The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-04-13
THE WORKING-WoMEN
They Are Moro Contentod Than the I'd
Daughters of the Itich.

They Are Moro Contentod Than the Idia
Daughters Of the ISich.
Surely no able-bodied, self-reBpeoting
woman has any complaint to make OF the
fact that in the past City years there has
been secured to her the right to earn her
living This is rather an occasion for re-
Ioicing In this age, when the public press
is devoting so much attention 70 opening
fields of labor for women, when from pul-
pit and rostrum and workshop and school
room are coming words of help and en-
oouragement, tb 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
slaviug in fact-n unrecoRnized corners
and against fearful odds, as though the So
called curse OF labor had not, for women as
well as men, concealed the "fairest boon
Gods love could senu;n as though thero
were any reason in fact for such a state
ment as the one that women who are oub
in the world at work are growing hard and
bitter and losing their womanlY delicacy,
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 aa hearty, wholesome work 10 is the
greatest of follies to spend so much time in
commisserating the hard lot Of the work.
ing girl in having TO work. Many an idle,
novel-reading, discontented daughter OF
wealth is more to be pitied- Pity the COM
dftions under which women have TO work
the inadequate wages, the unreasonable
demands, the cruel oppression and the
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-awako American
business lgirl, because she has to work, and
note her Rstonishment 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 n dignity and delicaoy
OF womanly character that commands ths
respect OF all. dares maintain that our busi-
ness women are losing their d6licacy and
refinement2 Nor do men lose their ohiv-
airy. 1t is the testimony Of all who have
tried the experiment. that the best way to
elevate the tone Of business establishment
in which there are many employees, is to
employ self-respectng women and lot thcm
work side by side with tho men.
An Eastern manager of a mercantile bust
ness which boasts an Office in every large
city in tho Union, desirous Of introducing
better tone of morality and departments
among the employees Of his Office. tried thu
experiment Of employing women In several
OF the departments The experiment was "a
decided success, and to-day that Office. for
thorough business ability and equipment,
and for the moral and social character OF
its employees, is a model among the Offices
of that concern, and its example In widely
copied. Men do not respect women less
for being independent and self-helpful, and
the chivalry that only regards protected
womanhood as worthy Of consideration is
poor sort OF article that the world iH just an
well off without --SdJL francisco CGL