Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-05-22

your brothers viii find. But that is not
yet; perhaps the day will come. Women
must work yet awhile under discourage
ment such as only women know. Don't ex-
pect the help your brother gets, Make up
your mind to that in the beginning. am
only saying that, once your mind is made.
you will find help enough to enable you TO
keep it in shape; and, after alt. that is a
great deal.
Now. the earlier YOU do this the better.
\ gir of thirteen can not decide, TO be sure,
With any discretion or any assurance, wheth-
er she will he a sculptor or a wash woman.
farmer or poet but she can decide dis
tinctiy whether it is her wish or her duty.
after leaving school or college. to remain
i deps ndent upon her parents or TO fit herself
for self providing life.
The education by which YOU mean TO get
your bread and butter. YOUR gloves and
bonnets, is very different affair from that
which YOU take upon yourself as an orna-
ment and an interval in life. The chemical
experiment which YOU may some day have
TO explain TO pupils Of YOUR own is quite
another thing from the lesson that you may
never think of again. The practice IN book
keeping. which may some time regulate
your dealings with live. flesh and blood
customers. becomes as interesting as new
story. The dull old rules for infection and
enunciation fairly turn into poetry. if YOU
hope TO find yourself great public reader
some coming DAY. And the very sawdust
Of the French or Latin grammar becomes
ashes Of roses TO the stout little fancy that
dreams Of brave work and big salary. in
some foreign department at Washington.
us tutoring girls or boys for college All
over the terrible ocean, among the lawless
sailors. the men with wives and children to
work for. are those who lead the gentiest
and cleanest lives. So, on the great ocean
Of school-life. the girls with aims TO study
FOR, are those whose labor is the richest and
the ripest All you will never realize till
YOU have tried il what an immense power
over the life is the power Of possessing dis.
4 fInct aims. The voice. the dress. the look
{ the very motions of person, define and al
ter when he or she begins 10 live for a rea.
son. fancy ,ha, can select in crowded
street the husy. blessed women who suppor,
4 themselves. They carr, themselves with an
al. of conscious self-respect and self-content
which a shabby alpaca can not hide, nor
Bonnet silk enhance. nor even sickness or
exhaustion quite drag out
But, girls, il you don't mean to make a
thorough business Of the occupation YOU
have chosen, never, never. Rcrer begin to be
occupied ai all. Unfinished work will do
Tor amateurs. IL will never answer for pro.
tesslnnais. The bracket YOU are saving for a
New Years present can hang a little crook
ed on lis screws, and YOU will be forgiven
''!or the loves sake found therein" by The
dear heart TO which YOU offer il; but the
rinket carved for sale in the Sorrento
rooms must be cut as true a. rnse-leaf
You can b. 4 little ,hak, a, to YOUR Ger
man decensions IN the Schiller club. which
YOU join so cnihu<ias,lca.lv after leaving
school. and no Erca, harm ever come IL It /:
hai teach Schiller for living. and for every
da'iyr case forgotten. YOU are so much mon
y out d? pocket
People who pay for thing demand thor
nggh workmanship or none 10 offer ID.
complete work for complete market price
4, 10 Ne either a cheat % 4 h,rgar The
terrible grinding laws of supply and De-
n lGa. pll and receive. g.yc AMI gct. give
ur quarter to shiiiy->ha'ly labor The *
eclIeucc M your Intentions Is nothing 70 The
pp.nt. Tile stress of YOUR poverty h4s not
the slightest connection with the case. An
editor VII. never pay lon for Your poem be-
cause YOU wish 10 help Your cher NJ
customer uii buy her test bonnet or her
wheat -four Of YOU because You are unable
70 pa, Your rent. When ,ou have entered
the world Of trade, YOU have entered d world
where Tenderness and charity and nersona!
ir'-rest are foreign relations Not ..for
friendships sake. nor "for pity, sake"
nor flor chi,alry's sake" runs the grea, raj
lying gcr' of this grea, world,-but only
"for rdinc receired"
II is with sorrow and shame, bu. vet
with hope and courage. ,ha, ! write it,
there i reason for the extensive complaint
made by men. that women DO not work
thoroughly am afraid that, till time and
trouble shall have taught them better, thev
ail not. Is il because thew have never
been trained Is it because they expect to
be married That II IS not in the least be-
cause they can not, we know for We know
that some Of the most magnifcently accurate
~oik IN the world has been done by women.
Now. you who are the girls of TO-DAY
must find for Yourselves. and teach Ii. all. a
better way. Make up Your mind. to work
hard and 10 work patiently. Don't expec.
10 get the return Of skilled labor for un-
skilled effort. Rene mb-r that, no matter
what YOU intend 10 become. YOU cannot
avoid apprenticeship. Don't expect, if YOU
bring your education to an end at eighteen.
TO become a teacher or preacher, LAWYER
OF a physician. like your brother whose pre-.
paratory studies last till he is twentv.f i've
Don't think YOU can rush TO the art-yal-
leries, and sell your amateur water-coIor.
in competition with artists who have given
,,I u.,f IL.
Of their brushes and the culture Of their in-
spiratinns. Don't expect The Century Mag
asihe to print your stories I'LL YOU have ir.t
thrown great many poor manuscripts into
the FIRE lfyou wish to 90 INTO the book
sellers business, bc content to begin by
famiiiarizing Yourself with the backs of H.
braTes. II you aspire 10 be railroad tick
Il agent like a few hrigh, women have
seen.l learn your arithmetic lesson keenly,
that YOU may make quick change for hurried
people. Be content to begin humbly Be
careful To labor faithfully BE patient to
toll long
One Of the foremost of modern novelsts
was a woman--a woman whose patient, was
as immense as her fame. and her f,me is
owing much to her patience as to her
genius. In her great story Of Daniel Der
onda" George Eliot puts into the mouth of
musician addressing young lady who
has aspirations for the stage these memor-
able, cutting words
"lou have been brought up IN ease,--
YOU have done what Won would. YOU have
not said to yourself. Il must know this ex-
actly, 4 must understand this exactly 4
must do this exactly Ia uttering these
three terrible Einsts. klesmer lifted I'M thrpn