Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-02
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WoMAN,s Economic PRoeREss.
An indication of Progress That should
BE Taken as Glorious News.

An Indication of Progress That should
BE Taken as Glorious News.
I said that as teachers: woman had
reached the apex of her industrial
effort. It is not to be supposed that
this implies that every woman must
become teacher Of the three RS. There
is a wide field open to them in every
quarter. from pairing potatoes up, if
you Will, to the trades, professions, arts
and sciences To be a teacher, no mat
ter of what division of labor. requires a
high order Of intelligence Even in the
pairing Of potatoes 1t is not only the
ability TO do the same skillfullv that IS
necessary. The success of a teacher
depends upon the power of imparting
knowledge This necessitateS the study
of the human character, and the denser
the minds to enlighten the more this
power viii be found necessary. So let
the many women who are unemployed
waiting for 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
it 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 a science. This in its en-
tirety, of course, reaches a different
indignation created by woman 1t will
soon differentiate and departments will
be established to accommodate those
whose intelligence can not as yet grasp
it as a science.
Look where you will, you will find
specialized labor among women as you
will among men. In the laundry, which
is a comparatively new industry, the
washers do not iron, the ironers of
shirts do not iron collars, and so on. In
the dressmaking establishment, where
the labor has become specialized as 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 a 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 furnishing 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
to 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 bricklayers.
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 find
efficient servants willing to live an
isolated existence with an ignorant dis
orderly mistress, and seldom with a
scientific housekeeper who thinks she
can evolve comfort from low priced
labor. This is why even the green
horn is becoming scarce for like places.
If she assumes the aggressive to the de-
gree of impertinenee, we should con-
slider that all things in state of transit
ton are FESTIVE, and it is only human
beings who can give expression to their
unrest. Women Even these poor
daughters of the soil have newly awak-
ened desires and thus give expression to
the strength of their demands. This is
an indication of progress which we
should herald as glorious news, for this
solves the servant-girl question-and
whatever solves that solves the woman
question: for that is the beginning, and
when the lowest have pushed on a pace,
those at the other end must have adj
vanced too-for woman is woman all
along the line.-Social Economist