Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-21

Of her penmanship, and, as amanuensis
many Of the greatest books Of our da,
have been dictated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confec
TONERS and music teachers and statiOner
and bookkeepers, for which they ar
specially qualified by patience and &C
curacy, and wood engraving, in which
the Cooper institute has turned out 81
many qualified, and telegraphy, TO
which she is specially prepared as thous
ands of the Geographic offices would ties
tify.
Photography, and in nearly all our es
adjustments they may be found there a
cheerful work.
AS workers in ivory and perch,
and gum elastic and tortoise shell an(
gliding, and in chemicals, in porcelain, il
terra Gotta. in embroidery.
AS postmistresses, and the president il
giving them appointments all over tht
land.
AS keepers of lighthouses, many o.
them if they had the chance. ready to &c
as brave a thing with oar and boat as die
Ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
<AS DIooI~ ltudtIS, uS LldllSluloIS, Us ulOtl
elcrs, as designers, as draught-women, as
photographers, as teachers in schools and
~seminaries, for which they are especially
endowed, the first teacher of every child,
by divine arrangement, being a 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 ia
a work which no one but women could
appropriately or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you
know the brilliant success of Mrs. Liver
more and Mrs. HallOweli and Miss Vii
lard and Mrs. Lathrop.
As physiological lecturers to their own
sex, for which service there is a demand
appalling and terrific.
AS preachers Of the Gospel, and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot
hinder them, for they have a pathos and
a power in their religious uttcranccs that
man can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
DO NOT WAIT.
O, young women of America! as many
OF you will nave to fight your own battles
alone, do not wait until you are flung OF
disaster, and your father is dead, and all
the u Of your family have been
scattered, but now, while in q 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 tine slippers, of which
thnra 10 a u,r,1,,o n,l ,ralyn, ,,.of,l cl,o,
EXpend the time in which you adorn a
cigar case IN learning how to make a good,
honest loaf of bread. Turn your atten-
ton from the making of t1imsy nothings
to the manufacture of important some
things.
TIME WASTED.
Much of the time spent in young ladies
seminaries in studying what are called
the higher branches might better be
expended in teaching them something by
which they could support themselves.
If you are gong 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 a hundred other
things, of course, but if you are not ex-
p%ecting 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 resources. Learn to do
something better than anybody else. Buy
Virginia Penny's book entitled 'The
~Employments Of Women" and learn
there are 500 ways in which a woman
may earn a living.
WOMEN MUST Become EFFICIENT.
mo. Nor says some young woman,
| will not undertake anything SO unro-
mantle and commonplace as that. An
excellent author writes that after he hal,
in a book, argued for efficiency in
womanly work in order to success, and
positive apprenticeship by way of prepar.
alton, a prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach a class of women to
become druggists and apOthecaries if
they would GO through an apprenticeship
as mel do, and a printer advertised that
he would take Il class of women TO learn
the printers trade if they would go
through an apprenticeship rs men do,
and how many according to the count of
the authoress do you suppose applied to
become skilled in the drugg St business
and printing business2 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 will be
skilled womanly labor that will finally
triumph.
HALF PAID woMEN.
But" you ask, what would my
father and mother say if they SAW I was
doing such questionable work 2" 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
previous luxurious surroundings for the
awful struggle of life into which they
have suddenly hurled, seemed TO have
nothing left them but a choice between
starvation and damnation. There they
go along the street Z o'clock in the wintry
mornings through the slush and storm To
the place whe,e they shall earn only half
enough for subsistence, the daughters Of
once prosperous merchants, lawyers,
~clergymen, artists, bankers and capital
lists who brought up their children under
the internal delusion that it was not high
toned for women to learn a profitable
calling. Young women take this affair i'm
your own hand and let there be an insur-
rectiOn in all prosperous families of