The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-19

stools ana sofas aud chairs and front door
steps of the city. Beside thai. She tiaugh-
ter has been playing only for arlusemeLG,
and is only at the foot of the ladder, 70
The top of which a great multitude OF
masters on piano and harp and flute and
organ have climbed.
''Put the bereft daughters as sales
women in stores" says another adviser.
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 10
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
daughters to my store and I will do as
well by them as possible" Very soon
the question comes up, Why do not the
female employees of that establishment
get as much wages as the male en-
ployes? For the simple reason, in many
cases, the females were suddenly lurg
by misfortune behind that cou.,ter while
the males have from the dag they left
the public school been learning the bust
ness.
How is this evil to be cured2 Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that life is an earnest
thing, and that there is possibility. if
not strong probability, that they viii
have to fight the battle of life alone. Let
every father and mother say TO their
daughters: Now, what would you do
for livelihood if what now own were
swept away by financial disaster, or old
age or death should end my careorl''
'Well, I could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work Yes, that is
beautiful, and if you have genius for it
go on in that direction. But there are
enough busy at that now to make q line
Of hardware from here to tho East river
and across the bridge
well, 1 could make Rotations in
public and earn my living as dranatist.
1 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 q 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
tragedians dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends would
| like to hear you, and really think that
you could slrpass Ristori and Charlotte
Cushman and Fanny Kcn1ble 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 unmar-
ried women, whether IN af1uant homes
or in homes where most stringen6 ccono-
mics are grinding, to learn to do some
kind of work that the world must have
! While the world stands. I am glad to see
| Il marvellous change for the better, and
| that women have found out that there
are hundreds Of practical things that a
woman can do for living il she begin
soon enough, and that men have been
| compelled to admit it. You and can
remember when the majority Of occupa-
tons were thought inappropriate for
| women, but our civil war came aad
/ 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 that time to take caro- of themselves.
| From that time a 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 all
the others she will enter:
Stenography, and You may find her at
| nearly all the reportorial stands in our
| educational, political and religious meet
ings.
Savings banks, the work clean and
| honorable, and who 50 great right t.
tell there, for woman founded tho first
savings bank, Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield
Copyists, and there is hardly d pro
fcssional man that does nos neod tho SER
vico Of her penmanship, and. SIS araanu-
cElsis, many of the greatest book9 of oul.
day Lave been dictated for hor writing
There they are as florists and eonfec-
TONERS and music teachers and ssationcre
and bookkeepers, for which they ~.
specially qualified by patience and accur-
acy, and
Wood engraving, in which tho Cooper
institute has turned out SO many quail
fled. and
Telegraphy. for which sho Il specially
| prepared, rs thousands OF tho telcc.ra9ilic
offices would testify.
Photography. and in nearly all our
establishments they may be found there
ct cheerful work.
AS workers III ivory and gutta PEREZ
and gum elastic and tortoise shell o..
| gliding and in chemicals, in porcelain.
terra Gotta, in embroidery.
As postnistrcsses, and the president
| giving them appointments all over tllt
! land.
AS keepers Of lighthouses many OF
them, if they had the chance, ready
to do as brave thing with car and boat
as did Ida Lewis and Grace Darling.
AS proofreadeIs, rs translators, as
modelcrs, as designers, Is drauShtswo-
men, as photographers, IS tcacho1s in
schools and scnlinaries, for whicA they
are especially endowed, the first seacher
OF every child, by divine arrangement
being woman.
AS physicians, having graduated after
u 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 coul
30 appropriately or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you
know the brilliant success Of Mrs. Liver
more and Mrs. Halloweu and 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 a 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 del.Zi
and all the resources Of your family have
been scattered; but now, while in goot!