St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-14

The wonderful changes in the life of
women during the last fifty years can
not be appreciated by the girls of today.
They are so used to feeling free and
Independent. to thinking that they have
perfect right to do whatever they may
feel called upon to do, that the idea of
asking for PERMISSION from the male
head of the family does not enter their
heads. The Omaha Bee talks this way
about it:
The young women of today do not
realize their opportunities. They should
have BEEN born yesterday to do that,
says Jeanette l.. Glider, addressing the
army of girl graduates just stepping
from the ante room of the schools and
colleges into the broader world. The
world is now just as much their oyster
as it is their brothers. and some of them
will prove much more sklllful in OPEN
ing it. l do not know of any walk that
woman cares to enter that she would
now find closed to her on account of her
Jex.
If she has the business sense she
needs nothing more. Opportunity is a
good thing, but determined woman
will make it for herself if she does not
find it at hand. This year is particu-
larly wOman's year, owing o III
great showing at Chicago, whe Il
Woman's building, designed by wCl
an, ho,Gs its own by the side of any
jackson park. | I'm not and never have
been one vino believed i'll spelling wom-
Oh with capital w.
believe that men and women are on
pretty equal footing, except, perhaps,
in the matter of physical strength and
powers of endurance, though even here
] am sure great many women can hold
their own with their brothers.
If were one of yon young women,
inst starting out in life, would not ask
eny consideration on the score of sex,
but Oh that of work only. [ Wonld make
Up my mind that the strongest objection
that is made against women workers
want of thOroughneSS-coul not be
made against me. | would adopt the
career of my choice, and devote myself
to it with as firm determination to
succeed as though there were no such
thing as marriage or giving in marriage.
Your work, II you undertake it. should
be no stOp-gap between the school room
and the altar. Not that you should not
marry if you feel so inclined, but you
ing. ''Oh. well, suppose that will get
married some day, and this will do till
then" Whatever you do. do it seriously
and with your whole heart. AS to the
line of your work, you must be the
Judge. Everything is before you. You
have. only to choose, but you must
choose from the heart. Do the thing
you feel the most inclined to do. for
chat is the thing you will do the best.
would, however. warn you not to be
easily discouraged. 1t would be hard
fight for you, just as it would be for
Your brother. tor while there are no
ines of work you may not take up,
there is no royal road to any one of
them. You are fortunate, not only If
you do rot have to begin at the bottom,
but If you dOnot have TO wait for some
lime before you can begin at all. All
doors will admit you, but they are not
III standing wide open. Choose care
.:ullp, and then knock loud and long if
necessary, aud you will. be heard and
admitted If you have chosen wisely.
DON'T forget what have said at the
beginning of this letter-.hatit is well to
know something about the manage
cannot afford to be at the mercy of in
competent or INSCRIPTIONS people any
more than married women can. Do
mestic economy leads to happiness, if
not to wealth. Live within your means,
and put little nest egg aside for a
rainy day. This is the advice of one
who knOWs-trom never having done it
that 1t is the best thing to do.