The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-22

its construction, since Every wise
woman buildeth her home"
| AS no boy ought to be brought up
without learning some business n
which he could earn livelihood. SO nc
girl ought To be brought up without
| learning the science of self-support
The difficulty is that many family
goes sailing on the high tides OF sue
cess, and the husband and father de-
| Ponds on his own health and acumen
| for the welfare of his household. but
one day he gets his feet wet, and in
three days pneumonia has closed his
life and the daughters are turned out
ON cold world to earn bread, and
there is nothing practical that they
can do. The friends come in and hold
consultation. Give music lessons, y
says an outsider. Yes, that is a useful
ding, and If you have great genius
for it, go on in that direction. But
there are enough music teachers now
starving to death in all our towns and
cities To occupy all the piano stools and
sofas and chairs and front door steps
Of the city Besides that, the daugh-
ter has been playing only for amuse-
ment, and is only at the foot of the
ladder, To the top OF which great null
titude OF masters on piano and harp
and flute and organ have climbed.
Put the bereft daughters as sales
women in stores" says another adj
wiser. But there they must compete
with statesmen OF long experience, or
with men who have served an apprcn-
ticeship in commerce and who began
as shop boys at ten years OF age. Some
kind hearted dry goods man, having,
known the father, now gone, says:
"We are not in need of any more help
just now, but send your daughters to
the store, and will do as we'll by them
as possible" Very soon the question
comes up, why do not the female en-
ployes of that establishment get as
much wages rs the male employees?
For the simple reason, in many cases,
the females were suddenly flung 10y
misfortune behind that counter, while
the males have from the day they left
the public school been learning the
business.
How is this evil to be cured? Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that life is an earnest
thing, and that there is u possibility,
If not a strong probability, that they
will have to fight the battle of life
alone. Let every father and mother
say to their daught tiers: Now, what
would you do for Il livelihood if what
| now own were swept away by finan-
i,,1 IL /, ah 4
end my career?'
"Well, could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work" Yes, that
is beautiful, and If you have genius for
it go on in that direction. But there
are enough busy at that now to make
Il line Of hardware as long as yon Penn
sylvania avenue.
"Wcll, | could make recitat,ons in
public and earn my living as drama
fist; could render King Lear or Mac
beth till your hair would rise ON end
or give you Shcridan's Ride or Dick
ems "Pickwick." Yes, that is beau
tiful art, but ever and anon, as now,
there is an epidemic of dranatzation
that makes hundreds Of households
nervous with the cries and shrieis and
groans Of yoang TRACE tiGrnis dy-
ing in the fifth act, and the trodble is
that while your friends would like To
hear you. and really think that you
could surpass Ristori aud Chorlotte
Cushman and Fanny Kemble Of the
past to say nothing of the present,
you could not, in the way of living,
in ten years earn ten cents.
My advice to all girls and all unmar
ricd women, whether in aill uent homes
or in homes whore most stringent econ 4
omics are grinding, is to learn to do
some kind Of work that the world must
have while the world stands. | am
glad to see n marvellous change for the
better, aud that women have found
ont that there are hundreds of prac
teal things that Il woman can do for a
living if she begins soon enough, and
that men have been compelled To adj
NIT it. You and can remember when
the majority of occupations were
thought Inappropriate for women; but
our civil war came, and the hosts of
men went forth from north and south;
and TO conduct the business of our
cities during the patriotic absence,
women were demanded by the tens OF
thousands to take the vacant places;
and multitudes of women, who had
hitherto been supported by fathers
and brothers and sons, were compelled
from that time TO take care of them
selves. From that time mighty
change took place favorable to female
employment.
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman place the following, into
many OF which she has already, en-
tered, and all the othcis she will en-
ter: Stenography, and you may find
her at nearly all the reportorial stands
in our educational. political and rei-
gious meetings. Savings banks, the
work clean aud honorable, and who SO
great right to toll there, for "a woman
founded the first savings banls-Mrs.
Priscilla Wakefield? Copyist, aud
there is hardly professional man that
does not need the services OF her pen
manship; aud, as amanuensis,, many
of the greatest books OF our day have
been dictated Tor her hand writ
ing. There they are as florists,
and confectioners. and music teach
ers, and book-keepers for which they
are specially qualified by patience and
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