West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-01-19


Fannie kemble Of the past, 70 say moth ng OF
Tho present, you coult s>oA. in t,ss VTay of Iiv-
ing, IN ten years cara ten cents.
My advice 20 all girls and all unmarried
| women, whether in afuenJ homes OF In
| homes whore mtut stringent economies are
| grinding 20 learn 90 do some kind OF work
! that the world must have while tho world
| - ads. 1 am glad 10 see a marvellous change
/ for the better, and that women have found
/ out that there are hundreds OF practical
\ things that woman can do for living II
| Sho 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 tho hosts OF mon
went forth from North and South, and %
/ conduct tho business OF our cities during the
I patriotic absence, women were demanded by
/ the teus Of thousands 10 take tho vacant
| places, and multitudos OF women who had
\ been hitherto supported by fathers and
\ brothers and sons were compelled from that
\ time 20 take care OF themselves From that
| time a mighty change took place, favorable
\ 70 Tomato employment
/ Among the occupations appropriate fer
\ women place the following, into many of
| which She has already catered, and all the
| otho she viii enter:
Stcnography, aud you may find her at
nea ~ all the repOrtorial stands in our educa-
toual, political and religious meetings.
SAVINGS banks thc work clean and honor
/ able, aud who so great right 10 toll there
| Tor wOm1n founded the first savings bank
! Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield
Copyists, and there is hardly professional
man that does not need tho service of her
penmanshlp, and, as amanuenss, many of
the greatest books OF our day have been die
tated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confectioners
/ and music teachers and stationers and book
! keepers Tor which they are specially qualified
| by patience and accuracy: and wool engray-
\ ing, IN which the Cooper Institute has turned
out SO many qualified; and teegraphy, for
/ which She Is speciality prepared, as thousands
| or the Geographic Offices would testify
| Photography, and i'm nearly all our establish
ments they may be found there e cheerful
work. AS workers in ivory and gutta percha
and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gid
M ana IN chemicals, IN porcelain, in terra
Gotta, i'm embroidery.
A postm stresses, and the President Is Civ
ing them appointments all over the land
As keepers of lighthouses, many of them,
/ II they had the chance, ready TO do rs brave
thing with oar and boat as did Ida Lewis
aud Grnce Darling.
AS proofreaders, as translators, as model.
ei-s, as designers, as draughtswomen, as ltho-
| grapAers, as teachers in schools and semi
nares for which they are especially endowed
| the first teacher of every child, by divine ar
rangement, being n woman
AS physicians, having graduated after n
! regular course of study from the female col
leSes OF our large cities, whore they get as
scientific and thorough preparation as any
doctors ever had, and go forth to n work
which none but women could so apDroDri
otely or delicatcy do.
On the lecturing platform for Won know
/ the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore and
Mrs Hallowell, and Mrs Willard and Mrs.
/ Lathrop.
| As physiological lecturers to their own sex.
! Tor which service there is a demand appalling
! and terrible
As preachers OF the Gospel, and all the
| protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder
them for they have "A pathos and a power in
1f
/ rea IN. Witness all those who have heard
| thcir 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;an1
| your father is dead, and all the resources of
! your family have been scattered. but now.
! while IN "a good house, AMI cnvirOnel bv all
! prosrer,ti-s, learn how TO do some kind O,
! work that the word must have as long ms the
| world stands. Turn your attention from the
/ embroidery OF fine slippers. Of which there
| IS a surplus and make useful shoe Expend
| the time i'm which you aiorn a cigar case i'm
! learning how TO make a good honest loaf OF
! bread. Turn your attention from the making
OF ilimsy moth ngs O. the manufacturing OF
| important something's.
Much OF the time spent in young ladies'
seminaries in studying what are called the
| III CHER branches might better be expended
] IN teaching them something by which they
! could support themselv,s IL YOU are going
/ TO be teachers, or III YOU have so much as.
! slred wea th that YOU can always dwell in
| those high regions, trigonometry of course:
! metaphysics, OF course; Latin and Greek
/ and German and French AMI Ita'ian OF
! course and 100 other things OF course: but
/ n You arc not expecting to a,h, and your
! wealth Il not established beyond misfortune
/ after You have learned the ordinary branches
| take hold OF that kind OF study that will paw
! IN dollars and cents in case YOU are thrown
/ on your own resources Learn TO do some
/ thing better than anybody else Buy Vir-
/ ginia fenuv's book euthel "Ih3 Employ
ments or Women and i Urn there are 800
/ ways IN winch woman may earn living.
NO, no.. SAYS some young woman 81 viii
/ not undertake anything so unr0mantic and
I CONN oup.aca o., that An excellent authsr
/ writes That attCr Doe had. in book argued
/ To- efficiency iu wom3uly work in order TO
/ cess and positive apprenticeship by way
I ot preparation, "a prmucnt ch mist aiver-
/ it-.d Chat he would teach c,as Of women
/ % h.-ono druggists and arOlhccarie- IL thsy
would go thr1u 90 ara apprenticeship as men
1 ln. and m printer ulyer,i,ed that hn wDule
/ take class ~ women to learn tie rr nfel'g
I Ir'i. it iurF uil $50 throu Eh au opureu
I N'n-iip as ln.r d'. nnt Row many accord no
fn O a. account ot hn auth0rrss 10 Won sur,
/ pse applied fo become * l'cd in the druggi {
/ Nl'nf on printing BOA i1essf Not one
I 900. young woman said shr would be Willing
I 81" irf tH fr.nt ur hIsiu sg for six months
I but hy thlt time her Of Ter sister would be-
I intfI 3 an1 thru her mother would want
hr 1t hnfna SIS ssters it will bs skilled
"n.ttn.V labor faat wI nna lv triumph
hH' F'1 1sa. what would my father
i tIi Af i hey ave I was doing such
i fII Wure Throw the whole re-
900 ih. pastor ~ Che Brooklyn
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f ttHHf lITgr 1us lrrouni-
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