The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-04-23
THE NEW WOMAN AGAIN.
She Tells What She Thinks About This
and That and other Things.

What an immense army of men and
women there are in the world who have
missed their calling" so to speak
people who imagine they can do some
thing that nature never intended they
should do.
The professions are overrun with this
class of people, and nearly every village
in the country has its sixteenth rate
lawyer, doctor or preacher; and quite
frequently all three.
Men in nowise adapted to the law
men who couldn't make point in law,
or argue a case in justice court, with
any degree of assurance, if they attend
ed all the law schools in America
hang out their single and gradually
starve to death in the midst of plenty.
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Thousands of men who would be a
+" bowling success" at skidding logs to
saw-mill, make a dismal failure when
tnev attempt TO pracGlce law.
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Some men study for the ministry who
are better fitted by nature to carry
bod. Laboring under the halucination
that they have been called" to preach
the gospel, they sally forth to conquer
Satan and his hosts, but alas. they do
more injury to the cause of religion
than they do good.
Big, awkward, peanut headed indi-
viduals, who haven't got enough good,
sound sense to enable them to set" a
post straight, study medicine, and in
due course Of time begin to kill off the
population Of some western town.
Men who don't know enough to
whitewash a barnyard fence, imagine
they are natural born artists, and at
tempt scenic and landscape painting.
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This country is full of young men,
who, becoming impregnated with the
idea that they were actors, left the pillow
in the furroW, and are now carrying
meat to the blood-hounds of an Uncle
Toms Cabin show.
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Simply because some men are allowed
to sing a solo in country church choir
they think they possess wonderful mu-
steal talent, and proceed to cultivate
their voices Usually they would make
more money if they proceeded to Guilt
vate a field of potatoes.
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People who don't know the differ
ence between gross grain silk and Ken
lucky Jeans, are found behind the
counter in dry goods stores; and men
who have worked around machine
shop for a few months, establish them
selves in the jewelry business.
Farm hands, who imagine it would
be nice to wear their Sunday clothes
every day in the week, leave a good
paying job to clerk in a store at $l2 per
month. A majority of this class are in
no manner adapted to the business and
never rise above being heWers of cod
fish and drawers of kerosene.
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| Women who don't know how to cut
out calico apron, buy two dollar
model, pair Of scissors and tape meas
ure, and open a dressmaking shop. OF
course they don't understand the bust
ness, but they are willing to learn at
their customers expense.
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Women who couldn't sew a patch on
a grain sack and do an artistic job, at
tempt to trim hats. This is not vanity;
it is nerve.
Butchers get an idea that their neigh
bors are making more money with less
exertion, and open barber shop.
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Men who don't know enough to sew
buttons on pair of Overalls, think
they are tailors, and go into that bust
ness.
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| Young men and women who canI
spell correctly fifty words in the Eng
lish language, study stenography, short
hand and type setting.
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One great difficulty is, there are too
many people in the world who dislike
getting down to good, hard work. The
men shirk the pillow and shovel, and
women shrink from household duties.
To them any work that necessitates the
use of muscle is degrading, and they
enter the trades and professions, minus
the essential qualifications, but sup
piled with an unlimited amount OF
what is commonly called " gall
The New WOMAN.
IL ngIi120t0N ReOubIicO11.