The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-01-26
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In addressing those women who 5avc
to fight the battle alone | congratulate
you On your happy escape. Rejoice fcr-
ever that ycu will not have to navigate
the faults Of the other sex when you
have faults enough of your own. Think
of the hereavemcnts you avoid, CT TIC
risks Of urassimilated temper WHICH
you will not have to run, OF the cares
ycu will never have to carry and OF the
opportunity Of outside usefulness from
which marital life would have partially
debarred you, and that you are tree 10
90 and come as cre who has the resEon-
sibilities of household can seldom be.
God has cot given you hard lot rs
compared with your sisters. "heE
yours women shall make up their
minds at the start that masculine COM
paniopship Is net nect sslty III order 10
hapciness and that there Is 3 strong
probability that they will have TO fight
the battle Of life alone they will be get
ting the timber ready for their own for
tune AMI their saw and AK and plane
sbarpenc for its construction. since 'eV'
ery wise woman buildeth her house
Girls Should He Taught Self Reliance.
AS no boy ought to be brought up
without learning sono business at
which he could earn a livelihood, 50 no
girl ought to be brought up without
learning tie science Of self support.
The difficulty is that many family
goes sailing cn the high tides Of success,
and the husband and father depends Gu
bis own health and acunlen for the Wei
fare of his household, hut one day lie
gets his feet wet, and III three Gays
pneumonia has closed his life, and tie
daughters are turned out on cold
world TO earn bread, and there is moth
ing practical that they can do. The
friends come in and hold consultation
"Give music lessons, says al outsider,
Yes, that is a useful calling, and If you
have great genius for 1t 60 on Ill that
direction. But there are enough music
teachers now starving to death III all
our towns and cities to occupy all the
piano stools and sofas and chairs and
front dcorsteps of the city. Besides
that, the daughter has been playing on
" for amusement and Is only at the
foot Of the ladder, to the top Of which
great multitude Of masters cn piano ana
harp and flute and organ have climbed
''Put the bereft daughters as sales
women in stores" says another adviser
But there they must compete with sales
men of long experience or with men
who haze served an apprenticeship III
commerce and who began as shopboys
at 10 years of age. Some kind heat
dry goods man, having known the IA
ther, now gone, says, I'VE are not i'll
need of any more help just now, but
send your daughters to my store, aud l
will do as well by them as possible.
Very socn the question comes up, Why
do not the female employees Of that es-
tablishment get as much wages as the
male employees? For the simple reason,
in many cases, the females werc sud-
denly flung by misfortune lehind 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 possibility If
not strcng probability that they will
have to fight the lattle Of life alone.
Let every father and mother say to their
daughters, Nov, what wculd you do
for q livelihood if what now own were
swept away by financial disaster or old
age or death should end my career:'
Advice to Unmarried Women.
"Wel., could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work. Yes, that IS
beautiful, and if you have genius for 1t
20 ON in that direction. But there are
enough busy at that now to mako a line
of hardware as long as yon Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
well, could make recitaticns i'll
public and earn my living as drama
tist. could render King Lear CT Mac:
beth till your hair would rise cn cid CT
give you 'Sheridan's Ride or Dickens
'Pickwick >" Yes, that is beautiful
art. but ever and anon, as now, there IS
an epidemic of dramatization that makes
hundreds Of households nervous with
the cries and shrieks and groans Ct
young tragediennes dying in the fifth
act, and the trouble is that while your
friends would like to hear you and real
ly think that you could surrass Ristori
and Charlotte CusEman and Fanny
kemble uf the past, to say nothing OF
the present, you could not i'll tic way
of living in ten years earn 10 cents.
My advice to all girls and all uDnlar-
ried women, whether in afituCnt homes
or in homes where most stringent eccn-
omies are grinding, is to learn to do
scme 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
that woman can do for living if she
begins soon enough and that men ha1e
been compelled to admit it. You and l
can remember when the majority Of &C.
cupatiors 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 CT cur cities during the patri-
otic absence wcmen were demanded by
the tens Of thousands to take the vacant
places, and multitudes of women who
had leen hitherto supported by fathers
and brothers and sons were compelled
from that time to take care of them
selves From that time a mighty change
took place favorable to female employ
ment.
Occupations For Women.
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman place the following, into
many of which she has already entered,
and all the others she will enter: Ste
biography, and you may find her at near