St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-08-18
WOMEN AS MONEY-MAkERS.

berton Ferry (Fta. Cor. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
WOMEN AS MONEY-MAKERs.
! They Do Not Succeed as Well as Men Be
cause They Are Better.
When woman has to concern hersel
with the material necessities of life sh.
! descends from higher plane than man
She must often stoop to conquer. HUI
mainly has made immense strides since
! it was first heard of, but it has grea
way yet to get before it reaches the re
! pose of perfect harmony and crowns {
finished world. The angel in man ha!
fatally bruised the head of the brute il
man, but the brute still bites at the
| head of the angel.
| AS between the angel and the brute
| think our own country leads the
world. The unquestionable claim O.
women, the Difference due to women
the sacredness of her physical inferior
ity and of her spiritual superiority, are
not only a commanding instinct, but
clearly defined idea in American man,
hood.
A thousand violations on the part Of
both men and women do not annihilate
this fact. Thousands of women earn.
ing their own living, thousands of wives
working harder than self-supportine
maidens, thousands of both doing THEN
work with or without protest, nay, even
with rejoicing, do not affect the fact.
Even America, advanced as it is, has
not reached the ideal life. It is much
that we have reached a point where we
can catch glimpses of the Promised
Land.
At first sight it seems ideal to say to
women who are wearing themselves out
in doing work that should be done by
servants, or to a world in which large
part of the household work not only,
but of outside work as well, is done by
women, that ultimately and ideally
they out not work at all. But in any
comparison of their effectiveness with
that of men, it certainly should never
be forgotten, it should always be kept
well in sight, that however unsuccess-
full their efforts be, it is in a field which
they are not made to cultivate. It is
better that they cultivate that field than
that they be idle in their own OR they
starve in their neighbors'.
Many women are not sufficiently de-
veloped to discern their own peculiar
work.
Without discerning it they do a great
deal of it instinctively in the lower
fields where they are forced to live, but
from which they will one day be gradu-
ated. But always it should be hold
upon all sides to the light that women's
real work is on character, her surest
weapon is influence. She can buy and
sell, and cook and sew, and wash and
iron, because she is still of the earth
earthly, but she can not do it as we'll as
a man because she is not so much of an
earth creature as he. As a matter of
fact, even in this favored country, where
men pay to women as women, not as
ladies, or bellies, Or beauties, an extra
ordinary Difference, the mass of wives
work as hard as the mass of husbands.
Their spiritual superiority is signifed
chiefly in this-that the women work
for love, the men for money.
The woman who fails in her business
is not necessarily the woman who sinks
beneath the toll of the kitchen, or who
pricks her life out with the needle, or
who can not make both ends meet in a
dry-goods establishment or milliner's
shop. Such woman fails in mans
business. not in her own. The woman
who makes real failure, failure in
her own business, is the unloved wo-
man, the ungracious woman, the grasp
ing, the selfish, the repressive, the I'M
the censorious, the I'M
truthful, the woman who is center of
a source of anxiety, an OBJ
ject of avoidance, instead of being that
gentle, consoling, considerate, mother
" magnet which draws unto itself adj
human want, and woe, and bliss. and
chi notion 1fj,, Ctr,