Milford chronicle., 1888-01-13

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business.
How is this evil to be curedl Start clea
back in the homestead and teach your daugl
ters that life is an earnest thing, and tina
there is a possibility, if not a strong prol
ability, that they viii have to fight the battl
Of life alone. Let every father and mothe
say 60 their daughters: NOW, what woul
you do for a livelihood if what l now ow
were swept away by financial disaster, or oil
age or death should end my career
"Well, l could paint on pottery and d
such decorative work = Yes, that is beauti
ful, and if You have genips for it go on il
that direction. But theie are enough busy a
that now to make a line Of hardware from
/ here TO the East river and across the bridge
"Well, I could make recitations in pubh
and earn my living as a dramatist. l coul,
/ render King Lear or Macbeth till your hai
would rise on end, or give YOU Sheridan
I RIDE or Dickens 'Pickwiclin ~ Yes, that is
/ beautiful art, but ever and anon, as now
there is an epidemic Of dramatAtion tha
I makes hundreds of households nervous witt
/ the cries and shricls and groans of youne
/ tragelians dying in 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 Cushman and
Fannie Kenble Of the past, to say nothing OF
the present, you could not, in the way Of liv-
ing, in ten years earn ten cents.
My advice 30 all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in aflluent homes or in
homes where most stringent economics 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 women have found
out that there are hundreds of practical
things that a woman can do for living if
she begin soon enough, and that men have
been compelled to admit it. You and l can
remember when the majority Of occupations
We're 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 We're demanded by
the tens Of thousands to take the vacant
places, and multitades 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 mighty change took place, favorable
to female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate for
women place the following, into many of
which she has already entered, and all the
others she will enter;
Stenography, and you may find her at
nearly all the reportorial stands in our educa-
tional, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work clean and honor
able, and who so great right TO toll there,
for woman founded the first savings bank,
Mrs Priscilla Wakefelds
Copyists, and there is hardly professional
man that does not need the service of her
penmanship, and, as amanuensis, 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 for which they are specially qualified
by patience and accuracy; and wood engrav-
ing, in which the Cooper Institute has turned
ont so many qualified; and telegraphy, for
which she is specially prepared, as thousands
of the telegraphic offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our establish
ments 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 postmisTesses, and the president is Civ
ing 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 proofreaders, as translators, as model |
9rs, as designers, as draughtswOmen, as litho- |
graphers, as teachers in schools and semi |
laries, for which they are especially endowed, /
-he first teacher of every child, b. divine ar
angement, being a woman.
As physicians, having graduated after a
'egular course Of study from the female col
eyes of oar large cities, where they get as
cientilc and thorough preparation as any
loctors ever had, and go forth to a work
which no one but women could SO appropri-
itely or dolicately do
On the lecturing platform, for you know
he brilliant success Of Mrs. Livermore and
,Irs. Hallowell and Mrs. Willard and Mrs
4athrop.
As physiological lecturers to their own sex,
or which service there is a demand appalling
nd terrific.
As preachers of the Gospel, and all the pro
ests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder
hem, for they have pathos and power in
heir religious utterauces that men can never
each Witness all those who have heard
heir mother pray.
o, young women of Americal as many Of
on will have to fight your own battles alone,
onot wait until you are flung of disaster, and
our father is dead and all the resources Of
our family have been scattered, but now,
-hile in a good house and environed by all
rosperities, learn how to do some kind of
-ork that the world must have as long as the
'orld stands Turn your attention from the
Of nne slippers, Of which there
a surplus, and make useful shoe Expend
~
arnng how to make a good, honest loaf of
read. Turn your attention from the making
limsy nothings to the manufacturing OF
aportant something's.
Much Of the time spent in young ladies'
in studying what are called the
higher branches might better be expended
teaching them something by which they {
,uld support themselves If you are going
} be teachers, or if you have so much as
red wealth that you can always dwell in
lose high regions, trigonometry, of course; I
etaphysics, of course; Latin and Greek !
81 German and French and italian, If
use, and 100 other things, OF course; but
you are not expecting to teach, and your /
ealth is not established beyond misfortGne, /
Tcr yoa have learned the ordinary branches, I
Ike hold OF t,lat kind of study that will pay '
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your own resources. Learn to do sUlna I
ing better than anybody else. Buy Vir
mia Penny's book entitled ''The Employ 7
onts Of Women, and learn there are 500 G
ays in which a woman may earn a living.
No, nor says some young woman, l will !
Vt undertake anything so unromantic and
as that An excellent author !,
rites that after he had, in a book, argued
r efficiency in womanly work in order to !
ccess, and positive apprenticeship by way I
preparation, prominent chemist adver- Z
ed that he would teach class Of women =
become druggists and apothecaries if they Z
luld go through an apprenticeship as men Z
B, and a printer advertised that he would =
Ise class of women to learn the printers
lde if they would go through an appren.
eship as men do, and how many according
the account Of the authoreSs do you sup
Sc applied to become skilled in the druggist
siness and printing businessg Not onel
le young woman said she would be willing
try the printing business for six months,
& by that tins her older sister would be