The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-12
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beinots woman.
Is physicians, having graduated after
.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. Liver
more and Mrs. Hallowen ard Mrs. Viii
lard and Mrs. Lathrop.
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 ecclesiastical courts cannot
hinder them. for they have pathos and
power in their religious utterances that
men can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
o, young women of America! as many
of you will have to fight your own bat
ties alone, do not wait until you are
flung of disaster, and your father is dead
| and all the resources of your family have
been scattered; but now, while i'm a good
house and environed by ell 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, Espend The time in which YOU
adorn a cigar case in learning how to
make good, honest loaf of bread. Turn
your attention from the making, of tiimsy
nothings to the manufacturing of i'm
portant something's.
Much of the time spent in young ladies'
se1uinaries in studying what are called
the ''higher branches" might better be
by which they could support themselves.
If you are going to be teachers, Or if you
have so much assured wealth that you
can always dwell in those high regions,
trigonometry of course, metaphysics of
course, Latin and Greek, and German
and French and Italian of course, and &
hundred other things, of course, but II
you are not expecting to teach. and
your wealth 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 re-
! sources. Learn to do something better
than anybody else. Buy Virginia Pen
ny's book entitled, "The Employments
of Women" and learn there are five
hundred ways in which woman may
earn a living.
''No. No!' says some young woman,
l will not undertake anything SO unro-
mantle and commonplace as that. An
excellent author writes that after he had,
in a book, argued for efficiency in
womanly work in order to success, and
positive apprenticeship by way of prepara-
ton, a prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach class of women to
become druggists and apothecaries if
they would go through an apprenticeship
as men do, and a printer advertised that he
would take class of women to learn the
printers trade if they would go through
an apprenticeship as men do, and how
many, according to the account of the
authOress, do you suppose applied to be-
come skilled in the druggist business and
printing business? Not one! One young
woman said she would be willing to try
the printing business for six months, but
by that time her older sister would be
married, and then her mother would
want her at home. My sisters, it viii be
skilled womanly labor that will finally
triumph.
s'But," you ask, ''what would my
father and mother say if they saw was
doing such questionable work." Throw
the whole responsibility upon the pastor
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, who is con-
stantly hearing of young women in all
these cities who, unqualified by their pre-
viouS luxurious surroundings for the
awful struggle of life into which they
have been suddenly hurled, seemed to
have nothing left them but a choice be-
tween starvation and damnation. There
they go along the street at o'clock in
the wintry mornings, through the slush
and storm to the place where they shall
earn only half enough for subsist-
ence, the daughters of once prosper
Gus merchants, lawyers, clergymen,
artists, bankers and capitalists, who
brought up their children undeF the in
fernal delusion that it was not high
toned for women to learn a profitable
calling. Young women, take this affair
in your own hands and let there be an
insurrection in all prosperous families In
Brooklyn and New York and Christen-
dom ON the part of the daughters of this
day, demanding knowledge in occupa-
tions and styles of business by which
they may be their own defense and Their
Qwn support if all fatherly and husbandly
ard brotherly hands forever fail them.
1 have seen two sad sights-the one a
woman in all the glory of her young life
stricken by disease, and in a week life
less in home Of which she had been the
pride. AS her hands We're folded over
the still heart and her eyes closed for the
last slumber, and she was taken out amid
the lamentations of kindred and friends,
! thought that was a sadness immeasura
bic, But ! have seen something com
pared with which that scene was bright
and sOngful. 1t was q young woman wha
had been all her days amid wealthy sur
roundings by the visit of death and bank,
ruptcy to the household turned out on
cold world without one lesson about how
to get food or shelter, and into the awfu
whirlpool of city life where strong ships
have gone down, and for twenty years
not one word has been heard from hex
Vessels last week went out on the At
lantic ocean looking for q shipwrecket
craft that was left alone and forsaken OF
the sea a few weeks ago with the idea O.
bringing it into port. But who shal
ever bring again into the harbor of peac,
and hope and heaven that lost womanl1
, immortal, driven in what tempest, afiam'
in what conflagration, sinking into wha
. abyss? o God, helpl o Christ, rescue
| My sisters give not your time to learn
/ ing fancy work which the world ma,
dispense with when hard times come
) but connect your skill with the indis
. pensables of life, The world will alway
want something TO wear and something
{ to eat and shelter and fuel for the body
: and knowledge for the mind, and reli
gion for tbs soul. And all these thing
will continue to be the necessaries, and
s you fasten your energies upon eecupa
: tions and professions thus related th
4 world will be unable to do without you
v Remember that in proportion as you ar
I slillful in ANYTHING your rivalries becom