The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-26

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multitude Of masters on piano and
harp and flute and organ have climb.
ed.
Put the be1eft daughters as sales
women in the stores, says another ad,
wiser. But there they must compete
with salesne1 Of long experience or
with men who have served and ap.
premiership in commerce and who
began as shopboys at 10 years OF sge.
Some kind hearted dry goods man,
having known the fatser, now gone,
says, I'VE are not in need of any more
help Just now, but send your daught,
ers to my store snd Twill do as well by
them as possible Very soon the
question comes up, Why do not the
female employees OF that establish
ment get as much wages as the male
employees? For the simple reason N
many cases the females were suddenly
flung by misfortune behind that coun'
ter, 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 ia the homestead and teach
YOUR daughters that life is an earnest
thing, and that there is possibility,
il not 8 strong probability, that they
will have to fight tie battle OF life
alone. Let every father srd mother
ssy to their ds III shters, "Now, what
would you do for livelihood if what
I now own were swept away by fnan-
cisl disaster Or old sge or death should
end my career?"
"Well, Icould paint on pottery and
do such decorstive 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 a ne of hardware as long as
yon Pennsylvania avenue.
well, I could make recitations IN
public and earn my living SIS drama
fist; could rerdsr King Lear or
Macbeth till your hair would rise on
end. or give you 'Sheridan's Ride or
Dickens 'Pickwick.'" Yes, that IS a
beautiful art, but ever and anon, as
now. there is an epidemic of drama
tizstion that makes hundreds OF house
holds nervous with the cries and
shricks and groans of young tragedln-
nes dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends
would like to hesr you and really
think that you could surpass Rlstori
and Charlotte 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 10
cents.
Ny advice to all girls and all un-
married women, whether in atiiuent
homes or in homes where most streng.
ent economies are grinding, is to learn
to do some kind OF work that the world
must have while the world stands. l
am glad to see marvellous change
for the better and that women have
found out that there are hundreds OF
practical things tina! woman can do
for a living if she begins soon enough
and that men have been compelled to
admit it. You and I 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 conductthe business of our cities
dur.ng the patriotic absence women
were demanded by the tens OF thous.
and to take the vacant places, and
multitudes of women, who mad been
hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons, were compelled
from that tine to take care of them
selves. From that time a mighty
change took place favorable to lamale
employment.
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman I place the following, into
many of which she has already en-
tered and all the Others she will enter;
Stenography, and you may find her
at nearly all the reportorial stands in
our educational, political andreligious
meetings. Savings banks, the work
clean and honorable, and who so
great right to toll there, for wo.
man founded the first savings bank
Mrs. Priscilla Wakefeld2 Copyists,
and there is hsrdly a professional
man that does not need the service OF
her penmanship, and as amauuersis
many of the greatest books OF our day
have been dictated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confec.
TONERS 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 specially prepared. as
thousands Of the telegraphic Offices
will testify. Photography, and in
nearly all our establishments they
may be found there at cheerful work.
As workers in ivory and gutta percha
and gum elastic and tortoise shell and
gliding, and in chemicals, in proclaim,
in terra Gotta. As postmistressss, a2d
presidents have given them appoint.
ments all over the land.
AS proofreaders, as translators, as
mcdelers, as designers, as draftswo'
men, as lithographers, as teachers IN
schools and seminaries, for which they
are especially endowed, the first
teacher of every child by divine ar.
rangement being woman. As physi-
clans, having graduated after regu'
lar course of study from the female
colleges OF our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough prepara
ton as any doctors ever had and go
forth 70 a work which no one but wo
men could 50 appropriately and deli
cately do. On the lecturing plat
form, for you know the brilliant sue.
cess of Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Hal
lowell and Miss Willard and Mrs.
Lathrop. AS physiological lecturers
to their own sex, for which service
there is demand appalling and ter
rife. As preachers OF the gospel, and
all the protests of ecclesiastical courts
cannot hinder them, for they have
a pathos and power in their religi
Gus utterances that men can never
reach. Witness all those who have