The sun., 1897-12-05
A PEEP INTO FUTURlTY.
Women Steadily Filling Places Once Oc-
cupied by Men.

women oteaulIy flll1nk iiaces OAco OC'
cupied by Men.
There can be no doubt that women
are steadily filling the places which
used to be occupied by men, and that
in all the offices and public institutions
Of the land they are doing as good work
and occasionally better than the men
they have ousted for very much lower
wages than men receive.
Meanwhile their brothers have moth
ing to do but to complain, lounge about,
smoke cigarettes and borrow small
change CT their wage earning female
relatives, all of which is bad for their
morals and manners, as we all know.
Now, therefore, it becomes the duty of
the matrons of the land to come to the
assistance Of these young men, and,
having informed them that they mis-
took their vocations when they took to
desks, counters and Office work and that
the kitchen is evidently their sphere,
show them what a beautiful and holy
life is that of general housework girl,
how the health improves while taking
regular exercise with the broom, dust
pan, window washer kitchen poker and
coal scuttle, how lovely the light that
beams in tho eye of one who rises be-
times to clear out the kitchen range,
light the fire and make breakfast how
in frying fapjucks for relays of hungry
caters holy thoughts possess the soul,
how the mind develops while trying to
fry chop, send up the dumb waiter
and tell the vegetable man what missus
wants today at the same moment; how
by degrees one becomes possessed of an
angelic temper aud complexion to
match while washing the breakfast
dishes getting the lunch ready, wash
ing the lunch dishes getting the dinner
ready, washing dishes again, getting a
little supper ready for two or three
friends who come in late, washing dish
es again, and finally tumbling up stairs
with one eye open and the other sound
asleep to roposu in the awful close little
room devoted from time immcmorIul to
"the girl and something that bites
her drtadfully and that she never has
L11liH tt ltuu ".
All these Joys have been the excln-
sivo property Of the female domestic
since many decades, but they can now
be man 8 exclusively, and probably will
be whgl. his sisters and his cousins aud
his urlnta havc clb0Wch him out Of the
shnrs, fhc Offices and the public depart
ments, from the counters and ouG OF
the hotels and gone i'll themselves lat
half price," as English people used to
see the Play i'll Lygmo years. Domestic
service is all that viii be left 1ur kim,
for it is the one thing that women Will
shake Themselves fIeo OF rs soon as they
possibly eau.
After plenty of lectures, columns OF
good advice in the rapcrs and un|eary-
ing efforts to lead theEo young men the
way that ;hpy should go they will be-
Gin to lo gathered into tho kitchens,
will sit mccEly in the intelligence Of
fec auG show their rufCrcucrstrom thclr
last employer and never "dt4"ppoint,'
but 20 to lhe now place with top hat
box and dress suit case, two umbrellas
and four canes in bundle and all thaG
thev need to mako them look neat.
Those who do not keep maids OF all
work may he PROV vidcd with Il cook who
has sce.1 better days at SO week as II .
bookkeeper until IN erudite spinster Of
fered to take the place for $40.
A gentleman from the real estate Of
flee, whose place is now occupied by a
pretty girl, may do the dusting and
sweeping and youth whose little SIS
ter "hooked his job may propel the
baby wagon up and down the street
These, with a gentleman from emma
in the laundry, will be quite sufficient
for an ordinary establishment. And as
of course being inexperienced and doing
woman's work they must receive low
wages the domestic expenses of madam
will be as much decreased as are those ,
Of monsieur's office by this exchange OF
employments by the sexes.
MARY KYLE DALLAS.
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