The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-12

sity in order to happiness, and that there
is strong probability that they will have
to fight the battle of life alone, they will
be getting the timber ready for their own
fortune, and their saw and ak and plane
sharpened for its construction, size
'sEvery wise woman buildeth her
house,
AS no boy ought to be bought up
without learning some busisess at which
he could earn q livelihood, SO no girl
ought to be brought up without learning
the science of se1F support. The difii-
Guilty is that mary family go sailing on
the high ti5es of success, and the hus-
band ard father depends on his own
health and acumtn for the welfare of his
household, but cne day he gets his feet
vet, and in three days pneumonia has
closed his life, and the daughters are
turned out on a cold world to earn bread,
and there is nothing practical that they
can do. The friends of the family come
in and hold consultation.
''Give music lessons, says an outsider.
Yes, it is useful calling, and if you
have great genius for it go on in that
direction. But there are enough music
teachers now starving to death in all our
towns and cities to occupy all the piano
stools and sofas and chairs and front door
steps of the city. Beside that the daugh-
ter has been playing only for amusement,
and is only at the foot of the ladder, to
the top of which great multitude of
|Inaster&on piano and harp and Adte and
organ have climbed.
.sPut the bereft daughters as sales
women in stores" says another adviser.
But there they must compete with sales
men of long experience or with men who
have served an apprenticeship in COM
merce, and who began as shop boys at 10
years of age. Some kind hearted dry
goods man having known the father,
now gone, says: I'VE are not in need of
any more help just now, but send Your
daughters to my store and will do as
well by them as possible" Very sson
the question comes up, Why do not the
female employees of that establishment
get as much wages as the male en-
ployes? For the simple reason, in many
| cases, the females were suddenly flung
| by misfortune behind that counter, while
the males have from the day they left
! the public school been learning the busi-
ness.
How is this evil to be clredi Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that life is an earnest
thing, and that there Is posi- sbility, if
not a strong probability, that they will
have to fight the battle of life alone. Let
every father and mother say to their
daughters; "Now, what would you do
| for livelihood if what l now own were
swept away by financial disaster, or old
age or death should end my careerf'
''Well, 1 could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work" Yes, that is
beautiful, and if you have genius for it
go ON in that direction. But there are
enough busy at that now to make line
of hardware from here to the East river
and across the bridge.
''Well, | could make recitations in
public and earn my living as dramatist.
could render King Lear or Macbeth
till your hair would rise on end, or give
you 'Sheridan's Ride or Dickens
'Pickwick. 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 the
cries and shrieks and groans of young
tragedians 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
Cushman 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 all unmar-
| ried women, whether in aff1uent homes
or in homes where most stringent econo-
mics are grinding, to learn to do some
kind of work that the world must have
while the world stands. am glad to see
marvellous change for the better, and
that women have found out that there
are hundreds of practical things that a
woman can do for living if she begin
4 soon enough, and that men have been
compelled to admit it. You and I can
remember when the majority of eccupa-
tiops were thought inappropriate fol
women, but our civil war came and
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 tho
tens of thousands to take the vacan
places, and multitudes of women who
had been hitherto supported by father
and brothers and sons, were compelled
from that time to take care of themselves
From that time a mighty change tool
place, favorable to female employment
Among the occupations appropriate TO
woman place the following, into man.
of which she has already entered, and al
the others she win enter!
Stenography, and you may find her a
nearly all the reportorial stands in ou
educational, political and religious meet
.ngs.
Savings banks, the work clean an,
honorable, and who SO great a right t
soil there, for woman founded the frs
savings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield
Copyists, and there is hardly a pro
, fessional man that does not need the ser
! | vice of her penmanship, and, as amanu
ensis, many of the greatest books of on
, day have been dictated for her writing
There they are as florists and confec
! TONERS and music teachers and stationer
| and bookkeepers, for which they ar
: specially qualified by patience and accur
ncy, and
Wood engraving, IN which the Coope
institute has turned out 50 many quail
fed, and
: Telegraphy. for which she is special
prepared, as thousands OF the telegraph
, offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all on
, establishments they may be found ther
at cheerful work.
/ AS workers in ivory and gutta perch
| and gum elastic and tortoise shell an
f gliding and in chemicals, in porcelain, i
i terra Gotta, in embroidery.
j AS postmistresses, and the president
= giving them appointments all over til
4 land.
Y As keepers of lighthouses many {
0 them, if they had the chance, read
: to do as brave thing with oar and boz
q as did Ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
a As proofreaders, as translators, ;
r rnodelers. as designers, as draughtsw'
Il men, as lithographess, as teachers
It schools and seminaries, for which the
'- are especially endowed. the first teach!
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