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


can seldom be. God has not given you a
hard lot as compared with your sisters.
When young women shall make up their
mindsat the start that masculine compan.
ionship Is not necessity in order TO hap
piness, and that there is a strong proba-
bility that they will have to fight the battle
OF life alone, they will be getting the tim
Der ready for their own fortune, and their
saw and ax and plane sharpcned for its
construction, since every wise woman
buildcth her house
'As no boy ought TO be brought up
without learning some business at which
he could earn livelihood, 80 no girl
ought to be brought up without learning
the science OF eelf-support The difficulty
is that many a family 20 sailing on the
high tides OF success, and the husband and
father depends on his own health and
acumcn for the welfare OF his household
but one day he gets his feet wet, and in
three days pneumonia has closed his life,
and the daughters are turned out on
cold world to earn bread, and there is
nothing practical that they can do The
friends oil the family come in and hold
consultation.
'e'Give music lessons says an outsider.
Yes, that Is useful calling, and ii you
have great genius for IL 20 ON in that direc-
ton. But there are enough music teach
eH now starving 10 death IN all our towns
and cities TO occupy all the piano stools
and sofas and frontdoor steps OF the city.
Beside that, the daughter has been play
ing only for amusement, and is only at the
foot Of the ladder, 10 tho top OF which
great multitude Of masters on piano and
harp and flute and organ have climbed.
"'Put the bercft daughtersas saleswomen
In stores, says another adviser. But there
they must compete with statesmen of long
experience, or with men who have served
an apprenticeship in commerce, and who
began as shop boys at ten years 81 age
Some kind-hearted dry goods men, having
known the father, now gone, says: we
are not in need Of any more help Just now,
but send your daughters TO my store and
will do rs well by them as possible Very
soon the question comes up; Why do not
the female employees Of that establishment
get M much wages as the male employees?
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 business.
GLOW IL this evil 10 be cufed7 Start clear
back in the homestead and teach your
daughters that life In an earnest thing. and
that there Is a possibility, II not strong
that they win have 10 fight
the battle Of life alone. Let every father
and mother say 10 their daughters: Now,
what would You do for livelihood II what
now own were swept away by financial
or old age, or death should end
my career2
"'wcll, could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work Yes, that Is
beautiful, and II you have genius for Il, 90
ON in that direction hut there arc enough
busy at thai now 10 make line Of hard.
ware from here 30 the East river and across
the bridge.
"'Well, could make recitations in pub.
lie and earn my living m drlmaiisi. |
could render king Lear or Macbeth"
till your hair would rise on end. or give
you ''Sheridan'n Ride" or Dickens "Pick- |
wick Yce, that Is beautiful art, but
ever and anon, ~ now, there IL an chi.
demic Of draniatization that makes hun
dreds Of households nervous with the cries
and shricks and grams Of Young tr,gcdians
dying in The fifth act, and the trouble IL
that, while Your friends would like 90 hear
you and really think that you could sur.
pas Ristori and Charlotte eastman and
Fanny kemblc Of the past, 20 say nothing |
ot the present, you could not, in the way |
OF living. ia ten yearr earn ten cents.
'Myadyice to all girls and all unmarried |
women, whether in ailluent homes or Ia
homes where most stringent economies are
grinding 10 learn "a 10 some Kind IT work |
that the world must have while the world |
stands. | ain glad 10 see n marvellous
change for the better, and that women
have found ont that there arc hundreds Of |
practical things that woman can do for q |
living II she begin roon enough, and that |
men have been compelled 10 admit II. |
You and ! can remember when the ma
jority IL occupations were thought inap- |
propriatr iOr women, but our civil war |
came AMI the hosts ii 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 places, |
and multitudcs al women who had been |
hitherto supported by fathers and brothers |
and sons. wrr compelled irom that time |
20 take care al themselves. From that |
time mighty change took place, favorable |
70 female employment.
"Among the occupations appropriate Tor |
women place the following. into many oi |
which she has alrady entered, and all the |
Others she viii enter:
''stenoemphy, and you may find her nj |
nearly all the reportorial stands In our
educational political and religious meet
ines
'Havingr banks, the work clean aud hon. |
orable, and Who ro great n right 10 toll |
thcref for woman founded the first saw.
inpa bank. Mrs Priscilla Wakcheld9
'Copyifs, and there IL hardly proics. |
sional man that docs not need the service |
Of her pcnmanship. and. ~ amanncnsis,
many Of the greatest books Oi our day have |
been dictated for her writing
There they are ~ florists aud conicc. |
tioncrs aud music teachers and siationcr |
and bookkecIcp, for which they are spec. |
Tally qualified BY patience and accuracy.
"WoOdengraying, In which the Cooper |
institute has turned out 10 many qualified. |
Photography, for which she Is specially |
prepared, n o. thousands Of the Telegraph. |
ic oniccs would testify.
photography, and In nearly all our 81. |
tablishm.nts they may be found hcc at |
cheerful work.
AS workers IN ivory and guiiA pcrrha
and gum elastic and tortoise shell and |
gliding and IN chemicals, la porvelain, In
terra cO,ia, In embroidery.
IA poetnisirc~cs, and the President h |
giving them appointments all over the |
land
'As keepers 81 lighthouse many Of
thcm n they hal the chance, ready 20 do |
~ brave athing with ore and boat as dad
Ida Lewis and Gmcc Darling.
A. a n. II