The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-29

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patty over such criminals would try to
pacify a hyena with caresses and 10 modify
a tiger by s~prinkling him with rose-water-
Women Who Work.
The number of women who support them
selves bg work is constantly increasing, n
will continue to do so as new avenues in the
trades and professions are opened TO them.
There are hundreds of opportunities avsil-
able to-day to women who earnestly seek
employment, where there was one twenty
wears ago. a woman regularly educated as
a physician was rare indeed before the War,
now there is scarcely a city in the land with
Gus enc or more. Women lawyers are not
vet quite so frequently met with, but there
are several quietly practiciLg the profession,
and one is quite q celebrity. There are also
several successful and highly respected wo-
men ministers OF the Gospel. Several la
dies are successfully editing papers and
magazines; perhaps the most successful OF
any devoted TO its speciality, Is wholly con-
trolled. edited and published by a woman.
The dramatic profession has been open to
the sex for many years, and the large num-
Der of operate and theatrical combinations
give employment to many hundreds. The
UlR0tT SCuOOIs huu AUllCECo W WhINh W.
men are not admitted are getting to be the
exception rather than the rule, while insti-
tutions of learning like Vassar, Wellesley,
Holvoke and ST. Agnes areincreasing yearly,
and each fitting its graduates to n an
active part in the great battle of life.
Decorative art, about which so much is
said of late, is another field INTO which the
women will make their way without the
struggle that has attended their advent into
other spheres of labor. Carving in
wood is found to be peculiarly well adapted
for woman. In St. Louis and Cincinnati
institutions for its study and practice are
hourishing vigorously. One lady in st.
Louis earned, il is said, over 81, 600 last year
as a wood carver. In the School OF Design
in Cincinnati, according to a recent report,
there we're 434 pupils, of which number 243
were females. In the department of draw
ing there were 256 male to % females. In
sculpture there were Is men and 10 women,
but in wood work and woodworking there
were 1873 females to only IL males. And in
a recent exhibition given by the School OF
Design, out of a 156 specimens of woodwork
exhibited, 1873 were executed by women. A
lady has opened a private wood carving
scnool in Cincinnati, and is meeting with
much success. A similar establishment is
about to be inaugarated in New York.
Not a few women are earning money In
painting china ana decorating pottery. The
Pottery Club OF Cincinnati is composed al
most exclusively of women, and its recep-
tions are largely attended.
Tapestry painting, which is painting in
imitation of tapestry, is another art peculiar
ly fitted to women. This originated in
Paris. where about twenty years ago
a Frenchman invented a canvas which has
no "body," and which is "ribbed" in imita-
tion of the old tapestry cloths. The colors
used on this canvas are liquid, penetrating
the material like a stain or a die, and when
properly employed the effect produced by
the design has the exact appearance of hav-
ing been woven with colored threads. Thus
far, in New York, tapestry painting has
been principally done as a recreation by the
rich, but it requires only an inexpensive out
fit, can be readily learned in a few lessons
SO and a months time will enable almost
any woman of ordinary taste and intelli-
gence to become a tapestry painter-and as
a tapestry painter, she can find plenty of
agreeable and fairly well paid work to do.
One lady who has adopted tapestry painting
as a regular occupation earns about $50 a
month. The art itself is as yet but in its
Infancy.
Another new branch Of art to which wo-
man takes very naturally is painting dresses
in imitation of embroidery. This innova-
ton has been received with decided favor,
and many painted dresses, as well as faces,
have been visible in fashionable salons. For
the stage these are peculiarly appropriate,
and many dramrtic artists are possessors Of
capital specimens of painted dresses; but
they are equally appropriate to the modes of
private life, and already the painting of
dresses have become quite an employment,
and is destined to increase in the area of its
usefulness.
The telegraph and the telephone make
work for many women, and there is of
course a demand for women as bookbinders,
as compositors, as envelope and umbrella
makers, as workers on skirts and shirts. as
toy makers and fur trImmers; for those who
want to become bookkeepers, dressmakers,
dressmakers models, sewing machine op-
orators. press feeders, paper folders, house
keepers, and the like. As teachers, women
hold their own. and the demand for them is
increasing. There are other exceptional
occupations in which an occasional woman
makes a good living. We know of one in
this city who is doing we'll as an insurance
agent. Some book canvassers make money.
One lady in New York devotes herself to
training canary birds, for which she has a
faculty, aud finds her task quite profitable.
A designer of bonnets and dresses receives
So or SO dollars for a suggestion" For
woman as well as for man there is work in
this world if one will really look for it, and
with good health, good courage persever-
ance and a cheerful trust in the Divine
goodness, a comfortable living can be had
in this country by male or female.
The History of Woman Suffrage.
GENTLY" in Progress.l
The inspired mental labors of such indie
fatigable t%oilers, such propagandists of hu-
man principles, such emancipated partisans,
as Susan B.. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stan