The Washington bee., 1896-11-14
OUR WOMEN.
Mrs. E. v. c. Williams, Editor.


two classes. First, the getting
what is needed or desired from the
original sources in sns'ure's reposi-
tories-the creation of raw materi-
ais fr nm the raw elements. s cond,
the transformation refinement,
com bination and arrangement of
these for the higher and more ulti-
mate good of mankind. Wheat is
good as grain when well grown and
properly harvested, but it is more
valuable for the wants Of growing,
improving, and aspiring human
beings, as wholesome, excellent
bread.
The grain will support the ami
NAL life in man or beast, and is
therefore needful; but the bread is
sustenance for the life that is
high r than animal, and needful
therefor. The one is a necessary
and the other an artistic product.
"rhe Illustration will bea" the
broadest application to the respect
i've spheres of masculine and fem
mime action. Man is on tn sur
face with crude primaries; woman,
in tho interior, whittier he brings
his products to await the touch of
her Transforming hand. He is the
laborer, she the artist for whom and
whose work his ruder action is
freely performed. And it is be-
cause the needs of mankind, in it's
carly stages are so purely material,
and it's condition otherwise cor
respondent to the needs, that
woman like the technical artist in
savage and barbarous society is less
valued for immediate and necessary
purposes of her race than man is.
But is she the artist only? Is she
orly a consumer, and does she
produce nothing? Without labor
there is no support. How many
thousand females are supporters
either from choice or necessity.
Therefore, they have to labor to
produce as well as to dress raw
material produced. Thanks 20 the
liberal thought of this 81 'rious pro-
gressive century, no Longer does a
stigma rest upon the woman who
labors. She is queen in the kitchen
as we'll as the parlor. She has
learned to dignity the position. Nc
F., comfort however trivial can bt
! RI shtfu'ly obtained without 'abor
TO me t the issues, we should az
women becom, better equipped
The industrial scho lis which dot
this southland here aud there, ART
doing much toward helping youns
WON n to fit themselves for practi
Cal life work. The training the
receive enables them TO become no
only skilled as artists i'll fashioninl
raw material but SUPP 'rters of larg'
famIli s. 1t IS pleasing to know
that as race we have realized tha
a greater number of business enter
prises are needed to improve ouI
material condition. The profes-
sional field is full. We shoult
do more to crowd the avenues trod
by the ar isan. That there is al
awakening along these lines is un-
deniable, but more of our young
men and women should eng sge il
business. We think The opportu-
nifty afforded youths to prep IT
themselves for this kid of work i:
greater in the South than in othel
localities. We are blessed in h.v-
ing schools where they car be
taught not only from literary
point Of view but some useful ham
dicraft as well.
There is young woman, Mrs,
Susan Pressly who for many years
has been very prominent as public
school teacher. She gave up hel
p ofession and opened busines;
house in the most popular part o1
the city where she carries on dress
making-it is a worthy enterprise.
She employs young women to sew
and they are also taught the trade
in this es ab,ishment. What she
has done others can do too. There
are other women engaged in busi-
ness in this city. but we have not
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