Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-12
JOBS DAUGHTERS.
Che Wonders They Performed in
 Business Way.

Some men have so much land that the taxes, etc., keep them poor; others possess 30 much money that they imagine they arc poor; while others, having nothing, are called really poor.
 Job Jonson belonged to none of these classes. Job was blessed, or (as he pleased to see iD cursed with superabundant wealth of daughters. In fact, every year or so added new daughter recruits to his fast accumulatlng army of bibbed and aproned misses.
 Job was fairly successful merchant in the city of Winona, State of Minnesota. He might have been much more successf full if he had remained at home and minded the baby, and allowed his bustling little wife to run the downtown bu usiness.
 Fact was, his wife had the energy that Jobs constitution lacked, and which was necessary to enable a firm to compete with the other wide-awake men of his lively town.
 When the Lord saw fit to send another addition to the Jonson family, in the shape of tenth daughter-which same was Miss Louisa Melissa Ann Jonson-poor Job sat him down in profound despair, vowing that he never could supply all those mouths and backs with their respective wants.
 When baby Lou was making her chubby debut into short baby-dresses, Sadie Jane Letitia-the oldest daughter-had just said her little piece at the high school, graduat- ing with highest bonors from that institu- tion; which means that she had waded through mathematics, geography, etc., and had taken so much Latin and Greek into her system that she would be nearly a whole year forgetting them.
 70, dearr' said Job one evening, as he surveyed his female troupe 70, dear these girls keep growing larger and more numerous. Every month adds to our groc- cry and dry goods bills. Whatever are we going to do, mas Our income is already stretched as far as it will stand; and pros poets are growing worse all the time We'll see starvation days yet!'
 "Oh, pshaw, Jobr' said Mrs. Jonson "Do, please, quit croalzing. People do not starve, nor want, as long as there are will ing hands to work"
 'Yes, but so many girls, all wanting dresses, and ribbons, and what not; and never earning a cent tbemselves.'
 "Why, of course not" said the wife ''You can't expect baby girls to work and support themselves, any more than you could baby boys. But wait, and you will yet see the day that our girls will be our greatest blessings, as indeed they now are.'
 Job went growing off to bed at his usual hour of eight o'clock, in order to be able to get up at four o'clock in the morning-to chew tobacco, and worry the rest of the folks out of their nice morning maps, two hours too soon-which allows us to philoso- phize little upon that fallacy about "early to bed and early to rise, etc" If man goes to bed at sundown and rises at four next morning-out of temper-chews half a pound of fifty cent tobacco, smokes two cigars and burns a dollars worth of fuel before breakfast how much healthier, wealthler and wiser do you suppose he is than the lazy @ man who gets up two or three hours later, eats a hearty breakfast and goes to hls work with a good zest and clear brain?
 If ''the early blrd catches the worm," the worm is certainly a fool for getting caught
 Let's see-where were we? o, yes; Job went to bed, and most of the brood of small, night-gowned Jonson's were ''Now lay med" and tucked in soon afterward.
 When all was serene again, Mrs. Jonson and Sadie sat down to their talk and their mending-for assure you that dd,ning was necessary art in the Jonson household.
 "Mamma,' said Sadie, q must and will do something, now that school is out. I won't sit around and hear pa run us girls down any longer. I mean to show him that can work as well as any boy or man."
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 'Oh, any thrng! I'll clerk, or run errands, or keep books, or sell papers-any thing but sitting still at home.'
 " If you are bound to do something, think you might keep pa's books; that would save the hire of one man."
 After a little debate this was decided upon as the best thing for the present for her to do.
 The naxt morning at the breakfast table the subject was preached to Job.
 70, pooh pooh! the idea! A woman tinker with my books; get lem all mixed up so I'd have to hire an expert to undo her work. She don't know enough" These, and similar expressions of doubt, were his replies.
 But let me try, papa, let me try lt,' in sisted Sadie.
 "Oh, what can women doa" asked Job, scornfully: 'Their place is at home; sew ing, cooking, and such work is all that they're fit for"
 An. ha! MT. Job, and so you display your ignorance! That's an old-fash- to-day is not "What can women do?" But rather, it is: "What is there that women can not do?" The eminent Mir. Thackeray says, that "Any woman who has not Q positive hump, can narry whom she pleases." To-day we may go further and jay down the fact that "Any woman of ordi- nary ability (hump or no hump can do or be whatever she pleases."
 She is the kindest of doctors and nurses, the straightest of accountants, the best of writers, and in fact, she has pushed to the front rank in every business or profession that she has yet attempted.
 The result of Sadle's coaxing was, that Pa Jonson allowed her to take part of his books home for a weeks trial At the end of that time he was forced to acknowledge that women could keep books; and in two weeks he had discharged the hired book keeper, and Sadie was duly installed in his place. Sadie and her mamma saw by the appearance of the store's books that the business was in a bad state; rather run