The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-21
THE WORKING WOMEN.
They Are More COntented Than the Idla
Daughters OF the Rich.
Isan Francisco Call

They Are More COntented Than the IdlS
Daughters OF the Rich.
san Francisco Call
Surely no sble-bodied, self-respecting
woman has any complaint to make of the
tact that in the past fifty years there has
been secured to her the right to earn her
living. This is rather an occasion for re-
joicing. In this age, when the public press
is devotlng so much attention to opening
fields of labor for women, when from pull
pit and rostrum and work shop and school
room are coming words of help and en-
couragement, it is curious to hear one voice
raised in lamen tation over the fact that al
this means the setting of women to work,
as if they had not always been working
Shaving, in fact-in unrecognized corners
and against fearful odds, as though the So
called curse OF labor had not, for women
as well as men, concealed the "fairest boon
Gods love could send" as though there
were any reason In fact for such a etate-
meDt as the one that women who are out
IN the world at work are grow ing hard and
bitter and losing their won ally delicacy,
etc. The writer's experience with several
organizations Of workingWOmen has
been that among no class of
women are there so few bitter or
discon' ented ones. Nothing 80 brosdens
ones life and mind and character as
ncdAeNS WnO4cbOu4c MUIhs IL u BIcdtceL
OF follies TO spend so much time in COM
miseratiDg the hard lot OF the working
girl in having to work. Many an idle,
novel reading, disconnected daughter of
wealth is more to be pitied. Pity the
conditions under which women have to
work, the inadequate wages, the unreason-
able demands, the cruel oppression and the
many disadvantages which the agitation
Of strong minded women have not yet
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sym pathy TO bright, wide awake Ameri
can business girl, because she has to work,
and note her establishment at your views.
And who with the score OF examples
upon every side OF noble women, support
ing themselves and others, going to and
from their business daily, and maintaining
IN every relation of life dignity and deli
cacy Of womsnly character that commands
the respect of all, dares maintain that our
business womeL are losing their delicacy
and refinement? Nor do men lose their
chivalry. 1t is the testimony of all who
have tried the experiment, that the best
way to elevate the tone of a business estab-
ishment in which there are many en-
ployes, is to employ self respecting women
and let them work side by side with the
men.
An Eastern manager Of a mercantile
business which boasts an Office in every
large city in the Union, DESTROYS of intro
ducing q better tone of morality and de.
pertinent among the employees OF his Office,
tried the experiment of employing women
In several OF the departments. The ex-
pertinent was decided success, and to-day
that Office, for thorough business ability
and equipment, and for the moral and
social character of its employees, is a model
among the offices of that concern, and its
example is widely copied. Men do not
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regards protected womanhood as worthy of
consideration Is poor sort OF article that
the world is lust as well of without,