Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-01-27

rehuy TOT bHcbT own IoIthHf' "hH '''S''
saw and AK and plane sl"rpcned foi
! It's construction, since Every wise
woman buildeth her home"
| As no boy ought to be- brought up
without learning some business n
| which he could earn u livelihood, so ne
girl ought to be brought up without
learning the science Of self-support
! The difficulty is that many family
i goes sailing on the high tides of sue
cess and the husband and father de-
ponds on his own health and Aculuer
for the welfare of his household. but
one day he gets his feet wet, and ~
three days pneumonia has closed ms
| life and The daughters are turned out
on cold World TO earn bread, and
there IL nothing practical that they
can do. The friends come in and hold
consultations Give music lessons, y
SAWS an outsider. Yes that is II useful
cal lng, and il 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 10 occupy all the pinno stools and
sofas and chair, aud front door steps
Of The city. Besides that, the daugh-
ter has been playing only for amuse-
incnt, aud ~ onjy ut the foot Of the
ladder, 70 the top oi which agrcnt null
litudc Of masters ON Piano and harp
and llulc aud organ have climbed.
'puL the bcrefL daughters as sales
women in stores" says another adj
wiser. Bat there they must compete
with sniesmcn Of long experience, or
witt, men who have served an nppron-
ticGshp in commerce and who began
rs shop boys at ten years OF age. Some
ldnd-hcartrd dry goods man, having
known the father, now gone, says:
"We are not ia need of any more help
just now, but acnl your daug TO
the store, and viii do us well by thom
~ po,arbIc.' Very soon the question
comes up, ~hy do not the female en-
moves at that establishment get M
much wa res Us the male employees?
For the Simple reason, in many cases,
the lruIll = were suddenly Hung by
misfortune bchind 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
clenr back ia the homestead aud teach
your daughters that life is un earnest
thing, and that there is possibility,
II not II strong probability, thht tney
viii have to Hght tho bottle of life
alone. Let every father aud mother
sny TO their daughters: "Now, what
would You do for livelihood If what
| now own were swept away by Oman
cial disaster, or old age, or donth should
end my careerp"
"Wull, | could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work" YoS, that
is beautiful, and II you have genius for
it go on in that direction. But there
are enough busy at that now to make
line of hardware as long AZ yon Penn
sylvania avenue.
"Well, | could mako recital onS in
public and cnru my living as II drama
tint; could render King Lear OF Mac
beth till your hair would rise on end
on give you Sheridan's Ride OF Dick
ems "Pickwicl1." Yes, that is u beau
v,
there il an epidemic OF decentralization
that makes hundreds Of households
nervous with the cries and shrictls and
groaus Ut young TRACE linlnAt dy-
ing in the fifth act, aud the troabIa il
TINT while your friends would like to
hcnr you, and really think that you
could surpass Rtstori aud ChorloLto
4, No "a IF Ian
past, to say nothing of the present,
you could not, In the way OF living,
in ten years earn ton cents.
My advice To all girls and all unmar-
ried women, whether in uth uent homes
or in homes where most stringent econ
omies arc grinding, is TO learn to do
somc kind OF work that the world must
have while the world stands. am
glad TO SEQ II marvellous change for Che
better. and that women have found
out thnG there arc hundreds of prac-
teal thingS that woman can do for II
living il She begins soon enough, aud
that men have been compelled to adj
nit 1t. You and | can remember when
the l3n iority of occupations were
lnONhut lnhnpItpElAbc lDt NpllSu, uub
our evil war came, and the hosts of
men went forth from north and south;
and to conduct the business OF our
cities during the patriotic absence,
wnmca vtte demanded 10y the tons OF
thousaAlS To tulSe the vacant places;
aud multitudes OF women, who had
hitherto boon supported by fathers
and brothers and Sous, were compelled
inom that time TO tulSo care Of them
sell ~ FROM that time mighty
change took place favorable To female
employment.
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman place the following. into
many OF which she has alrea iy en-
tered, and all the uthots she will en-
ter: Stcnography, aud YOU may find
her at nearly all the reportorial stands
In our educational political and roli-
gious meetings Savings banks, tho
work cloan aud honorable, aud who 80
great u right to toll there, for woman
founded the hrst savings baalS Mrs.
Priscilla WaiIehuld? Copytst, aud
/ there ia hardly " PROFESSIONAL man tina