The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-26
tIE HOME CORNER

ihe other day. And the II ,me
{ ceplied with conviction, "yes
ST., Jney 40. They are, as general
thing, painstaking with their work.
They are always punctual. They
have IN abundant supply of common
sense, and are seldom erratic and liza
Die 10 lake Offense at every fancied
Slight. Above all, they are always
ut their post. You can 90 down to
your place of business every morning
with lie sure consciousness that your
women employees will all be in their
respective places, and that not one of
them will go out and "get lag onu
just when you need her most,n
And The questioner, whose mascu-
lIne U1okkeeper was out "celebratingn
at th9 lime, appreciated the truth of
Tie Home Corners remarks so much
that ne forgave the slang.
Nv
But here is another complaint
about woman workers that is, unfor-
tunaJeiy, true. The Home Corner has
heard it urged that women's health
Is GOO precarious to allow them to con-
tend with men in the same field, even
"nen hey do as good work. A writer
IN the New York Commercial Adver-
User, treating of the same subject,
says:
There is Just asuggestion of rumor
alioa' 10 the effect that women en-
ployea Of the postal departments do
not do their work as well as men, for
,he reason that, while they are more
faithful, they are sick oftener. This
may DO true, and it may grow to be a
recognized fact that women cannot do
E"rN is well or as steadily as men,
Tor tho reason that their physical
health cannot be counted upon with
such "crtainty. But it would be more
thou pity if this should actually
grow 10 be recognized as a fact to
count against women, and it is quite
needless that it should be so. Women
wear ''ghter boots than men; conse-
queat.E they have wet feet. Women
go padding round in wet batter
after light rain with thin soled
shoe. upon their feet and do not think
anything about it. On rainy days
they have long skirts and have wet
ankles in consequence. And so it is
not renlarkable that women grow to
have tie reputation of being in poor
health, when really they are only
areies3 about their dress, and the i'll
health is the thing which could be
easily remedied with the aid of heavy
shoes and u good rainy day dress.
~
1t is curious, isn't it?-how even the
little school girls are dressed as
though they were good many de-
grees tougher than those tender hot
house plants, the boys; how with two
thicknesses of cloth OH their arms,
with thin stockings and thin soled
shoes, hey are sent out to brave the
wintiy weather which their brothers
need thick shoes and heavy overcoats
to meet. 1t is little wonder that
many Of the girls are delicate when
they grow up. Then give one of these
delicate girls q position where she
must needs go to her work through
Hny kind OF weather and you will
notice that she considers a shoulder
cape reaching to her elbows is suffi-
Cient protection against all the storms
that ever blew; that she scarcely ever
wears rubber overshoes, and that a
marter-inch of leather is expected to
project her feet against the cold of
ley vements. She doesn't wear
tlHnng through the winter, because
She ju yht want to go to some party
or reca otion where full dress" would
he erected Of her, and it is better
to leave the flannel off altogether than
10 be putting it off and on. On the
other slde of the table from this ener-
getic but misguided young woman
sits a robust man who never was sick
a day "A his life, and doesn't mean to
be if he can help it, who wears an
overc lat that the young lady declares
she couldn't lift, much less wear, and
the coat that he wears underneath it
IS thicker and warmer than all the
clothing that covers her body and
anus These are the women that
nave Ieadaches, that are nervous and
ssout of sorts,u and that feel their
health going to wreck without know
ing Why. All they need is more
clothes. 1t is 4 mere matter of COM
uoI s1nse.
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The lone Corner has recently come
across Two clippings. They were not
intended as companion pieces, but
shey laturally slipped into that posi-
zion and will not be coaxed
away. Both these clippings
Il ABOUT houses, but they are not at
al alike. One of them is an extract
FROM - etter to the Philadelphia Times
dated It Asheville, N. C. 1t says:
Col 4. X. Mcclure of the Philadel
phia Times, writing from Asheville
N. C.. 10 his paper, among other things
says. 'One prominent elevation some
three niles from the river is the cen
Ter Of Inc magnificent estate of George
". Vanderbilt, containing 1900 acres
IN one body and now employing from
500 10 900 men in identifying it. The
land a,one cost $3.50, 900, and his inn
provelnents are so great in conception
as 10 Gnd parallel only in the grandeur
u the ancient Romans. His house is
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