Sharp County record., 1888-04-19
THE WORKING-WOMEN.
They Are More Contented Than the Idle
Daughters of The Rich.

daughters OF me RlCn.
Surely no able-bodied, self-respecting
woman has any complaint to make of the
fact 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-
joiclng. In this age, when the public press
is devoting so much attention to opening
fields of labor for women, when from pul-
pit and rostrum and workshop and school
| room are coming words of help and en-
couragement, 1t is curious to hear one voice
raised in lamentation over the fact that all
this means the setting of women to work,
| as if they had not always been working
shaving, in fact-,1 unrecognized corners
and against fearful odds, as though the So
| called curse Of labor had not, for women as
we'll as men, concealed the "fairest boon
| Gods love could send;n as though there
were any reason in fact for such state
ment as the one that women who are out
in the world at work are growing hard and
bitter and losing their womanly delcacy,
etc The writer's experience with several
organizations of working women has been
| that among no class of women are there SO
few bitter or discontented ones Nothing
so broadens ones life and mind and char
acter as hearty, wholesome WORK 1t is the
greatest of fOllies to spend so much time in
commissioning the hard lot of the work.
ing-grl in having to work. Many an idle
novel-reading, discontented daughter Of
wealth is more to be pitied. Pity the con.
ditions under which women have to WORK,
the inadequate wages, the unreasonable
demands, the cruel oppression and tho
many disadvantages which the agitation of
strong-minded women have not yet been
sufficient to remove, but offer your SYM
pathy to a bright, wide-awake American
business Igirl, because she has to work, and
note her astonishment at your views.
And who with the score of examples upon
every side of noble women, supporting
themselves and others, going to and from
their business daily, and maintaining in
every relation of life dignity and delicacy
of womanly character that commands the
respect Of all, dares maintain that our busi-
ness women are losing their delicacy and
refinement? Nor do men lose their chiv-
airy. 1t is the testimony of all wao have
tried the experiment. that the best way to
elevate the tone of business establishment
in which there are many employees, is to
einploy selI-respectlng women and let them
work side by side with the men,
An Eastern manager of mercantile busi-
ness which boasts an Office in every large
city in the Union, desirous of introducing a
better tone of morality and department.
among the employees of his Office, tried the
experiment of employing women in several
of the departments The experiment was q
decided success and to-day that office, for
thorough business ability and equipment
and for the moral and social character of
its employees, is model among the Offices
of that concern, and its example is widely
copied, Men do not respect women ]rss
for being independent and self-helpfuL, and
he chivalry that only regards proteoled
#omanhood as worthy of consideration ia
poor sort Of article that the world is Just as
well OF withous-Saa Francisco Cal,