The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-01-21

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icals, in porcelain, in terra Gotta. AZ
postmistresses, and presidents have
given them appointments all over thu
land.
AS proofreaders, as translators, as mod
elers, as designers, as draftwomen, as
photographers, as teachers in schools
and Summaries for which they are es-
pecially endowed, the first teacher Of
every child, by divine arrangement, be-
ing a woman. AS physicians, having
graduated after a regular course Of
study from the female colleges of our
large cities, where they get as scientific
and thorough preparation as any doctors
ever had and 60 forth to work which
no one but women could SO appropriate
" and delicately do. On the featuring
platform, for you know the brilliant
success of Mrs. Livermore and Mrs
Hallowell and Miss Willard and Mrs.
Lathrop. AS physiological lecturers to
their own sex, for which service there
is demand appalling and terrific. As
preachers of the gospel, and all the pro-
tests of ecclesiastical courts cannot him
der them, for they have pathos and a
power in their religious utterances that
men can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
Useful Employment.
Oh, young women of America, as
many of you will have to fight your
own battles alone do not wait until
you are flung of disaster and your father
is dead and all the resources of your
family have been scattered, but now,
while in a 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 surplus,
and make a useful shoe. Expend the
time in which you adorn a cigar case in
learning how to make a good, honest
loaf of bread. Turn your attention from
the making of fiimsy nothings to the
manufacturing of important something's.
Much of the time spent i'll young la
dies seminaries in studying what are
called the "higher branches" might bet
ter be expended in teaching them some
thing by which they could support
themselves If you are going to be
teachers or if you have SO much assured
wealth that you can always dwell in
those high regions, trigonometry Of
course, metaphysics of course, Latin
and Greek and German and French and
Italian of course, and hundred other
things of course, but if you are not ex-
pecting to teach and your wealth is not
established beyond misfortune after you
have learned the ordinary branches take
hold of that kind of study that will pay
in dollars and cents i'll case you are
thrown on your own resources. Learn
to do something better than anybody
else.
"No, no." says some young woman,
81 will not undertake anything SO I'M
romantic and commonplace as that. "
An excellent author writes that after he
had, in a book, argued for efficiency in
womanly work in order to success and
positive apprenticeship by way of prep
aration a prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach a class of women TO
become druggists and apothecaries ii
they would go through an apprentices
ship as men do, and printer advertised
that he would take class of women to
learn the printers trade if they would
go through an apprenticeship as men
do, and how many, according to the ac-
count of the author, do you suppose
applied to become skilled i'll the drug
gist business and printing business!
| Not onel
A Common DelusiOn.
"But, you ask, "what would my
father and mother say if they saw | was
doing such questionable work" Throw
the whole responsibility upon US, the
pastors, who are constantly hearing Of
young women i'll all these cities who,
unqualified by their previous luxurious
surroundings for the awful struggle OF
life into which they have been suddenly
hurled, seemed to have nothing left
them but a choice between starvation
and damnation. There they go along
the street at O'Clock in the wintry
mornings through the slush and storm
to the place where they shall earn only
half enough for subsistence, the daugh.
tiers of once prosperous merchants, law
yers, clergymen, artists, bankers and
capitalists, who brought up their chill.
dren under the internal delusiOn that it
was not high toned for women to learn
a profitable calling Young women,
take this affair i'll your own hand, and
let there be an insurrection in all pros.
porous families Oh the part of tie daugh-
teIs of this day, demanding knowledge
in occupations and styles of business by
which they may be their own defense
and their own support if all fatherly
and husbandly and brotherly hands for.
ever fail them. l have seen two sad
sights, the one woman in all the glory
of her young life, stricken by disease
and i'll week lifeless in a home OF
which she had been the pride. AS he1
hands were folded over the still heart
and her eyes closed for the last slumbe1
and she was taken out amid the Ian. ell
tations of kindred and friends thought
that was sadness unreasonable. But
| have seen something compared with
which that scene was bright and song
full. 1t was young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy sur
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