The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-19

% N4llafS EEE@--Cflcs5, axe mold OF that KIND
OF stUay that VIII pa Ii dollars and cents
IN case yCu ere thro.,u on y our own r.
sources. Learn 10 GO something bettar
than anybody else. Buy Virginia Pen
ny's book entitled, "Ihe Employments
of Women and learn there are five
hundred ways in which a woman may
earn living.
mo. Nor says some Young woman.
l will not undertake anything SO unro-
mantle and commonplace - that An
excellent author writes that after he had.
In book, argued FOR efficiency in
womanly work ia order to SUCCESS, and
positive apprenticeship by way Oh prepara-
ton, . prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach class of women to
become druggists and apothecaries if
they would 50 through an apprenticeship
as men DO, and q printer advertised that he
would take q class Of women to learn the
printer trade if they would 60 through
an apprenticeship rs men DO, and how
many. according to the account Of the
autho-css, 10 you suppose applied TO be-
come skilled in the druggist business and
printing business? 10. one! One Young
woman said she would he willing to try
the printing business for SIX months, but
by that time her older sister would Ire
married, ard then her mother would
want her at homo. Ny sisters, it will be
skilled wonanly labor that will finally
triumph.
But" you ask, what would my
father and mother say # they saw was
doing such questionable worki' Throw
the whole responsibility upon the pastor
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, who is con-
stantly hearing of young women III all
these cities who, unqualified by their pre-
lew H.
awful struggle of life into which they
have been suddenly hurled, seemed to
have nothing left them but choice be-
tween starvation and damnalon. There
they go along the street at 2 o'clock in
the wintry mornings, through the slush
and storm to the place where they shall
earn only half enough for subsist-
ence, the daughters Of once prosper
Gus merchants, lawyers, clergymen,
artists, bankers and capitalists, who
brought up their children under the in
fernal delusion that it was not high
toned for women to learn profitable
calling. Young women, take this affair
in your own hands and let there be an
| instruction in all prosperous families in
Brooklyn and New York and Christen-
dom on tho part of the daughters OF this
day, demanding knowledge in occupa-
| they may be their own defense and their
| own support il all fatherly and hu8bandly
and brotilerly- hands forever fail them.
have seen two sad sights-thc one a
woman in all the glory Of her young life
stricken by disease, and in o week life
less in homo of which che had been the
| pride. AS her hands We're folded over
| the still heart and her eyes closed for the
| last slumber, and she was taken out amid
| the lamentations of kindred and friends,
| I thought that was q sadness inmeaSura-
| bic. But L have seen something COM
pared with which that ecene was bright
and songful. 1t was a young woman who
I had been all her days amid wealthy sur
roundings by the visit of death and bank
ruptcy to the household turned out On
cold world without one lesson about how
to get food or shelter. and into the awful
| whirlpool of city life where strong ships
| have gone down, and for twenty years
not one word has been heard from her
| Vessels last week went out on the At
lantic ocean looking for shipwrecked
! craft that was left alone and forsakeu on
! the sea few weeks ago with the idea Of
bringing it into port. But who shall
ever bring again into the harbor Of peace
and hope and heaven that lost wo1llanly
immortal, driven in what tempest, alamo
in what confagration, sinking into what
abyss? 0 God, help! Christ, rescue!
Ny sisters. give not your tiulo to learn
ing fancy work which the world may
! dispense with VIXEN hard times come,
but connect your skill with the indis-
| pensahlcs of life. The world will always
want something to wear and something
to cat and shelter and fuel for the BODY,
and knowledge Tor the mind, and reli-
gion for the soul. And all these things
will continue to be the nccessaries, and if
you fasten your energies upon occtiF5l-
tons and professions thus related tho
" o1ld Will he unable 10 so without YOU,
Remember that Ii proportion as you arc
Ekillf::l i'll a.tiling Jour rivalries Jerome
less. For unskilled toll, women by the
! million. But yod NAV rise to where
here are only q thousand; and still
higher until there are only hundred;
md still higher til taere are only ten;
nd still higher Ia some particular de-
,artment till there is emily unit and that
'oursek. For q while you may keep
wages and e place through The kindly
sTnl;athies OF an employer. but you will
eventually get no more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to al women who have
already entered upon tho battle Of life,
that the time is coming when woman
hall not only get as much salary and
ages as men get. but for certain styles
: employment wome2 viii have higher
Try and more wages for tho reason
t.at for some styles of work they have
lore adaptation. But this justice viii
.3me to woman not through any senti-
lent of calamity, not because woman Is
iysically weaker than man and there
-,,re ought to have more consideration
,lown her, but because through her finer
.:2tural taste and more grace OF manner
nd quicker perception and moro delicate
i-'uch and more educated adrOitnes5 sho
' Ii in certain callings DO to her employer
-'orth 10 per cent. more, or 90 per cent.
:-rorc, than the other ser. She will not
49, it By asking for it, bat by earning it,
I'D it shall be hers by lawful conquest.
Now, men Ct America, DO fair and
ls-e the women : chance! Are you
l.: raid that they will do some of your
:. ork and hence harm your properties?
s;cmember that there arc scores of thou
i ,--nds Of men doing women's work. Do
me- be afraid! God knows the end from
t.-e beginning and he knows how many
+ opls this world can feed and shelter,
u:.l when it gets too full lie will end the
world and if need be start another. God
will halt tho inventive faculty, which,
by producing machine that will
10 the work of ten or twenty
: hundred men and wcn2en, will
ve flat number CT people withou.
.0rk. hope that there viii 1.ot be in
vented another sowing machine, or reap
ing machine, sr corn thresher, or any
1ther now machine for the rext 500
| years. We want 10 moro wooden hands