The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-20

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daughter has been playing only for
amusement, and is only al the foot of the
ladder, to the top of which a great multi
tude of masters on piano and harp and
dute and organ have climbed.
''P ut the bereft daughters as sales
women in stOres," says another adviser.
But there they must compete with sales
men of long experience, or with men who
have served an apprenticeship in COM
merce. and who began as shop boys at ten
years of age. Some kind hearted dry
goods man having known the father, now
gone, says: 1--WE are not in need Of any
more help just now, but send your daugh-
ters to my store, and l will do as well by
them as possible" Very soon the ques-
tion comes up; Why do not the female
employees get as much wages as the male
employees? For the simple reason, in
many cases, the females were suddenly
flung by misfortune behind that counter,
while the males have from the 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 a trong 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
alivelihood if what I now own were swept
away by financial disaster, or old age or
death would end my career?"
"Well, could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work" Yes, that is beau
tiful, and If you have genius for it go on
in that direction. But there are enough
busy at that now to make line of hard
ware from here to the East river and
across the bridge.
"Well, L could make recitations i'm pub
lie and earn my living as a dramatist. I
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 an epidemic of
dramatization that makes hundreds of
households nervous with the cries and
shrieks and groans of young TRACE
dians dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends W oul
like to hear you, and really think that you
could surpass Ristori and Charlotte Cusb-
man and Fanny Kemble of the past, to
say nothing of the pres ent, you could not,
in the way Of living, in ten years earn
ten cents.
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 ed
ucational, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work clean and hon
orable, and who so great a right to toll
there? for woman founded the first saw
ings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield.
Copyists, and there is hardly a profes-
sional man that does not need the serv-
ice of her penmanship, and, as amanu-
snsis, many of the greatest books OF our
day have been dictated for her writing.
There they are as florists, and confec-
tioners, and music teachers, and station
ers, and book keepers, for which they are
specially qualified by patience and ac-
curacy, and in wood -engrav ing, in which
the Cooper Institute has turned out
many qualified, and teIegraphy, for
which she is specially prepared, as thou
sands of the telegraphic offices would
testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our es-
Establishments they may be found there at
cheerful work.
AS workers in ivory, and -percha
and gum-elastic, and tortoise she'll 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 light houses, many Of
them, if they had the chance, ready to do
as brave thing with oar and boat as did
Ida Lewis and Gra Darl ing.
As proof-readers, as translators, as
modelers, as designers, as draught- women,
as photographers, as teachers in schools
and seminaries, for which they are
especially endowed, the frat teacher of
every child, by divine arrangement, be-
ing a woman.
As physicians, having graduated after
a regular course of study from the female
colleges of our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough preparat ion
as any doctors ever had, and go forth to
work which no one but women could so
appropriately or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success Of Mrs. Livermore
and Mrs. Hollowell and Mrs. Willard and
Mrs. Lathrap.
As physiological lecturers to their own
sex, for which service there is a demand
appalling and terrific.
AS preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests of eccles iastical courts can not
hinder them, for they have a pathos and
q power in their religio 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 y our 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 as long the world
stands. Turn your attention from the
embroidery of fine slippers, OF which there
is q surplus and make a useful shoe. Ex-
pend the time in which you adorn a cigar
case in learning how to make a good,
honest loaf OF bread. Turn your atten-
tion from the making Of fimsy nothings
to the manufacturing OF important some
things.
Much of the time spent in young ladies'
seminaries in studying what are called
the 'higher branches" might better be
expended in teaching them something by
which they could support themselves. II
you are going 70 be teachers. or il you
have so much assured wealth that you can
always dwell in those high regions, trigo-
nometry, Of course, metaphysics, Of
course, Latin and Greek and German and
French aud Italian, of course, and hun
dred other things, of course, but if you are
not expecting TO teach, and your wealth
is not established beyond misfortune,
after you have learned the ordinary
branches take hold Of that kind Of study
that will pay in dollars and cents in case
you are thrown on your own resources.
Learn to do something better than any
body else. Buy Virginia Penny's book
entitled: "Ths EmpioymeDts Of Women"
and learn there are five hundred ways in
which a woman may earn a living.
"No, mol" says some young woman.
will not under axe any thing so unrcrnan-
tic and commonplace As that. An excel
lent author writes that after he had. in
book, argued for efficiency in womhnly
work in order TO success, and positive
apprenticeship by way OF preparation, a
prominent chemist advertised that he
would teach q class OF women 20 become
druggists and apoth ecaries if they would
20 through an apprenticeship as men do;
and q printer advertised that he would
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