The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-09


mo, no, says some young woman, Il Will
not undertake anything SO unromantic and
| commonplace as that An excellent author
writes that after he had, in book, argued
for efficiency in womanly work in order To
success, and positive apprenticeship by way
of preparation, a prominent chemist adver-
tlsed that he would teach a class of women
to become druggists and apothecaries if
they would SO through an apprenticeship as
men do, and printer advertised that he
would take a class of women to learn tho
printers trade if they would go through an
apprenticeship as men do and how many,
according to the account of the authoresS,
do you suppose applied TO become skilled in
| the druggist business and printing business:
Not one! One young woman said she would
be willing to try the printing business for
six months, but by that time her older sis
| ter would be married, and then her mother
would want her at home. My sisters, it
will bo skilled womanly labor that will
| finally triumph
But" you ask, "what would my father
| and mother say if they saw | was doing
such questionable workp Throw the
whole responsibility upon the pastor of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, who is constantly
hearing of young women in all these cities
who, unqualified by their previous luxu-
rious surroundings for the awful struggle Of
life into which they have been suddenly
iluIIt SecfUeu 10 nave nOUullE leu bucul
but choice between starvation and dam
ration. There they go along the street
o'clock in the wintry mornings through the
slush and storm to the place where they
shall earn only half enough for subsistence,
the daughters of once prosperous merchants,
lawyers, clergymen, artists, bankers and
capitalists who brought up their children
under the Internal delusion that it was not
high-toned for women to learn profitable
NnnnOr Tn la ~ N
your own hand and LET there be an insur-
| rection in all prosperous families of Brook
lyn and New York and Christendom on the
part of the daughters of this day, demand
| ing 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.
l have seen two sad sights-the one a
! woman in all the glory of her young life
| stricken by disease and in a week lifeless in
home of which she had been the pride As
her hands wore folded over the still heart,
and her eyes closed for the last slumber,
and she was taken out amid the lamenta-
| tions of kindred and friends | thought that
was sadness immeasurabe. But | have
seen something compared with which that
scene was bright and songful. 1t was
! 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, aud
| 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 a shipwrecked craft
that was left alone and forsaken on the sea
a 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 womanly immortal,
driven in what tempest, ahame in what
| confiagration, sinking into what abyss? o
| God, help! o Christ, rescued
NV sisters, give not your time to learn
| ing fancy work which the world may dis
pense with when hard times come, but CON
| meet your skill with the indiSpenSables of
| life The world will always want some
thing to wear and something to eat and
shelter and fuel for the body, and know
ledge for the mind, and religion for the
soul. And all these things will continue to
| be the necessarles, and if you fasten your
energies upon occupations and professions
thus related the world will be unable to do
| without you. Remember that in proper
ton as you are skillful in anything your
rivalries become less For unskillel toll,
women by the million. But you may rise
| to where there are only thousand; and
| ,
| and still higher till there are only ten; and
| still higher in some particular department
till there is only unit and that yourself.
| For while you may keep wages and
place through the kindly sympathies of an
| employer but you will eventually get no
more compensation than you can make
| yourself worth.
Let me say to all women who have
| already entered upon the battle of life that
he iS shall
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 this
| Justice will come to woman, not through
any sentiment Of gallantrs, not because
| woman is physically weaker than man and
| therefore ought to have more consideration
! shown her, but because through her finer
natural taste and more grace Of manner and
quicker perception and more delicate touch
and more educated a1roitness she will in
certain callings be TO her employer worth
10 per cent. more or 20 per cent. more tran
the other sex. She will not get it by asking
for it, but by earning it, and it shall be hers
by lawful conquest
Now, men of America, be fair and give
the women a chancel Are you afraid that
they will do some of your work and hence
harm your prosperitiesl Remember that
there are scores of thousands of men doing
women's 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 need be start an
other. God will halt the inventive faculty,
which, by producing a machine that will do
! the work of ten or twenty or hundred
men and women, viii leave that number of
people without work. | hope that there
will not be invented another sewing machine
| or reaping machine, or corn thresher, or
any other new machine for the next five
hundred years. We want no more wooden
hands and iron hands and steel hands and
electric hands substituted for men and
women who would otherwise do the work
and get the pay and earn the livelihood.
But God will arrange all, and all we have
TO do is to do our best and trust Him for the
rest Let me cheer all women fighting the
battle Of life alone with the fact that
thousands of women have in that way wor
the day. Mary Lyon, founder Of Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary, fought the
battle alone; Adetaide Newton, the tract
distributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the conse-
Grated missionary, alone; Dorothea Dix. the
angel of the insane asylums, alone; Caroline
Herschel, the indispensable reinforcement Of
her brother, alone: Maria Takrzewska, the
heroine of the Berlin hospital, alone; Helen
Chalmers, patron of sewing-schoos for the
poor of Edinburgh. alone. And thousands
and tens of thousands OF women OF whose