The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-15

Nsw York. March 14-Eyen the most
,.or,ed of magazines thinks il worth
mile 10 take up the question of the wages
,si5 10 women and whether they really
arm them or not. l do not know why.
Ibis old question has been brought up.
because 1 fully believe that wherever
civilization exists the woman whose work
IS on a par with mans gets a mans sal
srv Rut-you see that will GOMEZ do
believe that. under many circumstances,
women do more work for the same money
than men do. because it is the nature of
a woman to busy herself about that which
her hand findeth to do. A business man
en- ages a woman typewriter; four days
s5er her arrival she is not only doing ali
fhe work involved under the head or
.stenography and typewriting, but ten to
one. she is keeping the office in order-I
don't mean sweeping it, but making it
neat-running the letter book, and doing
the hundred and one things that are re-
quired, but which a man stenographer
would scorn to do. I don't know but that
he is right. He is hired as stenoghapher
and private secretary, not as man of all
work; but women-well. my friend wo-
men usually need the money so badly
when they work for it that they are will
ing to give the helping hand wherever
n is needed, and forget that by so doing
they lessen the value of their services.
DO you think ] am wrong2 NO, am
not The wise woman will DO that which
she is hired to do, do 1t well, ana, except
in the case of an emergency, let the work
OF others alone. / agree with the learned
magazine in one respect: Women will new
er be- physically, fit to compete with
men. Their nerves are finer, strung on
more sensitive chord, and, being women,
they throw heart and body into whatever
they may be doing with the result that.
while it is well done, the woman herself
is worn out and fitted only for rest. There
have been articles written on how wo-
men should work, how they should i've,
how they should eat, and how they should
have their being, until one would think
that the average woman was so drunk
with advice, she found standing on her
feet with tirmness somewhat difficult. or
course, that women have to work out
side the home is a misfortune. But that
they do it is a fact. They can starVe
but it is not a pleasant mode of death, ana
most of them have a strange fancy for
clinging TO life, poor as ii is, that is won
derful. Mrs. Tom Brown, who last year
was as merry as a grig, did not think
there was a trouble in life and believed
that Tom Brown was the greatest man on
earth. to-day faces problem. Tom Brown
has failed and instead or belng man
enough to go out and look for work of any
kind no matter what 1t is, he sits at home
and means and worries and blames his
troubles on everybody but his own short
sighted self. In the meantime, FOOD, coal,
and wood, are needed. Poverty has If
ADyIlln2
children and Mrs. Tom Brown says to her
self, being a loving woman, Poor Tom,
he can't help it,; but I'll try and get
The chances are that If Tom Brown had
seen his wife and children hungry and
cold, and realized that they would starve
or freeze unless he worked for them 1t
might have made a man of him, and he
would have started out and done some
ching Or tried to. And it is, he says:
II can't do anything; the world is against
me, II she wants to. let Mary try.
And Mary does try. Poor foolish Mary
She has read of the immense amount of
money made by Mrs. Humphrey Ward of
the great sums earned by Mrs. Bennett,
and she sits down and writes story.
and while she is writing the story, the
Brown family go in debt to the grocer
and the butcher, and the milkman and
the baker. And the story comes back to
Mary and she concludes that the editor
of that magazine is a fool. And then it
comes back from another, and she con-
cludes that the editor of that magazine
is Influenced by other women not TO take
the work of other women. Then that poor
story comes back from another magazine,
and then Mary does what she ought to
have done in the first place, puts the
story in the fire and warns the children
by it. Do 1 underrate Mary's ability?
No But the woman VINO can write a
is and, in addition, she forgot that sue
cess of the pen comes to the few, for, al
ter all, my friend, the women who make
much money with their pens are rev,
very few. What would | advise her to
do? Put all the children to bed and
Shink awhile. Think and think, until she
knows what she can do best. If her tai
ent lies in the baking of cakes and the
making of bread, and the concoction of
dainty dishes, and. this is great talent,
then, if Mary is wise, she will go to those
neighbors whose cooks are poor, who
have no knowledge of the great art of
cooking themselves, and she VIII let them
price whatever they may need in this
special line. The devilled eggs for Sun
day evenings tea; the light, lady cake,
that is joy to the taste, a pleasure to
the eyes, and not an insult to the stom-
ach; the meat salads that the men like,
or the dainty puddlngs that the whole
Now, if Mary has a talent for cooking,
and manages properly, she can, IN her
ought to shame Tom, but which doesn' t,
though it will keep that awful WOLF debt,
from the door.
needle. She can take the finest of cambria
needles, a very cobweb of thread, and
hemstitch the daintiest of linens Oh, no;
doylies or tea clothes; the world is full
of them. Instead she can go to little
Mrs. Matron across the way, who is young
and happy, and who is hoping for great
er happiness, and she can offer to make
for ner all the tiny dresses, the pretty
petticoats, the funny little caps that are
TO be worn by the most wonderful baby in
all the world And doing this work and
doing it we'll will cause Mary,s reputation
to spread, and it is possible that she may
have to teach her oldest girl to help her
when the orders are many. And Tom?
oh, WELL Tom is man, and he will let
Mary earn the money while he tells the
men how when a fellow is married he
ought to be master in his house. And
Mary will continue to love him. For such
Is the nature of woman.
Or, else, it may be, that whenever Mary
sticks flower in the ground, it blossoms
and is sweet; and the neighbors come to
hher to beg an orange blossom FOR the
or some white roses for some, one who
mas closed her eyes to this world and its
worries. Why should Mary write poor
stories when she can grow good flowers?
The boys help her make a pit and papered
II, so to say, with bundles of straw and
covered it with old glass, and Mary had
hundreds of violets for Easter Sunday as
her offering when her neighbors had none.
II is a curious thing, but flowers know
when people love them and grow and
blossom under the hands that express ten
deTness in touching them. Mary may feel
IKE selling her soul when she takes money
Tor these lovely blossoms, but she is not;
she is saving her soul by trying to be
honest Won think