Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-01-27

! in schools and seminaries. for which
they are especially endowed, the frs
teachers of every child, by divine ar
! rangement, being woman. AS ply
sicians, having graduated after regu.
lar course Of study from the female
colleges OF our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough prepare
ton as any doctors ever had, and &c
forth to u work which no one but
women could so appropriately and
delicately 10. On the lecturing plat
form; for you know the brilliant sue
cess of Mrs. Livermore, and Mrs. Hal.
lowell, and Miss Willard, and Mrs
Lathrap. AS physiological lecturers tc
their own sex, for which service there
is demand appalling and terrific. A.
preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests Of ecclesiastical courts can no,
hinder them, for they have IA pathos
and u power in their religious utter
ances that men can never reach. Wit
ness all those who have heard their
mother pray.
Oh! young women Of America! as
many of you will have to fight your
own battles alone, do not wait until
you are flung Of disaster, and your ia
Their is dead. and all the resources of
your family have been scattered; but
now, while in u good house and en-
vironed by all properties learn how
to do some kind of work that the world
must have as long as the world stands.
Turn your attention from the embroid-
cry of fine slippers, of which there is Il
surplus, and make II useful shoe. Elk
pend the time in which you adorn u
cigar case in learning how to make u
good, honest loaf OF bread. Turn your
attention from the making of himsy
nothings TO the manufacture of i'm
portant something's
Much of the time spent in young Ia
dies seminaries in studying what are
called tho "higher branches" might
better be expended in teaching them
something by which they could sup
port themselves. If you are going to
be teachers, or If you have 30 much as
sured wealth that you can always
dwell in those high regions, trigonom.
etry Of course, metaphysics OF course,
LaLin and Greek and German and
French and Italian Of course, and IL
hundred other things OF course; but if
you aro not expecting to teach, and
your wealth is not established beyond
misfortune, after you have learned the
ordinary branches take hold of that
kind Of study that will pay in dollars
and cents in case you Are thrown on
your own resources. Learn TO do some
thing better than anybody else.
Let me say To all women who have
already entered upon the battle of life,
that the time is coming when women
shall not oul Y get as much salary and
wages rs men get, but for certain
styles of employment women will have
higher salary and more wages, for the
reason that for some styles of work
they have more adaptation. But this
justice will come to women not through
any sentimcnto Of gallantry, not because
woman is physically weaker than man,
and, therefore, ought TO have more
consideration shown her, but because
through her finer natural taste, and
more grace OF manner, and quicker
perception, and more delicate touch,
and more educated adroitness, she will,
in certain calliug,, be TO her employ
or worth 10 per cent. more, or 30
per cent. more than the other
sex. She will not get it by ask
ing for it, but by earning it, and it
shall be hers by lawful conquest.
Now, men of America DO fair, and
give the women u chance. Are you
afraid that they will do some of your
work and hence harm your pros
pertiesp Remember that there are
score, OF thousands If men doing wom-
knows the end from the beginning, and
He knows how many people this world
can feed and shelter, and when it &eLa
too full iIe will end the world, aud, ii
need be. start another God will halt
TIE Inventive faculty, which, by pro-
ducing n machine that will do the work
of ten or twenty or II hundred men and
people without work. | hope that
there viii not be invented another sew
INK ruuchtuG, OF rcapIng mnchlne, or
corn thrrihcr, or any other new ma
chime, for the next 800 yenro! We want
no more wooden hands and iron hands
and steel hands and electric hands
substituted for men aud women who
would otherwise do the work and got
the pay and earn the livelihood.
let me also say, for the encourages
mont of Nil women lighting the battle
of life alone, that their conflict viii
soon end. There is one word written
over the faces OF many OF them, and
that word is Despair" My sis
tor, you need appeal - Christ
VINO comforted the sisters o.
Bethany in their domestic trouble
ana who in Ills last hours
forgot all tho pangs of Iii, own hauds
and feet and heart rs ilo looked into
the face of maternal anguish, and
called n friend attrutton to IL, in sub,
stance saying: "John, | can not talk,
care Of her any ton ger. DO tor her as
would have done il mad Lived. Behold
thy mother" Ii, uader the pressure
of uurewardcd and uaapprectate work