News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-01-26


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
out so many qualified; and telegraphy, Tor
which she is speciality prepared, as thousands
of the telegraphic Offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our establish
mentS they NAV be found there st cheerful
work As workers in ivory and gutta peccha
and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gid
ing and in chemicals, in porcelain, in terra
Gotta, in embroidery.
As postmistresses, 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
ers. as designers, as draughtswomen, as ltho
graphers, as teachers in schools and semi
Haries for which they are especially endowed,
the first teacher of every child, by divine ar
rangement, being a woman.
As physicians, having graduated after a
regular course of study from the female col.
leges of our large cities where they get as
scientific and thorough preparation as any
doctors ever had, and go forth to work
which none but women could so approprl-
etely or delcately do
On the lecturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore and
Mrs. HalIowelI, and Mrs. Willard and Mrs.
Lathrop.
As physiological lecturers to their own sex,
for which service there is demand appalling
and terrible
As preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder
them, for they have q pathos and power in
their religious utterances that men can never
reach Witness all those who have heard
their mother pray.
0, young women of America! as many of
fDf icrlt
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 a good house, and environed by all
properties learn how to do some kind of
work that the world must have as long as the
world stands. Turn your attention from the
embroidery of fine slippers, of which there
is a surplus, and make useful shoe ExpeIid
the time in which you adorn cigar case in
learning how TO make a good, honest loaf of
bread. Turn your attention from the making
of Hmsy moth ngS t. the manufacturing OF
important something's.
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 If You are going
to be teachers, or if You have so much as
Sured wealth that you can always dwell in
those high regions, trigonOmetry, of course
metaphysics, OF course; Latin and Greek
course; AMI 100 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 some
thing better tnan anybody else. Buy Nir-
ginia PennyS book entitled ''The Employ
ments of Women and learn there are 500
ways IN which woman may earn living.
NO, nor SAYS some young woman, Il will
not undertake anything so unromantic and
commonplace as that" An excellent author
writes that after lie had, in a book, argued
for efficiency in wOmanly work in order to
success, and positive apprenticeship by way
of preparation, a prmlnent chemist adver-
tiSed that he would teach a class of women
to become druggists and apothacaries if they
would go through an apprenticeship as men
DO. and a printer advertised that he would
take q class Of women to learn the pr nters
trade if they uld 30 through All appren-
ticeShip as men d. AMI low many according
to tie account of the authOreiS do Won sup
pose applied to become SIX led in the druggist
buSinc 5 AMI printing business. Net one.
One young woman said she would be willing
to try tn Printing business for six months
but by that time her older sister would be
and then her mother would want
her at home. My sisters, it will be skilled
labor that will finally triumph.
y
add mother say if they saw | was doing such
work. Throw the whole re
SpOnsibility on the pastor of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, who is constantly hearing OF
young women in all these cities who, unqual-
flied by their previous luxurious surround
ings for the awful struggle of life into which
they have been suddenly hurled, seemed to
have nothing left them but choice between
starvation and damnation. There they go
along the street at Z o'clock in the wintry
through the sluSh and storm to the
place where they shall earn only half enough
for subsistence the daughters of once
merchants, lawyers, clergymen,
artists, bankers and capitalists who brought
up their children under the Internal deluSlon
that it was not high toned for women to learn
profitable calling. Young women, take
this affair in your own hand and let there be
an insurrection in all prosperous families OF
BROOKLYN and New York and ChristendOn
on the part of the daughters of this day, de-
manding knowledge in occupations and styles
of business by which they may be their own
defense and their own support if all fatherly
and husbandly and brotherly hands forever
fail them
have seen two sad sights-the one a wo-
man in all the glory of her young life stricken
by disease, and in week lifelesS in home of
which she had been the pride. As her hands
were 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 a sadness i'm
measurable. But have seen something COM
pared with which that scene was bright and
songful 1t was a Young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy surroundings,
by the visit of death and bankruptcy to the
household turned out on a 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
Atlantic Ocean looking for a shipwrecked
craft that was left alone and fOrsaken on the
sea a few weeks ago, with the idea of bring
ing it into port. But who shall ever bring
again into the harbor of peace and hope and
heaven that lost womanly immortal, driven
in what tempest, afame in what cOnflagra-
ton, sinking into what abyss. God, help!
O Christ, rescued
My sisters, give not your time to learning
fancy work which the world may dispense
with when hard times come, but connect
your skill with the indfspensables of life.
The world will always want something to
wear and something to eat. and shelter and
fuel for the body, and knowledge for the
mind, AMI religion for the sOul. And all
these things will continue to be the neceS-
saries, and if you faSten your energies upon
occupations and professions thus related the
world will be unable to do without you.
Remember that in proportion you are
skillful in anything your rivalries become
less. For unslzille1 toll, women by the mill
ion. But you may rise to where there are
only thousand: and still higher till thera
are only a hundred; and still higher till
there are only ten; and still higher in some
particular department till there is only a
unit, and that yourself. For a while yoI
may keep wages and a place through the
kindly nyp3th es of an employer. bat you
viii eventually no. get more compensation
than you can make yourself worth
afr oil .Is 4
entered upon the battle of life that the time
is nearing when woman shall not only get as
much salary and wages as men get, but for
certain styles OF employment women will
have higher salary and more wages for the
reason that for some styles of work they have
more adaptation. But tbs Justice will come
to woman, not through any 'ntiment of gal
lantry, not because woman is physically
weaker than man and therefore ought to
have more consideration shown her but be
cause through her finer natural taste and
more grace of manner and quicker percep-
ton and more delicate touch and more edu-
Gated adroitneSs. she will in certain callingS.
be TO her employer worth 10 per cent more
or ~ per Ct mt. more than the other sex. She
will not get it by asking for it, but by earn
ing it, and it shall be hers by lawful con
quest
Now, men OF America he fair and give the
women chance! Are you afraid that thew
will do some of your work and hence harm
your properties! Remember that there are
scores OF thousands of men doing women :
work. Do not be afraid God knows the
end from the beginning and he knows how
many people this world can feed and shelter
and when it gets too full he will end the
world and If nae1 be start another God will
matt the inventive faculty which by pro-
ducing machine that will do the work Of
ten or twenty or a hund red men and women,
Will leave that number of people without
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