The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-25

to hear yon, and really think thaS you could
surpass Ristori and Charlotte Cushman and
Fannie Kemble Of the past, to say moth ng o'
the present, you could not i'll the way or hV
ing, in ten years earn ten cents.
Nv advice to all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in atfluent homes or III
homes where most stringent economies are
grinding, to learn to do some KIND OF VOTE
| that the world must have while the Horio
stands. I am glad to see marvellous change
for the better, and that women have rouno
| ont that there are hundreds OF practlca
| things that a woman can do for living II
she begin soon enough, and that men nave
been compelled to admit it. You ana can
remember when the majority OF occupations
were thought inappropriate 1or women @ ou'
our civil war came and the hoSts OF poan
went forth from North and South, ana SO
conduct the business Of our cities during the
| pa triotic absence, women were d tnanoel py
| the tens of thousands to take the vacant
| places, and multitudes Of WON N who mao
been hitherto supported by Gathers ano
| brothers and sons, were compelled from tnat
time to take care of themselves: From thas nal
time mighty change took place, 1a7oraple
to female employment. T.,
Among the occupations appropriate 1cI
| women place the following, into many OF
| which she has already entered, ana AL tne
/ others she viii enter:
Stenography, and you may find her at
nearly all the reportorial stands IN our educa'
tionai, political and religious meetings;
Savings banks, tho work clean and honor
able. and who so great right to toll there,
| for a woman founded the first savings bank,
Mrs Priscilla Wakefield!
Copyists, and there is hardly professional
| man that does not need the service I" her
penmanship, and, as amanuenSs, many of
the greatest books of our day have been di>
tated for her writing.
There they are as florists and cenfectioners
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
out so many qualified; and telegraphy, tot
which she is specially prepared, as thousands
of the telegraphic offices would testify
Photography, and in nearly all our establish,
ments they may be found there ct cheerful
work. AS workers in ivory and gutta percha
and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gid
ing and in chemicals, in porcelain, in terra
Gotta, in embroidery.
As poStmistresSas and the President isgiv-
ing them appointments all over the land
As keepers of lighthouses, many Of them,
if 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 draughtswomsn, 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 rs
scientific and thorough preparation as any
doctors ever had, and go forth to q WORK
which none but women could so approprl-
etely or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you know
the brilliant success Of Mrs. L.ivermore 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 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 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
emDrOlQeIy Ol lule Va siA~A
is a surplus, and make useful shoe. EApend
the time in which you adorn cigar case IN
learning how to make good, honest loaf OF
bread. Turn your attention from the making
of flimsy norhings 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 III
those high regions, trigonometry, or course;
metaphysics, of course; Latin and Greek
and German and French and Italian, OF
course; and lC0 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
| in dollars and cents in case you arc thrown
| on YOUR own resources Learn to do some.
| thing better than anybody else Buy vlr-
| pinia Penny's book entitled "The Employ
ments of Women" and learn there are SOU
ways in which woman may earn living.
mo, no!' says some young woman, VI WI,
| not undertake anything so unromantlc and
| commonplace as that" An excellent author
for efficiency in woInanly work i'll order to
success, and positive apprenticeship by way
| of preparation, prminent chemist adver'
tised that he would teach a class Of women
| to become druggists and apothecaries If they
! would 20 throug Oh an apprenticeship as mel
! do, and printer advertised that he would
take class Of women to learn the printer:
| trade if they would go through an appren
| ticeship as men do, and how many according
| to the account of the authoresS do you sup
pose applied to become skilled in the druggist
business and printing business! 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 Mt home. My sisters, it will be skilled
womanly labor that will finally triumph.
But" you ask, 'what would my father
anfashionabe anf G@si iey yworh throw W the Whole %
sponsibility on the pastor Of the Brooklyn
tabernacle who is constantly hearing ol
/ young women in all these cities who, unqual
| filed by their previous luxurious surround
ings for the awful struggle of life into which
they have been suddenly hurled, seemed t.
have nothing left them but a choice between
starvation and damnation. There they &c
along the street at Z o'clock in the wintry
mornings th1 ough the slush and storm to thu
place where they shall earn only half enough
| for subsistence, the daughters Of once
prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergymen
artists, bankers AMI capitalists who brought
up their children under the internal delusior
that it was not high toned for women to learn
profitable calling. Young women, take
this affair in your own hand and let there bt
an insurrection in ull prosperous families oi
Brooklyn and New YORK and Christendom
on the part Of the daughters Of this day, de
manding knowledge in occupations and style:
Of business by which they may be their owr
defense and their own support if all fatherly
and husbanlly and brotherly hands forever
fail them.