Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
aBEWARE OF MsTRIMONY. "
WHO EVER THOUGHT DOMESTIC LIFE
so HORRIBLE!
a Lady Who Thanks the Lord tina.
Women Now Know How to Avoid
Child-Bearing.

The following communication is sent 10
the RECORD UNION with special request
that it be given in full, in order that the
cause of woman may be given fair
hearing. The article speaks for itself and
needs no comment. OF course all the read
ers of the RECORD. UNION know that this
paper has never taken any such position as
the writer of the communication insin-
uates-that man should rule in all things,
and all that kind of nonsense;
Ems. RECORD. UNION There appeared an
item in your Sunday paper of July Is, 1890
and other papers before the one mentioned,
about woman's work, which is enough to
try the patience of any woman OF sense.
The article (which was in answer to one
that appeared before) was from corre-
spondent. Your item at the heading OF the
article showed how men in general would
construe your correspondents meaning.
Nevertheless her article is true in regard to
woman's work. She thinks there is no
limit to woman's sphere, any more than
mans. l, being woman, think the same;
SO will any other woman who has read the
articles in the papers on this subject, dating
back a number of years
1t seems that men have run short of ma
terial to talk and write about. The only
subject they can find to discuss is marriage,
and woman's work and what she shall dc.
The cry is that woman is suitable for
nothing outside house. But they Will
fool the men in half century more II
they keep improving. According to man $
idea she is not suited for any of those posi-
tons which demand big salary but she
can work for IS TO SIS per month, and live
on bread and water if necessary. Men
think that is within her sphere. She will
show she is Just as capable as man, and
should demand mems wages-that is, If
she does the same work in the same hours.
This is where man shows his authority ;
they Won't pay them mems wages, because
they.are women.
This is the way they work their revenge,
also continually harping on the subject OF
'twoman's work" thinking that woman in
the future will return to the old groove
marrying, keeping house and being the
mother of dozen children, or any num-
Der up or down the scale, while the man
has his hours to himself, and occasionally
a young lady to escort him home. This is
all necessary for mans health; he needs
pleasure-woman needs none.
Take the woman as a domestic. What
her superiors? As for wages, she will be
offered the very lowest that is possible.
Now place a woman on a farm, for in
stance, doing the work for fifteen TO twenty
men. She will be paid SIS per month, and
think it great compliment to give her $50.
Let man do The same work, and he will
command from $45 to $50, according to in
crease of work This is a case where man
can step into woman's shoes and get higher
wages, whether worth it or not; whereas a
woman would be dismissed from service if
she complained. And why is this? Sim
ply because she is woman. Man must
he obeyed."
Another field of labor is farm work. If
woman was suitable to work in the field at
any season of the year, the men would cry
out they are monopolizing everything but
as there is no competition in this line man
is asleep. They prefer position in the
shsde-a store, saloon, an office, or some
thing light, that will not exert their
strength or make them tired when night
comes. A farmer can go TO city, town or
village TO get help to put in or take off his
crop. He will offer almost any price at
some seasons of the year; but men don
want work it is too hot, too cold, or the
hours are too long. They prefer being
dudes, gentlemen OF leisure, or regular
vagabonds. Where will you see woman
tramping through the country with pack
on her back, stopping here and there to beg
a morsel of food, and telling most pitia-
bic story of the hardships they have gone
through After having received whatever
edibles they can, they continue their tramp
Perhaps in the space of a couple of hours
or day those persons whose consciences
told them to be kind to the homeless and
feed the hungry, will find what they had
given them by the roadside, in an alley, or
some back yard. Will woman do this
No. never. If she begs, she has other
moe than her own to look out for; very
ofie here is case where they have been
red ,ted to such condition by sickness or
dea. q OF a father, leaving nothing, of if
any :ng, squsndered by lawyers, from ne.
glecf Suppose the children of such man
are left orphans. (The mother is laid to
rest shortly after, her life being one of
torture from the time married life began
until hers ended.) The asylum or the
poor is the only home they know.
A woman will work to support her chill
dren, even for half the wages man gets,
and still not growl. Thinking they must
work, they travel through lif5's path salts
fed. Woman will not go on strike after
every lecture delivered by some of Gods
internal fools. who live by robbing the
poor workingman, telling him what
TO do, what wages to ask and the
number of hours to work, and il his
wishes are not granted, not to work
that their Union will support him. He
thinks they are smart men, and are work
ing for the workingman's interest. Their
orders are obeyed, but who suffers while
all this is going on? The poor mans
wife and family, who are very often living
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dve-story garnet, and | might say starving
condition. waiting for their father to get
his raise or he won't work.
Where do you find a woman to do this?
You could travel, | am safe to say, the
world over and not find one case where
the mother is waiting for things TO go her
way, letting her children suffer all the
while. Woman will work, no matter how
email the wages, thiT king times will
change, and she will reap some of the ben
efits then. No so with man. He must
have everything his way or he won't have
1t a. all-in and around his home as well
as everything outside of it. Is it any won
der that woman won't marry when she can
see. hear, and in many cases. goes through
this? She will use her influence in discour-
aging girls from marrying and going
through what she has
Even the Census Enumerators are both
ering themselves about the women and
the decrease in child, bearing Thanks
to the Lord, that he has opened woman's
eyes enough, in this glorious nineteenth
century, to know what is good for herself
to keep free from the care of raising a
family of children. If woman is happy
single, and wants to be independent and
earn her own livelihood, be her own boss,
l glory in her good sense. / would en-
courage all women to educate themselves
for some position, and receive medium
wages and enjoy life; not be slave for
any man, his home, or children. | am an
old maid myself and know how l enjoy
life alone. | have raised four orphan
neices, and given them all an education
that makes them independent They will
not marry as long as they enjoy life as
they do at present. As an every day
example, take the case of young woman
MARRYING and beirg tied to A house with