Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
woMAN'sE ECONOMIC PROGRESS.


An Indication of Progress Tint should
lie Taken as Glorious News.
| said that as teachers; woman had
reached the apex of her industrial
effort. 1t is not to be supposed that
this implies that every woman must
become teacher of the three RS. There
is " wide field open to them in every
quarter, from pairing potatoes up, II
you will, TO the trades, professions, arts
and sciences. To be n teacher, no mat
ter of what division of labor, requires n
high order of intelligence. Even in the
pairing of potatoes it is not only the
ability to do the same skillfully that is
necessary. The success of teacher
depends upon the power of impartlng
knowledge. This necessitates the study
of the human character, and the dcnser
the minds to enlighten, the more this
power will be found necessary. So let
the many women who are unemployed
waiting for an opportunity to teach
the three Rs, turn their attention to
other departments of teaching, intro
ducing along with other training some
thing pleasant and agreeable to think
of, the one being done better by being
done automatically, the other making
1t agreeable to do it; and thus step by
step, traversing two worlds at once, or
at this point discerning the first step in
the social world. Some have been keen
enough to discern this fact and have
established cooking schools, teaching
cooking as science. This in its en-
tirety, of course, reaches different
class. This school, however, is a new
Indignation created by woman. 1t will
soon differentiate and departments will
| be established to accommodate those
whose intelligence can not as yet grasp
1t as q science.
Look where you will, you will lind
specialized labor among women as you
will among men. In the laundry, which
Is n comparatively new industry, the
washers do not iron, the ironcrs of
shirts do not iron collars, and so on. In
the dressmaking establishment, where
the labor has become specialized az in
the factory, the same system prevails.
In these establishments women no long
er make whole dress, but the labor is
so divided that one makes a skirt, an
other a waist, another sleeve. The
under garment industry for both men
and women, every class of garment and
every division of the garment, is made
by special laborers, and so on, through
every industry in which women are en-
gagged Thus we will find it in every
employment created by women. This
is not confined to what women alone
Consume, but you will see that all these
employments are equally necessary to
man, from the furleishing of food up
just as every industry conducted by
man is necessary for woman-for man
builds the house and woman builds the
home. The error is here. Women fail
10 see that they are necessary inter.
dependent factor in the industrial
world. When they recognize this fact
much of the confusion will be obviated
Women will no longer desire to become
practical carpenters and briclSlayers.
The busy whirr of the factory is grad
ually gathering into its system the
daughters of isolation, and by reason OF
this fact we are no longer able to fine
efficient servants willing to live ar
isolated existence with an ignorant dis
orderly mistress, and seldom with {
scientific housekeeper who thinks she
can evolve comfort from low priced
labor This is why even the greer
horn is becoming scarce for like places
If she assumes the aggressive to the de
gree of impertinence, we should con
slider that all things in state of transi
tion are restive, and it is only human
beings who can give expression to theil
unrest. Women! Even these poo
daughters of the soil have newly awals
ened desires and thus give expression t.
the strength of their demands. This il
an indication of progress which W.
should herald as glorious news, for thi
solves the servant-girl question-ant
whatever solves that solves the woman
question; for that is the beginning, ant
when the lowest have pushed on pace
those at the other end must have ad
vanced too-for woman is woman al
along the ne-Social Economist.