Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-09

towns aud cities TO occupy all the piano
stools aud sofas and chairs and front door
steps of the city. Beside that the daugh-
ter has been playing only for amusement,
and is only at the foot OF the ladder, to the
top of which great multitude of masters
on piano and harp and flute and organ
have climbed.
Put the bereft daughters a. saleswOmen
in stores SAYS another adviser. But
there they must cumpetc with statesmen OF
| long experience, or with men who have
served an apprenticeship in commerce, and
who began as shop boys at ten years of age
Some kind.hearted dry goods man having
known the father, now gone, says: I'VE
are not in need OF any more help Just nov,
but send your daughters to my store, and
! will 10 as well by them AZ possible "
Very soon the question comes up, Why DO
not the female employees of that establish
ment get SIS much wages az the male EN-.
ployes? For the simple reason iu many
cases the fsmales 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
tha, there is possibility, if not a,strong
probability. that they will have to fight
| the battle Of lite alone Let every father
aud mother say 10 their daughters "NOw,
what would you do i0I livelihood il what
| now own were swept away by financial
disaster, ~ oh ag2 or death should end
ny career?'
We'll, could paint Ou pottery and do
such decorative work - Yes, that is beau
| tiiul, and if you have genius for it 20 on in
that direction. Bu; there are enough busy
at that now to make line Of hardware
from here to the East river and across the
bridge
well, could make rrcitations in pub
lie and earn my living as drlmatist. !
could render King Lear or Macbeth till
your hair would stand on end, or give you
Sheridan's Ride, or Dickeu s "Pickw!ck -
les; that is a beautiful art, but ever and
anon, 90 nov, there is an epidemic of dra-
maiiZatjnn that makes hundreds OF house
hUlts nervous with tue cries and shrleks
aud grOans Of young tragedians dying in
the fifth act, and the trouble is that while
your friends would like 10 hear y0u and
really lhlnk you surpass RistOIi and Char
lOt!e Cu4hman and Fanny Kemble OF the
past to say nothing of the present., you
could not, in the way of living, in ten
! years earn ten cents.
My advice ID all girls aud all unmarried
women, whether in aiIueut homes OF in
homes where most stringent ec0namIrs are
grinding 10 learn to do
SOME KIND OF WORK
that the world must have while the world
stands. | an glad to see IL marvellous
change for the better, and that woIIen
have found out that there are hundreds OF
practical things that woman can 10 for a
! living if she begin soon enough, AID that
men have been compelled ~ admit it.
! You aud can remember y AsE the majyr-
it's OF occupations were thought lnapprO
! pirate tor women, but our civil war came
/ ard the hest uI men went forth from
| North aud Smlh, and TO conduct the
! busiaes, Of the cities during the patriotic
! t.@Fcor,, women were demanded by The
lens OF thousands to take the vacant place,
| and multitude Of w0mru who had been
hitherto supported BY fathers and broth
crs and sons, were compelled lr0m that
time to take care Of themselves. From
that time mighty change took place,
favorable TO female en- ploYmCnl
Among the occupations appropriate for
/ woman place the following, into many of
| which abe has already entered, and all the
others She will enter:
%.cuogrIphy. ana yOu may ind her at
nearly all the repOrtOrial stinds IL our
educational, political ANA religious meet
iug5
Savings hanks, tie work clean ahd
! honorable, aud who 80 great right to toll
there, for woman founded the first say
ings bank, Mrs Priscilla Wakefield.
| CupyiStS, and there is hardly proies-
slonal man that does not need the service
OF her prrrnanship, and ~ amanuensls,
maHy Of the greatest booko at our day
| have been dictated for her writing
There they are ~ florists aud ConieC.
| TONERS and music teachers aud statiOneTs
and bookkeeptra, for which they are spec
tally qualified by patience and sccuracy,
and
WoOd-engrayinE, ~ Eiicn the Cooper
Institute has turned ont so many quail
ucd, and
Telclr,Phy, TOR which she
Is SPECIALLY Prepared
as Thousands Of the lelegraphic offices
would testify.
Photography, and in nesrly all onr ed
tabi~hments they may be fopud there at
cheerful work.
- workers in ivory and gutta percha
ard gum elastic and tortoise shell and 2ild
ing and in chemicals, in PORCELAIN in terra
Gotta in embroidery.
ia pos -mistTesses, and the President Is
giving them appointments all over the
land.
~ keepers OF lighthouses, many OF them
if they had the chance, ready to do as
prave n thing with oar and boat as did Ida
Lewis and Grace Darling
Az proof readers as trauslatoTs, gs mod
ellcTs, as designers, ~ draught women, as
photographers, as teachers in schools aud
semnaries, for which they are especially
endowed, the first teacher Of every child, !
hy Divine arrangement, heing woman.
As physicians, having graduated after
regular course Of study from the female |.
colleges Of large cities, where they get as
scientific and thorough preparation AZ any
dhctor3 ever had, and 20 forth to work !
which no one but women coold 50 appro- !
priately or delCately do.
On the lecturing platform, lor you
know the brilliant sucCess Of Mrs. Liver |
more and Mrs. !Eallowell and Mrs Viii !
lard and Mrs Lathrop
As physiological lecturers to their OWL
sex, which service there is demand APP
palliHg and terrinc
As preachers of the Gospel, ard all the
protests Of ecclesiastical courts cannot |
hinder them, for they have plthOs and |
power in their religious uttarances that |
men can never reach. Witness all those /
who have heard their mother pray.
o, vOnDg women Of America, 50 many Of
you will have to fight your own battles |
alone,
30 SUr WAIT
until you are flung Of disaster, and your
father is dead aud all the resources OF your !
family have been scattered, hut now, /