The Dickinson press., 1891-07-25
WoMAN's WAY.
hi One Thinks Her Sex Goes ut Things
In the Wrong Manner.

This One Thinks Her Sex Goes ut Things
In Il Wrong Manner.
A bevy of women typewriters, who
have been adding a picturesque element
to the n Office work in Washington,
have dealt a telling blow to the lords of
creation by very quietly accomplishing
the work so much better and more quick
~ than the man clerks have been able to
do that there is talk of largely extending
the number of typewriters and women to
manipulate them.
Every victory of this kind won by the
woman who, instead of demanding high
place and power by bombastic assertions,
devotcs her clever wits to performing
the duty assigned her so worthily and
well that she gets invited and welcomed
up higher, does more for the cause than
a whole federation of woman's clubs CAB
bling about what woman could do if she
were not kept back from honored place
by tho tyrant man.
Woman's sphere has been enlarged
greatly and her limitations vastly ex-
tended in the past two years, but there
are two Or three peculiarly feminine
points beyond which she does not seem
able to evolute herself; M of these is
everlasting talking about what she does,
and the other is of making personality an
important factor in business arrange
ments.
Because a few thousand men are sue
cessful lawyerso or merchants or whatever
they do, they do not rush off to Washing
ton or Omaha to talk it over and glorify
their possibilities as the few score pro-
fessional women delight in doing. The
world seems ready to accept the profess
sional woman with serene composure; it
is the woman herself who calls attention
to the irregularity of the proceeding by
talking about it, and sitting herself up on
st, Simon's pillar, removed from the
masses.
A woman writes an article for publ
cation. She takes infinite pains with its
conception and expression, and perhaps
it is better than any man from Adam
down could accomplish. Does she send
it in like Il man with some stamps for
its return and let its merit be impartially
determined? Not at all. She puts on
her new suit, curls her bang the most
becoming way, adjusts her bonnet with
infinite care, and with the article tucked
away somewhere among the parcels she
ladens herself with, she asks for aprivate
interview with the editor, who is, as
every one knows, the busiest man in the
world.
After a long talk on desultory subjects
she begins to undo tho package, in the
heart of which the article is hidden. In
her nervousness she drops the varied
contents of the parcel. The editor picks
them up with a Spartan smile that ought
to insure him a front row cushioned seat
in glory. Then her umbrella goes down,
and some angel ought to put rockers on
the seat as he picks thatup. Finally the
story is found, deposited in his hands,
and she departs.
1t is the same everywhere, in Offices,
shops, wherever the daughter Of Eve
wants to serve the son of Adam she ap-
peals to his chivalry rather than her own
c%apability, and perhaps it is only fair to
say, with a molicum of success.
Where a woman wants to do u mans
work and asks for it i'll a mans way, and
accomplishes it just even a little better
than he CAN, and doesn't go and get up a
club to drink tea and talk it all over
every week, there will be established the
much hoped for equality of sexesi in honor
and place, which the woman lecturer has
chartered about so long and so vainly.-
A Woman in New York Sun.