The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-31
The Daily Bulletin,
OFFICIAL PAPER or ALEXANDER COUNTY
ENTERED AT TuE CAIRO r0sfoFFICE F0R
TRANSMISSION THRoUGn rIIE MAIIs AT
SECOND CLASS RATES.
The Paradise of Women.

Miss Emily Faithful, says the PaH
Mall Gazette, who has just returned
from her third locturing tour in the
United States, brings back n great
store of information concerning tho
position and prospects Of women who
work across tho Atlantic. Tho field
for female labor Is much widor there
than it is in tho Old World; prejudice
against tho employment OF women,
which are rampant here, arc there
either non-oXistont or so attonuatod Ms
to bo innocuous. Women occupy al
most every profession, and tho Amori-
cans have realized much moro than
the Old World nations tho idoal Of 10
carricrc ouyorto aux talents 80 far rs
tho sexes arc concerned. In the States
there are female barristors, pastors,
doctors, and, in short, members OF
almost every profession except tho
army and navy, tho nearest approach
to u naval officer being Mrs. Captain
Mary Miller, who recently succeeded
to the command Of n Mississippi stoam-
boat ON tho death 81 her husband.
There is hardly n newspaper in tho
country of standing and influence
which has not at least two or thrco
women rs regular members OF It's staff.
One of tho leading newspapers in New
York has u lady rs its socond-bost
writer, and one of the best newspaper
properties in tho foreign press of
America is edited by German lady,
who took over the business on tho death
of her husband. Women act rs regular
reporters, and ono has achieved consld-
siderable notoriety rs critic OF cattlo
shows. AS intorviowers women arc
very successful, and tho specially of
the female journalist in America Is N
certain indolinablo lightness of touch,
combined with grace and brightness
of expression, which her coniroro cm-
ulates in vain.
Ono point which impressed Miss
Faithful much in her American jour
neyings is tho fact that women in
America arc much less ashamed to
earn living than in this country. In
England IL Is regarded rs natural and
right for man TO work for his daily
bread but for lady to earn n salary
is too often regarded MS discreditablo,
Nine women out of ten who arc earn
ing their living will preface tho state
ment of that fact by a moro or less
elaborate apology for having to work
for their living. In other words, work
Is not regarded as the normal state of
women, and this shows itself in many
ways. English ladies applying for u
situation will give false names, and in
one case, which only recently camo
under Miss Faithfull's notice, n lady
threw up profitable situation rather
than TO allow her name to DO known to
her follow workers. In America it is
otherwise. Fino-ladyism Is creeping in,
| no doubt, but it has not yet attained
that universally which it enjoys in
England. America, however, Is UNI
qucstionably tho paradise for Ameri
can women, nor is there any country
in the world in which tho husbands arr
so good, so kind SO aflectlonato us il
the States. In fact, they spoil thoi
wives In railway carriages tho wifi
Tolls Mt her case, surrounded by chcal
novels, while her husband nurses thu
children and supplies all their wants