Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-16
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
This First Paragraph Il written Fer
Men to Read.

This First Paragraph IL written Fer
Men to Read.
OF course gentlemen do not make
sighting remarks about women in offices
with the intention Of doing them any
harm. But in New York particularly If
woman is obliged to so away from
homo daily TO Serve in a Office of any
kind, always there arc mon ready to inn
pute unworthy actions to her. She may
DO a patient toiler. putting her whole
life in her work, supporting two or three
other people with her little wages, and
leading the life of an ascetic so far as
any social enjoyment is concerned. yet
even then she shall not escape. There
arc mot wanting men who win leer and
ron their eyes when her name is men,
toned, and hint that women who work
in Offices arc no better than they should
be-. Il is ono Of the most CALLING and
cruel CT the many cruel a6rcnts women
who strive to earn an honest living
must put up with. Men. for shame! Do
you suppose that women toll in Offices or
at home from choices Would you, any
Of you, work day in and day ont merely
for the fun Of it. especially when you
ran the risk of having your name ban
died about on the tongues Of persons
whose minds are 30 fril Of dishouornble
innagiuinSs that they can scarcely COM
prehend how anybody can DO clean in
thought? Men, manly men and true.
AJAX you to set your foot down crushing
~ upon this necn talk about women in
Offices. There are relatively as many
good girls and woman in Offices as out Of
them. The fact that lady serves in an
cf1ice makes her neither more nor less
the lady than she was before. / recall
at this moment n woman, splendldly
equipped intellectually. whose literary
productions had horne tho test of twenty
years appearance in tho Same pubhca-
ton. one who had supported her mother
all that time. and yet fippsnt youths a
dozen years younger than she wac did
not hesitate to circulate freely vile
ISLANDERS about her. This, too. beg you
to remember: II is a world Of change.
No man knows how soon his oxn wife,
daughter or sister may DO called On to
earn her living in ca Office.
The Hebrew Journal says this. at il
ono Of the wers. misfor.uncs Of women
that falsehecd Is not a. rale consi1c-cd
dishonsr among them" OF course the
geutlerpen on the editorial STAG or The
Journal speak here of their own wives,
mothers, sisters and lady friends. bat il
il unfair to the rest Of The SEE.
Paris has one woman chemist. Nile.
lie C,erc, who passed . fizet class exam
ination.
The lesding life Insurance companies
have established q vcmsus department,
IN which women may hare their lives
Insured On the sszne terms a. men.
Thsse companies have placed ut The load
ef Ne nsw department, in their agencies
IN ths Pscsac stakes, Mrs JnAna Neil. Of
Ca1if0.ia. ssd they psy her eio.oeo Q
year. This IN probably the largest sal
airy received by any woman in tho husi.
uea world.
A paragraph in TIE New York Re.
ocrder gives souse facts which shcp that
wempea have made 10 mean record In ne
feid Of invention whsre II hss been
charged that they have no power At al
Bias soosAcw, ] cssno& tell WHY II
IA. vvFBen havv nevrr bsd credit fss
what they socs0patsAeA N invenfing
We f3ni ths3 spisainx, engraving and fhe
straw hst and bonnet industry were al
~ prodact 81 womAs's brain IL tie -
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ia~@tsa the cpesss On sn4 bsr hzshssd
~ ~ cysaft - II. Ia Bsraen skse
rssebise. whtcA s-e4 ~ -. 80 n fvxr.
seea yeers. 49, ADVISED ~ Nrs. Borden
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