Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-13

| ton from the making of flimsy nothing
to the manufacturing Of important some
things.
i Much of the time spent in young ladies
seminaries In studying what are called the
"higher branches" might better te ex-
pended in teaching them something by
which they could support themselves. II
you are going to be teachers, or il you
have so much asaured wealth that you can
always dwell in sose high regions, tri-
gonometry of course, metaphysics OF
course, Latin and Greek, and German aud
French and italian Of course, and 100
other things, Of course, but il you are not
expecting to teach, and your wealth is not
established bevond misfortune, after yod
have learned the ordinary branches, take
hold of that kind of study that will psy in
dollars and cents in case you are thrown
on your own resources. Learn to do
som thing better than anybody else. Buy
Virginia Penny's book entitled "The
Emplovments of Women" and learn there
are 500 ways in which 8 woman may earn
8 living.
"Nc, not" says some young woman, 81
will not undertake anything SO unromsn-
tic and commonplace as that" An tx
cellent author writes that after he hsd, in
a book, argued for efficiency in womanly
work in order to success, and positive ap-
premiership by way of preparation, 3
| prominent chemist advertised that he
would teach class Of women to become
druggists and apotheceries If they would
go through an apprenticeship as
men do, and printer advertised
| women to learn the printers trade il they
| 7Dt.lI SianS HI
men do, aud how many according to the
account Of the suthoress do you suppose
applied to become skilled in the druggist
| business and printing business? Not
ont O1e yourg woman said she would
be willing to try the printing business
for six onths, but by that time her older
sister would be married, and then her
mother would wasn't her at home. My
sisters, il will be skilled womanly labor
that will finally triumph.
"But," you ask, "what wo1ld my
father and mother say If they saw was
| dong such questionable work." Throw
the whole responsibility npon the pastor
| CT the Brooklyn Tabernacle, who is con-
stantlY hearing of young women in all
these cities who, unqualified by their pre-
vious luxurious surroundings for the aw-
ful struggle OF life into which they have
been suddenly hurled, seemed to have
nothing left them but a choice between
STARVATION AND DAMNATION.
There they go along the street O'Clock
in the wintry mornings through the elush
and storm to the place where they shall
earn only half enough for subsistence, the
daughters OF once prosperous merchants,
lawyers, clergymen, artists, bankers sn6
capitalists, who brought up their chfdren
under the internal delusion that issEas not
high-tO7ed for women to learn q pro fis&
able calling. Young women, take tbiSk
fair in your own hand and let there besen
instruction in sll prosperous familiee of
Brooklyn and New York and ChristS&6om
on the part Of the daughters of this day,
demanding knowledge in occupations and
styles Of business by which they may be
their own defense and their own support
if sll fatherly snd husbandlY and brother
ly hands forever fail them.
I have seen two sad sights-the one o
woman in all the glory Of her young life
stricken by disease, and in week llfeless
IN home CT which she had been the
pride. As her hands were folded over
the still heart and her eyes closed for the
last slumber, and she was taken out amid
the lamentations Of kindred and friends,
[ thought that WAS sadness immeasura-
bic. But l have seen something COM
pared with which that scene was bright
and songful. 1t was 8 young woman who
had been all her days amid wealthy sur
rOundiDgs, by the visit Of death and bank
ruptcy to the household turned out on q
cold world without one lesson about how
to get food or shelter, and into the awful
whirlpool of city life where strong ships
have gone down, and for twenty years
not one word has been heard from
her. Vessels last week went ont on the
Atlantic ocean looking for shipwrecked
craft that was left alone and forsaken On
the sea few weeks ago with the idea OF
bringing it into port. But who shall ever
bring again into the harbor Of peace snd
hope and heaven that lost womanly i'm
mortal, driven in what tempes!? Afama
in what coDfagration2 Sinking into what
abyss? 0 Gcd, help! o Christ, rescue
My sisters, give not your time to learn
ing fancy work which the world may dis
pepse with when hard times come, but
connect your skill with the indisps nsa-
bles of life. The world will always want
something to wear and something TO eat,
and shelter and fuel for the body and
knowledge for the mind and religion for
the soul. And al these things will con-
tlnue to De the necessaries, and if you
fasten your energies upon occupations
and professions thus related the world
will be unable to do without you. Re-
member that in proportion as you are
skillful in snythlDg your riValries be-
come less. For unskiled toll, women by
the million. But you may rise to where
there are only thousand, and still! higher
TIL there are only q hundred, and still high
er till there are only ten, and still higher
in some particular department till there
is only 8 unit, and that yourself. For q
while you may keep ~nges and 8 place
through the kindly sympathies OF an en-
ployer, but you will eventually get no
more compensation than you Csn make
yourself worth.
Let ne say to sll women who hsve al
ready entered upon Inc battle of life that
the time is coming when woman shall not
only get as much
SALARY AND WAGES
as men get, but for certain styles of en-
ployment women will have higher salary |
and more wages, for the reeson that for |
some styles of work they have more |
adaptation. But this justice will come to |
woman not through any sentiment of gal |
lsntrY, not because woman Is physically |
weaker than man, and therefore ought to |
have more consideration shown her, but |
because through her finer natural taste |
and more grace Of manner and quicker |
perception and more delicate touch and |