The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-03-16
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Woman Employee Never Goes Out
To Tala Drink

The Woman Employee Never Goes Out
to Take a Drink.
A business man writes TO 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. 1t is that
women do not get equal pay with men
for equal work. As an instance is men
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 men
would get for the same work. | wish
women would consider seriously the
wrong they infict on both men and
women by consenting to do certain work
for less compensation than men would
receive for the same labor. They bring
down the scale of wages throughout
that occupation, make it harder than
ever for men in the same employment to
support their families, and naturally get
the Ill will of such men, who accordingly
try to drive them out of this industry.
Worse than all, they cheaper and de-
grade the services of their whole sex
and strengthen that vile old supersti-
ton that a woman's work is less valu-
able than mans. would rather do
homework or washing and ironing for a
living than to engage in any occupation,
however profitable, where received less
pay than man would get in the same
place. If 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 disap-
pear like the relic of barbarism it is.
When man has made money and
bought himself high official place, and
his wife, a stupid woman with no more
brains than a turkey, sets herself up on
pedestal and sneers at woman suffragists
and professional women, it makes me so
weary that long to fly away to be at
rest.
Ibelieve that more men than women
go in for woman suffrage, though don't
know how it would be if it came to the
scratch and they were forced to vote on
the question in legislature.
1t is in California of course, Pomona,
Cal, where two ministers. husband and
wife, Revs. Leslie W. and Lila Frost
Sprague, have been installed as joint
pastors of Unitarian church. Great
success to the partnership.
The Medico-Legal society of New
York was one of the first important Or
CARNATIONS of mixed scientific and So
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 members of
the society and sustained their part very
creditably in its learned deliberations.
Undoubtedly the liberal action of the
Medico-Legal society has had favor
able influence for our 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 occupy
ing the same position receive $4,000 a
year. Just as long as women viii put up
with this sort of thing they will have to
do so, and as long as they will put up
with it they are not worth a cent more.
Boards of education and employers gen.
orally Will never invite women to re-
ceive the same salaries as men. Woman
or man who will 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 vio-
lence." She that hath understanding
let her ponder it. Violence does not,
however, necessarily mean rash and
foolish action.
If woman will let her husband beat
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 CONNER.