Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-12-14
Lecture by Emily Faithful.
New York Evening Post,

Miss Emily Faithful addressed an
audience in Chickering hall last even
ing on 'The Changed Position of Wom-
en- in the Nineteenth Century" She
took the position that women should
work as well as men, and said that the
idea that a woman unsexed herself by
striving 10 earn her living was not only
erroneous but ridiculous. Unfortunate
~, women do not have the advantages
and appliances that men have in the
various branches of industry. The in
exorable laws of custom deter women
from doing many things which ought
to be perfectly legitimate for them TO
do. The lecturer drew particular atten-
ton to the frequent instances where the
widows and children of well-to-do men
were suddenly left to shift for themselves
without homes ana without money.
Such painful occurrences emphaise the
necessity of educating women early in
life to earn their own bread. Parents
considered in their duty to prepare
their sons for the battle of life. Why
should they not be equally considerable
of their daughters?
Miss Faithful urged that it would be
q good thing for humanity if each and
every girl could be taught trade or
profession early in life. No girl had
the tight to assume that she would be
clothed, fed, and cared for always. She
should be prepared to go through life
as u bread winner if need be. idle
ness" said Miss Faithful ''is always
discreditable in woman" The lee
turer had no objections to innocent so
cial amusements, but she strongly con-
demned the growing tendency among
society women to give themselves up
entirely to the pursuit. Of frivolous
pleasures. 1t had been repeatedly said
that there never was any evil in the
world but that woman was at the
bottom of it, but Miss Faithful said
the facts of history would show that no
great good had ever been accomplished
in the world that woman did not have
a hand in it. She did not believe in the
notion that man was the superior cre9-
ture and woman merely his shadow.
She maintained that each sex had its
proper and equal sphere, and that man
and woman were designed TO be CO.
workers. The female mind was fully
as capable of cultivation as the male
mind, and the same tree of knowledge
would afford mental food for both.
Miss Faithful spoke of the gratifying
resuls of the educational reform move
ment among the women of England.
She touched briefly upon the various
branches of industry in which women
are engaged, and commended the work
Of the Ladies Decorative Art Society
of this city. In London she said that
women were making their way success
fully into the several professions and
trades, and a large number Of female
clerks, telegraph operators copyists,
ETC., whre employed in the English civil
service. She spoke of her own success
full experience with female type-setters,
and said that Queen Victoria had es-
pecially commended typographical
work done by women. As for the bug
bear that woman's chances for matri-
mony were decreased by her taking her
place among the working people Of the
world, Mrs Faithful said that if = man
desired a wife who would not be drag
upon him, the fact of her being able
to earn her own living would not detract
from her value in ais eyes,