The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-07-24
WOMAN'S COLUMN.
EDITED BY JusTITIA.

| to be well-bOrn. ana 10 DC Wen DORM means
to he born free from all transmittible disea-
ses of body or soul.
Scene: Polling booth in Nebraska:
Heah, boss, jes read dis ticket Tor me. II
INV ole 'oman wuz heah she could read it.
| Why Sambo, that is constitutions
| Amendment', for Woman Suffrage.
"What dat woman sufferin mean, Boss 2,
| ssIt means to let women vote" Sho, 1
dom vote dat ticket. Wimen don know
huff to vote"
Mrs. Devereanx Blake has fable some
| thing like this:
| in a Field where they Picked good Living,
| and asked Leave to come in and Pick too.
But the brakes said Females ought not to
| Get their own Living, they Shouid get
Husbands to Support them. So the Ducks
| chippered their Prettiest Nonsense, lest the
| brakes should Think them Strong Minded,
| and Smoothed and Oiled their Feathers
| and Grained their Necks, and Tried to look
] Handsome but the brakes only said,
"What silly things these Ducks are. They
think of Nothing only getting Married
Three or four weeks since in Hartford a
husband beat his wife, knocked her down.
kicked her in the side, breaking in ana
splintering a rib. She fingered In great
pain till last week when she died OF heart
disease 1t was clearly case of chronic
ssheart disease" proven by the fact that
| for eight or ten wears she had supported
this legal lord of hers, while repaid by Kicks
and blows only,-an indication that her
head as well as her heart was aneeted-
| The Police Cont has cruelty and tyran-
nically sent this woman's husband, her
! protector to Jail for six whole months,
merely for smashing in his wife's ribs TO
cure her ssheart disease" Surely, Mems
Rights are In peril, if they can be sent TO
| Jail and deprived of their liberty for thing
so trif1ing.
Liberty is just rs dear to woman as to
man. A competence seems to be necessary
for the attainment of personal freedom.
It has been truly said ''He who controls
my means of subsistence controls my whole
| being" Though, no one rich or poor is
wholly independent of others, but to be
| financially dependent for food and clothing
makes one more or less slave. A major
| ity of the women in this country live wholly
| or in part by their own industry, and IL
| doing so they labor under much greater
| disadvantage than Observation-Disclosures
imposed by society. No boys education is
thought to be complete till he has been
| trained to some industrial, professional or
business pursuit, by which he can support
himself. But girls as q rule are given only
a superficial education, that Is very little
aid TO them in earning livelihood. This
| in measure is owing to the false, foolish
| and pernicious idea that labor is degrading
LanWOmeuS Is mort -FcSpSCbdu1S 10
4maintained than to be self supporting.
But why is it not as respectable for
woman TO earn her own bread as for a man
There is no reason except this unreasonable
public sentiment. Women in their own
homes work more hours and usually harder
than their husbands. In fact, women have
done the most of the worlds real drudgery,
and all of it, in savage or barbarous
countries.
No doubt a woman's truest and most sat
isfactory career is in a home, as wife and
mother, provided-ah; how many con-
| tingencies may be embraced in that word,
provided-but the most important one is
that the husband be worthy and faithful.
Thousands of women, and we regret to say
it, would have been TAR more happier had
they remained unmarried. Besides there
is surplus of women in New England that
will compel many to lives of celibacy.
Sixty-five thousand more woman than
men in Massachusetts,, and 250,000 have
to earn their own bread; and the same state
| of things exists in Connecticut and in all
our great business centers. There is not
one woman in the land that is not liable at
some time to be thrown upon her own
resources.
every girl should learn some business or
profession by which she can become self
supporting. Learn il thoroughly, and then
push your way to the utmost of your capac-
tiles. No matter if it increases competition
and crowds men down to the limit of
human endurance. The sooner it is done
the better. They have monopolized the
ballot, but will not use IL in their own
defence, though if it were welded right
it would pave the way TO conditions by
which every person could have the means
and the opportunity of earning an honest
living; for so boundless are the resources of
this great country, If utilized, and the pro-
ceeds justly distributed, that ten times its
present population could live in comfort
and plenty.
Besides this idiotic but fashionable idea,
that woman loses caste who supports her
self by her own industry, another and
greater obstacle has been that almost all
profitable employmehts have, by custom,
prejudice, or statute, been closed to women;
and the competition for the few kinds open
to her has crowded her pay down to starya-
ton prices. But the persistence and hero
ism with which women have pushed their
way into the different employments mon
opolized by men were wonderful. 1t 10
but few years since, when women first
intruded themselves behind the counter to
sell tape and ribbon and elastics, or behind
the desk to keep books, they were said to
be tout of their sphere" it was 'tmen's
business" and they had to endure the odium
OF unwomanliness. When she came into
the printing offire every man dropped his
stick and left his case; he sswould not set
type by the side of woman and that oppo-
sition has not yet ceased. Printers can
hardly be censured, for they have to COM
bat competition enough among themselves;
but they should reflect that women must
eat as well as they, and men are able 10
turn their hands to heavier work. Women
have not complained when men have
crowded into their province, become dress
makers and milliners,-have not even
called them feminine men,
Another reason why women have neglect
ed to qualify themselves to be self-support-
ing is, that every girl, and the parents of
every girl, expect that sometime she will
marry, and as wife and housekeep-r she
will have no use for knowledge of some
skilled industry. So, she labors und, q e
same kin of hindrance to her usefulness
that the sons of rich men have 10 encoun-
ter who in anticipation of patrimony have
no incentive to spur them on to learn some
useful business, and therefore lead worth
less life.
BUlLHEADEDNESS.
Henry Georges new book, "PRorncTIoN