The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
About Earning Money.

IL anybody knows the value of money
% the individual, it is a woman. A man
may look at it in wiser sense and think
oi the National debt and investments and
mortgages, but IN small sums it cannot
after all be of half the Importance to him
enat IT Is to woman, who wants yards
u rlbbon and pounds of beads, bits of
ssseiyet, silk aud lace, gilt things, silvered
fsllngs, combs, bracelets, bangles and
iittle bags, which could be of no use to
ohe OF the sex whose wear is cloth of
safseus sad colors. aud who, having a
scarf-pin. 8 collar button, and.
. ring on his little tipger. is provided
Win lewelry for lits
And yet VIII q. = ~ tls:s,al
~ money {, s lissls ssszs1fsa
.yffle horpsjr seizes the soul of many an
impecunious young woman at the thought
Of earning cent. Happily, Q, broader
view of the matter is taken by a great
many young women, from the sweet
girl graduate who hopes to be a doctor or
a lawyer to the mechanics daughter who
early announces her intention of learn
ing trade. But still, in many home
where there is not half enough -
/ provide fOi all, women draw themselves
| together a1d, even while they suffer
| privation, boast that they never earned
1 anything.
An old father comes YEARLY home,
/ after n long days tod i; young brother
| breaks down with cares that are too
| great for him. and still the supe ersttion
| that it degrades a woman 10 work for her
own living will prevail among half
dozen sisters forced 10 small economies
as their sugar in their tea and butter on
their bread, to shabbiness and the at
tacks of infuriated tradesmen who ma
/ turally desire to be paid their little bills.
They will do anything but "work for
money.
Every day, as they peep from their
windows at the world, they see happy,
well dressed women in the profession
and in many trades, going to and fro to
their work, comfortable with the wages
in their pockets. They hear the notes
of the piano by which some women, no
more accomplished than they, earn a
little fortune AS a teacher. Opposite Is
a flower painter who has pupils and sells
her pictures.
But they say TO each other and To
their friends, This would be imposs,-
BILE for us we never earned n penny.
And people are apt to say "The Miss
Hysons are so proud. They come of
such a good family. They cannot con
decend to work.
But are they proud? As a rule, the
ladies who scorn TO earn money do not
Scorn to take it as a gift Their natural
protectors gone, they viii quarter them
selves on any relative that will open his
honse for them-a cousin, a cousin 5
cousin-any small plea of relationship Is
sufficient
They viii actually go a-begging in n
delicate and dainty way amongst friends
aud receive anything any one chooses TO
give.
And it is well known to every one that
any effer of marriage 10 one OF them
which promises comfortable home will
be accepted.
This is the best end to be hoped for.
but if the girls are not attractive they
pass from one long suffering relative to
another until they are drought into -
Old Ladies' Homes or placed into gen
teel institutions, where they still boast
with their latest breath of their gentilitv
and are as proud of never having earned
n penny as they should be ashamed of it.
Certainly there are fewer such women in
the world to-day than there were twenty
years ago, but there are still enough to
shame good, Independent girls out of
efforts in which they shonld be eucour-
aged. with the old bugaboo story that
''ladies never work for a livelihood. -
Ladies do, ladies will, if there is any
need of it; for n true lady would rather
do anrthing honest than be an object of
charity and in a womanly way quite
consistent with all feminine charms,
rejoices in the possibility of indepen-
dence.-MaTy Kyle Dallas.