Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-12-24
In W0MAN'S BEHALF.
GIRLS WHO WANT WORK.
Things Which Young Women Ought to
Know Before They Begin.

Things Which Young Women Ought TO
Know Before They Begin.
Most earnest girls nowadays come in
to maturity with real longing for
work. They are reposeful middle-aged
people, to be sure, who firmly believe
that this is mischievous and misplaced
activity and that it is going to work out
ali kinds of destruction II the race of
women take to-. other things than
domestic and polite accomplishments.
Be that as it will, 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 house
work. 1t also happens to be trpe,that
women, like men, work for wages, and
that the wages girl gets'for house
work, even in her fathers house, are
not such as to encourage you to adopt
houseworlS as a profession. And so 1T
happens that you are thinking to-day
about a wage earning business outside
your home, more than you are thinking
about 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 it
would be beautiful to trim hats or
make gowns, say so and stick to 1T.
Then go to the best millner or dress
maker 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 discharge that paternal duty
few months longer. If you are book
ish 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 ~, And
when you've settled upon a work, don't
play with it; learn to treat it just as
seriously as your big brother or your
father treats his his. Is.
And so as your diligence and knowl-
edge grow together you will perhaps
come to point where you must leave,
your fathers roof in. GnlpSoA finishyou
prepaEatisTPf 10 wide!!l
your compel Sd }beSe your
wages, y You ~ 1clS your
larger large 'O one. y w. ssa 4 lsiai
cred for momeffs one of ty
is imperative: eit6ef you must eave -
certainty-not the mere pcs lily of
something to work at that willl1ye YOU
a modest living, or elsessyQh mpst 49,
money enough in reserve tospay your
way for year ahead. There is no
compromising with this: Never leave
your fathers home on any other condi-
TONS The number of young women
who leave their homes each year and
come to New York without definite
provision for work is cimply appalling,
and out of this spring the awful TRACE
dies of want and encouragement that
drive women to death or worse.
With this provision made, go into
your work with the whole of you Take
care of your health, and, for the rest
give your mind and body to your du-
ties. You will get discouraged in every
fiber of your tired body, but it will on
ly do you good The man or woman who
doesn't get discouraged often and often,
seeing his ultimate reach beyond his
daily grasp doesn't see far enough
ahead ever to succeed So be sure that
you will get discouraged, and getting
discouraged, encourage yourself be-
cause of that,very thing.
You will 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 lot of busy men, but to do
your work competently and go your
way sensibly. They may be as kindly
intentioned as your own brothers. but
they are too busy to assure you of their
distinguished consideration. If they
treat you brusquely, directly and frank
ly they're paying you the compliment
Of treating you like sensible woman
You will have to keep your tastes
opinions and purposes thoroughly to
yourself. One young woman in news
paper work in New York had what she
called conscientious scruples" against
certain kinds of newspaper necessities,
and she wanted to argue them out with
every editor she talked to. She failed
in her work, and it served her right;
not because she had conscientious
scruples," but because she aired them
where she had no business to. Neither
have your tastes any more place in
your work. You will have to learn to
do what you are told to do and reflect
that if you find the task insuperably
Objectionable, you have the largest lib
erty to give some one else the opportu-
nifty of trying it.
Above all, don't always be looking
for things to hurt your feelings. They'll
come sometimes, and bruise you in ev-
cry fiber till you'll want to put your
head down in your mothers lap and
4 cry like a little girl But you must
7 ltAra -ts. distinguish 'betwasnasIeunded
feelings and wbsndeds, " ahity. A wom-
an cries nine times out of ten of wound.
ed vanity and once out of the wounded
soul that calls for divinest soothing to
heal Let your vanity smart all it will
it's good for most of us, for vanity is a
t-kfmlR frou4 flesh" of the soul that
has:t fssated with caustic to keep
it fr6n becoming an excrescence that
will disfgure. >. - e.s-t=
Another thing you viii have to learn
is to keep your word; to go where YOU
say you'll go, and come when you say
you'll come, and let the heavens droE
If they will. But they won't-except
in blessings on your head. A young
woman reporter on New York paper
was told by her physician to come tc
him at a certain hour the next day. %
will come if l don't have an assign
ment," she said. There is no If
about it." said the great surgeon, as he
turned and looked at her. Doctor,
said the small autocrat defantly, 81
my own funeral was TO be at o'clocl
tomorrow, and if at $50 had an as
signment to do somebody else's funera