Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-09
OUR CIRLSs!TAKE THE CAKE
Phenomenal Success of American
Divas on sEaropean Stages.
WOMEN WHO WORK FOR WAGES
Why Men Are Paid Larger Salaries
Than Their sisters--Thc Prettiest
Actress in Paris-Hand-
some widow Barrios.

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out like men and say what they would
like to do for a living there would be
come probability of aocommodating G
them, but as long as they sit in the cor
ner and complain it will be impossible
to help them, says the Pittsburg Ga
zette.
They protest that II they only had a
fair chance they would be able to COM
pete with men in supporting them
selves.
What better chances do they want?
The trades are al! open, and so are the
professions. What more can men do
than say to them to come into competi-
tion with them?
You don't pay us as much for work as
you pay men.
Skilled labor is worth just so much,
and if you acquire the skill and can turn
out as much work as o man you will get
just as much pay for it.
The reason that men are paid larger
salaries for selling dry goods is because
these will not work in store for less
than they can make in a shop.
1t is the fault of women that men are
kept in stores. You know that you pre-
fer to be waited on by a gentleman
when you go to buy dress pattern Or n
pair of shoes. There are plenty OF good
and true women who will notallow shop
girls to wait on them. Here is just the
reason that men have to be kept in
stores, and they must be paid according
to what their time is worth.
Another reason is that girls do not
take the interest in business that men
do. Nine out OF every ten salesladies are
such because they have to earn their
Hvings, and they are sore aboutit. If
they were not compelled to do it they
wouldn't think of engaging in such
menial employment.
You cannot expect any one, man or
woman, to become proficient in q busi-
ness for which they have no liking.
Whenever women make their time
more valuable than it is now they will
get better salaries. HAs it is there are
curing in a store or school, which has
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one of the laws of domestic economy,
and it can never be repealed. Scarcity
of product or of a class of labor raises
the price, while a surplus reduces ii.
When bananas are plenty you can buy
them for 10 cents dozen; when scarce
they cost % cents.
The trouble with women seems to be
that they cannot realize that the laws
of trade or of domestic or political
economy apply 70 them as they do to
men. In The Rusif ess world a woman
is machine just the same as man,
and she will De paid according to what
her,time is worth to her.
If women want to enter the business
world, they must take an interest in
business, study business methods, and
observe the laws governing business.
These laws are us ineXerable as the
laws of nature, and will not change to
suit the comfort or convenience of
. either woman or man.
Why don't women monopolize the
millinery and dry goods business OF the
country?
There is no state or national law
which prevents them from so doing.
They can build or rent storerooms, and
manufacturers will not hesitate to sell
them all the goods they want, providing
they are reasonably certain that they
will get paid for them. There are
women with wealth enough to start in
uslness with as fair prospects of sue
cess as the average man.
Why don't they do it?
Simply because they prefer living on
the income from their money rather
than doing business.
There is the secret of the whole
truth. Those who are working for
wages wouldn't do so if they were not
compelled to do it, md what work they
do is done under protest. Such work is
rarely we'll done.