Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-03
eIRLs WHO wANT 10 WORK.

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Understand Before They Begin.
Almost all earnest girls nowadays
come into maturity with real longing
for work. There are reposeful middle
aged people, to be sure, who firmly be-
lieve that this is a mischievous and mis-
placed, activity and that it is going to
work ont all kinds of destruction il the
race of women take to other things than
domestic and polite accomplishments.
Be that rs it wills it doesn't pay to argue
about what we shall never live TO prove
Here you are, hundreds of you, girls
who honestly want to work and who are
honestly averse to homework. It also
happens to be true that women, like
men, work for wages. and that the
wages girl gets for homework, even
in her fathers house, are not such as en-
courage you to adopt housework as a
profession. And so it happens that you
are thinking today about wage earning
business outside your home more than
you are thinking about a husband.
The first thing you've got to know is
what you can do best. To find that out
consult your taste. If you think 1t
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gowns, say so and stick to it. Then go
to the best milliner or dressmaxer in
your town and ask her to let you come
into her shop and learn. She won't pay
you at first, but your father has fed you
for several years and can probably dis
charge that paternal duty for few
months longer.
II you are boolrish and the law or
medicine attracts you, go to the Office of
your fathers lawyer or physician and
borrow his simplest book and study it.
In any case don't disdain the modest
beginning that lies nearest your hand;
you are not ready for wider fields yet
And when you've settled upon a work
don't play with 1t. Learn to treat it
just as seriously as your big brother or
your father treats his.
And 80 as your diligence and knowl-
edge grow together you will perhaps
come to point where you must leave
your fathers roof in order to finish your
preparation for your work or to widen
your competence and so increase your
wages. You must leave your small town
for city, or the small city for larger
one Before this can be considered
for moment, one or two things is inn
perative, either you must have the cer-
tainty - not the mere possibility--of
something to work ut that will give you
a modest living or you must have money
enough in reserve to pay your way for a
year ahead.
There is no compromising with this.
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other conditions. The number of young
women who leave their homes each year
and come to New York without definite
provision for work Is simply appalling,
and out of this spring the awful tragedies
OF want and discouragement that drive
women to death or worse.
With this provision made, gointo your
work with the whole Of you. Take care
Of your health, and for the rest give
your mind and body to your duties. You
viii get discouraged in every fiber of
your tired body, but 1t will only do you
good. The man or woman who doesn't
get discouraged often and often, seeing
hisultimate reach beyond his daily grasp
doesn't see far enough ahead ever to sue
coed. SO be sure that you will get dis
couraged, and getting discouraged en-,
courage yourself because of that very
thing.
You win probably be thrown much
among men. Learn not to expect par
lor etiquette in business places. You
are not there to interpret the amenities
OF life to a lot Of busy men, but TO do
your work competently and go your
way sensibly. They may be as kindly
intentioned rs your own brothers, but
they are too busy 10 assure you of their
distinguished consideration. II they
treat you brusquely, directly and frank
ly, they're paying you the compliment
Ct treating you like sensible woman.
Above all, don't always be looking for
things TO hurt your feelings. They'll |
come sometimes, and bruise you in every !
hber till youth want TO put your head
down in your mothers lap and cry like
little girl. But you must learn TO dis
tinguish between wounded feelings and |
wounded vanity. A woman cries nino
times out Of wounded vanity and once
out OF the wounded soul that calls for
divinest soothing to heal Let your
vanity smart all it viii; it's good for
most OF us.-New York Sun.