The Russellville Democrat., 1888-01-19

flung bv 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 curedf Start clear back in the homestead and teach your daughters that lite is an earnest thing, and that there is a 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 aliveliho if what now own were swept away by financial disaster, or old age or death would end my careery"
 "Well, could paint on pottery and do such decorative work" Yes, that is beau tiful, and if you have genius for it go on
 in that direction. But there are enough
 busy at that now 10 make line of hard
 ware from here to the East river and
 across the bridge.
 "Well, I could make recitations in pub
 lie and earn my living as dramatist. l
 could render King Lear or Macbeth till
 your hair would rise on end, or give you
 'Sheridan's Ride' or Dickens 'Pickwick." :"
 Yes. that is beautiful art, but ever and
 anon, as now, there is an epidemic Of
 dramatization that makes hundreds of
 households nervous with the cries and
 shrieks and groans of young trage-
 dians dying in the fifth net, 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 10
 say nothing of the present, you could not, in the ay of living, in ten years earn ten cents.
 My advice to all girls and unmarried lt 1,..F, xnr in
 homes where most stringent economies
 are grinding, is to learn to do some kind
 of work that the world must have while the world stands. I am glad to see
 marvellous change for the better, and that
 women have found out that there are hun dreds of practical things that woman can do for a living if she begin soon enough, and that men have been com peled to admit it. You and l can remem- Der when the majority of occup ations
 were thought inappropriate for 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 pl aces, and multitudes of women who had been hith- erto supported by fathers and brothers and sons, were competed from that time to take core of themselves. From that time mighty change took place, favor- able to female employment.
 Among the occupations appropriate for women place the follow ing, 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 reportorial stands in our ed
 ucational, political and religious meetings. Savings banks, the work clean and hon. orable and who so great right to toll | there? for woman founded the first sav- ings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield. Copyists, and there is hardly profes- sional man that does not need the serv- ice of her penmauship, and. as amanu- eusis, many of the greatest books of our | day have been dictated for her writing. There they are as florists, and confec- | tioners, and music teachers, and station | CTS, and book keepers, for which they are | specially qualified by patience and ac- | curacy, and in wood -engray ing, in which | the Cooper Institute has turned out so
 many qualified, and telegraphy, for
 which he is specially prepared, as thou. sands of the telegraphic offices would 1 testify.
 l Photography, and in nearly all our es' l 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 cotta, in embroidery.
 | As postmistresses, and the President is l giving them appointments all over the land.
 | As keepers of Lighthouses, 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 designers, as draught-women, | as Photographers, as teachers in schools and seninares, for which they are
 especially endowed, the first teacher of every child, by divine arrangement, be- l ing woman.
 As physicians, having graduated after | a regular course of study from the female colleges of our large cities, where they | get as scientific and thorough preparation l as any doctors ever had, and go forth to a work which no one but women could so | appropriately or delicately do. | On the featuring platform, for you know | the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore l 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.
 1 As preachers of the Gospel, and all the | protests of eccles iastical courts can not | hinder them, for they have pathos and
 a power in their relg ious utterances that men can never reach. Witness all those
 who have heard their mother pray. Oyoung 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 prosperities, learn how to do some kind of work that the
 world must have as long as the world | stands. Turn your attention from the l embroidery of fine slippers, of which there | is a surplus and make q useful shoe. Ex- pend the time in which you adorn cigar i case in learning how to make a good,
 honest loaf of bread. Turn your atten- | tion from the making of fiimsy nothings | to the manufacturing of important some. | things.
 Much of the time spent in young ladies. | seminaries in studying what are called the 'higher branches" might better be 1 expended in teaching them something by | which they could support themselves. If you are going to be teachers, or if you
 have so much assured wealth that you can l always dwell in those high regions, trigo-
 nometry, of course, metaphysics, of
 course, Latin and Greek and German and 1 French and Italian, of course, and hun
 dred other things, of course, but if you are
 not expecting to teach, and your veal th
 is not established 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 resources. Learn to do something better than any body else. Buy Virginia Penny's book
 entitled: 1.-The Employments of Women,"
 and learn there are five hundred ways in
 which a woman may earn living. "No, mop says so me young woman.