National Republican., 1888-01-09

political, and religious meetings.
Bile, and who 40 great a right TO toll there for
awomRn founded the first sayings bank, Mrs.
Priscilla Wake6eld2
man that does not need the service of her pen
manship, and, as ramhnuensis. many OF the
greatest books Of our day have been dictated
u There her they are as florists and oonfectioners,
ana music teachers, and stationers, and book:
keepers, for which they are specially qualified
ing, in which the Cooper Institute has turned
outso many qualified, and telegraphy, TOR
which she is specially prepared, a. thousands
tography, and In nearly all our establish
menis they may be found there at cheerful
work. AS workers In ivory and gutta pereha,
ana gum elastic, and tortoise shell, and Rild-
Ing, and in chemicals, In porcelain, In terra
49, as postmistresses, ana me PRESIDENT Is CIV
As keepers OF lighthouses, many OF thom,
II they had the chance. ready to do os brave
thing with oar and boat as did Ida Lewis aud
AZ proof readers, as transators, as modclers,
as designers, as draghtswomen, as llthogra-
PneT @ teachers ,Sa In sosoGs and S
first teacher of every child, by divine arrange.
ment, being woman.
As, physicians, having graduated after q
scientific and thorough. preparation as sny
uOCpOib-tNtT HHu, huu Bb lVItH W III WOTk WnlCu
| no one but woman could so appropriately or
On the iecturing platform, for you know the
| brilliant success OF Mrs. Livermore and Mrs.
| Hallowell and Mrs. willard, and Mrs. Lathrop.
| As physiological lecturers to their own sex,
for which service there is demand appalling
| As preachers of the Gospel, and all the pro.
| tests of eccle'lastical courts cannot hlnder
them, for they have pathos and power IN
their religious utteIances that men can never
| reach. Witness all those VINO nave neArl tlelr
| o, young women of America as many of you
| will have 10 fight your own battles alone DO
| not wait until you are flung OF disaster, and
your father is dead, and all the resources OF
your family have been scattered, but now,
| while In a good house and environed BY all
| prosperitits learn how to do some kind OF
work that the world must have as long as the
world stands: Turn your attention from tho
| embroidery OF fine slippers, OF which there Ia q
| surplus, and make useful shoe. Expend the
time in which you adorn cigar case in learn
now TO rom H GH o sv
po,hlngs to the manufacturing of important
something's
Much OF the time spent in young ladies
in HdgrE gp wn br are ossd iSS
in teaching them something by which they
could support themselves lfyou are goiny to
sn, OF IL Son nSse SO IN mas S
| regions, trigonometry, of course, metaphysics,
Of course, Latin and Greek and German and
| 1TeUcn anu OF NOuTsp, huu
other things Of course, but If you are not ex-
pecting to teach, and your wealth is not ostab-
lished beyond misfortune, after, you have
that kind OF study that will pay in dollars and
cents in case you are thrown on your own re-
sources. Learn to do something better than
entitled "The Employments of Women" and
learn there are FIVE hundred ways in which a
woman may earn living 80,
mo, no !" says seme young woman; VI Will
| not undertake ANYTHING so unrOmanttC and
commonplace as that" An excellent author
writes that after he had, in book. argued for
cess, and positive apprenticeship by way OF
preparation, prominent chemist s advertised r, Sa
J come druggists ana apothcearies II they would
go through an apprenticeship as men do, and
printer advertised that he would take class
of women to learn the printers trade If they
} would 60. through an apprenticeship as men
, do and how many, according to the account 0i
come skilled IN tho dIuggist, business and
woman said she would be willing to try the
!, printing business for six months, but by that
then then her her mother % % Would want want her at home. Ny
: sisters, 1t will be skilled womanly labor that
4 will finally triumph.
s mother say II they saw was doing such IN
C fashionable work?h Throw the whole respon
: sibility upon the pastor Of the Brooklyn Taber
y their previous luxurious surroundings for tht
n awful struggle of life into which they have
Y ing left them but choice between starvation
q and damnalion. There they go along .th'
g street z o'clock in the wintry morning
!. where they shall earn only half enough
y for subsistence. the daughters o
once prosperous merchants Lawyers clergy
n brought up their children under the inferna
: delusion that 1t was not high,toned for
+ woman to learn profitable calling: YounI
Q let there be an insurrection in all prosperou
Q families of Brooklyn and New York and Chris
h9 9 Re o m
h styles Of business by which they may be thei
u own defense and their own support II all faith
y erly and husbandly and brotherly hands for
}. have seen two sad sishts-lhe one
2 woman in all the glory OF her young III,
o a home (which she had been the. pride. A
70 her hands were folded over the still heart aut
?, her eyes closed for the last slumber, and sht
Il kindred and friends, l thought that was
4. sadness immeasurable. But have seen some
er thing compared with which that scene wa
Of who had been all her days amid wealthy SUI
ar roundings, by the visit of death and bank
ne turned out on GSI
II to get food or shelter. and iniothe awful whir
=, pool OF city life where strong ships have gon
Se Vessels last Week
p ont on the Atlantic ocean looking for a shiT
7. wrecked craft that was left alone aud forsake
Sns as sea i sw so eer with WHO sS sSa es
ID bring again into the harbor of peace and hop
~ and heaven that lost womanly Immortal
n- Migration, sinking into what abyss o Col
N helpl o Christ, rescue
" My sisters, give not your time to learnin
when hard times come, but connect your ski
9, with the indspensables OF life. The world wi
AZ always want something 70 wear and somethin
70 KNOWLEDGE for the mind, and religion for III
u soul. And all these things will continue to !
nft the necessalies, and II you iasten your enel
I'd lated the world will be unable to do withol
OF you; Remember that in proportion as you al
sGipl in ANYTHING your ryal5iSs 6eco
in lion. But you may rise TO where there al
ey only thousand and still higher TIL there al
Il. only hundred, and still higher till there al
as department till there is only unit, and thI
d. yourself. For while you may keep ,wag
aee and place through the , Kindly sympTathies
h more compensation than you can make you
m self worth.
at entered upon the battle of life, that the tim
lie Is coming when woman shall not only get
ly much salary and wages as men get, but Il
IS certain styles of employment women will hay
es higher salary and more wages. for the reasC
'ol that for some styles ofworE they have mo-
adaptation. But this Justice viii come
ar woman not through any sentiment OF ga
h lantTy, not because woman Is physical
re weaker than man, and therefore, ought
y, have moro consideration shown her but b
lie cause, through her finer natural taste aud mo
to grace of manner and quicker perception AT
or more delicate touch aud more educated a
Dt roilness. She will in certain calliugs be to h
III employer worth ten per cent. more or TWEEN
per cent more than the other sex, She WI
ch not get II by asking for II, but by earning
nd and II shall be hers by lawful conquest.
&C. Now, men OF America, be fair and give u
NV women a ChbnCC Arc You afraid that tn,
he will do some of your work and hence hur
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