The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-03
PRODUCERS AS WELL AZ CONSC MERS.

Sensible German parents have always
brought up their daughers to be produc-
ers as well as consumers in the domestic
economy. 1t is only the Amerlcan- par
ent vii" made the kitchen unattrsctive
to his daughter and gave her no possibi-
lity Of employing her talent except in
the few lady-like departments sanction.
ell by conservative custom. The time is
coming, lay, has already come, when
a sign reading ''Smith 4 Daughters" will
merely indicate that all Mr.. Smiths BOYS
were girls, and he had educated them as
he would have done if they had been
boys. And that Smitl, girls, instead Of
dawdling around the paternal mansion
until some young men could be found for
husbands, have wisely gone into busi-
ness with their father, and have never
found time to be discontented with them
selves.
WHAT MRS. WALTON SAYS.
When Edison, genius and inventor as
he is, had given two weeks Of his vahl-
able time to going up and down on the
New York Elevated Railroad, trying to
discover what caused its noise and cure
for it, he gave up the job. Then little
woman took it. She rode on the cars
three days, was denied place to stand
on the rear pls tform, laughed at for her
curiosity, and politely snubbed by con.
ductors and passengers. But che discov-
cred what caused the noise, invented Il
remedy, which was patented, and she
was paid sum Of $4,000 and a royalty
forever! Her name is Mrs. May Wal
ton, and she lives in the city Of New
York. This is what she SAYS Of her e,ln-
.,ation:
Ny father had No SONS and believed in
educating his daughters. He spared m
pains or expense to this end. My fathers
brother once raid to him. ''Why do sou
waste so mucl, money on your girls ~
I" which my father replied. "My boys
all turned out to be girls, and am going
to give them as good an education
s. that they NAV turn out to he as good af
bows
j 4 POOR EREtOMMENDATION.
As good as boys is here used in a gen
cral sense; as good as some boys would
be very poor recommendation. Any
girl who understands her own capabili
+ ties will do her work as we'll as it posi-
bic to be done. No boy can do bettel
than that. Work is without sex. Ger
tain departments Of labor are claimed
! exclusively by boys and men becans'
they have Legendary right in them. N
competition has entered the lists agains
them. If !; woman can make goo.
horse shoe she can Open Il forge AM
make Shoes No Ole has the right 4
say she shall not. There are men VIII
are milliners, tlressmakers, and who sci
dry goods, and they do these things =
well II" one disputes their right t.
them.
IN THE MERCANTILE wORLD.
The girl who has educated herself +
fill some niche in the mercantile worl
may marry and never carry her know
ledge any further than her own n'irser,
What then? She is well fitted t. teacl
her sons and daughters the rudimcnts {
commercial knowledge, to counsel an
advise with her husband. and if left
widow, to take the care Of her own est
ate There is no vaster heritage Of igno
ance and uselessness than the array I
thread and needle accomplishment
which for generations has been consider
I'd the correct dover for a lady,lik
young person. Consider your girls q
responsible fellow-citizens, and educat
them accordingly.