The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-26
Il will not undertake anything so IN

rs QaG, IN OOOh. arg u u Ipl Su-CtcLSS
in womsnly work in order to success,
and positive apprenticeship by
way Of preparation, prominent
chemist advertised that he would tesch
q class Of women to become druggists
and arothecaries if they would go
through an apprenticeship as men dc,
and printer advertised thathe would
take 8 class Of women to learn the
printers trade ii they would go
! through an apprenticeship as men do,
and how many, according to the &C
count of the su:hor, do you suppose
spilled to become skilled in the drug
eist business and printing business2
Not onel
But" you ask, 'What wcu'd my
father and mother say if they saw |
was doing such questionable work p
Throw the whole responsibility upon
US, the pastors, who are constantly
hearing of young women in all these
cities who, unqualified by their pre-
vious luxurious Surroundings for The
awful struggle of life into which they
have been suddenly hurled, seemed &c
have nothing left them but s choice
between starvation and damnation.
There they 60 along the street7 Q, clock
in the wintr7 mornings through the
slush and storm to the plsce where
they shall earn only half enough for
subsistence, the daughters Of opce
prosperous merchants, lawyers, cler.
gymen, artists, bankers ard capital
lists, who brought up their children
under the infernsl delusion that it was
not high tone for women to learn
profitable calling. Young women,
| take this affair in your own hand and
| let there be an insurrection in al pros
porous families on the part Of the
daughters of this day, demanding
knowledge in occupations and styles
of business by which they may be
their own defense and their own sup
por! if all fa.herly aud husbandly y ard
brctherly hands forever fail them. l
have seen two sad sights, the one
woman in all the glory of her young
life, stricken by disease, aud in week
lifeless in home of which she had
been the pride. AS her hands we're
folded over the still heart and her
ewes closed for the last slumber and
she was taken out amid the lamenta-
tions Of kindred and friends thought
that was 8 sadness immeasurable. But
l have seen something compared with
which that scene was bright and song
full. It was young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy sur
roundings by the visit of death and
bankruptcy to the household turned
out on cold world without one lesson
about how to get food or shelter ard
into the awful whirlpool OF city lie,
where strong ships have gone down,
and for 20 years not one word has
been heard from her. Vessels went
out on the Atlantic ocean looking for
shipwrecked craft that was left alone
and forsaken on the sea few weeks
before with the idea of bringing it
into port. But who shall ever bring
| again into the harbor of peace and
| hope and heaven that lost womanly
immortal, driven in what tempest,
ahsme in what conhagr2tion, sinking
into what abyss2 O God, help! O
Christ, rescue! Ny sisters, give not
your time to learning fancy work
| which the world may dispense with
in hard times, but connect your skill
| with the indispensables of life.
The world will always want some.
thing to wear and something to eat,
and shelter and fuel for the body. and
| knowledge for the mind and religion
for the soul. And all these things
will continue to be the necessaries, and
If you fasten your energies upon oc-
cupations and professions thus relat-
ed, the world will be unable to do
without you. Remember, that in
proportion IS you are skillful in any
thing your rivalries become less. For
unskilled toll there are women by the
millions. But you may rise to where
there are only thousands, and still
higher till there are only 100, aud still
higher till there are only 10, and still
| higher, IN some particular department
till there is only unit, and that your
self. For awhile you may keep wages
and place through the kindly syn
pathy of an employer, bu! you will
eventually get no more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
Lst me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battle OF life
that the time is coming when woman
shall not only get as much salary and
wages as men get, but for certain
styles of employment women will
have higher salary and more wages,
for the reason that for some styles of
work they have more adoption. Blu.
this justice will come to woman not
through any sentiment Of gallantry,
not because woman is physically
weaker than man, and therefore ought
to have more consideration shown her,
but because through her finer natural
taste and more grace of manner and
quicker perception and more delicate
touch and more educated adroitness
she will, in certain callings, be to her
employer worth 10 per cent more or
20 per cent more than the other sex.
Sac will not get it by asking fer it, but
by earning it, and it shall be hers by
lawful conquest.
Now, men of America, be fair and
give the women q chance Are you
afraid that they will do some of your
work and hence harm your prosperi
tiess Remember that there are scores
Of thousands of men doing women's
work. d. no. be afraid. G0d dkno4s
the end from the beginning, and he
knows how many people this world
can feed and shelter, and when il gets
too full he will end the world. and If
need be start another. God will ha L
the inventive faculty, which by pro
ducing machine that will do the work
OF 10 or 20 or 100 men and women,
will leave that number o. people with,
out work. I hope that there will not
be invented another sewing machine,
or rea aping mschine, or corn thrasher,
or orv other new machine for the