The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-20
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business.
How is this evil to be curedl Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that Its il IN earnest
thing. and that there is possibility, il
not strong probability, that they will
have to fight the hattie Of life alone. Let
every father and mother say to their
daughters: "Now, what would you do for
alivelihood il what now own were swept
awav by financial disaster. or old age or
death would end my career:"
swell, could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work" Yes. that is beau
tiful, and il you have genius for it go on
in that direction. But there are enough
busy at that now 10 make line Of hard
ware from here to the East river and
across the bridge.
"Well, could make recitations in pub
lie and earn NV living as q dramatist.
could render King Lear or Macbeth till
your hair would rise ON end, or give you
'Sheridan's Ride or Dickens 'Pickwick.' y"
Yes. that is a beautiful art, but ever and
anon, as now, there is an epidemic Of
dramatization that makes hundreds of
households nervous with tho cries and
snrieks and groans Of young TRACE
dams dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends would
like to hear you, and really think that you
could surpass Ristori and Charlotte Cush-
man and Fanny Kemble Of the past, to
say nothing Of the present, you could not.
in the way Of living, in ten years earn
ten cents
My advice to all girls and unmarried
women, whether in afiiuent homes or in
homes where most stringent economies
are grinding, is to learn to do some kind
Of work that the world must have while
the world stands. am glad 10 see
marvellous change for the better, and that
women have found out that there are hun.
dreds Of practical things that q woman
can do for living if she begin soon
enough, and that men have been COM
peeled to admit it. You and can remem.
Der when the majority Of occupations
were thought inappropriate for women,
but our civil war came. aud the hosts of
men went forth from North and South,
and to conduct the business Of our
cities during the patriotic absence
women were demanded by the tons Of
thousands to take the vacant pl aces, and
muititudes of women who had been hith-
erto supported by fathers and brothers
and sons, were compelled from that time
to take care of themselves. From that
time mighty change took place, favor.
able to female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate for
women place the following, into many
Of which she has already entered, and all
the others she will enter:
Stenography, and you may find her at
nearly all the reportorial stands in our ed :
ucational, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work clean and hon.
orable, and who so great a right to toll
there: for n woman founded the first say.
ings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield.
Copyists, and there is hardly a profess
sional man that does not need the serv-
ice of her penmanship, and. rs amanu.
ensis, many of the greatest books Of our
day have been dictated for her writing.
There they are as florists, and confec-
TONERS. and music teachers, and station.
ers. and boOk-keepers, for which they are
specially qualified by patience and &C
curacy, and in wood ing, in which
the Cooper Institute has turned out SO
many qualified, and telegraphy, for
which she is specially prepared, Gs thou
sands Of the telegraphic offices would
testify.
Photography. and in nearly all our es-
Establishments they may be found there at
cheerful work.
As workers in ivory, and gutta-percha
and gum. elastic, and tortoise shell. and
gliding, and in chemicals, in porcelain, in
terra Gotta, In embroidery.
AS postmistresses, and the President is
giving them appointments all over the
land.
AS keepers of light houses, many Of
them, if they had the chance, ready to do
a. brave thing with oar and boat as did
Ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
As proOf-readers, as translators, as
modelers, as designers, as draught-women,
Us photographers, as teachers in schools
and seminaries, for which they are
especially endowed, the first teacher Of
every child, by divine arrangement, be.
ing q woman.
As physicians, having graduated after
a regular course of study from tho female
colleges Of our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough preparat ion
rs any doctors ever had, and go forth to
work which no one but women could SO
appropriately or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore
and Mrs. Hollowell and Mrs. Willard and
Mrs. Lathrap.
As physiological lecturers to their own
sex, for which service there Is q demand
appalling and terrific.
As preachers OF the Gospel, and all the
protests Of ecclesiastical courts can not
hinder them, for they have a pathos and
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men can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
Oyoung women of America, as many Of
you will have to fight your own battles
alone, do not wait until you are flung Of
disaster. and y our father is dead, aud all
the resources of your family have been
scattered, but now, while in good house
and environed by all properties, learn
how to do some kind of work that the
world must have as long as the world
stands. Turn your attention from the
embroidery Of fine slippers, Of which there
is surplus and make useful shoe. Ex-
pend the time in which you adorn a cigar
case in learning bow to make a good,
honest loaf Of bread. Turn your atten-
tion from the making Of flimsy nothings
to the manufacturing Of important some
things.
Much Of the time spent in young ladies:
seminaries in studying what nre called
the ''higher branches" might better be-
expended in teaching them something by
which they could support themselves. II
you are going to be teachers, or if you
have so much assured wealth that you can
always dwell in those high regions, trigo-
nometry. Of course, metaphysics, of
course, Latin and Greek and German and
French and Italian, of course, and hun
dred other things, OF course, but il you are
not expecting to teach, and your wealth
is not established beyond misfortune,