Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

IN stores, says another adviser. Rntthar
tney must compete with statesmen If lonn
experience or with men who have SERVED m
apprenticeship in commerce, and who he.
gan as shop boys at 10 years of age. Some
KIN Aana. hearted dry goods man having known
.ne ia'ner, now gone, says: :We are not !
IN need OF any more help just now, but send |
your daughters to my store and will do "a !
wen Dy them as possible" Very soon the !
question comes up, Why do not the female |
employees of that establishment getias much |
wages as the male employees? For the |
simple reason, in many cases, the females
we're suddenly flung by misfortune behind
that counter, while the males have from
!he DAY they left the public school been
learning the business.
How is this evil to be cured? Start clear
back in the homestead and teach your
daughters that life is an earnest thing, and
that there is possibility, if not strong
probability, that they will have to tight 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 career?"
wei, l could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work." Yes, that is
beautiful, and if you have genius for it 20
on in that direction. But there are enough
busy at that now to make a line of hard
ware from here to the East River and
across the bridge.
We'll, 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
.sheridan's Ride or Dickens 'Pickwick.
Yes, that is a beautiful art; but ever and
anon, as now, there is IN epidemic of
dramatization that makes hundreds of
households nervous with the cries and
shrieks and groans of young tragedians
dying in the fifth act. and the trouble is
that while your friends would like TO hear
you, and really think that you could sur
pass Ristori and Charlotte Cushman and
Fanny kemble of the past, to say nothing
Of the present. You could not, in the way
OF living, in ten years earn ten cents.
My advice to all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in affiuent homes or in
homes where most stringent economies
are grinding, is to learn to do some kind
of work that the world must have while
the world stands. 1 am glad to see q
marvellous change for tine better, and that
women have found out that there are hun
dreds of practical things that woman can
do for living if she begin soon enough,
and that men have been compelled to adj
NIT it. You and I 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 take the vacant
places, and multitudes of women who had
been hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons were compelled from
that time to take care of themselves. From
that time n mighty change took place,
favorable to female amnlOvmont
Among the occupations appropriate for
woman place the following, into many of
which she has already entered, and all
others she will enter:
Stenography, and you may find her at
nearly all reportorial stands in our educa-
tional, political, and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work is clean and
honorable, and who SO great right to toll
there, for woman founded the first saw
ings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield?
Copyist, and there is hardly 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 confec-
TONERS and music teachers and stationers
and book keepers, for which they are
specially qualified by patience and accu-
racy, and
Wood engraving, in which the Cooper
Institute has turned out SO many qualified,
and
Telegraphy, for which she is specially
prepared, as thousands Of the Geographic
offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our es-
adjustments 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 lighthouses many of
them, if they had the chance, are ready to
| do as brave thing with oar and boat as did
Ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
AS proof-renders, as translators, as
modelers, as designers, as draughtswo-
men, rs photographers, as teachers in
! schools and seminaries, for which they
are especially endowed, the first teacher OF
every child, by divine arrangement, being
Il woman.
AS physicians, having graduated after a
regular course of study from the female
colleges of our large cities, where they
rs any doctors ever had, and go forth to a
work which no one but women could so APP
propriated or delicately do.
On the lecturing 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 deman nd
appalling and terrific.
AS preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot
hinder them, for they have pathos and
power in their religious utterances that 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
the resources of your family have been
scattered; but now, while in good house
and enyironed by all properties, learn how
to do some kind of work that the world
must have us long Us the world stands.
Turn your attention from the embroidery
of slippers, of which there is surplus, and
make useful shoe. Expend the time in
which you alorn cigar case in learning
how to make good, honest loaf of bread: