Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-12
THE WORK QUESTION AGAIN.
By BRETTE LYNDON.

winch sue is taugnU 10 10 we'll. III
majority of instances this is, no doubt
true. But we often see women lamen.
ting their inability to obtain employ
ment, when the ruth is they are look
ing for something that will never hap
pen, viz to get place with big sal
airy with nothing to do that will soil
their hands or muss their clothes
There are a great many people, both
men and women, who imagine that a
woman cannot lie "a lady," ;fshe gets
her hands dirty. or wears coarse or
plain clothing They do not look upon
employment as men do,-as a means of
gaining an honest livelihood now, and
as stepping-stone to something better
in the future-but they regard it mere
ly as an opportunity of getting little
more spending money than their broth
ers or fathers are willing to give them.
Very few are willing to serve an APP
premiership, such as is required ola
young i,:an before hei entitled to any
thing like decent salary, and almost
every one who undertakes to learn a
trade, really renders the effort useless,
by getting married to the first empty
headed masculine who offers himself.
Instances are not rare, within my own
knowledge, of persons who claim to
want employment and yet practically
nullify their seeming desire for 1t, by
refusing to accept of work that they
can do. They are too proud to do plain
sewing, or 10 help in somebody's kitch-
en-, which is all they know how to DO;
foo!ishly harping on the theme II am
too much of lady," TODD this, or that,
or the other. Or, ''no lady will do such
dirty work" or Il won't work for Mr..
So-and-so, for his wife isn't lady, or
Il cannot be seen carrying bundle;
no lady does such things Poor fools |!
They DO not even know what it is to be
a lady as they falsely term it. Mnch
better say. "womdp.' God made wo-
man, but an over.n,ce and hypercriti-
cal state of society made the term lady
to be frequently used in the same sense.
A true woman, is always lady; no
matter what her dress, her occupation,
her education or her position in socle-
ty; and the fear of God Is ever with her
first, before the. fear of Il heard" or
they say"
We Sometimes lear the idea advanc-
ed IN all sincerity ought not
" ''orn i" t'.ae, they should study
housekeeping. Now whether thew
know it, or not, this very idea is at the
bottom of so many foolish and unbap.
py marriages. Those who advance this
idea are usually happily mated them
selves and consider it helnous CRIME
if everybody else is not IN the same
blssful condition. Girls should study
housekeeping" What for? OF course
80 that they may be better be able to
AXE charge Of their own domestic ar
engagements when some man kindly
to give them the benefit of
heir name and their often doubtful
protection. New Is this lest? Can
very girl study Housekeeping to any
advantage? I
We commonly see IN every child {
ONE characteristic more prominent
han al. the others. In boys this is us
tally fostered by praise and judicious
Instruction until when the the time
rriyes for him to learn some trade, or
hoose his occupation for life, he is Il
'retty certain what he wants to do; v
nd if he is lad of much determine.
Ion and stlck-to-lt-a-tive-ness, he goes
bout his chosen calling with vim and
ctivity which is surety of success.
lot so the girl. If she shows prefer. e
nee in early years tor anything he
des dolls, play-houses, dress, curls, i.
affles, and the most approved way of :;
laklng bow, or of looking nicely, she =
considered very undesirable young y
erson, and is sighed over, and rerrov- Id
by all the mothers, manageable D.
sterS, aid maiden aunts in the COM
unity; Mary Jane is such a strange =,
lid" MARY Jane Just hates to wash -,
shes" signs her mother; Il do no. :,
low what to do with her; and she % .,
on cook if she can possibly avoid V
Now Mary Jane has big brother, Ut
no is learning to be an architect, and pr
interposed with little wise counsel tn
lich if needed might make of Mary
ne a happy, successful woman. "You +,
3 all of you finding fault with Mary -:
ne; there ism a smarter girl in the Al
ighborhood. She has splendid tai. 'ii'
for designing, and knows now as an
lch as | do about drawing the plans no
d making out the specifications for a sh;
llding. You'd better send her to a col
lool OF Design, instead Of making her tai
sh dishes. Bridget can wash dishes,
it is real charity to let her do it."
t Mary was not allowed TO learn pa
at she so much desired, and so in thr
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