The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-01-28

on cold world to earn bread, and
there is nothing practical that they
can do. The friends come in and hold
consultation. "Give music lessons"
says an outsider. Yes, that is useful
calling, and if you have great genius
for it, 60 on in that direction. But
there are enough music teachers now
starving to death in all our towns and
cities to occupy al the piano stools and
sofas and chairs and front door steps
of the city. Besides that, the daugh-
ter has been playing only for amuse-
ment, and is only at the foot of the
ladder, to the top of which great null
titude of masters on piano and harp
and flute and organ have climbed.
Put the bereft daughters as sales
women in stores" says another adj
wiser. But there they must compete
with statesmen of long experience, or
with men who have served an appren-
ticeship in commerce and who began
as shop boys at ten years of age. Some
kind-hearted dry goods man, having
known the father, now gone, says:
1--WE are not in need of any more help
just now, but send your daughters to
the store, and l will do as well by them
as possible" Very soon the questio n
comes up, why do not the female en-
plOyes of that establishment get as
much wages as the male employees?
For the simple reason, in many cases,
the females were suddenly 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 cured2 Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that life is an earnest
thing and that there is a possibility,
if not a 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 inan-
cial disaster, or old age, or death should
end my career?"
"Well, 1 could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work" Yes, that
is beautiful, and if you have genius for
it go on in that direction. But there
are enough busy at that now to make
a line of hardware as long as yon Penn
sylvania avenue.
"Well, 1 could make Rotations in
public and earn my living as drama
fist; could render King Lear or Mac
beth till your hair would rise on end,
or give you Sheridan's Ride or Dick
ems 'Pickwick." Yes, that is beau
tiful art, but ever and anon, as now,
there is an epidemic of dramatization
that makes hundreds of households
nervous with the cries and shriel1s and
groans of young TRACE lieanss dy-
ing in the fifth act, and the trodble is
that while your friends would like to
hear you, and really think that you
could surpass Ristori and Chorlotte
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 ten cents.
My advice to all girls and all unmar-
ried women, whether in affi uent 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. l am
glad to see a marvellous change for the
better, and that women have found
out that there are hundreds of prac-
teal things that woman can do for
living if she begins soon enough, and
that men have been compelled to ad-
nit it. You and can remember when
the majority of occupations 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 patriotic absence,
women were demanded by the tens OF
thousands to take the vacant places;
and multitudes of women, who had
been supported by fathers
and brothers and sons, were compelled
from that time u take care of them
selves. From that time a mighty
change took place favorable to female
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman L place the following, into
many of which she has already en-
tered, and all the Others she will en-
ter: Stenography, and you may find
her at nearly all the reportorial stands
IN our educational. political and reli-
gious meetings. Savings banks, the
work clean and honorable, and who SO
great right to toll there, for woman
founded .he first savings bank-Mrs.
Priscilla Wakefield? Copyist, and
here is hardly professional man that
loes not need the services of her pen
and, as amanuensis., many
If the greatest books of our day have
lsntoka1 hand
ng There they are as florists,
Ind confectioners, and music teach
,rs, and book-xeepers. for which they
ire specially qualified by patience and
accuracy; and wood engraving, in
,he Cooper institute has turned out so
many qualified; and telegraphy, for
which she is specially prepared, as
thousands of the tslegraphic officers
will testify. Photography, and is near
v all our establishments they may be
ound there at cheerful work. As
workers in ivory, and gutta percha,
md gum elastic, and tortoise shell,
md gliding, and in chemicals, in porce
ain, in terra Gotta. As postmistresses,
Ind presidents have given them ap-
continents all over the land.
AS proof-readers, as translators, as
as designers, as draughts-
as photographers, as teachers
n schools and Summaries, for which
hey are especially endowed, the first
eachers of every child, by divine ar
being a woman. As ply
icians, having graduated after regu-
ar course of study from the female
colleges of our large cities, where they
ret as scientific and thorough prepara-
ion as any doctors ever had, and go
orth to a work which no one but
could so appropriately and
ielicately do. On the lecturing plat
orm; for you know the brilliant sue