The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-09

sofas and chairs and front door steps of the
city. Besides that, the daughter has teen
playing only for amusement and is only at
the loot of the ladder, to the top of which
great multitude of masters on piano and
harp and flute and organ have climbed.
PUT the bereft daughters as 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 OF age. Some
kind-hearted dry goods man 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, aud will do as
well by them as possible" Very soon the
question comes up, why do not the female
employees of that establishment get as much
wages as the male employees For the esimple
reason in many cases the females were sud
denly flung by misfortune behind that coun-
ter, while the males have from the day they
left the public school been learning the bust
ness.
How is this evil to be cured2 Start clear
back in the homestead and teach your
daughters that life is an earnest thing, and
that there is a possibility, it 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
/ now own were swept away by financial
disaster, or old age or death should end my
careerF
"Well, l could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work" Yes, that is beau
tiful, and ii you have genius for it so on in
that direction. But there are enough busy
at that now to make a line of hardware
from here to the East river and across the
bridge.
"Well, l 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 Sherldan'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 i'll 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 Cush-
man and Fanny Kemble of the past, to say
nothing of the present, you could not, i'll the
way Of living, in ten years earn ten cents.
My advice to all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in atfluent homes or in
homes where most stringent economies are
grinding, to learn to do some kind of work
that the world must have while the world
stands. l am glad to see a marvellous
change for the better, and that wbmen have
found out that there are hundreds Of prac-
tical things that woman cani do for
living if she begin soon enough and that
men have been compelled to admit it. You
and can remember 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
faL la ia n
women who had been hitherto supported by
fathers and brothers and sons, were COM
PEELED from that time to take care of them
selves. From that time a mighty change
took place, favorable to female employ
ment.
Among the occupations appropriate for
woman place the following, into Inany of
which she Las already entered, and all the
others she will enter:
Stenography, and you may find her at
nearly all the repertorial stands in our edu-
cational, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work clean and hon
orable, and VINO so great right to toll
there for woman founded the first savings
bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield
Copyists, and there is hardly a profes-
sional man that does not need the service of
her penmanship and, as amanuensiS, many
Of the greatest books of our day have been
dictated for her writing
There they are as florists and confection-
ers and music teachers and stationers and
boollkeepers, for which they are specially
qualified by patience and accuracy, and
Wood od-engraving, in which he Cooper In
stitute has turned out so many qualified, and
Telegraphy, for which she is specially pre-
pared, as thousands of the telegraphIc Offices
would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our estab-
lishments they may be found there at cheer
full work
AS workers in ivory and gutta percha
and gum elastic and tortoise she'll and gild-
ing and in chemicals, in porcelain, in terra
Gotta, in embroidery.
AS post-mistresses, and the President is
giving them appointments all over the land.
As keepers of lighthouses, many of them
if they had the chance, ready to do as brave
thing with oar and boat as did Ida Lewis
and Grace Darling
AS proof-readers. as translatOrs as mod
elers, as designers, as draught-women, as
photographers, as teachers in schools and
seminaries, for which they are especially
endowed, the first teacher of every child,
by Divine arrangement, being a woman.
As physicians, having graduated after
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 work
which no one but women could so appropri-
atelv or delcately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success of Mrs. LiVermore aud
Mrs HalloweIl and Mrs. Willard and Mrs.
Lathrop.
AS physiological lecturers TO their own
sex, for which service there is demand APP
palling and terrific.
As preachers Of the gospel and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot him
der them, for they have a pathos and
power in their religious utterances tdat
men can never reach. Witness all those who
have heard their mother pray.
o, young women of America, as many of
you will have TO fight your own battles
alone. do not wait until you are flung Of
disaster, and your father Is dead, and all
tho resources of your family have been
scattered, but now, while in good house
and environed by ali 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.
aud make q useful shoe. Expend the time
in which you adorn cigar case in learning
how 10 make good, honest loaf of bread.
Turn your attention from the making of
1imsy nothings 60 the manufacturing of
important something's
Much Of the time spent in young ladies'
seminaries in studying what ara called the
''higher branches" might better be ex-
pended in teaching them something by
which they could support themselves If