St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-02

In the days of old when people
spelled just as they pleased and chiv-
airy wSS in fashion, merchants stood
at the doors of their little shops along
the narrow streets of London and
cried TO every possible purchaser who
came trailing by, ''What dye lack, my
lady?" If some benign power, meeting
The st. Paul woman wandering through
a maze of despair. should cry out to
her as did the shopkeeper. she would
answer, "a maid servant" In my
highly moral and philanthropic
moments l rejoice TO think that the
stain of human slavery no longer rests
on the fatherlandS name, but when l
burn my fingers and cut my thumbs
in vain attempt to get dinner, L wish
the abolutionists had minded their
own business and that one might
have cook who couldn't leave. Why
haven't we plenty of servants here in
ST. Paul? Riddle me that, pray. You
can't? Well. it's just because girls are
gone daft over working for salaries in
stead of for wages. We have scores of
soul-trying typewriters, who spell like
Chaucer and punctuate like Old Nick
himself, but we haven't COOKS. No
class Of wolnanS woIk is so we'll paid as
domestic service. No class of workers
have so much time to themselves as do
mestics. They are Observation-Disclosures
me! they rule. AS for advancement, a
good cook can command almost any
price. and if she add to her culinary
skill knowledge of how to serve din
rer. she is become a pearl of great
price.
If | were girl would let shorthand
alone. l would not stand all day be-
hind counter nor drudge i'll a factory.
1 would Learn to cook. | would cook
scientifically, and serve artiStically, and
The world would be mine. The town
needs good COOKS. and thorough cooks.
But, for that matter, thorough work
erS of all kinds are always in demand.
There's always room for people who are
to he depended on, which, alas, most
women workers are not. Woman stuff
rage will never bring women higher
wages till women learn to work with
the spirit that animateS men workers.
When women put their hearts into
their work instead of keeping them
handy to bestOw on the first mar
riageahle man who appears, then
we can expect an equality of the
sexes in work. Not one woman
i'll thousand goes into business with
determination to make business success
her life aim. The thousandth woman
is sure of success. Mother Nature has
ordained that man may have two sides
to his life, Il woman but one. We NAV
not like to III nix it, but it's true. Bust
ness does not interfere with mans
love and his domestic relations. He can
have both, a woman but one. Until
women realize this. and like business
we'll enough to make the sacrifice nee
eSSarv to attain success i'm it, it is fool
ish TO talk OF industrial equality of the
sexes. Nature didn't intend women for
industrial life. ard whoever goes against
her wishes must pay the price.
But since business women are neces-
sity, and since they do marry, and will
marry, even then let them devote them
selves heart end soul to business. A
watched pot. you know, never boilS,
and the girl who hasn't the remotest in.
tention of marrying, doesn't care rap
whether she does or not. and doesn't
give the matter a moments thought, is
the first one of the set to marry, and
marrieS the best man in town,