existence, the idea of female labor is carried
to tho greatest extreme The savers, the
persons who do the wood ,culting in the
streets of Leipslc, are women women carry
tho heavy burdens in the fields of Saxony,
and do much Of the toughest and hardest
work. OF course nobody wants to intros
duce this system into America; the natural
gallantry of tho American would not tolerate
il for second Nor ia there any necessity
for IL hero All we plead for ia tho opening
Of moro Of the lighter industries and manu-
features TO women, 80 rs to rerder them in
dependent, 10 fros them from subsection TO
and complete dependence on man, TO increase
the production of the city and state, and to
ing family, and to relieve tho masculine
members OF the family from tho heavy bur.
den now thrown on them by the fact that
they are compelled, by custom and habit, ii
alone support the family, ms If II were not
permissible for the other members to did In
lis support.
SOUTHERN PREJUDICE.
We believe the ancient prejudice that was
supposed to exist In the south against the
manual labor of women has long snce dis.
appeared. Our people may have encour-
aged this In days of wealth, but they have
long aince abandoned these ideas, Tho men
of the south have gone 10 work with \ zeal
and ardor since the war, and added 3, 900 00C
bales to our cotton crop; and tho women OF
the south are ready TO lend their helping
hands 10 this noble cause. They hre labor
ing now, but az pursuits uncongenial, harder
and less remuneratlve than mill or factory
work. Tho wife who would hesitate to seek
employment in factory, will toll nj the
wash.tub until her hands arc sore, or work
over the stove during the hottest days Of
summer un.ll horstrength is exhausted and
her nerves uns,rung. There Is no lack Of
rough domestic labor here. A negro girl
can DO 90! 10 attend 70 these household du
ties nj So per month, and the wife makeI
her $50 In q factory, but this economic idea
never strikes her, and her mind never risol
above tho idea Of being cook and washer.
woman TO the family.
PURSUITS OPEN TO WOMEN.
Hitherto the working women of Now Or
leans have been confined largely to sewing
domestic rursulM-such rs housekeeping
cooking aud washing and teaching. Their,
was some little attempt made few year
ago 10 employ them as ssloswomeu in the re-
tall storcs, but, strange 10 say, this plan die
not spread 40 much as was expected, proba
bly, owing 10 tho fact that ahop-keopers pait
their female labor about ono-third as mucl
as the men and expected tho same amoun
OF work.
Lately, however, considerable improve
men' has been made in respect 10 The em
ployment OF female labor, and q brillian
promise !. that Of nett season. The ihro
cotton mills Of this city will give employ