The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-25

other station, over the wire, ostensibly for
information on the subject Of your ques-
tons. She can't take or receive anything
Of length or consequence, and if some event
ex1lts her office into an afternoon sudden
Importance she has to be displaced oy
masculine operator. There are one or two
woman photographers who are as expert as
men, even on heavy lines, women whose
touch is mistaken for a mans by the opera
tor at the other end of the wire. At one time
the Western Union paid the highest salary
given to any operative in its main building
at New York TO a woman. 1t mas woman
now who tests the lines for breaks, and
sends out the linemen for repairs, dong
that delicate work with certainty. 1t has
a woman at the same post in It's Phlladel-
phla building also. But Supt Brennan
Will tell you that the average woman is not
nearly so good an operator as the average
man, and that, while some good operators
among women are undergrad as compared
with men Of the same grade there are
plenty OF woman whose scant wages are
more than due reward for the poor work
they do. Women's nerves interfere with
topography sometimes when their hlghtlnesS
does not. A woman who was trying to
qualify for wire at the Western Union
tainted every time they tried 10 test her
proficiency, however gently they went about
Lhp C4dIlllldblOn.
WHAT STARTED THE CRAZE FOR THE TAILOR
GOWN
Women dressmakers did not or
could not cut two sides of waist alike
The craze is subslding because modistes
nave learned lesson from the more pa
tent, systematic care which the men put
into their work
Why do women prefer to be waited upon
by men in the stores! There is line of
promotion open freely to saleSwOmen who
can be attentive and who are intelligent,
leading to positions as cashiers stOcktakers,
meade OF departments, buyers, as well sala-
RED as anything in dry goods TO which en-
ployes Of the other sex can aspire. There is
less sex discrimination and more brain dis
elimination in such matters than employers
get credit for.
The effort to induct women into the mys-
teries OF technical and industrial design is
only partially successful. They can do lit
tie with carpets, seeming unable to cope
with the intricacies of the weave. With
wall papers and oilcloths they succeed bet
ter these being as to coloring and pattern
easier to understand
Jewellers employ women as assistants in
repair and manufacturing work, but al
most never for delicate or intricate pieces
of workmanship
In wood engraving there are probably
less than half a dozen in New York of the
many women aspirants who do work equal
to Tat Of good men.
In lines where there is no competition
with men, as in embroidery and decorative
work, outside the influence of the artistic
spirit radiated by the associated artists,
much of the work done by women who de-
pend on their needles for bread and butter,
and some of whom have gone so far as to
study at South Kensington or in other
schools of design, is petty, some beneath
contempt
The best women in all lines are showing
themselves heroines, but theaverage woman
has less than she usually gets credit for
on which to felicitate herself as compared
with the average man. A dry goods man,
who keeps careful record from year to year
of the punctuality and grade of service rem
denered by his 500 employees, says that the
best women are more faithful than the best
men, but that the average record of the
men is much above that OF the women.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON,