The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-13
WOMEN WHO WORK.
They are Taking Prominent Places
Everywhere in the World.

Everywhere in the World.
1t is a fayorite argument with
scores of women who have known
better days that they cannot afford to
work. With less than enough on
which to keep up the old show, they
preserve a pitiful semblance Of their
past grandeur, denying themselves in
a thousand little ways in order that
they may deceive the public and their
friends. In some OF the modern
teachers they have read that work in
a gentlewoman is degrading.
If we examine the class of persons
who belive that women should not
work. we will find them men of over
weening pride or women of egregious
vanity mainly. Not one of them can
advance a single legitimate argument
for their cause, and not a few OF them
admit that it is a foolish one at the
start.
A great deal has been said about
the dignity of independence, the re-
suit usually of self-reliant work, and
much of it has been what critics call
rot. But for all that we a not es-
cape the conclusion that work, either
of the hands or mind, is an excellent
thing, ennobling rather than degrad-
ing, instructive rather than narrow
ing. 1t quickens the wit, widens she
thought, extends the intellectual
and physical vision, and, unless
it becomes a mania, brings good re-
suits to all concerned. No one is bet
ter off for having nothing to do, and
the wonder is that any one should
fancy the contrary. 1t is said that a
woman loses caste" if she does not
keep her hands free from work.
Among whom, pray2 In a country as
young and democratic as this, there is
no such thing as caste. The lady is
the I'm who is at onc refined
and modest, and, begging your
pardon, whose first thought is not OF
of herself. The gentleman is the man
who is gentlemanly, with all that the
word entails. Good family is a
gracious thing, but it is being put to
sorry uses when turned against the
woman who works. Laying all senti-
ment aside, it is better to be out of
debt than to trade on q buried an
cestry.
The most conclusive commentary on
b4lo q0CobtOl1 COlllCo III VIC SlAdDO Va o.
woman who does work. We find her
everywhere, not only in the country,
where her ancestors established her
right to freedom, but even among the
| so-called nobility of Europe. Old Gus
toms devoid of understanding are
| yielding TO the advance of intelligence
and the world is better off for their
going.
The woman who works profits by
| their decay. She loses neither sweet
ness nor dignity by reason of her EN-
ployment. The nobility of her char
acter is only rounded by her work,
and whatever her occupation she has
at least the satisfaction of performing
her duty-always the surest test Of
human work that has yet been in
vented or found.-M5ne1s' Journal.
Two Ways of Travelling.
When Queen Victoria takes a little
trip by rail, the track is cleared, a
small army of extra guards is placed
on duty and an engine precedes roy
alty's train. Traffic on that road is
suspended until her maiesty's train
has passed, and the public has no
| rights, either in the way of business
VI RICdsulC, ul1do dAC 1Ou dtCd
| for the time being. When the wife of
| President Harrison reached Nashville
by rail no herald engine preceded her
train. In fact, she had no train-only
a private car. No extra guards were
required and no ones business or
pleasure was interfered with by her
progress to the southern city. Find
irg the hotel accommodations limited
she passed the night in her car. A
vivid contrast, truly, between the
j~ourneyings of the most exalted woman
in the world.-Pittsbuay Bulletin.