Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-09

IL Strong PROBABILITY that they Will hsVe
10 hgat the oGttle If life alone, they Will
DE getting the timber ready 70. their own
fortune, and their saw aud ak and plane
snsrpened for its construction, since
Livery wise woman bIildetn her house,
AS no boy ought TO be brought up With
out learning Some business st which ne
could earn a livelihood, so no girl ought
TO be brought up without learning the
science of self support. The difficulty is
that m.1y = family go sailing on the high
tides Of success, and the husband and
father depends on his own health and
acumen for the welfare OF his household,
but one day he gets his feet wei, and in
three spneumODia has closed his life,
and the daughters are turned out on q
cold world To earn bread, and there is
nothing practical that they can do. The
friends CT the family come in and hold
consultation.
"G.ge music lessons" says sn out
slider. Yes, that is eiuI calling, and
II you have gr ct genius for it, go on in
that direction But there are enough
music teachers new starving to death in
81! our towns and cities to occupy al the
piano stoJls aud sofas and chairs and
front door steps Of the city. Beside that,
the daughter has been playing only for
smu9t menT, and is only 81 the foot Of the
ladder, to the top Of which great multi
tude Of masters On piano ard harp and
hnte snd organ have climbed.
'P0t the bertfs Daughters as sales
women in Stores" ssyS another adviser.
Gut there they must compete with sales
men OF long experience or with men who
have served en- apprenticeship in COM
FneTcS, sad VINO OegSn as shop boys Ct
ten years OF age. SJne kiud-heaTted dry
goods man having known the father, LOW
gone, s&ys, owe are not III need OF any
more help Just now, but send your
daughters 70 my store, and ! will do as
well By them SIS possible" Very scon
the question comes up, Why do not the
female employees Of lhes establishment
get IS mucn wages IS the male employees?
| For the simple reason IN many cases the
| females Were suddenly flung by misf0r
tune behind that counter, while the males
have from the day they left the pu2lc
school been learni0g the business.
How is this evil to be cured S.arI
clear bsck in the homestead and tezch
your daughters that life is al earnest
thing. and that there is & possibility, il
not Z strong probability, that they viii
nave to fight the battle Of life alone. LIE,
every father and mother say TO theil
daughters, "NOw, what would you do fol
| livelihood If what [ low own WeTe
| sWept away by
FINANCIAL DISASTER,
OR old age or death should end my
career ?'
"WelI, I could psint On pottery and &c
such decorative work" Yes, that il
beautiful, and if you have genius fol
it go On in that direction. Blu
there are enough busy IS that now &c
make q line Of hardware from here to thu
East river anu across the bridge.
Gwen, could make rscita ions in pub
| lie ana earn nv living as d dramEtist.
| could reuder King Lear or Macbeth til
your hair would stand on end, or give
you Sheridan's RIDE orsDickens' Pick
| wick" Yes; that is be:u iful srt, hu
ever and amor, as now, there is en- cpl
| demiC CT 6ramatiZ3tiOD that makes hun.
dreds CT HOUSEHOLDS nervous with tint
cr'es and shrieSs and grOans OF youns
tragedisns dying in the flfth act, and tht
! trouble is that while your friends woult
| like to hear you, end reilly think that yot
could sufpass Rjstori snd Charlotte Cusb
n N opd FsSny Kemble of the past, x
Say nothing OF The present, you could not
in the way of living, in ten years earn teI
5nts.
My advice to all girls aud all unmEr
| ried women, whether in atl1uent homes OF
in homes where most stringent econo
mics are grinding, to learn to do sCmt
| kind of work that the world must have
| while the world stands. am glad to see
| q marvellous change for the better, anC
that women have found out that there are
hundreds of practical things that Q WO
man can do for q living il she begin soor
enough, and that men have been com
pelled to admit it. You and l can re-
member when the majority q occupations
We're thought inappropriate for women
but our civil Wsr came and the hosts o.
men went forth from north and south
aud 10 Conduct the business Of our cities
during the patriotic absence, women weTt
demanded or the tens CT thousands tC
take the vacant places, and mulItudeS OF
women who had been hitherto supported
BY fathers and brothers and sons, were
compelled from th.t time TO take care Of
themselves. From shat time a mighty
change took place, favorable to
FEMALE EMPLOYMENT.
Among the occupations appropriate TO!
woman place the following, into msny
OF whicn sne nas alresdy entered, and al
the others she will enter:
Stenogrsohy, and you may find her ST
nearly all the reportorisl stands in ou'
educational, political and religious meet
ings
Savings banks, the work C can and hon
or.ble, and who so great a right to toi
there, for woman founded the flrsl
savings bank, Mrs Priscills Wakefield.
Copyists, and there is hardly pro-
fessional man that does not need the
service Of her penmanship, and, az
amanuersis, msny Of the greatest boo Ks
of eur day have been dictated for hel
writing.
There they are as q )rists and con.
fectiontrs and music teachers and eta
TONERS 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 quail
fed, and
Telegraphy, for which she is specially
prepared, as thousands OF the Geographic
offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly ali our es-
Establishments they may be found there at
cheerful work.