The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-01-11
Lost l'Yp0 Of WOnnal..
Average Woman Yearns for Business CareerWhat
Some Daughters of Rich Men are Using.

rench convent, and she knows how to
sew as only those ladies who have
peen taught by the nuns. So when
Miss Fuss-and-feathers gets nm . sow
ing class this winter it is Mrs. Industry
who teaches that class of girls how to
sew, for the fashionable girl is very am
bilious in this respect, and the teacher
is paid we'll for it. Unconsciously, she
teaches them some other things for which
there is no accredited sum Of money
paid. She makes them comprehend the
value Of low, sweet voice in woman,
and of quiet and dignifed manner,
and she mpreSses upon them the fact
that ladies are born and that good man
ners, while they can be initiated. cannot
be bought. Then there is Miss Tact
She has her mother and an old aunt to
care for and a very small income with
which to keep the three in comfort. but
during the winter she is the very busiest
Of the busy. She stays an hour with
Mrs. Glitter and quietly corrects all
grammatical mistakes that she makes
mistakes that Mrs. Glitter did not have
time to think about when she was work
ing hard at the washtub before Glitter
made a fortune in oil. Later in the day
she shows Mrs. SnOb how to accept an
invitation to dinner party and impress
es upon her that she must not sign a note
III the first person, Mrs. Jacob SnOb,"
but that "Cornelia Snob" represents her
when she does not appear in con junction
with Mr.. Jacob Snob, the Tammany poll
tician. And so she goes on. first with
this one and then with that one, correct
ing the mistaken speech and righting any
action Of those who, as she politely puts
it. were too busy early in life to give
thought to the small courtesies." AS if
they weren't the great necessities. Miss
Tact is an important factor in life to-
day, and if she smiles little sarcastic
ally when some Of her customers pa
troniza heF you cannot blame her, for
Miss facts people were gentlefolk when
her clientele were unknown.
Mrs. Livewell is a widow with FIVE
little children. Her days are spent in
q small town just outside Of New York,
and in August she begins to chop citron
and picA currants and stone raisins for
the plum puddings that Will go over the
country in the winter months, and the
profits on which are sending her Oldest
boy to college and will educate her
younger children. These are the women
to be proud of, my friend; the quiet
workers not the bustling, rampant bach
elor woman, who might lead a purely
feminine life, but who does not wish to
but these women who, seeing the need
for industry. give good, hard. honest
work for value received. Yesterday |
met a bright, pretty girl whose greeting
was CHEEKY and who did not confess to
knowing the meaning of weariness but
who had danced all morning and all
afternoon to help her brother study law:
not anced in public and had the pleas
ure Of listening to the Intoxicating ap-
plause Of many, but danced with stupid
one and that one that she might give
helping hand to this some one for whom
she cared. l grow proud of women when
I realize what they will do for some
body they love. That is better than be-
ing independent. 1t is better than liv
ing at d hotel and earning money to put
in bank. l tell you It is these workers,
these honest ard lnselfsh workers, who
are worthy Of good, honest praise, but@
they are invariably the quiet workers.
! ho-- 40 not flaunt their industry, but
go along Ike busy bees singing at their
work and recognizing the fact that there
ought to be queen bees who do not need
to work; queen bees who must give work
to other people, work necessary for those
other people to exist. Women-that is,
real women-admire queen bees; see the
necessity for an aristocracy and encour-
age it. And women Ike queen bees will
always be willing to make it aris-
tocracy Of birth and intellect ia ther than
one wnlich is the result of work. Bah.