The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-17

tedcheIs now starving TO death i'm all our
towns ana cities, % occupy all the piano
stools ana sofas and chairs and front
door steps of the city. Besides that the
daughter has been playing only for
amusement, and is only a the foot of
the ladder, to the top of which a great
muiutude OF masters of piano and harp
ana flute organ have climbed
Put the bereft daughters as saleswo-
men IN stores says another adviser. But
mere they must compete with statesmen
Of long experience, or with men who have
served an apprenticeship in commerce and
VINO began as shop boys at ten years of
age, some kind-hearted dry goods man,
having known the father, now gone. says.
We are not in need of any more help
just now but send your daughters 10 my
store, anu l will do as well BY them as
possible Very soon the question comes
up Why do not the female employees of
mat establishment get as much wages as
the male employees? For the simple rea-
son, 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 in the homestead and teach
your daughters that life is an earnest
thing, and that there is a possibility if
not strong probab ility that they will
nave 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?"
Wen, ] could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work" Yes, that is beau
tiful, and if you have genius for il so on
IN that direction. But there are enough
busy at that now to make a line of
hardware as long as yon Pennsylvania
avenue.
Wen, could make recitatons in pub
lie ana earn my living as a drama list:
could render King Leah or Macbeth till
your hair would rise on end or give you
Sheridan's Ride or Dickens Pick wick -
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 groans of young tragediennes
dying in the fifth act. and the trouble is
that while your friends would like TO hear
you, and really think that you could sur
pass Ristori and Charlotte Cushman and
Fanny kemble of the past to say moth
ing of the present, but could not in the
way of living, In ten years earn ten cents.
My advice 10 all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in affiuent homes or in
homes where most stringent economies
are grinding. is to learn to do some kind
OF work that the world must have while
the world stands. / am glad to see a
marvellous change for the better and that
women have found out that there are
hundreds of practical things that a wo-
man can do for living II she begins soon
enough, and that men have been compell-
ed to admit IL. You and l can remember
when the majority of occupations were
thought Inappropriate for women; but our
clVll war came and the hosts of men
went forth from North and South: and
10 conduct the business of our cities dur
ing the patriotic absence women were
demanded by the tens of thousands To
take the vacant places; and multitudes
OF women, who had been hitherto sup
ported by fathers and brothers and sons.
were compelled from that time to take
care OF themselves. From that time a
mighty change took place favorable to
female employment
Among the occupation Appropriate for
woman l place the following, into MANY
of which she has already entered. and all
the others she will enter: Stenogra phvaud
you may lind her at nearly all the re-
portorial stands in our educational. politi-
cal and religious meetings Savings banks.
the work clean and honorable and who so
great a right to toll there, for a woman
founded the first savings bank-Mrs. Pris-
ella Wakefield? Copyists, and there is
hardly a professional man that does not
need the service of her penmanship: and.
as amanuensis, many of the greatest books
I of our day have been dictated for her writ
ing. There they are as florists and confec-
toners and music teachers and bookkeep-
ers, for which they are specially qualified
by patience and accuracy; and WOODEN
! craving, in which the Cooper Institute has
| turned out so many qualified; and teleg-
raphy, for which she is specially prepared.
as thousands of the Geographic offices
will testify. Photography and in nearly
all our establishments they may be found
| there at cheerful work As workers ia
nd ffsaraa
tortoise-sheh and gliding, and in chemi-
Gals, in porcelain, in terra Gotta. AS post
mistresses, and Presidents have given
them appointments all over the land.
As proof-readers, as translators. as mod
! elers, as designers, as draughtswomen, as
| photographers, as teachers in schools and
| seminaries, for which they are especially
| endowed, the first teacher of every child.
| by Divine arrangement, being a woman.
| As physicians, having graduated after reg
| ular course of study from the female coll
legeS of our large cities, where they get
| as scientific and thorough preparation as
| any doctors ever had, and so forth 10 a
work which one but women could so
! appropriately and delicately do. on the
| lecturing platform; for you know the bril-
! liant success of Mrs. Livermore and Mrs.
| Hallowell and Miss Willard and Mrs Lath-
rop. AS physiological lecturers to their
| own sex, for which service there is a de-
! mand appalling, and terrific. As preach
| ers of the Gospel and all the protests of
| ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder them.
| for they have pathos and power in their
| religious utterances that men can never
| reach. Witness all those who have heard
| their mother pray.
| o, 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 nave 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 en-
/ broidery of fine slippers, of which there
| is a surplus. and make a useful shoe Ex-
pend the time in which You adorn a ci-
gar case in learning how to make a good,
honest loaf of bread. Turn your atten-
| ton from the making of flimsy nothings
! to the manufacturing of important some
| things.
! Much of the time spent in young ladies'
seminaties in studying what are called the
higher branches" might better be ex-
pended in teaching them something by
which they could support themselves. If
you are going 20 be teachers or If you
have so much assured wealth that you
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