The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1893-09-16

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one has entered the newspaper pro-
fession. There have been several
lawyers and doctors, many teachers,
artists, bookkeepers accountants,
cashiers, and secretaries, trained
nurses, and elocutionists; and several
asplrants for the lyric and dramatic
stage.
The teachers have without excep-
tion been successful; 80 have the
graduates Of law and of medicine and
of the Nurses Training School. TIE
girls who had ambitions for public
careers have met with only ordinary
success; probably those trained for
elecuuionists have made the most
money. The girls Of musical and
artistic capabilities have been given
every advantage possible in the way
of home and foreign training. Se7-
eral Of them have been educated in
Paris, several in Berlin, others in
Vienna. In the selection Of schools
and teachers there has been no gen.
eral rule; sometimes I have selected
both, at other times the girls or their
friends have made their choice. In
all cases only the best Of either have
been employed. For one young girl,
who seemed especially endowed with
a voice, Nine. Christine Nilsson was
requested to select the teacher. The
salaries received by these girls have
averaged from $500 to several thou
sand dollars year; one received as
high as $1,000. All the girls have
become self-supporting, most Of them
have married, and all q think I am
safe in saying this) have made good
wives All of them have deferred to
my request that the men Of their
choice should be honest and well able
to take care Of them and, so far as ]
know, not one Of them has found
husband who has presumed upon his
wife's ability to earn money to expect
her to contribute to his support.
I became interested in these girls,
and have given them opportunities
for education, because l have ever be-
lieved, aud that conviction has grown
with years, in the higher education
of women. ! think that women can
do almost anything that men can.
and l am quite sure that they should
lie given the same pay as men receive
for the same quality Of work. l be-
liere ir the value Of training in al
sorts of work, and l consider &c
woman's education complete until
she has mastered the pcacticalitieS OF
life.
Ny advice to the girls and women
with whose educational progress l
have in any respect been identified
has always been to keep out Of debt,
to dress plainly, to be careful in their
behavior toward men, and as careful
in their behavior toward women; to
be respectful to their employers, and
to be truthful. / have not scrupled
to say to them that in my experience
the most refined women have been
those whose tastes in matters Of dress
have been most quiet and plain, and
that the working girl should above
all things avoid extravaganza in
dress. I have found that girls and
women are apt to run into debt fol
clothes, and whenever such cases
have come to my knowledge I have
proGered my assistance toward re.
storing their credit. upon the express
stipulation that they should never
again put a chain Of that sort about
their necks, and I think they have
all kept their promises.
I wish that al mes Of large mean: