Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-08
WORKING FROM CHOICE.
RICH MEMS DAUGHTERS WHO TAKE
UP PROFESSIONS.
The Desire to Be and to Do Something
Some of the Noted Professional
Ladies of the Day.

There seems to be at the present day
craze among young women to do and to be
something, no matter what their position
in life. In fact, the more luxurious their
home and surroundings, and the more
prominent their parents may be profess
sionally or socially, just so much more do
these young women desire to win name
and fame for themselves. Many of them,
to be sure, remain in their luxuriant
homes and WELD the pen in graceful let
tiers and essays, model in clay, or devote
themselves to hard study in the art schools;
others give up their homes and enter upon
a serious course of study, preparatory to
deyoting themselves to an arduous profess
sional career. This proves that it is not
only need of money that urges women into
the arena of art, business or the profess
sions, but the desire Ito work for works
sake. 1t is the spirit of the age, active
and progressive. And these young women
realize that work is dignified and emo
bling, thus setting an example to many an
idle woman who is too indolent to work,
or who has an idea that there is something
unladylike or degrading in the fact of
woman working for money.
Miss Mildred Fuller, the daughter of
the Chief Justice, who recently graduated
from Wellesley College, says the New
York Star, is to read law with her father
with view to becoming lawyer. With
the best position in Washington society
that girl can desire or have, she turns
her back on the social whirl to dwell
among musty legal documents Another
of the Chief Justices daughters-he has
several-has like her sister desire for
professional life, and is studying music in
Germany preparatory to making a public
debut.
Miss Maud Banks, the daughter of Gen
eral n. P. Banks, is an actress, having
made her debut on the stage in Ports
mouth in the year 1886, after course of
study at the New York School of Acting.
Miss Banks first appearance was in the
character of Parthenia in 'Ingomar." She
is devotedly attached to her profession,
and Indignantly denies the recent rumor
that she is to leave the stage.
The daughter of Senator Wade Hamp-
ton, of South Carolina, is studying in
Baltimore to become professional nurse,
and it is rumored that the daughter of
Senator Edmunds is to adopt the same
profession. 1t is needless to say that these
young ladies have chosen a very rough
life, and it can only be supposed that they
must feel an Unborn prediction for nurs-
ing. And perhaps few persons know that
large number of professional nurses
employed in this city are daughters of
well known families of wealth and social
influence.
Miss Raymond, the youngest daughter
of the late Henry j. Raymond, former
editor of the Times, is studying to be
physician, although possessed of handsome .
fortune in her own right. Between the
life of nurse and that of physician
there is little choice, so far as leisure is
concerned; both require earnest, hard
working, conscientious women to make
success of either, and women who have a
strong leaning toward their work
Miss Potter, the daughter of Bishop Pot
ter, for several summers kept boarding
house in the Catskills. 1t never was sup
posed that Miss Potter was in need of
money, any more than Miss Raymond or
Miss Fuller; but she wished to spend her
summer in the Catskills and she found
this the most convenient way to do it.
With one of the old family servants to su-
perintend the housekeeping and look after
the other servants, Miss Potter felt compe-
tent to carry out her undertaking. 1t was
not boarding house in which any one
might obtain board who chose to apply.
On the contrary, Miss Potter invited her
friends to spend the summer with her, and
charged them a moderate price for board |
and lodging.
The daughter of Representative Brock
enridge is teaching public school in
Washington, and the number of young
ladies in this city and Washington who |
report society news for the papers is legion. |
The daughter of Senator Blair has been |
writing letters of this sort for some time. |
The daughter of William D. Howells, Miss |
Mildred Howells, writes very pretty verses |
for the magazines and is studying to be an
artist
Across the water Miss Ethel Dickens
has typewriting Office, and one of her sis
tiers is studying for the stage, while a third |
sister assists her father in editing Al the
Year Round. Miss Ethel NJ Mackenzie,
the daughter Of DR.. Morell Mackenzie,
writes for the newspapers, and the daugh-
tiers of the Prince of Wales are to try their
pens in literature. The Princess Beatrice
has for several years received quite an in
come from the sale of her musical compo-
sitions and birthday books.
These are only few of the young women
who are working hard to achieve name
and fame for themselves independent of
mere money making. They certainly are
TO be commended for their earnest efforts,
for it is well-known fact that with the
majority of women who work at anything
The necessity for bread is the incentive.