The Springdale news., 1889-10-11
TEACH GIRLS TO WORK.
An Exhortation That should Re Read b,
 Every Mother In tho Land.


 Every Mother In tho Land.
 The difficulty of getting or keeping good servants while every other em- ployment is crowded with applicants is well-known to be the result of ideas that domestic service is a mark of social inferierity, and this is so incompatible with American notions of equality that the Nation has virtually gone on a strike against doing household chores. Our domestic servants are an imported class.
 it is only among women that the ab- surd notion prevails that any sort oI dishonor can attach to an honest oecu- patton, so that the cause of it must be sought in differences of the training of the sexes. When our boys get through with their schooling they are put into the office of professional man or in store or a counting-room, where like as not they have to sweep out in the morning, dust off the desks. put things in order, run errands. and in general do as they are bid without murmuring. Inflated and self-important notions are snubbed out of them. and to rise to po- sitions of authority they must first learn to obey well. American customs are not. however. cal culated to impress upon girls the duty Of obedience and self-control. At time when q French or German lady is in the heyday of her social en- joyment an American mother has abdi- cated in favor of her daughters. While it is the mistress of tho household abroad who has the most expensive costumes and takes the place of prominence at social gatherings the American mother provides fisst for her daughter and con- tentedly takes back seat, finding her recompense in her daughters enjoy ments and successes. Thus girls are encouraged in seIf-assation they get the idea that the attitude of obedience is humiliating and resent restraint us q hardship. Indeed, so widely dilfused is this notion that certain wise ladies who have taken upon themselves the reformation of the world insist that the obligation Of obedience should be omit ted from the marriage vows; as fl any cooperative work whether the making Of pair of shoes or tho establishment of household, or the management of the affairs of the Nation, coald be car ried on without the duty of command for some and the duty of obedience for others. the one duty as useful and hon. orable as the other
 What wonder then is it that profes- s.oaal domestic service should be dis ceeIitcd when caste distinctions are drawn against it9 The radical cure of this great evil in American life is then honorable footing. Treat our girls as fairly us our boys. Make their allow ances compensation for the perform ances of specified household tasks. and strictly conditioned upon the exact dis- charge of duty. If the daughters of the house are themselves enrolled among it's hired servants. distinctions based merely on character of employment can not survive. Moreover, in so do- ing. the great law of nature will be con- formed to, that all gains should be the result of individual effort. Violations of this principle invariably cause de- terioration of character Any plant or animal that adopts parasitic habits in- evitably suffers degradation of type Pitts burgh Commercial Gazette.