Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-03-15
WOMAN 5 WAGES.
Bah Practically Handles This Most
important Subject.

Bah Practically Handles This Most
important Subject.
BETWEEN MEN ,
AND WOMEN'S WORK-WOMANS
PHYSICAL CAPACITY CONSIDER
ED-THE MAN WHO WON'T
WORK MISTAKTNG ONES CALL
ING WOMEN AS FLORICULTUR-
ISTS-GENTLE BREEDING AND
HONEST WORK HOW \ YOUNG
AND PLUCKY WOMAN ACHIEVED
SUCCESS-CATERING TO MEMS
WANTS-BAB TELLS HOW \
BOARDING HOUSE SHOULD BE
RUN-MISS DETERMINATION AS
A LAWYER AND MISS CHATTER
AS \ DOCTOR WOMAN LIKES
MANS STRONG ARM TO ENFOLD
HER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
New York. March II. 1896.
Even the most learned OF magazines
thinks il worth while TO take up the
question OF the wages paid TO women,
and whether they really earn them OF
not. Z 90 nCl know why .his old ques-
ton has been brought up. because iul-
ly believe that wherever civilization eX-
lists the woman whose work is on par
with mans gets a man 5 salary. BuJ
you see that will come do believe
that. under many circumstances. Wo-
men do more work for the same money
than men do. because il is the nature
of a woman 10 busy herself about that
which her hand findeth to do. \ bust
ness man engages a woman type-"llt-
err: four days after her arrival she rs
not only doing all the work involved
under the head of stenOgraphy and
type writing. but ten 10 one she Is keep
ing the Office in order don't mean
sweeping il. but making il neat-run-
ming the letter book and doing the
hundred and one things that are re-
quired. but which a man StenOgrapher
would scorn TO do. don't know but
thai he is right. He is hired as s,enog-
rapher and private secretary, not as
man of all work: but women well. my
friend. women usually need the money
so badly when they work for il that
they are willing to give the helping
hand whenever it is needed. and forget
that by so doing they lessen the value
of their services.
DO YOU think / am wrong? No. /
am not
THE WISE WOMAN
Will do that which she is hired TO do
do it well. and. except in the case of an
emergency. let the work of others alone
/ agree with the learned magazine in
one respect: Women will never be, ply
sically. fiji 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 il is veil done. the woman herself
is worn ont and fitted only for rest
There have been articles written on
how women should work. how they
should live, how they should eat. and
how they should have their being. I'M
til one would think the average woman
was so drunk with advice. she found
standing on her feet with frmness
somewhat difficult. OF course. that
women have to work outside the home
is a misfortune But that they do IL is
a fact. They can starve but 10 is not
pleasant mode Of death. and most
of them have a strange fancy for cling
ing TO life. poor as il is. th3f is wonder
ful. Mrs Tom Brown Mo last yea
was as merry as grig did nor think
there was a trouble i'm life and believed
that Tom Brown was the greatest man
on earth, to-day faces a problem Tom
Brown has failed and instead of being
man enough 10 go and look for work Of
any kind. no matter what IL is he sits
at home and means and worries and
blames his trouble on everybody but
his own short-sighted self In the
meantime. food, coal and wood are
needed. Poverty has. if anything in
creased the appettes Of the children
and Mrs Tom Brown Saws 10 herself.
being a loving woman Poor Tom. he
cant help il. but It'll try and get some
thing to do" Mistake number one
The chances are that if Tom Brown had
seen his wife and children hungry and
cold and realized that they would
starye or freeze unless he worked for
them 10 might have made man @
him. and he would have started out and
done something or tried to- As it is.
he says: II cant do anything the world
is against me. if she wants 10. let Mary
try"
WRITING FOR MAGAZINES.
And Mary does Try Poor foolish
Mary She has read of the immense