The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-04

their own carpentering, because their re-
spected grandfathers were from necessity
"Jacks at all trades,n and did the same,
The Rev. Morgan Dix has made diver
sion in his holy calling to inform The world
that woman's proper sphere is embraced
in boiling cabbage, baking beans and
nursing children; and Mr.. Frederick
Thorpe, of Flushing, L. l., has come to
the front in the newspapers to boast of
his distinguished experience in owning q
wife who has not been on the street for
eleven years, receives no visits and makes
none, and all that time he has enjoyed the
unparalleled felicity of never putting on
shirt that had button off, and never
drawing on a stocking that had other than
the hole into which the foot must go.
Mrs. E. A. Conner, the "E. A" of the
Commercial Gazette In reply to her lee
ture lately delivered in Cincinnati on
"Woman in the Industries has called out
the brilliant information from an anony-
nous masculine that "Woman as a COM
petitor in the industries works social and
domestic ruin, and that 'woman's place is
in the house and in the kitchen" Like
most of these predjudiced and unreason-
ing grumblers, he supposes that all wo-
men have or are destined to have good
provident and indulgent husbands, from
whom, if not restrained" they would of
their own intrinsic waywardness rush into
the arena of business lite, and become the
competitors of men in trades in the profes-
sion and in politics.
A few years ago successful lady prin-
cipal in one of the Cleveland schools mar
ried. The next we heard of her she had
been obliged, with slender strength tc GO
back to teaching, and was earning the
chief support for her husband, baby and
mother-inlaw- She was fairly driven out
of "home and kitchen" and forced to
take mans place, if you choose to call
ii so, because her rightful protector had
proven himself incompetent to keep his
wife in "a woman's place" The skillful
appliances of machinery now accomplish
with def rapidity what was once wrought
out by the laborious toll of woman's
hands, but the same administrative ability
and tact that serves a mother and house
keeper in the confusing duties of a COM
| plicated household makes her equally
capable when she gives her attention to
/ other work.
Mrs. Mary B. Allcott, of Portchester, N.
Y, is Superintendent of the packing de-
partment of extensive Bolt Works, has
been thirty years in her position, and has
charge of fifty employees, mostly women
and girls, over whom she has great and
| good personal influence. The qualities
of painstaking in details, of accuracy in
little things, and Of patience and faithful
ness which make woman the superior
nurse and teacher are found to be invalua-
BILE when she serves as book-keeper, clerk,
secretary or typewriter. We have recent
and reliable testimony of business and
professional men, that in these situations
| they have found women more accurate
and faithful, more punctual, reliable, and
more willing Il do whatever pertains 10
the interest of the employer, not strictly
defined by their ordinary requirements
than young men.
The Postal Department of the Govern
ment of India, has adopted the system OF
employing women clerks in the Offices
Intelligent nurses are always in demand
and we are glad to note that the training
school OF the Bellevue Hospital recently
graduated twenty young women, whose
services command Immediately $50 week
in addition to board and lodging.
Not all husbands are afraid to let their
wives keep alongside OF them in study
lest some day the woman should be g
step in advance. The wife of the late
Professor Draper was so familiar with hel
husbands pursuits that it is thought she
may be able to complete his unfinished
work, which we mention only as q recent
but by no means singular example of in
tellectual as well as physical companion
ship.
The worlds philanthropy, christianity
and charity is largely indebted 10 the fact
that women have not only guided thu
home aud looked after the kitchen, but
have had brains and sympathies to spare
and have given of their superior practical
knowledge the best of help to aid thos.
less intelligent, less accomplished and les
fortunate than themselves. As a moderr
instance of recognition OF her suitabilit,
to be an Apostle of good beyound tn
realm of her own home, we note that Mrs
Egbert Guernsey was appointed by Gov
Cornell, of New York, Secretary of tn
Commission to carry out the Legislativ,
act regarding the New State Reformation,
for Women.
That morbid fear that If all women ar
not kept physically tired with house worl
they will certainly fly to mischief ant
moral ruin; and the belief that cooking
and kitchen work are specially adapted t
| keep them true to their husbands and q
mdthers of children are both relics of 81
perstitioa not worth repeating. As wei
might wives set up chorus of remon
STRANGE because heir husbands do not d.
all the sweeping and 5usting, building o
fires and porters' work in their stores ant
offices. 1t is necessary that most womel
have a practical knowledge of cooking
sewing, and of what constitutes prudent
neat and comfortable housekeeping, but i
docs not follow that a woman, not physi
cally calculated to be success at an un
ceasing round of homework may not d.
something that exhausts her less, or TO
which she has peculiar ability, and cal
earn two or three times as much as woul'
hire the other done by those who need tn
pay and could not do what she can. Th
business man is not charged with neglec