The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1888-01-11

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thing. and that there Is a possibility, II
not a strong probability. that they win
have % fight the hattleof life alone. Let
every father and mother say 70 their
daughters. Now, what would YOU do
for q livelihood II what now own were
swept away By financial disaster, or old
age or death should end my careez5'
''Well. could paint on pottery and
DO such decorative work. " Yes, that Is
beautiful. and II you have genius for It
20 on in that direction. But there are
enough busy at that now 10 make a line
q hardware from here 70 the East river
and across the bridge.
siWeIi, I could make recitations IN
public and earn my living as dramatist.
could render King Lear or Macbeth
til your hair would rise on end. on give
you Sheridan's Ride or Dickens
'Pickwiek. Yes, that is a beautiful
art; but ever and anon, as now, there is
an epidemic of dramatization that makes
hundreds Of households nervous with the
cries and shrielrs and Rroms Of young
tragedians dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble Is that while your friends would
like 20 hear you, and really think that
YOU could surpass Ristori and Charlotte
Cushman and Fanny Komble u the past,
10 say nothing Of tho present, you could
not, In the way Of living, IN ten years
earn tea cents.
Ny advice to all girls and all unmar-
ried women, whether in affluent homes
or in homes where most stringent econo-
mics are grinding, TO learn to do some
kind Of work that the wol.ld must have
while the world stands. / glad to SEQ
marvellous change for On Aexr, and
that women have found out ~ there
arc hundreds Of practical thlgs that
woman can do for a living If she begin
soon enough, and that men have been
compelled TO admit it. You and can
remember when the majority Of occupa-
lions 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 multitudas Of women who
had been hitherto supported by fathers
and brothers and sons, were compelled
from that time 20 take care Of themselves.
From that time a mighty change took
place, favorable TO female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate for
woman place the following, into many
of which she has already entered, and all
The others she viii enter:
Stenography, and you may find her al
nearly all the reportorial stands in oul
educational, political and religious meet
ngs.
Savings banks, tho work clean and
honorable, end who so great a right e
toil there, for woman founded the frs
savings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield
Copyists, and there is hardly a pro
fessional man that does not need the ser
vice Of her penmanship, and, as amanu
ensis, many Of the greatest books Of on
day have been dictated for her writing
There they are as florists and confec
TONERS and music teachers and stationer
and bookkeepcrs, for which they ar
specially qualified by patience and accur
acy, and
Wood engraving, in which the Coope
institute has turned out 50 many quail
fied, and
Telegraphy, for which she is special
prepared, as thousands Of the telegraphi
offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all ou
establishments they may be found ther
at cheerful work.
As workers in ivory and gutta perch
and gun elastic and tortoise shell an
gliding and Ia chemicals in porcelain, /
y lerra. eoiia,. A eualg and
land. ~ ,t-sr,sSi ,.lspsi
| As keepers of lighths i.s5nce ncany q
them, If they had the ! 'ssr ~, sad,
to do as brave thing with 81 "a boa
as did Ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
AS proofreaders, as translators, a
mOdelers, as designers, as draughtswo
nen, as photographers, as teachers il
schools and seminaries, for which the,
are especially endowed, the first teache
OF every child, by divine arrangement
being q woman.
As physicians, having graduated aftt
a regular course of study from the femal
colleges Of our large cities, where the
get as scientific and thorough preparatio
as any doctors ever had, and 60 forth [
work which no one but women coul
so appropriately or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for yo
know the brilliant success of Mrs. Live
more and Mrs. Hallowel and Mrs. Wi
lard and Mrs. Lathrop.
As physiological lecturers to their ow
sex, for which service there is a deman
appalling and terrific.
As preachers Of The Gospel, and all IL
protests of ecclesiastical courts cam,
hinder them, for they have a pathos an
power in their religious utterances th:
men can never reach. Witness all tho.
who have heard their mother pray.
o, young women of Americal as man
Of you will have to fight your own ba
ties alone, do not wait until you al
flung of disaster, and your father is dea
and all the resources of your family hay
been scattered; but now, while in a goc
house and environed by all prosperitie
learn how to do some kind of work tn
the world must have as long as the wor
stands. Turn your attention from Il
embroidery of fine slippers, of whiC
| there is a surplus, and make q usef
4 shoe. Expend the time in which yC
! adorn cigar case in learning how
make a good, honest loaf Of bread. Tul
your attention from the making Of films
nothings to the manufacturing OF in
0 portant something's.
r Much of the time spent in Young ladie
seminaries in studying what are callt
= the higher branches" might better
!, expended in teaching them somethiT
i by which they could support themselve
y If you are going to be teachers, or if "
; have so much assured wealth that "
x can always dwell in those high region
e trigonometry OF course. metaphysics
III course, Latin and Greek, and Germ:
n and French and Italian Of course, and
le hundred other things, of course, but
'e you are not expecting to teach, al
n your wealth is not established beyol
misfortune, after you nave learned L
u ordinary branches, take hold Of that XII
h Of study that will pay in dollars and Ger
n in case you are thrown on your own !
y sources. Learn to do something bett
D. than anybody else. Buy Virginia Pc
IN ny's book entitled, s.Tha Empioymer
s. Of Women, and learn there are fl
N hundred ways in which a woman M
rs earn living.
- "No. Nol says some Toung woma
as viii not undertake anything so UNI
re mantle and commonplace as that.
q, excellent author writes that after he ha
~ in a book, argued for efficiency
no womanly work IN order to success, a
positive apprenticeship by way Of prepal
7. ton, a prominent chemist advertis
ou that he would teach a class Of women
az become druggists and apotbecaries
nc they ~ould 60 through an apprentices
VI as men do, and a printer advertised that
no ueould tskn n f.laSs ~ v,-rr,,ar, a., l,,,, :
OF printer 5 trade if they would 90 throu
n an apprenticeship As men do, and h
~ many. according 10 the account Of I
- authoress, do you suppose applied to
OF come skilled in the druggist business a
no printing business2 Not lone. One you
woman sid she would Be willing to I
- the printing business for six months, I
n. By that time her older sister would
- married, and then her mother wot
no want her at home. Nv sisters. X win