The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-19
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| would you do Tor q l1Yel1nOou II what nov
own we're swept AWAY by financial disaster
or old age or death should end my careerP'
| "Well, could paint on pottery and dc
such decorative work" Yes, that II
beautiful, and if you have genius for il "a
on in that direction. But there are enough
busy at that now to make line of hard
across the bridge.
"Well, could make rectations in public
and earn my living as q dramatist.
could rendor king Lear or Macbeth till
| your hair would rise on end, or give you
'Sheridan's Ride or Dickens 'Pickwick.'
1 Yes, that is a beautiful art; but ever and
anon,i as now, there is an epidemic oi
dramatization that. makes hundreds OF
| households nervous with the cries and
| shrieks and groans of young tragedians
| dying in theJ fifth act, and the trouble is
| that while your friends would like to hear
you, and really think that you could sur
| pass Ristori and Charlotte Cushman 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.
My advice to all girls and all unmarried
| women, whether in afiuent homes or In
| homes where most stringent economies
are grinding, is to learn to do some kind
Of work that the world must have while
the world stands. 1 am glad to see q
marvellous change for the better, and thai
| women have found out that there are hun
dreds of practical things that q woman can
| do for living il she begin soon enough,
and that men have been compelled to ad.
nit it. You and l can remember when
the majority of occupations were thought
inappropriate for women, but our civil wal
came and the hosts of men went forth
from North and South, and to conduct the
business of our cities during the patriotic
absence, women were demanded by the
tens of thousands to take the vacant
places, and multitudes of women who had
been hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons were compelled from
| nat time to take care Of themselves. hSm
i hat time o mighty change took place
favorable to female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate for
woman place the following, into many Of
which she has already entered, and ali
others she will enter:
StenOgraphy, and you may find her at
| learly all reportorial stands in our educa-
.ional, political, and religious meetings.
Savings banks the work is clean and
honorable, and who so great right to toll
| here, for a woman founded the first saw.
| Il DduhB MIS- L ElbClllh w hh6uSluF
Copyist, and there is hardly a profes,
iional man that does not need the service
)f her penmauship, and, as amanuensis,
many Of the greatest books of our day have
asen dictated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confec-
iioners and music teachers and stationers
and book-keepers, for which they are
'peciAlly qualified by patience and aCcu.
taey, and
Wood engraving, in which the Cooper
Institute has turned out 80 many qualified,
and
Telegraphy, for which she is specially
prepared, as thousands of the telegraphic
offices would testify.
Photography, and in yearly all our ss-
Adjustments they may be found there al
cheerful work.
As workers in ivory and gutta perchN
ind gum elastic and tortoise shell and
gliding and in chemicals, in porcelain, in
erra Gotta, in embroidery.
AS postmistresses, and the President is
giving them appointments all over the
land.
As keepers of lighthouses many oi
hem, if they had the chance, are ready tC
DO as brave thing with oar and boat as die
ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
AS proof-readers, as translators, al
mOdelers, as designers, as draughtswo
men, as lithographers, as teachers il
! schools and ssminGrie5, for which thel
are especially endowed, the first teacher o.
every child, by divine arrangement, beinl
= woman.
AS 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
work which no one but women could so ap,
propriated or delicately do. ..'
On the lecturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermor
and Mrs. Hallowell and Mrs. Willard
, and Mrs. Lathrop.
As physiological lecturers to their owl
sex, for which service there is a demand
: appalling and terrific.
AS preachers Of the Gospel, and all th
protests of ecclesiastical courts canno
= ainder them, for they have q pathos ant
: power in their religious utterances that mel
, can never reach. Witness all those Wit
g have heard their mother pray.
O, young women of America as many
c Of you will have to fight your own battle
{ alone, do not wait until you are flung o
disaster, and your father is dead and al
the resources of your family have beel
j scattered; but now, while in a good hous
and enVironed by all prosperities, learn hoy
! to do some kind of work that the worlC
must have as long as the world stands
J Turn your attention from the embroider,
| Of slippers, of which there is a surplus, AM
| make useful shoe, Expend Che time il
/ which you adorn cigar case in learning
how to make good, honest loaf of bread
} Turn your attention from the making o
} iimsy nothings to the manufacturing o
important something's.
Much of the time spent in yo1ng ladies'
, Ieminaries in Studying what are called tn
} higher branches" might better be eX
I pended in teaching them something b
t which they could support themselves l
} you are going to be teachers, or il you haV
, 80 much assured wealth that you can al
| ways dwell in those high regions, trigo
i lometry of course, metaphysics of course
3 attn and Greek, aud German and FrencI
/ and Italian of course, and hundred othe
! ;hings, of course, but if you are not expect
4 ng 10 teach, and your wealth is not estab
3 ished beyond misfortune, after you hay
, .earned the ordinary branches, take hold o
| hat kind of study that will pSy in dollar
Y and cents in case you are thrown on you
= owu resources. Learn to do somethin
+ better than anybody else Ruy Nrgini
l Penny's book entitled "The Employment
. 1f Women" and learn there are five hun
" lred ways in which woman may earn
living.
, Sfy sisters, give not your time to learn
I ng fancy work which the world may dis
a pense with when hard times come, bu
! ,onnect your skill with the indispensable
l II life. The world will always want some
/ thing to wear and something to eat an,
i Ihelted and fuel for the body, and knowl
,dge for the mind, and religion for tn
4 Ioul. And all these things will continu
be the necessaries, and if you faster
/ Your energies upon occupations and pro
> iessions thus related the world will be un
Z lble to do without you. Remember tina
/. n proportion as you are skillful in any