The herald., 1895-03-03

plished before them-that is. accepted
position and numerical strength. The
generally accepted statement that women
work for less than men, other things being
equal is not near so true as it seems or
as is believed; and the difference, which
was to a certain extent inevitable in the
beginning, is lessening all the time
In some Enthusiastically that of medicine
the charges of the average woman physi-
clan are higher than those of men. In
all professional occupations there are in
dividuals among both men and woman
who receive both higher and lower rates
than the average, not always as the meas
ure of their professional worth but OF
their own modest or otherwise estimate
of their own services.
There is considerable difference be-
tween the professional and industrial as
pect of career for girls. In the first in
stance she is usually helped; in the lat
ter case she is always, almost. opposed by
her family. 1t is common to speak as il
all difficulties had been smoothed away
from the path of girls who wish to earn an
Independent livelihood; and certainly
they have been helped by the measure OF
success some have attained. But women
who have had to fight their own battles
unaided, and women who have to guide
the destinies of daughters, know well the
lions that still stand in the way and even
hang around the doors that have been
opened. The new opportunities do not
come unattended. In their train are
dangers that are a source of fear and
anxiety, when they do not present an in
surmountable obstacle.
The reasons for this are twofold. One
is, that girl, to obtain career or even
a livelihood nowadays, must go out into
the world, must separate herself from her
family. The other is, that the life OF the
child and it's preparation for the future
has rarely any relation to our correspond
ence with the past of the parent, and is
therefore neither helped nor guarded by it..
In the old days of hard labor, artisans
and craftsmen had their own shops--gen-
orally room in their house--and were
their own masters. Sons and daughters
grew up beneath the roof tree shared the
occupations, and helped TO make the rec
ord which was transmitted from father to
son and from mother to daughter.
1t was u restricted life, but it had its
beautiful side; and this was in the cult
walton of the home life, united family in
terests, and the building up of personal
character, that became in itself an in
heritance as well as an obligation. Today
the majority of workingmen are insignifi-
cant parts of a machine. Their occupations
hold out no opportunities no future, at
least none commensurate with the ambi-
ton for their children; they do not want
their sons or their daughters to be parts
of machine. They want to put them
on the high road to distinction. to honor,
at least to those pursuits which offer no
barrier to social or individual success
Education is the keynote to this success
for girls particularly therefore the
doors OF the free college and the high
school are besieged by ambitious mothers.
who work like galley slaves at home to
give their daughters the stepping-stone
to freedom and independence. When
this, however. has been achieved at untold
sacrifice, they find themselves confronted
by the far more difficult problem, What