The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-19


the cries ami shrieks and groans OF young
tragedians dying in the fifth act, and the
Touhle Is that while Your friends would like
tohsai ron. uid Iod,iy tR6R that you could
tLrpass Ristori ani Charlotte Cushman AMI
Fannie Kembls Of the past, to say nothing OF
The present, you could not, in the way Ut Nv
ing IN ten years earn ten cents
My advice to all girls and all unmarried
women, whether In aIuent homes or in
BONES where most stringent economies are
grinding, 10 learn to do SOME kind OF work
that the world m,ist have while tile world
ytaIids l am glad TO ses mar velocs change
for the better, and that women have fonnd
out that there are hundreds or practcai
things that u woman can do for living II
she begin soon enough, and that men have
been compelled To admit it. You and cah
remember when the majority Of occupations
were thought inappropriate fer women, bue
our civil war came and tile husts or men
went forth from North AMI South, and to
conduct the business VI our cities during the
patriotic absence, women were demanded by
the tens Of thousands To take the vacant
| places, and niultitu,los of women who had
been hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons. were compelled from that
time to take caro- of themselves From that
time mighty change took place, favorable
To female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate fer
WOnSu place lilb lolO"IS, ihto many w
which she has already entered, and all the
others she will enter:
Stenography, and yon may find her at
nearly all the reportorial stands in our educa-
tional, political and religious meetings,
Savings banks the work clean and honor.
able and who so great right to toll there,
| for a woman founded tho first savings bank,
Mrs Priscilla Wakeiicldi
Copyists, and there is hardly professional
uiall that does not need the service OF her
penmanshp, and, as amanuensis, many OF
| the greatest books of our day have heen die
| tated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confectioners
| and music teachers and stationers and book
| keepers for which they are specially qualified
| by patience and accuracy; and wool engrav-
| ing, in which the Cooper Institute has turned
out so many qualified; and telegraphy, for
which she is speciality prepared, as thousands
| of the telegraphic Offices would testify.
| Photography, and in nearly all our establish
ments they may he found there ct cheerful
work AS workers in ivory and gutta percha
| and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gild
ing and in chemicals, in porcelain, in terra
Gotta, in embroidery.
| As postmistresses and tho President Is Civ
ing them appointments all over the land.
AS keepers of lighthouses, many of them,
| IL they had the chance, ready to do as brave
a thing with oar and boat as did Ida Lewis
and Grace Darling
AS proofreaders, as translators. as model.
ers, as designers, as draushtswomen, as Itho-
graphers, as teachers in schools and semi
naries, for which they are especially endowed,
| the first teacher of every child, by divine ar
rangement, being woman.
AS physicians having graduated after a
regular course of study from the female col
leges OF our large cities, where they get as
| scientific and thorough preparation as any
doctors ever had, and go forth to work
which none but women could so appropri-
etely or delicately do
On tho lecturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore and
Mrs. Hallowell, and Mrs. Willard and Mrs.
Iathrop.
AS physiological lecturers to their own sex,
for which service there is a demand appalling
and terrible
AS preachers Of tho Gospel, and nil the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder
them, for they have pathos and power in
| sheir religious uttcrances that men can never
reach. Witness all those who have heard
their mother pray.
O, young women of America! az many OF
You will have to fight your own battles alone,
do not wait until yon are flung Of disaster, and
your father is dead and all tho 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 thu
world stands. Turn your attention from the
! embroidery OF fino slippers, OF which there
is n surplus, and make useful shoe Expend
the time in which you adorn n cigar case in
learning how to make good, honest loaf OF
bread Turn your attention from the making
Of fimsy notli;ngs to the manufacturing Of
important something's
Much of the time spent in young ladies'
semnar;es in studying what are called the
higher branches might better he expended
| in teaching them something by which they
could support themselves II you are going
TO be teachers, or if yon have so much as
sured wealth that you can always dwell in
those high regions, trigonometry, of course
| metaphysics, of course; Latin and Greek
and Herman and French and Italian OF
course; and 100 other things, Of course; but
it you are not ex pecting to 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 to do some
thing better than anybody else, Buy Vir
ginia Penny's book entitled THE Employ
ments OF Women, and learn there are SIX
ways in which woman may earn a living.
mo, nor says some young woman, vii
not undertake anything 50 unromantc anc
commonplace as that" An excellent author
writes that after he had, in book, argued
for efficiency in womanly work in order II
success, and positive apprenticeship by way
of preparation, prminent chemist adVer
tised that he would teach class of womer
to become druggists and apoihecaries if they
would go through an apprenticeship as mei
do and printer advertised that he woulC
take n class of women to learn the printer
trade if they would so through an nppren
1iceshp rs men do and how many according
to the account of the authoress do you sup
pose applied to become skilled in the druggis
business and printing business' Not one
One young woman said she would be Willing
to try the printing business for six months
but by that time her older sister would b
married, and then her mother would wan
her at home My sisters, it will be skillet
womanly labor that will finally triumph.
But you ask, what would my fathe
add mother say if they saw was doing sue
questionable work" Throw the whole re
sponsibility on the pastor of the Brookly
Tabernacle, who is constantly hearing @
young women in all these cities who, unqua
filed by their previous luxurious surrount
ings for the awful struggle OF life into whic
they have been suddenly hurled, seemed
have nothing left them but choice betwee
starvation and damnation. There they g
along the street at o'clock in the wintr
mornings thr ough the slush and storm to tn
place where they shall earn only half enoug
for subsistence, the daughters of one
, prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergymer
artists, bankers and capitalists who brough
UP their children under the Internal deluSio
that it was not high toned for women to lear
profitable calling. Young women, TAX
this affair in your own hand and let there
an insurrection in all prosperous families {
Br oklyn and New York and Christendol
on the part of the daughters of this day, d
, manding knowledge in occupations and styl,
. of business by which they may be their ow
defense and their own support il all fatherl
, and husbandly and brotherly hands foreve
i fail them
. Ihave seen two sad sights-the one a w
man in all the glory of her young life stricke
. by disease and in a week lifeess in home
! which she had been the pride. As her hanc
were folded over the still heart ant her eye
closed for the last slumher, and she was take
, out amid the lamentations of kindred an
friends, I thought that was sadness in
measurable But have seen something con
/ pared with which that scene was bright an
' | songful IL young woman who ha
! i,een all her days amid wealthy surrounding
by the visit of death and bankruptcy to I'll
| household turned out on cold world witho'
one lesson about how to get food or shelte
I aud into the awful whirlpool Of city ii
where strong ships have gone down, and f'
9 twenty years not one word has been hear
| from, her VeSsels last week went ont on I'll