Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-13

and the daughters are turned out on
cold world to earn bread, and there i
nothing practical that they can do. Tn
friends Of the family come in and hoIt
consultation.
"Give music Lessons" says an out
slider. Yes, that is useful calling, anC
il you have great genius for it, go on il
that direction. But there are enough
music teachers now starving TO death il
all our towns and cities TO occupy ali tn;
piano stools and sofas and chairs snC
front door steps of the city. Beside that
the daughter has been playing Only FOL
amusement, and is only st the foot of the
ladder, to the top Of which 8 great multi
tude of masters on piano and harp ant
flute and organ have climbed.
"Put the bereft daughters as sales
women in Stores" says another adviser
But there they must compete with sales
men of long experience or with men who
have served en- apprenticeship in com
merce, and who began as shop boys at
ten years Of age. Some kiDd-hearted dry
goods man having known the father, now
gone, says, awe ere not in need OF any
more help just now, but send your
daughters TO my store, and l will do as
well By them as possible" Very soon
the question comes up, why do not the
female employees Of thtt establishment
get as much wages as the male employees?
For tie simple reason in many cases the
females were suddenly flung by misfor
tune behind that counter, while the males
have from the day they lei the public
school been learning the business.
How is this evil TO be cured Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that lite is an earnest
thing, and that there is possibility, il
not strong 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
livelihood if what l now own were
sweps away by
FINANCIAL DISASTER,
or old age or death should end my
career 2"
"Well, 1 could paint On pottery and do
such decorative work" Yes, that is
beautiful, and if you have genius for
there are enough busy 1T that nov to
make line Of hardware from here 20 the
East river ana across the bridge.
"Well, could make Rotations in pub
lie and earn nv living as e dramstist.
could render King Lear or Macbeth till
your hair would stand on end. or give
you Sheridan's Ride orsDickens' Pick
wick" Yes; that is beau iful art, but
ever and 8nOn, as now, there is an cpl
demic Of dramatiZation that makes hun
dreds Of households nervous with the
CT Is and shrieks and grOans of young
trsgedisns dying in the fifth set, and the
trouble is that while your friends would
Like 10 hear you, and really think that you
could surpsss Ristori and Charlotte Cush-
man and Fanny Kemble Of the past, to
say nothing of the present, you could not,
in the way of living, in ten years earn ten
cents.
My advice to all girls and all unmar-
ried women, whether in sff1uent homes or
in homes where most stringent econo-
mics are grinding, TO learn TO do soma
kind Of work that the world must have
while the world stands. l am glad to see
a marvellous change for the better, and
that women have found out that there are
hundreds Of practical things that q wo
msn can do for living if she begin soon
enough, and that men have been COM
PEELED TO admit it. You and l can re-
member when the ma orily of occupations
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 places, and multitudes of
women who had been hitherto supported
By fathers and brothers and sons, were
from that time to take care of
themselves. From that time mighty
change took place, favorable to
FEMALE EMPLOYMENT.
Among the occupations appropriate for
woman place the following, into many
Of which she mas already entered, and all
the others she will enter:
Stenography, and you may fad her st
dearly all the reportorial stands in our
political and religious meet
ngs
Savings banks, the work clean and hon
1rable, and who so great right 20 toll
there, for woman founded the first
savings bank, Mrs Priscilla Wakefield.
Cnpyists, and there is hardly pro-
essional man that does not need the
service of her penmanship, and, as
,maTueDsis, many of the greatest books
If cur day have been dictated for her
writing.
There they are IS florists and con-
'ectioners and music teachers and sta
sioners and bookkeepers, for which they
are specially qualified by patience and
accuracy, and
Wood engraving, in which the Cooper
Ius' itute has turned out 80 many quali-
ted, and
Telegrsphy, for which she is specially
as thousands of the Geographic
offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly ell our es-
they may be found there st
cheerful work.
As workers in ivory and gutte percba
md gum elastic and tortoise shell and
gliding and In chemicals, in porcelain, IN
erra Gotta, in embroidery.
AS postmistresses, snd the President is
giving them appointments all over the
and.
As keepers of lighthouses, many Of
hem, il they had the chance, ready to do
Is brave thing with oar snd boat as did
de Lewis and Grace Darling.
AS proof readers, as trsnslstors, as
nodeleTs, IS designers, SIS drAught women,
IS photographers, as teachers in schools
nd seminsries, for which they are espe-
ially endowed, the first teacher of every
hid, by divine arrangement, being 8
woman.
AS physicians, having graduated after
ee ular course Of study from the female
colleges OF our large cities, where they
,et as scientific and thorough preparation
g any doctors ever had, and go forth to 8
york which no one but women could so