The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
A Sensible Girl.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
This is letter from very sensible
young woman of North Carolina, and
we give it prominence the more gladly
because it comes from the South,
where labor, according to a freque2t
accusation, is held in less esteem than
here at the North:
81 am an unmarried young woman, have
finished the course in one OF our Southern
female colleges, have good health and
character but, unhappily, have been
thrown upon my own resources for a liveli-
hood and, not having been fitted for any
special calling am at a loss what to do,
for do not wish to be a burden on my
family. Teaching school seems to be the
only thing the average Southern woman
ever thinks OF doing for living. would
prefer the place OF a servant-that OF
nursery or ladys maid-in a refined iami-
ly, to the position OF teacher in, our public
schools, but our wealthy families will not
employ white servants. | spent one year
studying art at Cooper Institute, and
though have earned something by the
knowledge OF drawing acquired there, lean
not make that support me. | am quite
willing to do anything for living that
virtuous christian woman would do, and
IAN give the best OF references"
The handwriting of this letter is that
OF an educated and cultivated woman,
and yet the writer does not feel that
she would suffer any degradation In
going into domestic service, which she
wisely perfers to the occupation
sought after by most girls other train
ing, associations and antecedents.
The ordinary American young woman
who has her living to make, even when
she has none of the advantages of
training which have been enjoyed by
our correspondent, rejects with scorn
any proposition that she shall 60 out
to service In family.
81 a servanU?" she exclaims. "Iwill
starve frst!"
The very term is odious to her, and
vet, all the same, if she is to earn her
living, she must be servant of some
sort-in a shop, a factory, school, a
telegraph Office, or elsewhere. She
will not be an independent being, for
nobody can be who has to work for Il
living She must be under orders,
must obey discipline, must submit to
much she does not like, and daily and
hourly subordinate her will and her
wishes to those of others. Whatever
SIZE may be called, or whatever she
may call herself, she is q servant.
A domestic servant, too, is no more
under subsection than any other kind
of servant, and, as rule, the author
ity is exercised more considerably in
domestic service than outside of it.
The shop girl and thefactory girl must
ordinarily yield unquestioning obe-
dience to laws which take no account
of sentiment; but tho household SER
want, one of few in family, can gem
orally obtain treatment which regards
her feelings and her condition, and
which often is careful to the point of
affection. She has q home, suffers
from no lack Of food is paid wages
which are higher than those obtained
by women in almost every other en-
pioyment and is sure of place if she
is of good disposition, trustworthy
and competent. She is not obliged to
be out in all weathers to fight her way
against male competition, but is un-
der shelter and is working at a busi-
ness of which her sex have in large part
the monopoly.
Therefore we applaud the resolution
Of our North Carolina correspondent
to seek domestic service in preference
to any other. II she is strong and
healthy, has been properly trained in
household duties, and is ready to oc-
cupy her thoughts with her work
rather than herself and the inevitable
drawbacks OF the lot of every
body who has to work under
the orders of others, she will be
sure of steady employment and
wages which will enable her to put by
money against a rainy day. Such q
girl as she ought to make an admira-
BILE nurBe for children, an occupation
| OF which women have the complets
monopoly. The more intelligent and
refined the nurse the better for tbs
| child and the mother. The demand
for women like her to perform that
especial and peculiarly feminine duty
! is always great, tor the injury done to
morals and manners Of children by
coarse and rude nurses is incalcuable.