, 1890-01-19
WOMEN OF THE TIME
WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THINKING
AND TALKING ABOUT.

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Prize Essay on Women Wage EarnerH
Women Graduates OF the Boston UnIver-
slty Law school-Low Necked Dresses.
Copyright 1901
Is 1t proper for a woman to wear a
decollete gown? Yes, if she has a pretty
neck; otherwise not.
A handsome society woman was telling
me the other day what she would not do
if she were a man. She said this: "If l
were a man l would not expectorate in
public places"
Sometimes the best of us are mean
enough 10 listen to conversation that is
not addressed to US. Going home one
night in an elevated train in New York.
l overheard two gentlemen discussing
the changes they would make in their
business this year. They were talking
something about the clerical and book
keeping department. One, a keen faced
North Ireland man, remarked suddenly:
There are two young ladies at work
now, but they are of nc service to us.
We ought to have a man" The other
agreed with him. They finally con-
Guided they would call in an expert
accountant and bookkeeper occasionally
and pay him SO an afternoon for his
services. They would thus get more
work for less money, and more satisfac-
tory work than both the girls did work
ing all the time. And the second man
said: Il will suggest to the young ladies
that we shall manage the work ourselves
hereafter" So two girls were thrown
out of employment to make room for a
masculine expert who would get $40 for
an afternoons work. The business men
were not to blame. The only ones to
blame were the girls themselves. They
were inefficient. If they had learned
their business and minded it as they
should have done, they themselves might
have been the expert accountant and
had $50 a day. Sloppy, half work is one
of the greatest evils those who are try
ing to secure pecuniary independence
for women have to contend against.
Girls, when you start to learn an occu-
patton, learn everything there is to be
known about it. Then do your work in
h best way that it can be done. Be
satisfied with nothing less than this.
Stick to it faithfully, day in and day
out. Their you will never be turned out
of your place because you are of no SER
vice to your employer.
Do you want to earn $500? Then write
the essay for which the American Econ
omic association nave offered that
amount as a prize. The essay is to be on
h subject of women wage carriers. The
essays must be sent, before Nov. 1. to
Richard I. Ely, secretary of the Ameri
can Economic association, Baltimore,
Md. There will be also a second prize
of 5000. Each essay must be typewrit-
ten, must not contain over 25, 900 words
and must be signed by a fictitious name.
A sealed envelope accompanying the
essay will contain the real name and ad-
dress of the writer. Anybody may com
pete. Some of the points to be covered
are: The early and present condition of
women wage earners, their growth in
numbers, the present extent of their
spi .re of labor, the evils connected with
their occupations and the remedy for
these.
The widow Of Gen. Grant is an honest
woman, anyhow. When asked whether
she preferred to have the exposition of
1892 in New York, she answered that she
really didn't know enough about the
Worlds fair to give an opinion on the
subject.
1t is said that a number of Boston So
ciety ladies are reading law with prom
inent attorneys of that city, simply for
the purpose of improving their minds.
Miss Annabel Curry is a Michigan
young lady who is taking the law course
of three years at Boston university. Her
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critics, and Miss Curry is studying law
so as to be able to draw up her fathers
contracts and attend to the legal features
of his business. This bright and pretty
law student is only IS.
OF the few women lawyers that have
thus far had good success in actual prac-
tice, Leila Josephine Robinson, of Bos-
ton, is n of the most highly qualified.
She graduated in the Boston University
Law school in 1881, in the honor list.
The Massachusetts legislature passed an
especial enabling act permitting women
to practice, and after a proper examina-
ton she was admitted to the bar. She
has a prosperous practice. One case she
has in hand is a peculiarly important
one, involving the right to tax a mort
6"5S huhNh PADPSA'y' DhC "a WI
ten an excellent book or two on legal
topics. One is called Law Made Easy"
and is designed to give the general pub
lie information such as it needs in the
transaction of daily business.
At the breakfast to Amelia B.. Ed
wards, in Boston, Lucy Stone told how,
in the days when women first began to
speak in public, one bitter winter night
i'll n New England town the windows
were opened from the outside and a
stream of ice cold water was suddenly
turned upon her, but this did not daunt
her, nor stop her speech. Once a pistol
was fired at Anna Dickinson on the stage,
and the ball cut off a lock of her hair,
but she did not finch a hairs breadth.
There were heroes in those days, and
they were IN
If you are in a crowded theatre and
somebody cries Fire" throw up your
hands and scream and rush towards the
doorway. 1t will help on the panic.
Then hen you reach the middle aisle
faint and fall over. Do, especially if you
weigh two or three hundred pounds.
Nothing shows off womanly sensibility
like fainting in a crowd. This will help
on the panic amazingly, and maybe two
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