The herald., 1894-04-18

management OF tue normal schools In
comparison with that of the univern-
ties and military and naval academies.
The faculties are often required to do
six hours work per day in6tead Of elk
hours per week as in university iacul-
ties.
! The rest OF the address was devoted
% the discussion OF means OF culture
possible TO women teachers, and to a
protest against the short-sixhted policy
OF levying exaction upon exaction upon
teachers, until their womanhood Ia
dwaried. What childhood needs for it's
full development Ia contact with fully
developed womenhood. This is Gods
law.
COMPETITION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN.
The necond address of the evenin
was By Mrs. Linda @. Dorland of L
Angeles, ON The Result OF the Present
Competition Between Men and Women
in Business. The address was thought
iul and dignifed, aud received the
closent attention.
The question Of competition between
the work OF men and women has been
before us hut Q comparatively ehort
time, che said, and like every new ues-
tion OF Importance it startles and dis
Q1iets US at first. What the ultimate
result OF that competition will be can be
judged only by the elements entering
into it. We love and rOvere the thoughts
of our fathers, 30 when the ruthless
hand OF mission seeks to DESTROY and
break down the family idols we natural
ly rice up in rebellion against the icono.
clast and contend for the past and that
ali things shall remain as they were
from the beginning.
Let us examine some OF these new
conditions that have OF late come before
us that have caused so much alarm
about "woman's sphere" and her "ret.
ting in" or getting out' OF it.
The housework OF that good old home
is what Ia meant by the hackneyed
phrase, "woman's sphere" but we see
that old home has been invaded; the
spinning heel, the hRnd-looln and the
knitting.needle have been RELOCATED to
che garret, and work has been taken out
of the home and transferred to ths mill,
the factory and the shop. until to-day
steam power does more work in AN hour
than our grandmothers could do in q
year.
There is no longer any need OF ths
old brick bake oven, for men bake our
bread in great brick ovens. Ths wash
tubs and boards and boilers are fast dis.
appearing. for mon in great steam
laundries wash and iron and fold our
clothes. Men weave our cloth, make
our carpets, knit our stockings, Men
make our butter and cheese. Mea are
competing with women az cooks, IA
nurses, as dressmakere, as miliners, as
makers of embroidery; In abort, |
every department OF woman's 'ancient
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ercising the right OF entry.
Thus women have had taken from
them much of their legitimate employ
ment, and when they follow it with
mill and factory and shop and bakery
and laundry. it comes with a poor grace
for sny one to cay, Let woman stick to
her sphere.
Can women supplsnt men? Can they
crowd men out OF employment? Can
women do carpentry or farming? or
rairoading? or surveying? or mining?
or blacksmithing2 or bridge building?
Can they quarry stone, manufacture
lumber or dig canals? In short, can
they do any kind OF heavy physical
work?
Moat women marry in early life and
that fact prevents many woman from
spending the necessary time in prepar.
ing for most mechaaical employ
amspt6r aml 81 tfA fAEnJte ptBPEss i5nsPs PsreGttiieiag
law, medicine, or ths ministry, or
becoming presidents OF n college or uni
versity, or following the mercantile bus-
inese, or having technical trade. Thus
30 iud large list of employ menta in
Which women will never compete with
men.
Then there are many employments in
which men cannot succeed 80 we'll as
women and into which women will
never enter.
If then, there are such large fields of
labor that seem to be divided one from
the other by the impossible gulf OF in
capacity, why all this cry and seeming
enmity about women crowding mon out
OF business?
II we look about us we find the sharp.
est competition is confined to few en-
ployments, such as stypewriting, copying,
etenography, bookkeeping aud such
work that requires short apprenticeship,
where the tools are simple and the rs-
turns are speedy. The one great bar
to any universal and permanent compe-
tition between the sexes is tine social in
stinot.
The social instinct OF men and women
is stronger than the laws of trade, Tor
we find them building homes, erecting
the family altar and sAeking permanent.
iy their highest happiness in the social
and not the business world.
The discussions of ell the addresses
were spirited and pointed, and the en-
thusiasm of the gathering 10 equal to
that OF former occasions.
The programme for today is as fol-
lows:
10 a. m.--Some of the Duties Of Womeu-
Mrs. Mary K. Buss, Tustin.
The Unem pioyed--Mrs. Edith Col NJ Per-
kins 5an Bernardino.
1902. m.-Artisuc aud Hygienlc Dress
Mrs Kmma P. ErsEine. Pasadena,
The women of San Bernardino have
given the visiting members Of the par
Lament q most cordial welcome.
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