Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-12-09
woMAN's WORLD in PARAGRAPHS.
Women and Hens Profit For Women In .
Good Business Hen.

ready risen in price SO that We could
only get Il for 25 cents. They will prob
ably be no cheaper than that in New
York before next spring, when warm
! weather comes. The fashionable white
Leghorn eggs are even higher. They
bring fairly dizzy prices all the year
around. During the Christmas holidays
the price win go al. still more, until
at times eggs will be and 4 cents
apiece--that, too, not the fancy fresh
laid, but just the output of the plain,
common hen. AT times it will be impos-
sible at some of our groceries to get them
at all. The demand for eggs for table
use rapidly increases. There seems a
disposition among civilized people to
use less meat and more eggs and milk
If were woman out of employment,
should select some spot near u good
market and go very cautiously into the
egg business. Any woman can learn
it who has patience and pluck enough
to earn her living at anything else. For
egg production / should select the rose
comb Brown Leghorn fowls. AT that
calling they beat all other hens. For
broilers and egg laying both should
get the handsome Plymouth Rocks.
Then the Light Brahmas are excellent
winter layers and make heavy birds
for roasting. With these three breeds
the poultry woman would be equipped.
If only one kind could be kept. then
it should be the rose comb Brown
Leghorn for egg production, since
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all the cool and cold weather. A
warm henhouse is wanted for the win
ter. The poultry books and hen pa
pers will give so much information
that even an amateur can succeed who
has common business ability. OF course
there will be many discouragements.
and three women out of four will give
up before success comes. But TO tho
fourth woman who holds ON. success
is sure and an independent, healthful
occupation, with happy homo. The
wise thing for the hen woman to do 10
to find private customers, such as hotel
and restaurant keepers, for her wares.
A very little capital is required, and
two ladies might go in together on tho
cooperative plan.
Here is one of the indignities and in
suits that women must put mp with be-
cause they cannot vote: A woman
teacher may give all the best years of
her life to the public school at the small
salary that affords plain living. She
may be more capable than she ever
was in her work, but as soon as she
reaches the age of so, perhaps before.
the masculine board of education sneer-
ingly observes that it wants Fresh
blood and youth in the women teach
ers." She must step down and out into
the world to begin all over again or DO
dependent on some grudging relative
for her living. Perhaps some of the
very men who turn her into the street
went to school to her and owe TO her
teaching all the little intelligence they
ever had or will have-it matters not.
1t matters not either that so, tho
youth of age, +" is the time when tho hui
man being who has lived right is Just
coming into the flower of his life intel
lectually and is more capable than he
ever was before. Nothing of this
counts. Out tho crushed, insulted
woman must go. The thoroughly mean
and fiendishly low down part of the
thing is that a man school principal or
teacher of the same age is never dis
charged. | know at this moment
board of education that systematically
weeds out the lady teachers approach
ing middle age, when at the same time
year after year it keeps in Office
cranky old male principal who is now
10 years old. Women teachers, you
have no vote. You have no voice in
the selection Of these men who thus
barbarously dispose of You. This and
this only is the reason why you are
turned out.
Long public documents and reports
must be indexed, and much depends on
the knowledge and skill of the indexer.
1t is gratifying TO read that the leading
indexer in all Great Britain is young
lady, Miss Nancy Bailey. She is now
employed in making out the index to
the parliamentary debates published
officially in Hansard's Guide. The inn
portance Of the place the young lady
holds may be judged from the fact that
w. 7. Stead wrote 10 her ms follows:
II would prefer to index Hansard rath-
er than have seat in the house of COM
mons.
Chicago alone has no less than go
women lawyers. Ireland has one Miss
Egan, who lately obtained the degree
of Lii. ID. from Dublin university.
She passed her examination with first
honors.
Harmony and peace between hus-
bands and wives will come when the
two sexes are entirely independent Of
each other pecuniarily. There Is no
other way. To obtain this perfect pc
cupiary independence for herself should
be the task to which every woman
should now set herself.
A demand for trained library assist
ants has arisen, and the day Is nearly
over of the gum chewing. impudent
girl who refuses 10 wait ON you when
you know the books you want are in
and who only cares to earn few dol.
lars week till she gets money enough
together to buy her wedding garments.
At Drexel institute, Philadelphia, L.
brary class has been established, which
will henceforth train young women to
be real librarians, polite and intelli-
gent. English literature and catalogu-
ing are two Of the main branches OF in
struction.
Miss Helen Shafer, president Of We'll
lesley college, has been made an LII. ID.
by Oberlin college, where she was grad
uated.
A limited but well paying field for
women's industry is that Of designing
book covers. Mrs. Whitman Of Boston
gets from S25 to $50 for one design.
ELIZA ARcHARp CosSER.