Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-19
left the public SCI col besr learning I


clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that lits is an earnest
thing. and tina. there is a possibility, if
not a trong 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
alivelhood if what now own were swept
awav by financial disaster, or old age or
death would end my career?"
"Well, could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work" Yes, that is beau
tiful, and if you have genius for it so 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, l could make recitations in pub
lie and earn nv living as a 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
snriekS and groans of young TRACE
dians dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends W oul d
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,
III the W ay of living, in ten years earn
ten cents.
My advice to all girls and unmarried
women, whether in affluent homes or in
homes where most stringent economies
are grinding, is to learn to do some kind
of work that f,a world hora yvhi la.
the world stands. l am glad to see a
marvellous change for the better, and that
women have found out that there are hun
dreds of practical things that woman
can do for livn. if she begin soon
enough, and that men have been COM
peeled to admit it. You and can remem-
ber when the majority of occupations
were thought inappropriate for 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 the tens of
thousands to take the vacant pl aces. and
multitudes 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 1 place the follow wing, 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 :
uca.iOnal, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work clean aud hon
orabl., and who SO great a right to toll
there? for woman founded the first saw
ings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield.
Copyists, and there is hardly a profess
siOnal man that does not need the serv
ice of her penmanship, aud. as 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, aud station
ers, and book keepers, for which they are
specially qualified by patience and &C.
curacy, and in wood -engrav ing, in which
the Cooper Institute has turned out so
many qualified, and telegraphy, for
which she is specially prepared, as thou
sands of the Geographic 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
as brave a thing with oar and boat as did
Ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
As proOf-readsrs, as transators, as
modeiers, as designers, as draug ht-women,
as photographers, as teachers in schools
and Summaries, for which they are
especially endowed, the first teacher of
every child, by divine arrangement, be-
ing woman.
As physicians, having graduated after
a regular course of study from the female
colleges Of our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough preparation
as any doctors ever had, and go forth to a
work which no one but women could so
appropriately or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, fer you know
the brilliant success OF Mrs. LvermOre
and Mrs. Hollowell and Mrs. Willard and
Mrs. Lathrap.
As physiological lecturers to their own
sex, for which service there is demand
appalling and terrific.
AS preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests OF eccles las teal courts can not
hinder them, for they have pathos and
power in their relig iouS utterances that
men can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
o young women of America, Us many of
you will have to fight your own battles
alone, do not wait until you are flung of
disaster. and our father is dead, and 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 a surplus, and make a useful shoe. EX-
pend the time in which you adorn a cigar
case in learning how to make a good,
honest loaf of bread. Turn your at ten
tion from the making Of Gimsy nothings
to the manufacturing Of important some
things.
Much of the time spent in young ladies.
seminaries in studying what are called
the hisher 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-
nome;ry, Of course, metaphysics, of
course, Latin and Greek and German and
French and italian, Of course, and hum
dred other things, OF course, but if you are
not expecting 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.