The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-16
the whole trouble to our working girls
They are worse than machines, Chinese,

the whole trouble to our working .girls.t
They are worse than machines, Chinese;
niggers, 'soverplus" and all, he says. 1
talked to this fellow at his home. He stays
at home all the time now, poor fellow,
and he is sad mighty sad, over the situa-
ton. He has done give up; he don't wear
no boots, nor shirts, nor coats, nor vests
he don't wear nothing that men folks wear
any more. He had on, when L seed him,
one old faded frock: it was q warm day
then; I guess he will put some other
skirts in winter, but / don't know, for he
swears that he can only get such things as
they throw away.
This fellow is mighty downtrodden and
swears that the boy children had better
be killed hereafter. He was bookkeeper
once, but he says young woman crowded,
him out, and then he went from one thing
to another crowded out every time by
q girl. till he lust give it up and went home
and is keeping house while his females work
up town The whole nature OF things
is being reversed, he says, and nothing
would surprise him now, nothing, Tor he
has to pinch himself sometimes to decide
whether he is sure that he is or is not
some female woman.
This poor downtrodden fellow impressed
me strongly with his notion OF the STU,
alton that | have put myself to sight OF
trouble to get at the facts-get the hGures
on this working women" matter. l don't
like to figure much, but here are some
pretty nearly correct figures as to the num-
Der of women working i'll the towns
named, and when we take in consideration
that these women are filling places that
men ulster fill it accounts somewhat for the
'oyerplus.' Here are the figures:
au.t'sta = 730
Rome. . $50
Now here is just three towns that give i've
us nearly five thousand women who are
hp of loo far mi
We're not taken in this account, sewing is
their natural business and does not con
tiict, so we did not number them as mems
competitors.
| also had the figures from Columbus,
Macon and Savannah, but | was fearful
That the estimate was q little wrong, and
| rather be silent than wrong Anyhow, the
three places above are sufficient to show
to what an extent this female labor bust
ness is being carried.
In closing this letter ! wish it to be I'M
derStood that | am not making any war
on these ladies'. | see them going to and
coming from their places and | could say
nothing but in praise of their department.
their tidyncss and their. sweet looks. but
girls, don't you thiIl, it would be better
for you to go and take places as servants"
in households? In Il few more years there
won't be any women who know how to
keep house, make preserves and pickles,
and raise gardens and children, and milk
cows and make butter. The word scr
want is where the rub comes. 1t is
false"notion and there is lots of false pride
that better be thrown away than mixed up
in the matter. There should be no more
odium attached to hiring out to do house
hold work than i'll hiring to do shop work
Men folks can never change positions with
YOU in these things and the country is all
out of joint for some reason and there
must be Il reaction
l will come. SARGE PLUNKErT.