Connecticut western news., 1898-01-20

front doorsteps of the city. Besides that, the daughter has been playing on- ly for amusement and Is only at the foot of the ladder, to the top of which great multitude of masters on piano and 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 have served an apprenticeship in commerce and who began as shopboys at 10 years of age. Some kind hearted dry goods man. having known the fa- ther. now gone, says, We are not in need of any more help just now, but send your daughters to my store, and l will do as we'll by them AS possible. " Very soon 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 were sud denly 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 ill the homestead and teach your daughters that life is an earnest thing, and that tbere is possibility if not strong probability that they will have to fight the battle of life alone. Let every father and mother say to their daughters, "Now, what would you do for livelihood if what now own were swept away by financial disaster or old age or death should end my career?'
 Advice to Unmarried Women.
 Well. l could paint on pottery and do such decorative work" Yes. that is beautiful, and if you have genius for it go on ill that direction. But there are enough busy at that now to make line of hardware us long as yon Pennsyl- vania avenue.
 Well, I 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 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 gToans of 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 surpass Ristori 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.
 My advice to all girls and all unmar- ried women, whether in affiuent homes or in homes where most stringent econ omies are grinding, is to learn to do some kind of work that the world must have while the world stands. I am glad to see a 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 have been compelled to admit it. You and l can remember when the majority of oc- equations 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 of our cities during the patri otic absence women were demanded by places, and multitudes of women who had been hitherto supported by fathers and brothers and sons were compelled from that time to take care of them selves. From that time mighty change took place favorable to female employ ment.
 Occupations For Women.
 Among the occupations appropriate for woman I place the following, into many of which she has already entered, and all the others she will enter: Ste nography, and you may find her at near ly all the reportorial stands in our edu- cational, political and religious meet ings. Savings banks, the work clean and honorable, and who so great right to toll there, for woman founded the first savings bank-Mrs. Priscilla Wake field? Copyists, and there is hardly professional man that does not need the service of her penmansbip, and as amanueDsis many of the greatest books of our day have been dictated for her writing. There they are as florists and confectioners and music teachers and bookkeepers. for which they are special ly qualified by patience and accuracy, and wood engraving, in which the Coop. CT institute has turned out so many qualified, and telegraphy, for which she is specially prepared, as thousands of the telegraph offices will testify. Photography, and in nearly all our es- toH ell, k, l,rx ha at cheerful work. AS workers in ivory and gutta percha and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gliding, and in chem icals, in porcelain, in terra cotta. AS postmistresses, and presidents have given them appointments all over the land.
 AS proofreaders, as translators as mod elers. as designers, as draftwomen, as Photographers, as teachers in schools and seminaries, for which they are es- pecially endowed, the first teacher of tvery child, by divine arrangement, be- ing woman. As physicians, having graduated after 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 go forth to a work which no one but women could so appropriate ly 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 Sf the gospel, and an the pro- tests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hin der them, for they have pathos and power ill 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,