The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-09

case In learning how 10 make q good
honest loaf OF bread. Turn your attention
from the making OF flimsy nolhings TO the
manufacturing OF important something's,
Much Of the time spent in young
ladies' seminarics In studying what art
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 II you have so much assured wealth
that you can always dwell in
those high regions, trigonometry Of course,
metaphysics IL course, Latin and Greek,
and German and French and Italian oil
course, and hundred other things OF
course; but II you are not expecting Ia
teach, and your wealth is not established
beyond misfortune, after you have learned
the ordinary branches, take hold of that
kind OF study that will pay in dollars and
cents in case you are thrown on your own
resources. learn 10 do something better
than anybody else. Buy Virginia Penny's
book entitled Tho Employmcnts OF
Women, and learn there are 800 ways in
which woman may earn living.
mo, no. says some young woman, Il
will not undertake anything 30 unroman-
tic and commonplace NJ that An excel
lent author writes that after he had, in a
book, argued for efficiency in womanly
work In order to success, and positive APP
premiership by way Of preparation, a
prominent chemist advertised that he
would teach class Of women TO become
druggists and apothccarics II they would
go through an apprenticeship M men do,
and printer advertised that he would
take class Of women to learn the printer =
trade If they would 90 through an APP
premiership rs men do, and how many,
according TO the account OF the authoress,
do you suppose applied 10 become skilled
In tho druggist business and printing bust
ness? Not onel One young woman said
she would be willing 10 try the printing
business for six months, but by that time
her older sister would be married, and
then her mother would want her at home.
My sisters, Il will be skilled womanly
labor that will finally triumph
But, you ask, what would my father
and mother say II they saw was doing
such questionable work. Throw the
whole responsibility upon the pastor Of the
Brooklyn tabernacle, who is constantly
hearing OF young women in all these cit
les who, unqualified by their previous
luxurious surroundings for the awful
struggle Of life into which they have been
suddenly hurled. seemed b. have nothing
left them but a choice between starvation
and damnation. There they 10 along the
street at O'Clock In the wintry mornings,
through the slush and storm, 10 the place
where they shall earn only half enough
Tor subsistence, the daughters Of once
prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergy
men, artists, bankers and capitalists who
brought up their children under the in
iernal delusion that II was not heightened
for women 10 learn profitable calling.
Young women. take this affair in your
own hands, and LET there be an insurrcc-
ton IN all prosperous families Of Brooklyn
and New York aud christendom on the
part OF the daughters Of this day, de-
handing knowledge in occupations and
styles OF business by which they may be
their own defense and their own support
u all iatherly and husbandly and brotherly
hands forever fail them.
II have seen two sad sightH--the one a
woman Ia all the glory Of her young life
stricken by disease, and in week liioless
In the homo OF which she had been the
pride. As her hands were folded over
the still heart and her eyes closed for the
last slumbcr, and she was taken out amid
the lamentations OF kindred and friends,
thought that was u sadness immcasurablc
But have seen something compared with
which that scene was bright and songful.
IL was young woman who had been all
her days amid wealthy surroundings, and
by the visit Of death and bankruptcy 10
the household wis turned out ON a cold
world without one lesson about how 10 get
food or shelter, and into the awful whirl-
pool OF city life where strong ships have
gone down, and for twenty years not one
word has been hoard from her. Yes
sells last week went out on the
Atlantic ocean looking for shipwrcked
craft that was left alone aud fofSaken on
the sea icw weeks ago, with tho idea Of
bringing !, into port But who shall ever
bring again into the hnrbor Of peace and
hope and heaven that lost womanly i'm.
mortal, driven In what tempest, ailame In
what coniingrption, sinking into what
abys.g % God, help q Christ, rescued
My sisters, give not your time 20 learn
Ing fancy work which the world may dis
pcnsc with whom hard times come, but
connect Your skill with the Indispensable
Of life. Tho world will always want some
thing 10 wear and something 10 eat and
shelter and fuel for the body, and knowl-
'aN' wv hhlhtt tNiN fNliklhu WI ilt
soul. And all these things willcon,inue 10
be the ncccSsarics, and u You fas,cn your
energies upon occupations and profession.
thus related the world will be unable 10 do
without you. Remember that In proper
ton as YOU are skilliul in anything your
riyalries become less For unskillcd toll.
women by the million. Hut you may rise
IN where there are only thousand; and
al Ia
drcd; and still higher until there are only
ten. and still higher Ia some particular
department TIL there IL only unit and
that yourself. For n while you may keep
wages and place through the kindly sym.
ralhics Of AN employer, but YOU will
eventually GIT no mor compensation than
you can make yourself worth.
"lci me Nay 10 all women who have
alncady enien,d upon the battle Of lie, that
the time Il coming when woman shall not
only get a. much salary and wages a.
men get, but for CERTAIN styles Of employ.
mcnt women will have higher salary and
more wages Tor the rcacon that ior some
styles OF work, they have more adaptation.
Hut this Justice will come 20 wo-
man not through any sentiment Of
rallaniry, not because woman II physically
weaker than man, and therefore ought 10
have more consideration shown her, but
because through her finer natural taste
and monc gmcc al manner and quicker
perception and moro delicate touch aud
more educated adroitncss she will in Ger.
tain callinr bo 10 her employer worth 10
per ccnt more, or ~ pcr cent. mor than
the other sex. She will not Get Il by ask
ing for u, but by earning II, and II shall
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