Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-02-23
TIE home CIRCLE.
oNDucrED By MRS. Nj. woLvERTcs
What Woman Can Do.
BY BESSIE. VICTOR

What Woman Can Do.
BY BESSIE, VICTOR
i, is interesting to learn through the
medium of the various newspapers ant
magazinesthat are interested in woman'
work and her actual sphere of action
in this world, of the various profitable
e,nployments which are even now oper
to women who have brains and energy
If a young man tails in business Oh
doe not profit by his faculties and
advantages, his failure is not held up &c
the world as reason why other young
men are entirely untitled for bust
ness life. 1t is to be expected that
there will he failures among men. anc
nobody seems much surprised at Ii
But let woman undertake something
and with fearful odds against her with
which her brother would not have to
contend, should she make failure her
unfortunate example is held up as a
warning to others not to undertake a
business which she is supposed to be
incapable by nature OF carrying on to
success.
Working women may be thankful
that so much is being done in the d.
recuon of opening up to them of new
fields of labor, whereby they may earn
for themselves a comfortable living,
and by economy lay by something for
a rainy day."
The seSchool of Industrial Art in
New York City, has opened depot
for the sale of women's work. There
are in all cities women who are we'll
educated, refined, ETC., but who though
compelled to do something for their
own support, yet know of no way by
which they may turn their accomplish
ments to account in the direction OF
earning money. This new departure
of the industrial Art School, will en-
able many of these to work at home
and find a reader sale for their manu-
faclures than as though they depended
on their own Individual efforts.
Many medical colleges are now
open to women, and IN certain lines of
that profession their ministrations can
not but be productive of great good to
those in their care. 1t is to be hoped
that girls who have prediction for
this profession will not be discouraged
by their friends with the stale argument
that i, is usurping mans work.
In the great state of Texas. the
largest individual sheep owner is wo-
man. She owns ever fifty thousand
cheep, which wander over the ranges
of Uvalde and Bandera counties, IN
the southwestern part of the state. At
the spring and fall shearings, long trains
of wagons transport the widows wool
70 market.
81. There is not a state in the union
that could not bear witness to the fact
that women can be successful farmers
and it Is not rare TO hear Of their pre-
emptlng land In our western States. and
managing them quite as successfully
as man would.
Women set type, edit newspapers,
manage stores, publishing houses, thea
tiers, asylums and graded schools; be-
sides a host Of lesser enployments.
Who can say that there Is nothing a
woman can do The truth is she can
do almost everything provided she will
patiently and thoroughly learn how,
and persistently Silk TO it, One great
trouble is that women cannot endure
the thought Of giving up the pleasures
OF society for the sake of success in
business, and this is what must be
done to a great extent before either
man or woman succeeds in anything. |
Il is an imnossihility to serve two mas. |