Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-01-14

3don comes up: Why do not the fcnule en-
SI5loycs Of TINT establishment get rs much
Mages Us the male employees? For tho simple
leasou in many cases the females were sud-
lIeuly flung by misfortune behind that
ountcr, while the males have from tho day
Icy left tho public school been loarning tho
business.
;,kIlow is this evil to DO cured2 Start clear
)ack in the homestead ind teach your daush-
},rs that life is nn earnest thing, and that
hero is q possibility, if not a strong prob
Utility, that they will have to fight the battle
s,If lifo alone. Let ovcry father and mother
ay to their daughters: "Now, what would
Sou do for n livelihood if what now own
Sero swept away by financial disaster, or old
tSe or death should end my career"
ttll.ysfWel, could paint on pottery 9nd DO
such decorative work" Yes, that is bcauti-
ful, and if you have genius for it go ON IN
fiat direction. But there arc enough busy ut
tSatnow to mako limo OF hardware from
l;Jro to thc=II East river and across tho bridge.
4t.s3Tell, I could make recitations in public
a{asl; earl my living as n dramatist. could
N Ii, YnI hair
a-onld rise on end. or give you 'Shcrldans
18ii,o' or Dickens 'Picl1wicl'" Yes, that is u
r
there is an epidemic Of drainatization that
makes hundreds of households nervous with
tie cries and shrieks and groans of young
tiagedians dying in tho fifth act, and the
troubleis that while your friends would like
to hear you, and really think TINT you could
srrpass Ristori and Charlotte Cushnan and
Fannie Kcmble OF the past, to say nothing of
thnpresent, you could not, in the way of liv-
ing, in ten years earn ton cents.
My advice to all girls and nll unmarried
women, whether in aiIlucnt homes or in
homes where most stringent economies arc
grinding, to learn to do some kind of work
that the world must have wlio the world
stands l am glad TO see n marvellous change
for tho better, and that women have found
ont that there arc hundreds of practical
things that q woman can do for living If
sho begin soon enough, and that men have
been compelled to admit it. You and l can
remember when the majority Of occupations
wcro thought inappropriate for women, but
OR civil war came and the hosts of men
went forth from north and south, and to
conduct tho business of our cities during the
patriotic absence, women were demanded by
the tens of thousands to take the vacant
places, and multitldcs of women who had
been hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons wcrc compelled from that
time to take caro- Of themselves. From that
time mighty change took place, fayorabl"
to female employment.
Among tue occupations appropriate for
women place the following, into many or
which she has already entered, and all the
others she will enter:
Stcnography, and you may find her ct
nearly all the reportorial stands in our cduca-
tional, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, tho work clean aud honor
able, and who so great right to toll there,
for c woman founded the first savings bank,
Mrs Priscilla Wakefield
Copyists, and there is hardly professional
man that docs not need tho service of her
pcnuanship, and, as amanuensis, many OF
the greatest books of our day have been die
tated for her writing.
There they are rs florists and confectioners
and music teachers and stationers and book
kee sers for which they are specially qualified
by patience and accuracy; and wood engrav-
ing. in which the Cooper Institute has turned
nnfs-o many qualified: anil telegraphy. for
which she is specially prepared, as thousands
of the Geographic offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our establish
ments they may bc fonnd 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 postmstresses, and tho president is CIV
ing them appointments all over tho land.
As keepers Of lighthouses, many of them, If
they had thcchancc, ready to do as brave
thing with oar and boat as did Ida Lewis and
Grace Darling.
As proofrcaders, Us translatorS as model
ers. rs designers, rs draughtswomen, as litho-
eraphcrs, as teachers in schools and semi
narics, for which thoy AFRO especially endowed,
the first teacher Of every child, by divine ar
rangement, being woman.
+ AS physicians, having graduated after
regular course of study from the female col
leres of our large cities, where they get us
scientific and thorough preparation as any
doctors ever had, and so forth to q work
which no one but women could SO appropri-
ately or dclcatcly do.
On the lccturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success of Mrs. Livcrmorc and
Mrs. Hallowell and Mrs Willard aud blrs.
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 pro-
tests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder
them, for they have q pathos and power i'll
their religious utteranccs that mon can never
reach. Witness all those who have heard
their mother pray.
O. Young women Of Amcrica rs many Of
YOU willhave to fight your own battles alone,
do not wait until you arc flung OF disaster, and
your father is dead, and all the resources of
your family have been scattered, but now,
while in a 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 mako II useful shoe. EXpend
the time in which you adorn cigar case IN
learning how to make a good, honest loaf or
bread. Turn your attention from the making
of nimsy nothings TO the manufacturing OF
important something's.
Much of the time spent in young ladies'
Summaries in studying what are called the
"Mrher branches" might better be expended
in tcachinc them something by which they
could support themselves. If you are going
to be teachers, or if you have so much as
sured 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 100 other things, of course; but
if 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
n dollars and cents in case you arc thrown
on y,ul, own resources Learn to do sone-
thing better than anybody else. Buy Vir>
ginia Penny's book entitled "The Employ,
Inents of Women and learn there are 'oo
ways in which woman may earn living.
'No, no!n says somo young woman, Will