The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-01-13

II az eStaDt Sbmeut get as muCn wages as the
male empi0yesi For the simple reason in
by misfortune behind that cT1uter, while the
males have from the daT thew left the public
school been learning the business.
LEARNING TO BE PRACTICAL
How Is this evil Ia be cured. Start clear
back in the homestead and teach your daugh-
ters that Re Is an earnest thing, and that
there Is a POSSIBILITY, IL not a strong probabi-
itv, that thsT Will have 10 fight the battle Of
life alone. Let every father and mother saw
- their daughters: Nov, what would YOU DO
for livelihood IL what | now own were swept
away by fnauclel disaster, or old age or death
should end NV careert" ''Wel, / could paint
on pottery or 10 such decorative work" Yes
that IS beautiful, aud II you have genius for il
20 in that direction. But there are enough
busy a. that nOw 10 make line Of hardware
from here 10 the East river and across the
bridge.
we'll | could make Rotations in public
and earn my living as a dramatst I could
render King Lear or Macbeth till YOUR hair
would raise on end or give you 'Sherdan's
Ride or Dickens 'Pickwck.' Iesi that is a
beautiful art, but eve rand anon. as now. there
Is an epidemic Of dramatizatiOn that makes
hundreds of households nervous with the
cries and shreks and grOans OF Young TRACE
dams diving in the fifth act, and the trouble is
that while your friends would like To hear
YOU, and really think that you could surpass
Ristori ard Charlotte Cushman and Fanny
kemble Of the past 10 say nothing of the
present YOU could not, in the way of living, in
ten wears earn 10 cents Nv advice 10 all
girls aud all unmarried women, whether in
atfiuent homes or homes where most stringent
economies are girding, to learn to do some
kind Of work that the world must have while
the world stands.
OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN.
am glad to see 4 marvellous change for the
better, and that women have found out that
there are hundreds of practical things that a
woman can DO for living if she begin soon
enough, and that men have been compelled TO
admit Il. You and | can remember when the
majority Of occupations were thought inap-
prOpriate Tor women, but our civil war came
and the hosts Of men went forth from north
and south, and to conduct the business of Our
cities during the patriotic absence women
were demanded by the tens of thousands to
take the vacant places, and mulltudes of
women who had been hitherto supported by
fathers and brothers and sons We're compelled
from that time to take care OF themselves.
From that time mighty change took place
favorable to female employment
Among the occupations appropriate for wo-
man 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 repOrtOral stands in our
educational, political and religious meetings.
savings DduAS, Tie NOEh cledn ana honorable
and who so great a right to toll there. for a
woman founded the first savings bank, Mrs
Priscilla Wakefield! Copyists, aud there is
hardly professional man that does not need
the service Of her penmanship, and, as aman-
uenss, many OF the greatest books of our
day have been dictated for her writing.
A FEW GOOD SUGGESTIONS.
There they are as florists and cOnfection-
ers, and music teachers, and statiOners. and
bookkeepers, for which they are specially
qualified by patience and accuracy, and wood
engraving, in which the Cooper institute has
turned out so many qualified, and telegraphy.
for which she is especially prepared as thOu-
sands of the telegraphic officers would testify;
photography, and in nearly all our establish
ments they may be found there at cheerful
work AS workers in ivory, and gutta percha
and gum elastic, and tortoise she'll and gild-
ing, and in chemicals, in porcelain in terra
Gotta. in embroidery AS pOstmistresses-and
the presidents 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 a thing with oar and boat as
did Ida Lewis and Grace Darling. As proof
readers, as translators, as mOdelers. as de-
signers, as draughtswomen, as photographers
as teachers in schools and seminaries. for
which they are especially endowed the first
teacher of every child, by divine arrangement
being woman. AS physicians. having grad
mated after regular course of study from the
female colleges of our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough preparation as
any doctors ever had, and 90 forth to a work
which no one but women could so appropri-
ately or delicately do. On the featuring nlat-
form, for you know the brilliant success of
Mrs. LivermOre and Mrs. HalOWell and Miss
Willard and Mrs. LathrOp. As physiolog cal
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
courts can not hinder Them for
they have pathOs and power in their relir-
iOus utterarces that men can never reach
Witness all those who have heard their mother
pray.
ADVICE TO THE FAIR SEX.
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 your father is dead, and all the resources
of your family have been scattered, but now
while in good house and environed by all
learn how to do some kind of
work that the world must have so long as the
world stands Turn your attention from the
of fine slippers, Of which there is
a surplus, and make Il useful shoe. EXDend
the time in which YOU adOrn a cigar case in
learning how to make a good, honest loaf of
bread. Turn your attention from the making
of flimsy nOthings to the manufacturing of i'm
portant something's.
Much of the time spent in young ladies'
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 il you have so much assured
wealth that you can always dwell in those
high regions, trigOnometry of course, meta
physics OF course, Latin and Greek and Ger
man and French and Italian of course and
hundred other things of course but if YOU are
not expecting to teach and your wealth is not
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 re-
Learn to do something better than
anybody else. Buy Virginia Penny's book en-
titled The Employments of Women" and
learn there are 500 ways in which woman
may earn a living.
LEARNING USEFUL TRADES.
mo. Mop says some young woman, 81
will not undertake anything so unrOmaatic
and commonplace as that An excellent au-
thor writes that after he had in a book, ar
gued for efficiency in WOmanlY work, in order
TO success and positive apprenticeship by way
Of preparation, a prominent chemist advertis-
ed that he would teach a class of women to
become druggists and apothecaries if they
would go through an apprenticeship as men
do and a printer advertised that he would
take class of women to learn the printers
trade if they would 90 through an apprentice
ship 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!