The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-09

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But there they must compete with sales-
men of long experience, or with men who
have served an apprenticeship in COM
merce. and who began as shop boys at ten
years of age. Some kind hearted dry
goods man having known the father, now
| gone, says: 1--WE are not in need of any
more help just now, but send your daugh-
tiers to my store, and l 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 school 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 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: snow, what would you do for
alivelihood if what now own were swept
away by financial disaster, or old age or
death would end my career?"
| swell, l 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 TO make line of hard
ware from here to the East river and
across the bridge.
SWELL, l could make recitations in pub
lie and earn my living as a dramatist. I
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 TRACE.
dams dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends W oul 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 present, 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:
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 say.
ings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield.
Copyists, and there is hardly 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 &C.
curacy, and in wood-engrav ing, in which
the Cooper Institute has turned out so
many qualified, and telegraphy, for
which she is specially prepared, as thou.
sands Of the Geographic offices would
testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our es.
| Establishments 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 lighthouses, 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
modelers, as designers, as draught-women,
as photographers, as teachers in schools
and seminaries, for which they are
especially endowed, the first teac her 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, where 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 you know
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 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.
y 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 y 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. Turn your attention from the
embroidery of fine slippers, of which there
is surplus, and make useful shoe. Ex-
pend the time in which you adorn cigar.
case in learning how to make good,
honest loaf of bread. Turn your atten.
tion from the making of fiimsy nothings
to the manufacturing of important some
| things.
"No, mol" says some young woman. l
will not under axe 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 lway of preparation, a
prominent chemist advertised that he
would teach class of women to become
druggists and apothecaries if they would
go through an appre nticeship as men do;
and printer advertised that he would
| take n class of women 70 laorn %ba xr;,,