The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-22
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
SOME GOOD ADVICE.
Do Not Let the Men Deprive You Of .
Profitable Employment.

Do Not Let the Men Deprive You Of .
Profitable Employment.
1t is exceedingly aggravating to find
women discarding work just as it be-
comes financially profitable and men
taking it up Yet this happens in num-
berless cases. AS soon as one employ
ment becomes of serious import and Of
value enough for men to adopt it,
women are quite likely to discard it, or
are frightened out of competition with
their stronger brethren. Several Gen.
turtles ago, when the mass of mankind
was occupied with feats of arms, wom-
en- were the only leeches known. 1t
was considered most womanly act to
study the virtues of herbs and medi-
cines, and even to. acquire the art OF
surgery. Yet, till within the last score
of years, it has been common thing to
sneer at woman physician as those
who have stepped out of the limits pre-
scribcd for their sick. Gradually the
prejudice against the woman physician
is being overcome. Many other cases
might be instanced where women
have gone back into lucrative en-
Payments from which they had
. been pushed by the superior force of
men and made a success of them. The
most conservative thinker would hardly
say that butter making was not wom-
ans employment; but as soon as butter
making is conducted in large cream
cry, where it becomes a matter OF
thousand pounds week instead of
fifty, and is conducted on scientific
principles so that the result is sure it is
done by men. The fact is that our
farmers wives, with their long expert
encc in butter-making, are being driven
out of an excellent and lucrative en-
ploymcnt by the engagement OF male
and alien hands. Ne one doubts that
the business of creameries is a success,
yet it is to be regretted that In woman's
peculiar sphere she has not made this
success her own, and has allowed the
middlemen to come between her and the
market.
Why should not farmers and daugh-
tcrs in large neighborhood organize
and establish cooperative creamery,
to which they would all furnish the
cream? There are abundance of farm
ers' daughters seeking employment in
the cities studying art. studying what
not, who could do all the work of such
an establishment except the work OF
lifting heavy buckets, which ought to
be done by a male employee. There is
no essential part of the work of butter
making which may not better be en-
trusted TO women's hands than to mems.
The establishment should, of course, be
conducted on strict business principles.
There should be agencies for the sale of
the butter in cities and villages where
it will command the best price, and such
agencies should be in charge of daugh-
tiers Of those interested in the cooper
ativc scheme. There is no possible rea-
son why many of the army of unem
ploycd women who are continually
drifting to the cities for work should
not be aided by such a project as this.
There is always demand for home
made bread and cake, homemade pick
les and homemade preserves, at prices
which will compete with the inferior
produce of this kind now for sale. Can
ming and picking establishments of
similar kind might also be conducted
on the cooperative plan by unemployed
women.
1t is not our purpose to add to the
many burdens of the farmers wife. 1t
is not question so much of whether
she finds enouoh to do as whether what
she does gives the best result. There is
no use of farmers of limited means edu-
eating their daughters for teachers, for
the ranks of teachers are over full.
There is little more use in educating
them in art than there is in educating
them to write poetry as remunerativc
profession. Wha'. they need is practi-
cal employment, which will bring a
practical money return. Tribune