Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-22

bent themselves to the task with per-
sistent aud patient energy. while men
looked on. smoking their eternal pipes.
without even so much as lifting q tinger
to help. Scantily dressed, generally
bareheaded in the glazing sun, quite as
often barefooted and bareie2ged. they
are b.onzed in complexion. thin OF fhesh.
bent and inelastic in figure, without
ioy in their work. or hope II their faces.
When inquired what pay they re-
ceived for this severe farm labor, got
an answer which the readers of the
Journal will accep. with incredulity.
For the work of a day, twelve hours
lsng. when these women board them
selves. they are paid an average of TWEEN
ty-fiye cents. when they are boarded
by their employers their wages average
ten and twelve cents q day. Men do
ing the same work. working side by side
with these women, receive nearly twice
as much. Hard as is this farm work.
women prefer it to hos service, when
they have strength for it-as the great
majority of house servants work for
board and clothing, and very tneager
board and clothing at that.
When We went to the German cities.
we saw what was more repellant. We
came ont of the Royal Library at Mu-
mich, one of the most extensive IN Eu-
rope, and the fourth in glze in the world
II comprises 800, OCo volumes and 5000
manuscripts, with an annual increase of
nearly 800 volumes We passed down
the imposing staircase, with marble
statues of great men at top and bot
tom, and msdallions of poets and
learned men adjoining the columned
gallery on either side. Nothing IN all
| the vast collection, it seemed to Ae CON
| cerred women. We descended the out
| or steps, between colossal statutes of
Aristotle, Hippocrates, Homer and Thu
cydides, and came upon wonen-a little
| army of them. There had been heavy
shower. and the streets were flooded.
Women, barefooted OF wearing mod
ern clogs. were at work everywhere IL
the streets, with brooms of rods and stiff
brushes, with hoes and shoyels and hand
carts, directing the food of tho cutters,
clearing them of debris, shoveling il
into carts, and repairing whatever dam
age the leavy rain had wrought.
We took an early drive through Mu-
mich before the city had awaked. We
drove through Its magnificent; gateways,
one a copy of that in the AcrOpoiis at
Athens, and the other copy of the arch
at Constantine in Rome, out to the CO..
lossai bronze Bavaria, stretching nearly
1C0 feet in blue air. The triple hall OF
Fame half encircled it. en- whose walls
are ranged the busts OF eminent Bava-
rian men, III the order of time III which
they lived. Early as was the hour. the
sun only just touching the lips of the
majestic Bavaria, women were astir
h..
offal and refuse from the houses and
stores, sweeping yesterdays dirt from
the streets into piles, which other wo-
men shoyeled into hand carts; clearing
the tracks of the tram ears from OBJ
structions; harnessed into bakers and
milk carts and distributing their sup
plies TO their customers; scrubbing the
floors of shops; moving in all directions
to prepare for the business of the day,
and that men might not only find their
breakfast cooked on rising, but the
streets and shops in tidiness and Or
der.
Wandering among tho architectural
wonders of Vienna, where everything
old and ugly is being displaced by mod
ern and beautiful structures. we halted
beside magnificent building in pro,
l
Immediately we came upon women mix
ing mortar, and far above US, at q dizzy
hight. saw other women climbing Lad
ders, bearing on their shoulders hods
of brick, stone and mortar, for the use
of the masons.
We spent a day in the picture gallery
at DRESDEN gallery taking rank with
thu. Pitt and Uffiz gaIleries,at Florence
and the Louvre in Paris. realized
a dream of my life that day, for | stood
in the presence of the Sistine Madonna
of Raphael, and was baptized in its ten
der beauty and radiant glory. Rapha-
els Madonna is not the only inspira-
ton of that gallery, and as turned to
leave it l felt that the memory of that
day would abide with me Joy forever
l stepped out into the street and found
myself launched in Il stream ofiiwomen
all bending under the loads..of the bas-
ket strapped on their backs, zach OF
which is made to carry sixty pounds
Some were young, but many past mid.
die age, and some were white haired
tOttering under their load. their sad ewes
looking into mino YEARLY and hope
lessly,
In some of the towns OF Wertemberp
there are brigades of women water-car-
siers, attached TO the Fire Departments,
They buy their own equipment of fire
costume and tin WATERFALL, and at sta
ted times are drawn up in line before
the District Inspector, to 60 through a
drill and sham fire, to test their efiici
ency. In short there ia no sort of me-
NAL work that is not done ty German
women, and Austrian women as we'll.
l have seen them saving and splitting
wood on the streets, and then CARVING
IT on their backs up several stories into
houses. / have seen them mouldinp
brick; unloading freight cars at depots:
building the road beds of railroads: oct
ting stone out of quarries; yoked with
dogs, COWS and oxen: pulling heavy
loads along tho highways making and
mending the roads; repairing the en-
bankments of canals; dredging rivers
and small streams for the sake of fer
eilizing mud; doing any drudgsry that
men are glad to be rid of.
| The German universities. TO which we
send our sons, each of which numbers
its students by thousands and its emf
mont professors by hundreds, are not
Tor German women. Hardly is "hiph-
er education for women" thought OF in
Germany. . The German woman
IL completely subordinate to the Ger
man man. who treats her az his intel
lectual inferior and evidently SO regards
her. he Is willing she Should share the
beer garden with him and the thoater.
but not the university, nor tho field of
literature. To be sure, there are wom
en- III Germany who are moved with
divine discomfort at this kind of rsprss-
sion sabordination and Ignorance of
their sex. mot one Of them in London
Mime. Lima Morgsnstern of Berlin
eager TO know what American women
are doing, and how the various reforms
OK the day are progressing, which con
cevn them.
In Berlin was told of women. who.
despite the hindrances in their path
had achieved such intellectual craatuess
that even their reluctant countrymen
we're glad TO recognize them. Such a
woman IL DIR. Franzisk, the sister-in-
law of the we'll known and eminent DR.
Hurschfald Tibur;is -the former eujoy-
ing as great distinction as physician as
the latter does as dentist. Not only in
Berlin. but in Dresden, aud Munich. /
heard OF organized associations To pro
mote the technical education of woman.
and TO secure their employment when
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