Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-02-25
woMaN,5 go6LD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The womaa Easpioyee Never Goes Out
to Take Drink.

The Woma-t Enipioyee Never Goes Out
to Take Drink.
A business. MAJ writes tn Eleanor
Kinks idea that the brainy woman,
trained to her work. is fully as capable
as the brainy man with the same train
ing, and is more reliable than he from
the fact that she never goes out to take
a drink He calls attention, however,
to the one great wrong and evil in the
case of women in business. It is that
women do not get equal pay with men
for equal work As an instance is mem
toned the case of the two women train
dispatchers who have lately attracted SO
much notice On account Of their remark
able cleverness He declares that these
two women, remarkable As they are,
do not receive the wages that Inen
would get for the same work. wish
women would consider seriously the
wrong they inilict on both men and
women by consenting to docertain work
for less compensation thar men Nnnld
receive for the same labor They bring
down the scale of wages throughout
that occupation. make ii harder than
ever for men in the same employmentto
support their families. ana naturally get
the i'll will Of such men. who accordingly
try to drive them ont Of this industry
Worse than all. they cheapen and de-
grade the services Of their whole sex
and strengthen that vile old supeT.s.i-
tion that wonans work is loss v;.la-
able than Il mans. | would rather do
living than to engage in any occupation.
however profitable. where received less
pay than Il is.an would get in shc same
place Ii some resOlute women and
girls would take such stand for wages
and stick to it that disparity Of pay be-
tween the sexes would speedily iisap-
pear like the relic Of barbarisn it is.
When man has made money ana
bought himself high official place. and
his wife, stupid woman with no lore
brains than a turkey, sets herself upona
pedestal and sneers at woman suffragists
and professional women, it makes ne so
weary that | long to fly away to be AZ
rest.
believe that more men than wonel
go in for woman suffrage. though don
know how it would be if it came to the
scratch and they were forced to vote o1
the question in a legislature.
1t is in California of course, Poroaa,
Cal, where two ministers, husband and
wife, Revs. Leslie w. and Lila Frost
Sprague. have been installed ia joint
pastors Of Unitarian church. Greet
success to the partnership.
The Medico-Legal society Of New
York was one of the first important Or
ganizations of mixed scientific and go
cial character to admit women TO mem-
bership on equal terms. This was done
through the exertions Of Clark Bell.
Esq. president of the society for many
years Women doctors, who have given
much attention to the study of INSANITY
and other departments of medical study,
have been good working lmembors Of
the society and sustained their pars very
creditably in its learned deliberations
Undoubtedly the liberal action Of the
Medico-Legal society has had 4 favor
able influence for orr' Sex, especially in
New York city, which yet looks none
too kindly on professional women.
In New York city women school prin-
cipals get $1,000 year. Men occuDy-
ing the same position receive $1,000 a
year. just as long as women viii pnt up
with this sort of thing they win have to
do so, and as long as they viii put up
with it they are not worth q cent more.
Boards OF education and employers gen
orally will never invite women 70 re-
ceive the same salaries as men. Woman
or man who viii endure injustice and
i'll treatment deserves all he or she gets.
and more too. There is an old mystical
saying which runs thus. The king.
dom of heaven must be taken by VIC
lence." She that hath understanding
let her ponder it. Violence does not
however. necessarily moan rash and
foolish action.
If woman will let her husband bea,
her. he ought to beat her every day. and
thrash her we'll
Isabel E. FL. Hall. registrar Of the
Normal college. New York receives
$500 year.
There are now $500 women doctors in
the United States.
ELIZA ARcHARD Co.XEil.