Sharp County record., 1888-02-02

merce, and VINO began as SnOp boys aU Ten
years of age. Some inG-hearted dry
goods man having known the father, now
gone, says: "We are not in need Of any
more help just now, but send your daugh-
ters to my store, and will do as well by
them as possible" Very soon the ques
tion comes up: Why do not the female
employees get as much wages as the male
employees? For the simple reason, in
many cases, the females were suddenly
flung by misfortune behind that counter,
while the males have from the day they
left the public sch ool 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 that there is possibility, if
not trong probability, that they will
have to fight the battle of life alone. Let
every father and mother say to their
daughters: "Now, what would you do for
aliyelihood if what now own were swept
away by financial disaster, or old age or
death would end my career"
swell, could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work" Yes, that is beau
tifu, and if you have genius for it go on
in that direction. But there are enough
busy at that now to make line of hard
ware from here to the East river and
across the bridge.
"Well, | could make recitations in pub
lie and earn my living as a dramatist. l
could render King Lear or Macbeth till
your hair would rise on end, or give you
'Sherdan's Ride or Dickens 'Pickwick. ."
Yes. that is a beautiful art, but ever and
anon, as now, there is an epidemic Of
dramatizaton that makes hundreds of
households nervous with the cries and
shrieks and groans of young TRACE
dians dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends woul d
like to hear you, and really think that you
could surpass Ristori and Charlotte CuSh-
man and Fanny Kemble of the past to
say nothing of the pres ent, you could not,
in the way of living, in ten years earn
ten cents.
Among the occupations appropriate for
women place the following, into many
Of which she has already entered, and all
the others she will enter:
ICUeHOSIuDuJJ anu y Ou may illu hOi "U
nearly all the reportorial stands in our ed
ucationa, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work clean and hon
orable, and who so great q right to toll
there? for woman founded the first saw
ings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield.
Copyists, and there is hardly a profess
sional man that does not need the serv-
ice of her penmanship, and, as amanu-
ensis, many of the greatest books of our
day have been dictated for her writing.
There they are as florists, and confec-
TONERS, and music teachers, and station
ers, and book keepers, for which they are
specially qualified by patience and ac-
curacy, and in wood engraving, in which
the Cooper Institute has turned out so
many qualified, and telegraphy, for
which she is specially prepared, as thou
sands of the telegraphic offices would
testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our es.
tablishments they may be found there at
cheerful work.
As workers in ivory, and gutta-percha
and gum-elastic, and tortoise shell, and
gliding, and in chemicals, in porcelain, in
terra Gotta, in embroidery.
As postmistresses, and the President is
giving them appointments all over the
land.
As keepers of light. 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 proof-readers, as translatOrs, as
-, doc 1ro rl,t
as photographers, as teachers in schools
and seminaries, for which they are
especially endowed, the first teacher of
every child by divine arrangement, be-
ing woman.
AS physicians, having graduated after
a regular course of study from the female
colleges of our large cities, whore they
get as scientific and thorough preparation
as any doctors ever had, and go forth to a
work which no one but women could so
appropriately Or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for youknow
the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore
and Mrs. Hollowell and Mrs. Willard and
Mrs. Lathrap.
As physiological lecturers to their own
sex, for which service there is demand
appalling and terrific.
As preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests Of eccies iastical courts can not
hinder them, for they have pathos and
power in their religion utterances that
men can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
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 our father is dead, and all
the resources of your family have been
scattered but now, while in 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. TurH yuur attention from the
embroidery Of fine 81 'p@2rs, OF which there
is surplus, and make useful shoe. Ex-
pend the time in which you adorn cigar
case in learning how to mako a good,
honest loaf of bread. Turn your atten-
tion from the making of 1msy nothings
to the manufacturing of important some
things.
"No, mop says some young woman. l
will not under'ak any thing so unroman"
tic and commonplace as that. An excel
lent author writes that after he had. in a
book, argued for efficiency in womanly
work in order to success, and positive
apprenticeship by iway of preparation,
| prominent chemist advertised that he
would teach a class Of women to become
druggists and apothecaries if they would
,.o fl-cuun az ANNA n II eShiD n : men do.