Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-05
NEW HAVEN. CONN, SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 5. 1894.

the weaker frame of womAn finds equality
 in earning power with tho stronger muscu- lar frame of the masculine competitor. Wage winning capacity being equal why
 should not wsRes be equah It Is stated
 that there Is a tendency toward general
 level in the wages paid to operatives of both sexas for the same general class of work, and that the indications are that
 some time women will be able to compete
 with men for employ mene on fully equal
 marked as to make 1t apparent that the
 millennium is near at hand.
 By many employers ths woman worker Is chosen ss matter of economy. Her skill and faithfulness nay be appreciated,
 but such appreciation Is lot shown by an increase of salary. A fsther startling in- stance of such economical management comes to us from VioterisS Australia. At two hundred railroad ststions there wo- men have been substituted for men, the result being . saving of thirty thousand pounds year in salary. Whereas the average salary paid to station master was one hundred and fifty pounds a year, the station mistress receives only twenty pounds.
 It is not claimed that they afe careless o1o AhSOAAP0tout, oO4of ebS btauOAS hA0
 brighter and tidier than syer before, and the accounts just as accurately kept, but, being women, they must content them selves with less than one-sixth of the amount that would be paid to men.
 There is one way in which women may
 be able to bring up the average of women's wages, and 1t is an excellent way although
 1t will take some time to accomplish 1t. It is for each one, no matter how em- ployed, to do her own work as we'll as she possibly can, putting into 1t all the energy and skill that she possesses. Her thor oughness and faithfulness will bs sure to tell, after time. If it does not con vince her particular employer that she is deserving of @ higher rate of payment, l she Is making a reputation for cspability, building up character. and advancing the | whole general standard of womsn's work. To such worker, 6 better position Is almost certain to be offered; If through strange mischance 1t is not, she has lost nothing and gained much, both for herself and for others.
 "oPPosrTE QUALITIES
 Among the curiosities of advertising may be reckoned the folloeing, which ap- peared net long ago in the columns of a provincial English newspaper
 IA lady, young, pretty, clever and poor desires to make the acquaintance of gen. tleman possessing the opposite qualities. Object, happy marriage" 2 It will be seen that what this lady de. sires in husband is that he shall be old, ugly Gin the English sense), stupid and rich. It is doubtful if che finds him. What man is going to acknowledge that be ia old and homely and ttupid. especially If he ia rich, even to gain pretty and witty young wifea Or if he did, is 1t reasonable to suppose that either would find happi.
 ness in such marriasea Such manifest
 absurdities lead us to believe that the ad- vertisement was intended for @ joke, or else that the lady was not quite 80 clever as she professed to be.
 It is safe to say that people who are
 f'olever" Gin the English sense) never ad- vertise in this way. Even to advertise for @ correspondent, to say nothing about 8
 husband, Is the silliest thing that girl can do, and in many casss 1t is absolutely
 disastrous. Undesirable acquaintances,
 blsckmailing and defamation of character, with real deterioration of character, come out of this most foolish correspondence with strangers.
 To few is 1t given to escape uninj jured, o5 0lu youhS Jhoy 1h C3Suu15tnAOSS O1 which the writer was cognizsnt. She came one evening to some friends, young mar risd man and his wife, asking for the use
 of their postofice box. She wished to ad- vertise for correspondents, of course un- der an assumed name, and dared not use the family box. Her friends tried to dis suade her, but their warnings were ma. vailing. Life in the village was dead ly dull - she should stagnste - she should die. she knew she should, if
 something didn't happen. It would all be in fun, and she was sure no harm would come of 1t. At last her friends yielded to her entreaties, the box was lent, the adver- tisemsnt was inserted, and in a few days the gentleman brought to his home @ budget of letters for which the lady called. She read them all aloud before she left the house, and discarded ell but the very few she thought bright enough to answer. The fun went on for some months, but the correspondence soon narrowed down to the letters of one man who wrote in 8 very droll and witty style while being perfectly respectful. His | letters were read to her friends, with | shrieks of laughter from all three, and
 many times the wits of three were brought l to bear upon suitable answers to tEese brilliant effusions. 'I told yon there'd be no harm in il, "the girl would often say, triumphsntly, land there Is no end oi l fupi"
 She became quite anxious to meet hel | unknown correspondent, and then, in some l way his identity became known to her. IL say that che was vexed is putting 1t mildly She went home wroth, but after some con
 sideration had the grace to return and for. ! give her mischievous friends. .
 "I might have known oil the time that il 1 was you two scamps." she said.
 They had put their heads together ovel l the composition of the letters; the youue l man had copied them and sent them tl
 the nearest large city, whence they event
 ually returned to the very room in whicl
 they were written.
 "How you have deceived me, you arch
 traitorsI" ste exclaimed. "How you coult
 laugh so over your own lstters, and thel
 help me to reply to them, don't see
 unless you are thoroughly versed In du
 plicity. Ohi Its unbearable. And nov tyou've shattered my idoll At lesst-i
 might have been an idol-if 1t had time tt
 grow" And then she forgave them again
 and they ate the ice cream of peace togeth
 CT, and all was over.
 But, as has been remarked before, 1t
 not given to everyone to escape 90 well
 A girl who begins such a correspondent
 may be young and pretty and thoughtles
 and innocent, but the one to whom sh writes may be, and generally is, ''pessesse
 of the opposite qualities." And the
 there's danger-dsngsrl