St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-16
FOR The FAIR SEX.

There are great many unreasonable
things said about women. Some are
funny and some are sad. One that is
both funny and sad is the assertion that
wage-earning hardens woman. Reams
could be written on the causes of hard
enlng i'll women, but the earning of
money would not be among them. The
PRtsburg Commercial Gazette talks
tlHs way on that subject:
1There are three ways in which
women get money" says writer in the
Canadian Magazine, Through the dead
itagers or their dead kin, the living ones
OF their existing relatives. or by their
hands or wits. Latterly women make
more money. 1t is now less of stigma
10 earn livelihood than it was twenty
or even ten years ago. There are still,
though-mOre's the pity-those who
look askance at the young woman whose
bonnet and bread are paid for out of her
@eWn wages. -; v-.~, ~--f...2 e.-,.
"a. woman's ideal existence is in the
home. Be she wife or daughter or
mother whose hands rule the house,
Keeping, it should be her privilege, her
jealousy guarded care, to wall that
defense of hearts with her own loving
strength. She should be the cheerful,
tender helpmeet the fathers staff. the
children'S good anger, the housewife,
the homemaker and keeper, and the
blessed sunshine.
That would be woman's ideal eX-
istence-but then. the mans -authOri-
ties differ, and we all hold our own
n hn St
write, plant rose trees and asparagus,
be good to his wife, and mind whom his
daughter marrirs. He should take his
family Tor walks in the fields in the
evenings and the nOt-tOO-early morn
ings, and lie should 90 fishing once a
week. When men live that kind of a
life woman may return to her ideal eX-
lStence. But this is not Utopia. Roses
and asparagus. and even brook trout,
won't do. Mans ideal existence has
become good deal warped. and wom-
ans has followed it away from the line
of perfection.
''In the ideal world she wouldn't even
want to know whether asparagus was
another name for roses Gf she could cook
III; but i'll the nOwaday world she does
need TO know them, Latin roots and all,
and more than all the rest of it, she
needs to know the price of the roses
and those tasty little shoots which look
so big in the bunch and go Oft so dis
tresSfngly i'll the boiling.
"Daughters, too, have been pushed
away from that ideal existence They,
too, often find it does not pay, in even
sunshine for the family, just incident
ally, while waiting to be married. All
girls hands haven't that little line that
the palmlSt tells us means a husband
There are more than enough of them
to 20 aFound, and some girls must be
tue lite Sally Waterses of society:
only, nowadays, the Sallies are bach
elOF girls and not old maids, and
many of them earn their own living.
Vow, is 1t better TO depend upon an
aging father for support, or support
ones self? Is it better to look to a
brother, to take the home offered by an
uncle, to be one of Cousins family, or
to be independent?
1T may not be an ideal existence, but
. the world is not an ideal world. and
5 there are good many glass houses.
But woman who is money getter
5 Is. a better Spender than one who has
never gained money for herself in Il fair
fight with the world. \ dollar earned
means more than d hundred cents to
spend. 1t means something added to
mains when the money has gone for
bread or bOnbons. shoes or violets.
3 f'The earning OF it is a great deal. l
honor the woman VINO can earn her own
livelihood. 1t may be that she peddles
appleS-well, if she didn't steal them
first, and if she doesn't pass them out
decayed side down she is yet step
ABOVE the droneS.
: 81 am tired of the amending cry of
hardened women. Persons talk OF the
soil of business life, the bloom that goes
tile way of the iruity mist on the plums
and grapes. A good deal of it has
foundation. The business woman
learns that words are not works and
that business affairs yield better returns
if the transactions are in writing. 1t is
not woman's ideal existence, but then,
what would yOu?''