The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-02-24
BENTON LOUISIANA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY "a, 1898.

Rejoice forever that you will not have
to navigate the faults of the other sex.
when you have faults enough of your
own. Think of the bereavements you
avoid, of the risks of assimilated tenn
per which you will not have to run, of
the cares you will never have to carry,
and Of the opportunity of outside use
fulness from which marital life would
have partially debarred you, and that
you are free to go and come as one who
has the responsibilities of household
can seldom be. God has not given
you hard lot, as compared with your
sisters. When young women shall
make up their minds at the start that
masculine companionship is not a me-
cessity in order to happiness, and that
there is strong probability that they
will have to fight the battle of life
alone. they will be getting the timber
ready for their own fortune, and their
saw and ak and plane sharpened for
Its construction, since Every wise
woman buildeth her home"
AS no boy ought to be brought up
without learning some business at
which he could earn livelihood, SO no
girl ought to be brought up without
learning the science of self-support.
The difficulty is that many q family
goes sailing on the high tides of sue
cess, and the husband and father de-
pends 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 a cold world to earn bread, and
there is nothing practical that they
can do. The friends come in and hold
consultation. ''Give mt sic lessons" !"
says an outsider. Yes, that is useful
calling, 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-
ladder, to the top OF which a 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 ad-
| wiser. But there they must compete
with statesmen of long experience, or
with men who have served an appren-
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:
1--WE are not in need of any more help
just now, but send your daughters to
the store, and l will do as we'll by them
as possible" Very soon the questio n
comes up, why do not the female EN-
ployes of that establishment get as
much wages as the male employess
For the simple reason, in many cases,
the females were suddenly flung by
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 IN earnes1
thing, and that there is possibility
If not strong probability. that they
will have to fight the battle of lif'
alone. Let every father and mother
say to their daughters: Nov, wha
would you do for livelihood if wha
now own were swept away by finan
cial disaster, or old age, or death shoult
end my career?"
swell, could paint on pottery ant
do such decorative work" Yes, tina
is beautiful, and if you have genius 70
it go on in that direction. But ther
are enough busy at that now to max
a line of hardware as long as yon Penn
sylvania avenue.
"Well, could make recitations in
public and earn my living as drama
tist; could render King Lear or Mac
beth till your hair would rise on end
or give you Sheridan's Ride or Dick
ems .'Pickwick." Yes, that is beau
tiful art, but ever and anon, as now
there is an epidemic of dramatizatio
that makes hundreds of household
nervous with the cries and shrieks an
groals Of yollg trLs. liennss dy
ing in the fifth act, and the trodble
! that while your friends would like
: hear you. and really think that yo
! could surpass Ristori and Chorlott
: Cushman and Fanny Kenble of tn
$ past, to say nothing Of the presen
= you could not, in the way OF living
in ten years earn ten cents.
My advice to all girls and all unma
r ried women. whether in afh uent home
D or in homes where most stringent ecoI
e omies are grinding, is to learn to {
S some kind of work that the world mu
Q have while the world stands. a
+ glad to see a marvellous change for Il
o better, and that women have four
e out that there are hundreds of pra
e tical things that q woman can do for
I living if she begins soon enough, al
y that men have been compelled to q
It nit it. You and can remember whs
r the majority of occupations we
: thought inappropriate for women; b.
J, our civil war came, and the hosts
l. men went forth from north and sout
It and to conduct the business Of o.
!, cities during the patriotic absenc
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