Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

Iult ou4 lOu unNo kcnlun AoA ~ ~ - -
that direct on But there are enough busy al
that now to make line Of hardware from
here to the East River and across the bridge
~Weli, could make recitations In public
and earn my living as dramatisk could
render King Lear or Macbeth till your hair
would rise on end, or give you 'SheridanS
Ride or Dickenss 'Pickwick.' Yes, that d
there Is an epidemic Of dramatization that
makes hundreds Of households nervous with
tbs cries and shrieks and groans OF young
tragedians dying In the fifth act, and the
trouble Il that while your friends would like
tohear yon, and really sIalnk tIas you could
surpass Ristori and Charlotte Cushman and
Fannie Kemble of the past, 70 sey nothngof
the present, you couk saA N ne ray OF hv-
ing, in ten years earn ten cents
My advice 20 all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in afiiuent homes or In
homes where mtgt stringent economies are
grinding, 10 learn to do some kind Of work
that the world must have while the world
stradA I am glad to see marvellous change
for the better, and that women have found
out that there are hundreds OF practical
things that q woman can do for living II
she begin soon enough, and that men have
been compelled to admit it. You and can
remember when the majority OF occupations
were thought inappropriate for women, but
our civil war 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 that
time to take care Of themselves From that
time q mighty change took place, favorable
to female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate for
L. I'LL y,.k Nf
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 educa-
tional, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, the work clean and honor
able, and who so great right to toll there,
for woman founded the first savings bank,
Mrs Priscilla Wakefield
| Copyists, and there is hardly professional
man that does not need the service Of her
penmanship. and, as amanuensis, many OF
the greatest books Of our day have been die
tated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confectioners
and music teachers and stationers and book
keepers for which they are specially qualified
by patience and accuracy; and wood engrav.
ing, in which the Cooper Institute has turned
which she is speciality prepared, as thousands
Of the telegraphic offices would testify.
Photography, and in nearly all our establish
ments they may be found there at cheerful
work. AS workers in ivory and gutta percha
and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gild-
ing and in chemicals in porcelain, in terra
Gotta, in embroidery.
As postmstresses, and the President is Civ
ing them appointments all over the land.
As keepers of lighthouses, many Of them,
it they had the chance, ready to do as brave
thing with oar and boat as did Ida Lewis
and Grace Darling.
As proofreaders, as translators, as model.
ers, as designers, as draughtswomen, as litho-
graphers, as teachers in schools and semi
naries, for which they are especially endowed,
the first teacher of every child, by divine ar
| rangement, being woman
AS physicians, having graduated after a
regular course Of study from the female col.
leges Of our large cities, where they get as
scientific and thorough preparation as any
doctors ever had, and go forth to work
which none but women could so appropri-
etely or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you kn,
the brilliant success Of Mrs. Livermore and
Mrs Hallowell, and Mrs. Willard and Mrs.
Lathrop.
AS physiological lecturers to their own sex,
for which service there is demand appalling
and terrible.
As preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder
them, for they have pathos and a power in
their religious utteranceS that men can never
reach. Witness all those who have heard
their mother pray.
o, young women Of Anaerical as many OF
you will have to fight your own battles 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 in good house, and environed by all
prosperitieS, 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 a surplus, and make a useful shoe. Expend
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 fiimsy noUhngs to the manufacturing or
important something's.
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 II 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
Il metaphysics, of course; Latin and Greek
and German and French and Italian, OF
course; and 100 other things. Of course; but
IL you are not expecting to teach ana your
wealth il 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 some
thing better than anybody else. Buy Vir
ginia Pennv's book entitled "The Employ
ments Of Women and \. rrn there are 5O'
ways in which woman may earn living.
mo, nor says some young woman ~ vii
not undertake anything 80 unromantic ant
commonplace as that" An excellent authv
writes that after he had, in book, argues
for efficiency in womanly work in order +
success, and positive apprenticeship by wa
! of preparation, prminent chemist adveI
, tised that he would teach class of wome
to become druggists and apothecaries II the
would go through an apprenticeship as me
j do, and printer advertised that ne woul
, take a class Of women to learn the printer
! trade if they uld go through an appreI
ticeship as men do, and how many accordin
i to the account OF the authoress do you SUI
, pose applied to become SIX lied in the druggi
! business and printing businesss Not on'
One young woman said she would be willin
!. to try the printing business for six month
but by that time her older sister would b
married. and then her mother would war
e her at hcme. NY sisters, ii will be skille
l. womanly labor that will finally triumph.
y But" you ask, ''what would my fatht
9 add mother say if they saw was doing sue
d questionable workW Throw the whole r
, sponsibility on the pastor Of the Brookly
y Tabernacle, who is constantly hearing
0 young women in all these cities who, unqua
9 flied by their previous luxurious surroun
ings for the awful struggle OF life into whit
they have been suddenly hurled, seemed
N have, nothing left them but choice betwee
re starvation and damnation. There they 6
(, along the street at o'clock in the wintI
P mornings through the slush and storm to u