The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-12
WOMEN SHOULD COMBINE.
Some Errors of Present Training
and Possibilities Of the Future.

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Combination among skilled women
workers is increasing every day,
though slowly, for women are natur-
ally conservative, and they do not
readily accept the principle of union
ism. Theyhave many of them suffered
sorely from the effect of strikes, and
though they realize that prolonged
combination, if carried out consist
entity, must improve their position
and in the long run raise their wages,
never lose sight of the long period dur
ing which their employment must
cease till their ultimate demands are
conceded. Added to which they do
not forget the bitter feelings aroused
the breach between employer and
servant, and above all that in a
struggle, such as a long strike always
must be, it is only the strong who win;
the weak ones go to the wall.
All these things make women shy
and slow to join a trade union, while
the introduction of foreign labor in
England and the increasing demand,
on account of their cheapness, for
foreign goods have made a much
deeper impression on their minds than
is generally admitted. The skilled
woman worker has, however, the
security of knowing that she can take
up her stand with a greater chance of
success, for with the best women
workers, as with the men, the supply
is rarely in excess of the demand.
And were technical instruction given
to women a good deal of the better
l al ocu <u0rE hou oonanf 1A rvnr,1d hn
carried out in England, instead of be-
ing executed by French women, who
are trained for it in the many tech
nical schools which exist for women
in France.
In Scotland the question has been
warmly espoused by the women who
work in Glasgow and Dundee, and
the prospect of combining for the In
skilled as well as the skilled workers,
is very much more promising there
I than in England. Scotch women are
more independent and self reliant,
added to which, though the pay is
bad, their surroundings are less deter
iorating than those of the London
women, and their dwellings are better
and rents are lower. The rapid in
crease of the population and the in
fux Of people from the country to the
large towns make the problem of how
to deal with our unskilled female la
Dor every year more difficult. The
education hitherto given to women in
England is purely intellectual, and
when a girl has passed the standard
she at once goes into the ranks of the
unskilled. If she a give time she
may be apprenticed and learn a trade,
but the number of girls who car afford
to do that is getting fewer every day.
The few shillings a girl can earn at
once is much too important an addi-
ton to the family income to be re-
jected, and as the majority of them
marry while practically children,
neither the necessity of being appren-
ticed nor of joining a union appeals
to them.-EpgliSb Illustrated Nag
dz97e.
Mexican Chivairy.
The gallant act of Sir Walter
Raleigh in spreading his cloak before
Queen Elizabeth, to save her feet
from the mud, will always be remem-
bered as an instance of knightly devo-
ton. Yet the act has it's parallels, all
the more noteworthy in that they
sometimes occur when the recipient
of the courtesy is no Queen, but an
uuIlOlG uldlOSl. Lit dttltitI Oi ~
White Umbrella in Mexico" describes
such a scene.
Once l caught sight of a ceremony
not often seen in zacatecas, and rarely
met with elsewhere. In the middle of
the street, upon their knees on the
rough stones, walked, or rather
crawled, two native Indian girls,
dressed in white, their heads bare,
their black hair streaming down their
backs, their eyes atiame with excite
ment. Both clasped to their breasts
a small crucifix. Surrounding them
were a dozen half crazy devotees.
| whose frenzied cries swelled the chant
of the youngest penitent.
Suddenly, from out a pulaue shop,
on the opposite corner, darted three
men, evidently poems. With a quick
movement they divided the pressing
crowd, sprang ahead of the girls, and
taking their own zarapes from their
shoulders, threw themselves in turn in
front of the penitents.
As the girls crawled acros them the
first peon would seize the zarape, run
ahead and respread it.
ut is d penance, senior" said a by
stander, mot often seen here. The
girls believe they have committed
| some great SIN. lH6y are OH Tie way
to Los Remedies, the chapel that you
see on the hill yonder. But for these
drunken poems they would leave a
bloody track"
independence ia D~rsssn,aAi ing.
The dressmakers of Berlin have for
mulated o declaration of independence
and hereafter will design their own
latest Paris fashions. OF n thing
they may be sure-they will keep
their productions at home; nobody Of
taste elsewhere will want them. The
Vienna dressmakers have also pro-
claimed their purpose to avoid copy
ing French notions, and there is more
likelihood that they will carry out
their scheme successfully than will
t~heircousins at the Prussian capital,
lbeeapse of the higher artistic develop
ment in Vienna.-BostgH 4gunscript.
h04t0 The Most 10 sutsfoi RIOT. s
3 gThd most beautiful foot is the slen-
der one. The stylish girl recognizes
14kfsfhct. Her shoes ara ~aItTavs Iatoe