The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-12
woMAN,s WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Elm Skilled Labor We Are Destined to Con
quer," Says Miss Pierson.

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| Miss Belle Pierson, a compositor on
the New Albany Ledger, has lately been
appointed state organizer of the Fedora
ton of Labor for Indiana. A late num-
Der of The Courier-J Journal contains
delightful sketch of this young lady,
Gallant Colonel Henri Watterson's pa
per has always good word for women
workers. 1t is the duty of Miss Pierson
in her new Office to travel from town to
town in Indiana, call mass meetings,
make speeches and organize associa-
tons of working people. From The
| Courier-Journars sketch we find that
Miss Pierson has pluckily supported her
self at typesetting since the age Of 16
She now supports her mother also. From
setting type many printers ambition
has scared to preparing the matter that
is put into type, and this aspiration has
struck Miss Pierson too. She writes
considerably for the press ON labor ques-
| tons, particularly those matters in
which workers of her own sex are con-
cerned. She expresses it as her firm
conviction that in the departments of
skilled labor women are bound to con-
quer So they are. But one statement
| l regret to find this brave, bright girl
making. 1t is that woman is woman's
| worst enemy in the labor ranks, and that
when girl engages in work hitherto
done only by men she is hindered as
much as possible by her own sex. have
not found it so, certainly. have found
| that the dearest, warmest, truest sympa-
thizers with working women are women
themselves. Perhaps in that funny but
| rigid system of caste prevalent in small
| towns a printer girl would be looked
down on by lazy girls and married WON
en- who call themselves the social leaders
of the ridiculous little missionaries they
| always set up, but in the great throb-
bling life of the city people of intelligence
are recognizing the dignity and worth of
the woman who earns her own living
Miss Persons statement about WON
ems being against working women re-
minds me, however, of an experience of
my own in a certain funny little town.
| 1t was village of few hundred inhab-
itants. Fate and my own adventurous
| disposition had set me down there. de-
termined to learn typesetting at the Office
| of the village newspaper. Two or three
women who regarded themselves of more
importance than the Vanderbilt and
Astor ladies have ever seemed to do dis
| approved of the idea. | was waited on
and informed in due order that the ladies
would never think so much of me again
or care to associate" with me if | went
| into that newspaper Office. 'Then I'll
be sure to do it," answered, and did
1t amused me not little that society
was going to sit on me. 1t always does
amuse me when anybody, man or
woman, tries to sit on me. Moreover.
let me say this for the comfort of timid
souls who fear to do some honorable
work on which their hearts are set
for dread Mrs Grundy will frowr.
Go bravely on. Do your chosen work
royalty and splendidly, with all your
soul in it. Let nothing discourage you
and by and by you will make a success
of it. Then Mrs. Grundy will come to
you and lay her choicest laurels at your
| feet
1t gives one feeling of pride and tri-
umph to know that every portion of the
| beautiful building devoted to the WON
ems department at the Worlds fair was
designed by women, its construction SUI
perintended by women and its contents
arranged under the direction of women
We do not hear the expression, "a
woman of masculine intellect" so much
as we did any more. Women have come
| to that point in the worlds development
where they are allowed to have intellects
| of their own.
The late Mrs. F. G. Etting of Phila-
| delphia made great success in the bust
| ness of raising fresh eggs for market.
She went into it so extensively that
she spent 81 800 in incubators, chicken
houses, etc., but she realized over 20
per cent profit on her investment annu-
ally.
Don't fall into that lazy, despicable
way of saying that men can learn things
and understand things that women can
not Say always, l can understand any
thing that man or anybody else can.
Mrs. Harriet Strong of Whittier, CAL.
last year raised 100000 plumes of the
beautiful pampas grass so much used in
decoration and sold them nearly all. One
million will adorn the buildings of the
Worlds fair, and she exported CSC, 900 to
Europe. Mrs. Strong has been the first
person to grow these pampas plumes ex-
tensively in North America. Formerly
they all came from South America. The
last presidential campaign was lucky for
Mrs. Strong, 100000 of the plumes being
used in parades and decorations.
Mrs. Beazley, Philadelphia woman,
invented the cooperage machine which
turns out thousands of perfectly finished
barrels every day. She is also the in
ventor of life raft which may be tossed
into the sea in any shape, but will al
ways right itself instantly and float safe
ly. 1t contains pockets which the sea
cannot enter that are always filled with
water and provisions for use of the ship
| wrecked.
The subjects chosen for public lectures
by Miss Cora A. Benneson, graduate of
Michigan university and member of the