Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-01-20

/ with men who have served an apprcn-
! ticcship In commerce and vino began
n shop boys Mt 10 years of are 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
my store, and will do rs well 10y them
a. possible" Very soon the question
comes up. Why do not the female en-
ploycs of that establishment get as
much wages as the male employees?
For the simple reason, in many eases,
the females were suddenly flung hN
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 he cured? Start
/ clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that life i, an earnest
thing, and that there is possibility.
If not strong probability. that they
will have to fight the battle uf life.
alone. Let every father and mother
| say tn their daughters, Now. what
would you do for II livelihood if what
now own were swept away 10y financial
disaster or old age or death should end
my carrcr?'
well, could paint ON pottery and
do such decorative work" YES. that i
beautiful, and if YOU have genius for it
go ON in that direction. Eut there are
enough busy at that now To- mal,ra line
of hardware aS long as yon rcnnsylva-
MIA avenue.
N..ll 4
public and earn my living as n drama
fist. ! could render King Lear or Mac
beth till your hair would rise Oh end,
or give you 'Shcridan'S Ride or Dick
ems 'Pickwick." Yes. that is n beau
tiful art. hut ever and anon. rs now.
there is an epidemic of dramatizatiun
that makes hundreds of households
nervous with the cries and >hrirllS and
groanS of the young trawcdirnncS dy-
! ing in tn" fifth act. and the trouble is
that while your friends would like Ia
hear you, and really think that You
could surpaS, EiSturi and Charlotte
eastman and Fanny kcmblc of the
past. tn say nuthin" of the present. You
could not, i'll the way of living, in ten
years earn ten cents.
My advice to all girls and all mar
Iicd women. whether in ailucnt homes
or in homes whore most stringent
economics are grinding. il to learn to
do some kind of work that the world
must have while the world stands
am glad Ia see Il marvellous change for
the better. and that women have found
ou1 that ,hcr, are hundreds of practi-
tE.I a 4,
Twin" if she hrginS soon enough. and
that men have been compelled to adj
nit it. You and can remember " hen
the majority Of occupations were
| thought inappropriate for women; hut
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 We're demanded by the tens of
thousands to take the vacant places;
and multitudes of women who had
been hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons were compelled from
that time to take care of themselves.
From that time mighty change took
| place favorable to female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman | place the following, into
iu.ny of which she has already entered,
Tand all the others she will enter:
| Stenography, and you may find her at
nearly ali the reportorial stands in our
educational, political and religious
meetings: savings banks, the work
clean and honorable and who SO great a
| right to toll there, for woman found
! ed the first savings ibank-Mrs. Pris-
ella Wakefield? CopyistS, and there
! i hardly a professional man that does
I not need the service of her pcnman-
ship; and, as amanuensis. many of the
| greatest books of our day have been
| dictated for her writing. There they
are as florists and confectioncrs
and music teachers and book
| keepers, for which they are
specially qualified by patience and
accuracy; and wood engraving, in
which the Cooper institute has turned
out SO many qualified; and telegraphy,
| for which she is especially prepared. as
thousands of the telegraphic offices
will testify. Photography, and in
nearly all our establishments they may
| be found there at cheerful work. At
workers in ivory and gutta pcrcha and
| gum elastic and tortoise shell gliding,
| terra Gotta As postmistresses, and
presidents have given them appoint
ments all over the land.
AS proofreaders, as translators, as
modelers, as designers, as draughts-
women, as photographers, rs teachers
in schools and scmiuarics, for which
| they are especially endowed, the first
teacher of every child, by divine ar
rangement, being n woman. AS physi-
clans, having graduated after a regular
course of study from the female col
leges of our large cities, where they
| get as scientific and thorough prep
aration as any doctors ever had, and
| go forth to work which no one but
women could so appropriately and del
icately do. On the lecturing platform.
for you know the brilliant success of
| Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Ilallowell
and Miss Willard and Mrs. Lathrop.
As physiological lecturers to their own
| SEX, for which service there is de-
mand appalling and terrific. AS
preachers of the gospel and all the pro-
tests of ecclesiastical courts can not
| hinder them, for they have pathos
and power in their religious utter
ances that men can never reach. Wit
ness all those who have heard their
mother pray.
| o, young women of America, as many
of you will have to fight your own bat
ties alone, do not wait until you are
flung of disaster and your father is
dead and all the resources of your fam
lily have been scattered, but now, while
in n good house and environed 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 embroidery of fine
slippers, of which there is n surplus,
and make useful shoe. EXpend the
time in which you adorn cigar ease
in learning how to make Il good, hon
est loaf of bread. Turn your atten-
ton from the making of fimsy moth
ings to the manufacturing of i'm.